Julia Samuel MBE: How We Inherit Pain from Our Parents & Grandparents

This week we are celebrating our 100th episode. To mark the occasion, we have a very special guest: Julia Samuel MBE, who is one of the UK’s foremost psychotherapists, as well as an author and an expert on grief. 

Julia and Andrew discuss:

⭐️How grief and loss pass from generation to generation

⭐️How you can protect your own children from generational trauma

⭐️Using boundaries, rituals and positive conflict techniques to help your family heal.

Subscriber Content This Week

If you’re a subscriber to The Meaningful Life (via Apple Podcasts, Spotify or Patreon), this week you’ll be hearing:

⭐️Julia’s 12 touchstones for the wellbeing of a family.

⭐️3 things Julia knows to be true.

⭐️AND subscribers also access all of our previous bonus content - a rich trove of insight on love, life and meaning created by Andrew and his interviewees.

Follow Up

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Read Julia Samuel’s book Every Family has a Story: How We Inherit Love and Loss

Read Julia Samuel’s other books This Too Shall Pass : Stories of Change, Crisis and Hopeful Beginnings and Grief Works : Stories of Life, Death and Surviving

Take a look at Julia Samuel’s website  

Follow Julia Samuel on Facebook and Instagram @JuliaSamuelMBE

Listen to other episodes dealing with generational inheritances: Terry Real on Five Traps that Undermine Your Love, Jed Diamond on Your Personal Creation Story and Philippa Perry on What You Wish Your Parents Knew.

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