Intergenerational patterns often show up as repeating themes across family lines, such as anxiety, emotional distance, conflict, people pleasing, responsibility overload or difficulty receiving support. Many people notice these patterns in relationships, parenting or work and feel frustrated that, despite insight and effort, the same dynamics continue to play out.
 

These patterns are not only learned through behaviour and family roles, but can also be held in the nervous system. Research in epigenetics shows that stress, trauma and emotional experiences can influence how genes are expressed across generations. This means that responses such as hypervigilance, shutdown or emotional reactivity may be inherited at a biological and nervous system level, not just through upbringing.
 

Beyond Talk Therapy™ approaches support awareness and change at this deeper level. By working with somatic regulation, parts work and family systems insight, intergenerational patterns can be felt, processed and renegotiated rather than simply understood intellectually. This allows the nervous system to experience something different in the present, which supports lasting change.
 

This work is not about blaming previous generations or reliving the past. It is about recognising what has been carried, understanding how it shows up now, and creating space for new ways of relating, responding and living with greater choice and ease.

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For more information on Family Constellations which is a powerful tool to look at intergenerational trauma look at my other website www.relationshipconstellations.com