The Inheritance: How Intergenerational Trauma and Epigenetics Shape Mental Health in Diasporic Bodies

The Inheritance: How Intergenerational Trauma and Epigenetics Shape Mental Health in Diasporic Bodies

Patria Alexander, MSN, RN
Published on: 05/08/2025

Discover how ancestral trauma lives in the body through epigenetics and inherited nervous system responses—and how culturally attuned psychiatry can help us heal what our grandmothers were never allowed to speak.

Adult Mental HealthChild and Adolescents Mental Health
The Stories We Carry Across Oceans: Psychiatry, Migration, and the Invisible Psyche

The Stories We Carry Across Oceans: Psychiatry, Migration, and the Invisible Psyche

Patria Alexander, MSN, RN
Published on: 24/07/2025

Explore how migration, intergenerational trauma, and cultural identity shape the psyche. A soulful, psychiatric reflection on the stories we carry across oceans—and how they impact mental health.

Adult Mental Health
Healing Must Go Beyond the Script

Healing Must Go Beyond the Script

Patria Alexander, MSN, RN
Published on: 21/07/2025

Traditional psychiatry, for all its scientific brilliance, often misses the heart. It forgets that people aren’t problems to fix—they are stories to be heard, souls longing to heal.

Adult Mental HealthPMHNP School
What Does It Mean to Be Seen?

What Does It Mean to Be Seen?

— Patria Alexander PMHNP Student | Creator of Mindful Exposure™ Bridging psychiatry, mindfulness & visual healing
Published on: 13/07/2025

Being seen isn’t about attention. It’s about presence. It’s about feeling known in your mess and your magic. In psychiatry, we take histories. But we often miss the soul. What if healing started with a photograph and a question like: “What do you see when you look at yourself today?”

Adult Mental HealthPMHNP School