Mindfulness and Healing Generational Trauma

Mindfulness can play a crucial role in addressing and healing generational trauma. By practicing mindfulness, we can develop greater awareness. Allowing us to break free from harmful patterns passed down through generations.

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This can lead to improved mental health, better coping strategies, and more secure relationships. Mindfulness also helps us cultivate compassion and empathy, which is essential in helping us understand and support the healing process of generational trauma that has been passed down through communities.  

Slavery, Genocide, Colonisation, and the trauma of witnessing mass violence, the loss of loved ones, and displacement, can have a long-lasting effect on our mental well-being.

Mindfulness can help break the cycle of generational trauma by attending to the somatic manifestation of trauma on the body, as a result of historical atrocities. This practice of mindfulness can help us create a more positive and resilient future for ourselves and future generations.

Hycinth is an experienced integrative psychotherapist, mindfulness teacher, and registered mindfulness supervisor. With over 2 decades of experience in psychological disciplines, Hycinth has a special interest in generational and childhood trauma. Hycinth has a warm, authentic, and practical approach to her work which is grounded in a philosophy of calmness and ease. Hycinth emphasises an embodiment approach, using the body as a guide to inform her work. She shows deep understanding and empathy in her work.

She provides dedicated clinical supervision and is a registered mindfulness teacher and supervisor with BAMBA. 

Hycinth completed training in mindfulness in non-clinical settings at the Oxford Mindfulness Centre and Mindfulness-based inclusion training (MBIT) from an African Caribbean perspective. She mentors trainee mindfulness teachers and runs regular mindfulness workshops and retreats. You can find more information https://www.harmonytheraputicservice.com/