People often carry emotional patterns, strengths and vulnerabilities from their ancestors – and there is some evidence that these can be physically passed down
The historical experiences of our family and culture can leave a mark on us in the present. Image: Getty
‘Our history has become our biology. It’s like the trauma our ancestors suffered has inserted itself in our genetic code.”
Although this is a cheeky line from the Kneecap film, theirs is a reasonable summation of something to which we are slowly waking up to: intergenerational trauma.