🔼: [[💡 Burdens 🪨]], [[The Meta-Crisis]] #### 🪨 Inherited Burdens > "*Trauma in a person, decontextualized over time, looks like personality.* > > *Trauma in a family, decontextualized over time, looks like family traits.* > > *Trauma in people, decontextualized over time, looks like culture.*" > – Resmaa Menakem [[✍️ We live in a traumatized world]]. We learn trauma and legacy burdens the way we learn our first language — through those around us, and often unconsciously. Fundamentally, cultures are [[⭐ Values]] in action, and values can be informed by [[💡 Burdens 🪨|Burdens]] or even outright deceptions about what it is to be a good person or how to achieve happiness. In [[The Modern World]], trauma is the water we swim in. - [[🔑 We all have Inherited Burdens]] > [!example] Examples > - [[🪨 Internalized Capitalism]] > - [[🪨 Racism]] > - [[🪨 Consumerism]] > - 🪨 Individualism > - [[🪨 Sexism]] > - [[🪨 Ageism]] > - [[🪨 Homophobia]] > - [[🪨 Transphobia]] > - [[🛡️ People-Pleasing]] > - [[🛡️ Codependency]] > - Caretaking > - Poverty > - War Trauma > - Family Values > - [[💡 Microaggressions]] > - [[Old Happy]] > - Systemic problem ##### 🪨 Legacy Burdens Also known as "Generational Trauma" or "Generational Curses," these are [[💡 Burdens 🪨|Burdens]] picked up through family, authority figures (caregivers, teachers, coaches, clergy, etc.), ethnic group, or culture. They're passed down through generations of people valuing or rejecting their own parts and then doing the same to their children (or others), teaching them to value or reject their own similar parts.[^1] This continues until someone addresses it, but they can be difficult to spot because this trauma is the water we swim in – we were born into it. <iframe src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/0AidLp-9634?feature=oembed" height="113" width="200" style="aspect-ratio: 1.76991 / 1; width: 100%; height: 100%;"></iframe> We all carry Legacy Burdens. [[💡 Unburdening|unburdening]] them is a bit of a different process, but it's sometimes easier than unburdening [[🪨 Personal Burdens]].[^2] - [[✍️ We live in a traumatized world]] ###### See Also - [[💡 Legacy Blessings]] - [[🛠 Genogram]] - [[Epigenetics]] ##### 🪨 Cultural Burdens [^1]: [[📖 Internal Family Systems Therapy, Second Edition]] [^2]: [[📖 ✅ IFS Online Circle]] Month 3: Working with Exiles & The Trauma Behind the Rage - Month 3 with Toni Herbine-Blank