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Traumatic Legacies: Reconciling Our Emotional Baggage

Original Air Date Wednesday, October 19, 2022

Even though humans grasp the double-helix-shaped chain of our DNA strands, very little is understood about the information that is passed down from generation to generation. Physical attributes can be decisively attributed to the traits of our ancestors but what about the memories, and traumas that make up our emotional inheritance?

To discover the ways emotional inheritance can nurture us, and cause grief, secrets, and confusion, Harvesting Happiness Podcast Host Lisa Cypers Kamen speaks with two female authors about their findings about the legacy of trauma.

Galit Atlas is a psychoanalyst whose book, Emotional Inheritance: A Therapist, Her Patients, and the Legacy of Trauma, explores how multigenerational trauma is held in our minds and body.

Author of the bestselling, Survivor Cafe: The Legacy of Trauma and the Labyrinth of Memory, Elizabeth Rosner reveals the importance of unearthing the path, and atrocities of our ancestors so we may move into the healing phase.

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Lisa Cypers Kamen · Traumatic Legacies: Reconciling Our Emotional Baggage with Galit Atlas PhD & Elizabeth Rosner

Meet Our Guests:

Dr. Galit Atlas is a psychoanalyst and clinical supervisor in private practice in Manhattan. She is a clinical assistant professor on the faculty of the New York University Postdoctoral Program in Psychotherapy & Psychoanalysis and faculty at the National Training Program (NTP) and the Four-Year Adult training program at the National Institute for the Psychotherapies (NIP) in New York City.

Book: Emotional Inheritance: A Therapist, Her Patients, and the Legacy of Trauma

Galit Atlas Ph.D. — Traumatic Legacies:

Galit explains Emotional Inheritance and how traumas can be held in our minds and bodies as our own. {1:51}
Three attachment styles categorize how children and parents acknowledge each other after separation. {6:08}
In her book, Emotional Inheritance, Galit has real-life examples of how some have an innate knowledge of their family history and how they process it. {14:05}
Galit explains how parents carry their own childhood burdens and traumas into relationships. {21:31}
The prize of this type of work is becoming ourselves and taking risks in life and love. {24:40}

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Elizabeth Rosner is a bestselling novelist, poet, and essayist. Her most recent book of nonfiction, Survivor Cafe: The Legacy of Trauma and the Labyrinth of Memory, was featured on NPR and in The New York Times; it was a finalist for a National Jewish Book Award and named one of the best books of 2017 by the San Francisco Chronicle. She’s received literary prizes for her novels in the US and Europe; she is based in Berkeley CA and leads writing workshops internationally.

Book: Survivor Cafe: The Legacy of Trauma and the Labyrinth of Memory

Elizabeth Rosner — Reconciling Emotional Baggage:

Elizabeth describes how certain hormones are transmitted throughout generations and her quest to name and heal them. {27:42}
Children and grandchildren of holocaust survivors or enslaved people will enter therapy with PTSD-type symptoms. {29:39}
In her new book, Deep Listening, Elizabeth investigates how what we hear in utero affects the way we come into the world. {34:44}
In her bestselling book, Survivor Cafe, soul retrieval and moral injury can cause trauma when we don’t collectively do the right thing. {39:10}
Elizabeth warns that all people should pay attention to the slogans and slang they use because language matters. {48:09}
Elizabeth describes why we need to acknowledge and discuss the atrocities of our ancestors. {52:24}
How meaning can be derived from purpose. {56:16}

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