The most impressive changes one can witness are individuals who break the repetitive patterns of their family history.

“that to me is the that when you ask me about the changes that I've seen people make or not make, those are the changes that are the most impressive and those are the ones I've seen the most. Somebody who is changing that family pattern that is going to just repeat and repeat and repeat like no, we'r”

Individuals have the power to stop generational trauma by refusing to continue the cycle of abuse.

“And it's not easy. But, if a person's determined to say, "It stops with me." Um uh, it will. And the only way the best way I know I can tell people is through God's power.”

Breaking generational cycles requires conscious, obedient efforts to change behaviors rather than repeating ancestral patterns.

“I want folks watching this to know that listen, I was just a little girl in the hood and I promise you there was nothing around me, not to put the people down around me. There was nothing in my environment that I looked at and said I want to be. There was everything in my environment that said hell ”

Asriah Bradley feels that she must be a positive role model for her son to provide the guidance and support that she never received as a child.

“I didn't have that so I tried to make sure that I can have that for my son so I did I you know tried and kept letting him come back kept letting him come back and it's just like okay after a while [ __ ] doesn't change I mean you talk to me like I'm your dog”

Individuals can break generational cycles by taking responsibility for their own healing and self-regulation rather than waiting for family validation.

“We first have to work with the person that wants to break the cycle and naming the truths within their story, right? What does that mean? That if you feel like a parent has hurt you, they were physically abusive when you were growing up, that was deeply hurtful, it's a part of your journey”

Intergenerational trauma is a scientifically verifiable phenomenon where ancestral traumatic experiences can be passed down epigenetically, affecting the health of descendants.

“So, yes, it sounds science fiction, but intergenerational trauma or transgenerational trauma looking at how trauma is literally stored in the cells and then passed on through family lines is very much science.”

Generational curses represent the inherited effects and privations caused by the sins of parents, which children may struggle with due to the loss of protective spiritual blessings.

“It's the privation of the protection and the and and the provision that comes with blessing.”

Traumatic experiences can lead to transgenerational epigenetic inheritance, enabling descendants to inherit biological responses to the stressors of their ancestors.

“what I'm saying is that in some model organisms there's an experience that can happen into a in a parent that leads to epigenetic changes that leads to changes in development of Offspring”

Kesha believes that the challenges and negative patterns in her own life and the lives of her children were passed down from her mother.

“a lot of things that happened with me and my children kind of stem from my mother or what I was used to I'm going say um is that like the cycle of repeating itself correct I kind of more so felt like it was a generational first yeah”

Trauma can be passed down between generations, and it is a cycle she is determined to break for her children.

“And when I think about it, even me speaking up through the trauma and everything cuz I believe trauma can be passed down.”

Generational patterns of abuse and dysfunction are typically passed down because parents replicate what they witnessed in their own upbringing.

“parents only learn how to be parents by watching what their parents did and so a lot of the patterns of abuse and the patterns of anger and the patterns of dysfunction that you witness and experience and survive growing up regardless of how severe they are they're typically passed on generation afte”

Niemah Nefertiti suggests that perpetrators of abuse are often victims of their own childhood trauma.

“I believe he was because hurt people hurt people. People don't just start molesting people. That's not how that works. Usually they have been molested, too.”

Families often pass down limiting narratives or stories that served an adaptive purpose in previous generations but fail to serve the current generation's needs.

“what we're not doing as a field in my opinion is um which is where I kind of special specialize. We're not treating the core issue and the core issue is a story that the family is passing down which actually can be limiting.”

Sarah believes that the cycle of child sexual abuse is passed down through generations and that perpetrators often have a history of being abused themselves.

“I believe it's passed on generationally like this. Like I don't believe we're born pedophiles. I think that's a really sick take on it, you know.”