Expanded x Ep. 285 Ancestral Wisdom & Healing Generational Trauma featuring Dr. Mariel Buqué

Top RatedBIPOCManifest HealingInner Child / ShadowUnblockingFamily / ParentingPsychologySpiritualityBoundaries / CodependencePings / Intuition

Jan 12

Written By Lacy Phillips

You have inherited the wisdom of your ancestors

Since all of us in TBM world are committed to identifying and unblocking our limiting beliefs, today’s episode is going to be a game-changer. Meet Dr. Mariel Buqué, a leading trauma psychologist and author of Break the Cycle: A Guide to Healing Intergenerational Trauma. Dr. Mariel is here to help us understand how trauma is passed down through generations, how we experience collective trauma, and how we can start moving toward healing. In this episode, you’ll learn some tangible daily tools—breathing exercises, grounding practices, and more—to help move through stress and reduce the overwhelm we’re all faced with at different points throughout our lives. This transformative episode weaves cultural context, ancestral wisdom, and practical healing techniques into a powerful tapestry for personal growth and resilience. It’s an important reminder – we all have the ability to process and heal our wounds, to break intergenerational cycles, and to be the catalyst for change in our own lives.

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In This Episode We Talk About:

The importance of cultural context and cultural nuance in healing
How trauma can be passed down in DNA
The histories that live within you
Intergenerational wisdom and resilience
Tuning into the pings from your ancestors for both comfort and safety
Navigating stress, overwhelm, and allostatic overload
Breathing, rocking, and humming as accessible tools to undo daily stress
How self-awareness plays a role in navigating triggers and stress
Developing a steady practice of grounding
Understanding shame and learning to disrupt a shame cycle
A breakdown of The Still method to work with triggers
Collective and individual coping mechanisms
The systemic conditions that contribute to trauma and working to help build systems to support future generations