The Body Remembers What the Family Never Spoke About
There are families where stories are told freely. Stories of first loves, childhood adventures, heartbreak, mistakes, and moments that shaped generations. Then there are families where silence becomes part of the inheritance. No one explains why your grandmother never spoke about her childhood. No one mentions the sibling who died young. Your father changes the subject whenever his own father is mentioned. Your mother insists everything was "fine," even when your body remembers a home filled with tension. Nothing is said. Yet somehow, everything is felt. As a psychologist, I have learned that emotional pain is not always contained within the events of our own lives. We are born into families with histories, loyalties, beliefs, and ways of surviving that existed long before we arrived. We inherit more than our eye colour or our surname. We inherit emotional worlds. Sometimes those worlds are nurturing. Sometimes they are shaped by grief that was never mourned, fear that was ne...