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Reply to "Epigenetics & intergenerational trauma"

They say never meet your heroes. Why? Because human beings are flawed and will always slide off those pedestals we create for them. I know a well-respected female mental health professional who once had an awful experience with Bessel. She met him after the JRI split and says he is changed. She forgives him. If she can, I think we should extend towards him kindness and the possibility of change - isn't that the heart of being trauma-informed?

I have never read anything as insightful as The Body Keeps the Score. Let's give credit where it is due. This is what he'll be remembered for, not the outworkings of his own trauma that hurt people. 

Talking of credit where it's due, thank you Michael for these amazing resources that must have taken you a lot of time to reproduce here. Like Jane, I'm a science nerd and will enjoy reading them. 

And Victoria, you are right - it is not just trauma but all kinds of environmental things that cause epigenetic changes. 

Thank you for the interesting read, everyone. So glad to be part of this community.

Lou

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