Psychologist Lilja Sif Þorsteinsdóttir maintains Instagram page sound minds . “The site contains psychological information that I think is important to bring to people,” says Lilja Sif in an interview with DV.
The site has good education that Lilja Sif uses in treatments and she thinks it’s important that as many people as possible have access to it, for free.
Intergenerational transmission
In the latest article, Lilja Sif talks about intergenerational contagion, which is a term used when untreated trauma is passed on from generation to generation. We inherit a lot from our parents. Their setbacks in particular.
Research has shown that certain exogenous changes occur during trauma, which children and grandchildren inherit later in life – even if the trauma happened long before conception.
Additionally, a parent’s traumatic behavior will have a direct impact on the parenting, well-being, and well-being of their children.
Research also shows that we cannot avoid passing on our traumas to our children if we have not overcome them, no matter how ambitious and diligent we are as a parent.
Trauma throws us into our defense systems. Even long after the event is over, if we don’t deal with the aftermath of the trauma.
In a defense system comes disconnection.
Children sense the disconnect and will do everything in their power to reestablish it, including adapting their own behavior and personality to the situation.
Your disconnection with them becomes their trauma.
This is how intergenerational transmission occurs.
Families with untreated trauma:
Connecting Through Chaos and Crises
manage each other
have bad boundaries
Criticize each other in a demeaning way
Do not offer to allow family members to show their true selves
Denying the part of reality that is painful to them
If, however, we work on our own traumas, we break this vicious cycle.
To overcome your trauma, it is not enough to talk about it. The trauma affects the whole body and is much deeper in the nervous system than the cerebral cortex, which is the only part of the body that understands spoken language.
Therefore, it is not enough to attend traditional talk therapy, but you have to work with the whole body.
Featured on Instagram Page Healthy minds it is possible to receive additional training on trauma and to have ideas on ways to deal with trauma.
Lilja Sif Orsteinsdottir.
