In this video I will explain the concept of legacy burdens which comes for the school of psychotherapy called internal family systems or IFS. I also explain how to discover your legacy burdens. A Legacy Burden is a belief, emotion or sensation that doesn’t come from your own life experience but the experience of your parents, grandparents, great grandparents and so forth. Legacy burdens are feelings, beliefs and behaviours that originate from the lives of your ancestors, they are your family habits or rules that are passed down via various methods including dominant family narratives, cultural messages and conditioning. Some legacy burden’s are passed down via epigenetic memory. This means the genes for depression, anxiety, PTSD and addictions can be passed on to the next generation, and the next, and the next and the next. To clarify legacy burdens can be passed down epigenetically through changes in gene expression and can also be passed down via the dominant family narrative, cultural messages and conditioning.

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0:00 What are legacy burdens?
1:16 Epigenetic legacy burdens
2:58 Exercise: Discover your legacy burdens

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☐ Internal Family Systems by Richard C. Schwartz and Martha Sweezy. Please click on the link to buy from Amazon: https://amzn.to/3DmFm6W

☐ Internal Family Systems Skills Training Manual by Frank Anderson, Martha Sweezy and Richard Schwartz. Please click on the link to buy from Amazon: https://amzn.to/3kRJF3H

☐ No Bad Parts by Richard Schwartz: Please click on the link to buy from Amazon: https://amzn.to/3HDrTtT

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