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How Trauma & Resilience Cross Generations
"The new field of epigenetics sees that genes can be turned on and off
and expressed differently through changes in environment and behavior.
Rachel Yehuda is a pioneer in understanding how the effects of stress
and trauma can transmit biologically, beyond cataclysmic events, to the
next generation. She has studied the children of Holocaust survivors and
of pregnant women who survived the 9/11 attacks. But her science is a
form of power for flourishing beyond the traumas large and small that
mark each of our lives and those of our families and communities." More
in this interview from On Being.
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