When these elements align, something meaningful is set into motion that can be felt in the body. Both require the right timing, the right words, and the right image. In many ways, healing from trauma is akin to creating a poem. They present a truth, then leave you with yourself to discover your own truth.” The truly great ones don’t care whether you believe in their teachings or not. Something valuable can be going on inside us, but if we’re not tuning in, we can miss it. The constant looking outside of ourselves can keep us from knowing when we hit the target. There’s also something about the action of searching that blocks us from what we seek. Doing so is a prescription for continued suffering. When we try to resist feeling something painful, we often protract the very pain we’re trying to avoid.
Even if the person who suffered the original trauma has died, even if his or her story lies submerged in years of silence, fragments of life experience, memory, and body sensation can live on, as if reaching out from the past to find resolution in the minds and bodies of those living in the present. Pain does not always dissolve on its own or diminish with time. This “bequest” is what’s known as inherited family trauma, and emerging evidence suggests that it is a very real phenomenon. The latest scientific research, now making headlines, also tells us that the effects of trauma can pass from one generation to the next. Illness, depression, anxiety, unhappy relationships, and financial challenges can all be forms of this unconscious inheritance. Just as we inherit our eye color and blood type, we also inherit the residue from traumatic events that have taken place in our family. We replicate the failed relationships of our parents and grandparents. Unconsciously, we relive our mother’s anxiety. And visualization, active imagination, and direct dialogue create pathways to reconnection, integration, and reclaiming life and health. Techniques for developing a genogram or extended family tree create a map of experiences going back through the generations.
Diagnostic self-inventories provide a way to uncover the fears and anxieties conveyed through everyday words, behaviors, and physical symptoms. It Didn’t Start with Youoffers a pragmatic and prescriptive guide to his method, the Core Language Approach.
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