Intergenerational Trauma and Intergenerational Healing in Eating Disorders with Sam Dylan Finch

2024-05-22

Today’s conversation we’re talking with Sam Dylan Finch about his story and its intersection with intergenerational trauma. Sam Dylan Finch is a writer, content strategist, and daydreamer leveraging the power of digital media to inspire hope and challenge stigma. Sam is a recognized and trusted voice within mental health media, having reached millions of readers worldwide after his first of many viral articles back in 2014. Since then, his unique combination of lived experience and authenticity, alongside his journalistic expertise, has led to memorable, culture-shifting moments across the web. His work has not only shifted attitudes around LGBTQ+ identity and neu...

Since then, his unique combination of lived experience and authenticity, alongside his journalistic expertise, has led to memorable, culture-shifting moments across the web.

His work has not only shifted attitudes around LGBTQ+ identity and neurodivergence, but has brought compassionate and necessary depth to many stigmatized conversations and

In this episode of Taking Up Space, we discussed:

We define what intergenerational trauma and how it’s relevant to the development of eating disorders
Sam’s body story as he’s telling and understanding it today, specifically looking at the development of the eating disorder as a symptom of intergenerational trauma
Exploration of Sam’s family immigration and its involvement in Sam’s development of an eating disorder
We discuss how white folks are divorced from their ancestral and cultural stories and the impact that this has on
The difference that it made to have a therapist who encouraged Sam to look at his ancestral and family history as a part of his story
Sam’s experience of intellectualizing collective liberation work vs. embodying collective liberation
How Sam once thought that he was “too autistic” for parts work until he tried the Safe and Protocol which made parts work a more embodied experience
Sam’s definition of what it means to take up space to not abandon himself and stay present in the pain and joy in our world

Resources Mentioned

Website: https://samdylanfinch.com/
Sam’s Blog: https://letsqueerthingsup.com/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/samdylanfinch/?hl=en
Sam’s Blog “Why I’m Not Fighting My Eating Disorder Anymore”: https://helloalma.com/blog/not-fighting-eating-disorder/
More of Sam’s writing: https://helloalma.com/blog/authors/sam-dylan-finch/

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