Generational financial trauma has a profound impact on your relationship with money and often starts before you are born. This article explores the first of the 6 hidden sources of financial trauma.

Generational trauma can be passed down through families by biological, environmental, psychological, and social means. You may experience epigenetic changes, which affect gene expression linked to ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Rahkim covers financial trauma + how to identify & overcome it. The roots of financial trauma go deeper than debt. These six ...

Most people experience a traumatic event some time during their lives — losing a loved one, being the victim of violence or surviving a natural disaster. But what happens when the impact of trauma is ...

Studies have shown that there is a permeability that exists between a child’s psyche and that of the mother (caretaker), a kind of “osmosis” that allows for the passing of ideas and affects from the ...

Family gatherings look picture-perfect from the outside. Three generations gathered around the table, smiling for the camera. Yet beneath the surface, something darker might be unfolding. Some ...

Intergenerational trauma occurs when multiple generations of a family feel the effects of past traumatic events. These effects can be emotional or physical. Traumatic events can influence a person’s ...

“Generational trauma[…]means one generation’s scars affecting four generations or more[…]It also means when we face our own trauma, it colors and deepens what we experience.” Hog and crop farmer, ...