The Vital Veda Podcast: Ayurveda | Holistic Health | Cosmic And Natural Law

Trauma leaves an imprint, and that imprint passes down the bloodline. In the Vedas, we call it a samskara, an impression etched into us by experience and carried across generations.Depression, anxiety, chronic pain, phobias, obsessive thoughts — the evidence suggests the root of these may lie in the traumas of our parents, grandparents, and great-grandparents. Recent research affirms that traumatic experience passes to future generations, hidden in everything from gene expression to everyday language.In this episode, Dylan speaks with Mark Wolynn, leading expert in inherited family trauma and author of the groundbreaking book It Didn't Start With You. Mark developed a method to identify and break these inherited patterns — accessible, pragmatic, and grounded in neuroscience and post-traumatic stress research.In this episode we cover:Why inherited trauma is physical, carried in the body and the cellsHow trauma passes beyond blood, to family members you have never even metThe connection between inherited t