Rachel Yehuda — How Trauma and Resilience Cross Generations by On Being Studios published on 2015-07-30T17:05:07Z Genetics describes DNA sequencing, but epigenetics sees that genes can be turned on and off and expressed differently through changes in environment and behavior. Rachel Yehuda is a pioneer in understanding how the effects of stress and trauma can transmit biologically, beyond cataclysmic events, to the next generation. She has studied the children of Holocaust survivors and of pregnant women who survived the 9/11 attacks. But her science is a form of power for flourishing beyond the traumas large and small that mark each of our lives and those of our families and communities. See more at www.onbeing.org/program/rachel-yehuda-how-trauma-and-resilience-cross-generations/7786 Genre Public Radio Comment by Margaret Owen This is very pertinent right now, the trauma, stress transmitted to unborn children of refugees, widows, wives of missing, rape victims, victims of forced underage marriage. On top of the stress hormones many of these babies born as refugees are stateless. Huge disadvantages adding to the trauma post conflict stress of their single mothers. How can we address this relationship, children born of rape, or to traumatised migrant mothers? Laws , like the Children's Convention, do not begin to address this . 2015-12-27T15:04:52Z Comment by User 801379257 Feel it. http://surfaceyourrealself.com/2015/11/10/an-interview-with-dr-rachel-yehuda-on-responding-to-stress-surfaceyourrealself/ 2015-11-10T17:02:29Z Comment by Fuzzytek Excellent point on the engagement of trauma survivors as activists for justice 2015-07-31T15:52:16Z
