“Intergenerational trauma” is a phrase that comes up often as a therapeutic buzzword, but less often is it talked about in systemic terms. When Colette Ghunim first encountered the term in therapy, she wasn’t necessarily thinking of it in those terms either, but gradually it became evident that her parents’ respective experiences with forced migration — her mother migrated with her mother and siblings from Mexico to escape domestic violence, her father was forcibly displaced with his family from Palestine...
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