Finally Break the Pattern: How Breaking Cycles Frees You From Generational Trauma and Childhood Trauma With Alyssa Scarano [Ep 94]

Why does midlife often bring old family patterns back into focus, right when we think we've already worked through them?

In this episode, I'm joined by Alyssa Scarano, a licensed professional counselor and founder of Collective Therapy and Wellness, who helps clients heal from childhood trauma and interrupt generational trauma in their families.

Alyssa and I talk about how negative thoughts and self talk can keep an old story running, why boundary setting protects our emotional healing, and what it looks like to finally begin breaking cycles instead of repeating generational patterns we never chose.

Our conversation touches on:

• How to recognize when negative thoughts are running the show.
• Why self talk can keep old patterns alive or help change them.
• What boundary setting can look like in a real relationship.
• How our body may signal what we need before our mind catches up.
• Why generational trauma can show up even when we don't repeat it on purpose.
• How midlife parenting can bring old patterns back to the surface.
• What a therapy session with Alyssa focuses on early with new clients.
• Why emotional healing often has to come from within.

If you've ever felt stuck in a pattern you can't quite explain, this episode will give you a lot to think about.

Hit play and let's grow together,

Kimberly

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Website: https://collective-therapy.com/

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