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
🎓 Post-Grad Panic? CBT Can Help

🎓 Post-Grad Panic? CBT Can Help

— Patria Alexander PMHNP Student | Creator of Mindful Exposure™ Bridging psychiatry, mindfulness & visual healing
Published on: 20/05/2025

You’ve got the diploma. Maybe a little sheet cake. And a brain that won’t shut up. Welcome to life after school: a weird cocktail of excitement, dread, and intrusive thoughts like: “If I don’t have a plan, I’ll fail.” “Everyone else knows what they’re doing.” “What if this is the peak of my entire life?” Let’s talk back to that chaos—CBT style.

Adult Mental HealthChild and Adolescents Mental Health
✨ What If You’re Not “Too Much”—Just Misunderstood?

✨ What If You’re Not “Too Much”—Just Misunderstood?

— Patria Alexander PMHNP Student | Creator of Mindful Exposure™ Bridging psychiatry, mindfulness & visual healing
Published on: 19/04/2025

Reframing Personality Through Compassion, Curiosity & Creativity

Adult Mental HealthChild and Adolescents Mental Health
🧠 What Is Mindful Exposure™?A Visual Path to Emotional Healing and Regulation Emotional Healing and Regulation

🧠 What Is Mindful Exposure™?A Visual Path to Emotional Healing and Regulation Emotional Healing and Regulation

Patria Alexander, MSN, PMHNP Student
Published on: 16/04/2025

trauma-informed therapy, emotional regulation, photo therapy, creative healing, somatic healing, mindful journaling, neurodivergent therapy, visual storytelling, PMHNP tools, self-guided healing framework That’s why I created Mindful Exposure™.

Children, PediatricsAdult Mental HealthChild and Adolescents Mental Health