Break the Cycle: A Guide to Healing Intergenerational Trauma by Dr. Mariel Buqué

Transform inherited emotional pain into generational resilience with the definitive, holistic roadmap to breaking intergenerational trauma.

In Break the Cycle, world-renowned holistic psychologist Dr. Mariel Buqué provides a groundbreaking guide to understanding, processing, and shedding the emotional wounds passed down through family lineages. Blending cutting-edge neuroscience, epigenetics, and practical mind-body-spirit exercises, Dr. Buqué equips you with the tools to break toxic generational patterns, heal your nervous system, and step into an empowered legacy of emotional freedom and abundance.

Are you carrying emotional burdens, anxieties, or behavioral patterns that didn't start with you?

Many of us suffer from chronic depression, emotional reactivity, persistent guilt, or dysfunctional relationship dynamics without realizing that these struggles are rooted in intergenerational trauma—wounds passed down through biological gene expression, family modeling, and collective history. We become the silent keepers of our ancestors' unhealed pain.

In Break the Cycle: A Guide to Healing Intergenerational Trauma, Columbia University-trained holistic psychologist Dr. Mariel Buqué delivers a compassionate, step-by-step masterclass in shedding inherited emotional strain. Grounded in clinical expertise and enriched by her own powerful personal story as a first-generation Black Latina immigrant, Dr. Buqué redefines what it means to heal.

Because intergenerational trauma affects the mind, body, and spirit simultaneously, true healing requires a multidimensional approach. Traditional talk therapy often focuses solely on the mind, leaving trauma trapped in the body. Dr. Buqué bridges Western clinical psychology with ancient, integrative, and somatic modalities to offer a complete soul-level recovery system.

Inside this transformative guide, you will discover:

• The Two Modes of Trauma Transmission: Understand how unhealed pain travels biologically through genetic expression (epigenetics) and socially through behavioral modeling and family dynamics.

• The Intergenerational Trauma Tree & Assessment: Map your lineage's history, identify hidden family triggers, and pinpoint the exact origins of your emotional inheritance.

• Somatic & Nervous System Regulation: Practical techniques—such as ventral vagal nerve stimulation, humming practices, and grounding routines—to lower cortisol and bring your body out of chronic survival mode.

• Reparenting Your Inner Child: Uncover how your parents' unresolved inner children created your own childhood wounds, and learn how to break cycles of abuse, parentification, and emotional neglect.

• Holistic Ancestral Practices: Incorporate sound bath meditations, botanical tea rituals (including Mamá Tutúna's Lemongrass Healing Tea), journal prompts, and visualization exercises into your daily life.

• Post-Traumatic Growth & Legacy Alchemization: Learn how to grieve your traumatic lineage without losing connection to your roots, embody generational resilience, and pass on a legacy of abundance to future generations.

Whether you choose to walk this journey alone or in co-healing community, Break the Cycle provides the armor, wisdom, and actionable tools required to say: "It ran in my family, but this is where it runs out."

Key Features:

• Pioneer in Intergenerational Trauma: Written by Dr. Mariel Buqué, a prominent Columbia-trained psychologist and leader in the holistic mental health movement.

• Practical & Actionable: Every chapter includes concrete "Breaking the Cycle" practices, reflection prompts, and structured exercises designed for real-world application.

• Mind-Body-Spirit Integration: Integrates Western psychology, epigenetics, somatic healing, sound therapy, and ancestral plant wisdom for true holistic transformation.

• Includes Unique Resources & Appendices: Features specific grounding protocols, sound bath meditation guides, an Intergenerational Trauma Healing Assessment, and ancestral recipes.

• Universal & Inclusive Appeal: Specifically crafted to honor diverse cultural backgrounds, marginalized experiences, first-generation struggles, and collective family histories.