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