The Daily Motivation The Science Of Why Trauma Runs In Families | Dr. Mariel Buqué
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Mar 27, 2026 
Dr. Mariel Buqué, a clinical expert on trauma and intergenerational stress, explains how trauma can be biologically transmitted across generations. She discusses epigenetics and how maternal stress can reprogram genes. Short talks cover anxiety and ADHD-like patterns in families, attachment and lineage work, and whether healing before conception can interrupt the cycle.
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Generational Trauma Is Partly Biological
- Generational trauma includes a biological component beyond learned behavior.
- Mariel Buqué explains epigenetics: parental stress can reprogram gene expression and create stress predisposition in children.
Client Stories Reveal Repeated Attachment Patterns
- Clients often describe lifelong anxiety or being hard to soothe that traces back through family patterns.
- Buqué recounts family-tree work where insecure attachment and modeled emotional outbursts repeated across generations.
Heal Before Conception To Reduce Transmission
- Break cycles before having children by reducing maternal stress and healing wounds to change both environment and biological signals.
- Buqué suggests a mother can create an environment of peace and alter transmission even if lineage had trauma.
