Family · Family of Origin
Intergenerational Trauma Worksheet
What got passed down — and what stops here
Trauma travels down families through silence, survival rules, and unspoken loyalties. This sheet names what got passed down so you can decide what to carry, what to grieve, and what to interrupt in your generation.
What I know about the traumas in prior generations
War, migration, poverty, racism, addiction, abuse, forced separation, medical, religious. Named or hinted at.
Survival rules that came out of it
Rule (e.g. 'never trust outsiders')
Generation it started in
How it shows up in me
What I'm choosing to interrupt in my generation
Honoring is not repeating
Interrupting an inherited pattern isn't disloyalty. Often it's the deepest way to honor what earlier generations survived — by not passing the wound forward.