You may have wondered if past trauma is affecting your current life.
If you’re First Nation, you know that history has a way of interfering with the present and the future. Maybe you’ve seen it in the community and since you’re here, reading this page, I’m guessing history is hitting too close to home.
You know that First Nations peoples have not had it easy for the last few hundred years. You don’t need me to tell you that intergenerational trauma is real and devastating to individuals, families and communities.
Families were torn apart by residential schools and many children suffered at the hands of the people who were supposed to care for them at these schools. According to research of National Collaborative Centre for Aboriginal Health, residential school students in British Columbia found that 64.2% met the diagnostic criteria for Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder.
And not only that. The children of people who attended residential school can experience early-age trauma. One generation doesn’t mean to pass it along to the next but that’s what happens with unresolved traumatic experiences.
Either you’ve been to a residential school, your parents or your grandparents and you know that this past isn’t done with you. But you also know it’s not too late to change your life and put an end to intergenerational trauma in your family.
You’re a survivor, after all.
You’re surviving but you know that’s not good enough for you anymore. Beyond surviving is healing and thriving.
When you move from surviving to healing to thriving, something amazing happens. The past stays in the past and it stops interfering with your present and your future. For you and for your family. It’s possible. You believe it’s possible or you wouldn’t be here.
It’s not only possible, it’s probable. Healing happens when the obstacles to healing are removed.
Trauma therapy can help you and your future generations put residential school in the past, for once and for all.
And I’m here to help.
If you’re First Nation, you may have access to funded counselling through the First Nations Health Authority
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