Community Resources
Check out the resources list below and please contact me with additional resources to add!
Teachers and Organizations
A list of teachers and organizations that have been key to my own waking up process:
BOOKS
Wounds into Wisdom: Healing Intergenerational Jewish Trauma by Rabbi Dr. Tirzah Firestone
Family Secrets: The path to self-acceptance and reunion by John Bradshaw
Ancestral Medicine: Rituals for Personal and Family Healing by Daniel Foor
The Myth of Normal: Trauma, Illness, and Healing in a Toxic Culture by Gabor Maté
My Grandmother's Hands: Racialized Trauma and the Pathway to Mending Our Hearts and Bodies by Resmaa Menakem
Hope Into Practice: Jewish Women Choosing Justice Despite Our Fears by Penny Rosenwasser
The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma by Bessel Van Der Kolk
Films and Shows
A list of media that bring ancestral trauma healing into pop culture:
Undone
Unorthodox
Cracked Up
Transparent
Wisdom of Trauma (2021) film with Gabor Maté.
ARTICLES
Gallagher, J. (2013, December 1). 'Memories' pass between generations. Health and Science, BBC News.
Hurley, D. (2013, June 11). Grandma's experiences leave a mark on your genes. Discover Magazine.
Johnson, G. (2016, July 14). Cellular healing of inherited trauma. Science & Nonduality.
Rodriguez, T. (2015, March 1). Descendants of Holocaust survivors have altered stress hormones. Scientific American.
Schutzenberger, A. (1998). The Ancestor Syndrome: Transgenerational Psychotherapy and the Hidden Links in the Family Tree. New York, NY: Routledge.
Yehuda, Rachel (2014, December 11). Do Jews carry trauma in our genes? A conversation with Rachel Yehuda. Tablet Magazine.
Yehuda, Rachel. Interview (2015, July 31). How trauma and resilience cross generations. On Being with Krista Tippett.
International Journal of Communal and Transgenerational Trauma