CAN WE INHERIT

In this episode, Elif Shafak is focusing on the word #FAMILY: What are your family traumas?
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Language is the key to understanding and unlocking our world.
It is also the key to the human heart.
Words are often said to have power.
What is not said that often is that they can hurt and even spread hatred and hostility, just like they can heal and bring about love, empathy and wisdom.
They can divide, distance and "dehumanise", just like they can connect and “rehumanise" those who have been dehumanised.
East and West, North and South, regardless of race, sex, gender, colour, religion, ethnicity, nationality or any other category, we are all made of stories.
Stories bring us together, untold stories keep us apart.
Today's word is FAMILY.
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[@vaishnavichiddarwar7280]

Elif, you are a friend to many women like me who are embarking on journeys that are otherwise less embarked by most women for reasons that still baffle and sadden me. I want you to know that your words give me Umut, Ummeed, Hope. This video on inherited trauma has struck a personal chord.

[@okwunirunwadiuto3005]

Reading your book, The Island of Missing of Missing Trees, sparked a conversation between my father and I. He is a naturalist and treats our little 'mbubo', like a second home. I had to ask him why. This is something I had never done in all the years I had lived in that very house, in all the years I and my siblings had worked in that very piece of land, planting and harvesting. And he said, 'my mother was buried in that land.' I didn't know when the tears came. But they did. Thank you for telling stories like you do. Thank you for having these conversations, and using words so beautifully. It heals❤️

[@HerminePapikyan]

This has been so strong. It made me having goosebumps. Thank you!

[@limotgirl9863]

ahhh im first 😍 Elif abla i dont know if you ever will read this but you and your books are such an inspiration to me!! please keep doing your work best wishes 🥰

[@benanozkaynak3946]

Epigenetics can be very fascinating. My grandma had a stillbirth ( first baby) and once in a while she talked about it. It took me years to understand why she was so protective of my mom and us. She had the fear of experiencing the same pain/ grief again. My mom also had the same kind of anxiety to the point of suffocating us with her protective ways. I certainly feel some of it for my kids and grandkids. It might be a learned behavior or my grandma’s trauma left a genetic print in our DNA or both.

[@NM-fe8he]

Again thought provoking and nicely explained.

[@i-sheyhareem7418]

So beautifully put ❤

[@umar938]

soothing