19/11/2025
The Emotional Suitcase
We inherit more than we realise. Not just genetics or family traditions but emotional patterns, limiting beliefs and unhealed wounds.
Your mother may have passed down her belief of not being good enough.
Your grandmother may have carried shame she never named.
And without ever choosing it, those feelings became part of your story.
This is called generational trauma. And it's not about blame. It's about awareness.
When stress hits, that old suitcase opens. Suddenly you're not just dealing with the present moment, you're carrying decades of pain that was never yours to begin with.
But naming it is how you begin to release it.
You can unpack it. You can recognise what's yours and what's not.
You can hand back the shame, the self-doubt, the belief that you have to earn your worth.
And then you get to intentionally fill your suitcase with what you choose.
Self-compassion. Boundaries. Confidence. Peace.
You don't have to carry their pain.
You get to decide what comes with you from here.
What are you ready to unpack?
