Wow this is so important. This episode you guys created is describing my lived experience. It has taken me into my mid twenties to finally start understanding why my family dynamics were the way they were and see that my family was struggling from intergenerational trauma and mental illness. Now I am trying to heal myself and move forward.
Legit no biracial couple thinks of this b4 having kids. Every halfie i talked to in america had the same exact problems as me and what u described here. Sometimes being half is amazing u get to see the world from different perspectives. But the rest of the time you just straight up feel like an abomination.
My mother, born in Hong Kong in the 50s, immigrated to france in 1989. She met my biological father (french), that abused her, I'm born from this environement. My mither raised me alone, in France, in a asian community, in east of Paris, speaking chinese at home. I'm mixed Hong Kong-French, I'm white passing. The difficulties you went through resonates with me. I went on therapy, EMDR, and went to Hong Kong to trace back what happened in my mom's past. I did in fact, carried lots of trauma of my mother's. Knowing what happened made me pass through lots of emotions, that I needed to process. Slowly, in a few months, I began to feel for the first time : at peace. Intergenerational trauma, of the mixed asian family dynamic types, can be healed.
Such great insight into this topic Becky. I feel like there are similarities in stories within some African family dynamics as well. Our generation is doing a lot of breaking through generational trauma.
Wow this is so important. This episode you guys created is describing my lived experience. It has taken me into my mid twenties to finally start understanding why my family dynamics were the way they were and see that my family was struggling from intergenerational trauma and mental illness. Now I am trying to heal myself and move forward.
Good discussion. I think there is definitely a lot intergenerational trauma in mixed Asian households.
Agree. There are in mine
Legit no biracial couple thinks of this b4 having kids. Every halfie i talked to in america had the same exact problems as me and what u described here. Sometimes being half is amazing u get to see the world from different perspectives. But the rest of the time you just straight up feel like an abomination.
Agree, same experience here in Europe
My mother, born in Hong Kong in the 50s, immigrated to france in 1989. She met my biological father (french), that abused her, I'm born from this environement. My mither raised me alone, in France, in a asian community, in east of Paris, speaking chinese at home. I'm mixed Hong Kong-French, I'm white passing. The difficulties you went through resonates with me. I went on therapy, EMDR, and went to Hong Kong to trace back what happened in my mom's past. I did in fact, carried lots of trauma of my mother's. Knowing what happened made me pass through lots of emotions, that I needed to process. Slowly, in a few months, I began to feel for the first time : at peace.
Intergenerational trauma, of the mixed asian family dynamic types, can be healed.
Thank you for sharing. We hope you continue finding the peace within you and are glad you found us.
Such great insight into this topic Becky. I feel like there are similarities in stories within some African family dynamics as well. Our generation is doing a lot of breaking through generational trauma.
I agree 100%. Awesome channel
Loved this episode! I think this is something everyone needs to hear. Thanks so much!
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