S4-Episode 10: How Intergenerational Trauma Shapes Your Core Beliefs

If you caught last week’s episode, you’ll know we talked about limiting beliefs — where they come from and how to start shifting them - you can catch that episode here.

This week, we’re taking that work a layer deeper, exploring how intergenerational trauma — the patterns, fears, and stories passed down through your family line — can quietly shape your core beliefs and keep you repeating the same loops for years, sometimes generations.

What You’ll Learn in This Episode

• How trauma and patterning are handed down through family lines — even when you’ve never “personally” experienced the original event
• What intergenerational trauma really means, beyond the big-T events
• How family modelling (especially around gender roles, self-worth, and relationships) creates subconscious blueprints you might still be living by
• The fascinating science behind epigenetic inheritance — including the Mount Sinai study on Holocaust survivors and gene FKBP5 that literally changed how future generations respond to stress
• Why “what’s familiar feels safe” to your nervous system — even if it’s dysfunctional
• How shamanic energy work can complement practical coaching tools to help you rewrite inherited beliefs at a deep level

I share a personal example from my own shamanic practice — a journey that revealed an inherited belief from my grandmother that “women are worthless.”

Seeing how that belief echoed through generations was a huge light-bulb moment. After doing ancestral healing work around it, I felt the energetic shift almost immediately — the procrastination lifted, clarity returned, and I could finally move the needle in both of my businesses again.

Whether that healing happens on an energetic plane or in the subconscious mind doesn’t really matter — what matters is that it works.

Intergenerational patterns don’t have to define you. Once you bring them into conscious awareness, you can choose differently — and when you shift, everyone after you benefits.

Want Support Rewriting the Story?

If you’re noticing repeating patterns in your relationships, career, or self-worth — and you can’t seem to break them no matter how much therapy or mindset work you’ve done — it’s time for something deeper.

💫 Book a 75-Minute Breakthrough Session — together we’ll identify and clear one of your core limiting beliefs, using a mix of practical thought work and (if you’re open to it) shamanic energy tools that shift things fast.

Book a Breakthrough Session HERE.

If you’re done playing small and ready to lead yourself — you’re in the right place.

I’m Emma O’Brien — Martha Beck trained and certified life coach, HeartMath practitioner, and shamanic healer helping high-achieving women stop second-guessing themselves and finally trust their own voice.

Through nervous system re-calibration, strategic coaching, and deep energetic work, I help you move from self-doubt to self-trust so you can create a life you actually want to be in — no external approval required.

🌀 Want to work together?

Explore the 6-week Nervous System Reset, 1:1 coaching, or Shamanic Soul Retrieval sessions here: emmaobriencoach.com

Questions or ready to chat?

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