The Emotional Legacy of Our Family Trees

One thing we definitely know for sure is that how we treat our children will affect them for the rest of their lives, and it doesn’t take much to speculate that how we treat our children would be repeated in their relationships with their own children, their children’s children and so forth. Without an intentional change to how we raise our children, by healing our childhood wounds and consciously raising our children a different way, we are passing along the same hurts generation by generation. And if we fold in the idea of epigenetics, we are not only passing along our childhood wounds by example but also through our genes.

Puts a different spin on filling out that family tree, doesn’t it?