Corinne Sanchez, director of Tewa Women United, works to help people overcome intergenerational trauma. ‘There’s multiple ways that healing can happen. A lot of times, people think it’s just talk therapy, but what we’ve learned in our work [at Tewa Women United] is that healing can come through different modalities,’ she said.
Corrine Sanchez, current director of Tewa Women United, with her mother, Kathy Sanchez, former director and current program manager for the Environmental Health and Justice program.
Corinne Sanchez, director of Tewa Women United, works to help people overcome intergenerational trauma. ‘There’s multiple ways that healing can happen. A lot of times, people think it’s just talk therapy, but what we’ve learned in our work [at Tewa Women United] is that healing can come through different modalities,’ she said.
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Corrine Sanchez, current director of Tewa Women United, with her mother, Kathy Sanchez, former director and current program manager for the Environmental Health and Justice program.
Even before knowing the term ‘intergenerational trauma,’ Corrine Sanchez felt its impacts in her life.
Growing up in San Ildefonso as a Native woman “means understanding the historical impacts of laws and legislation on our communities … surviving genocide and our communities fighting for our land, fighting for our existence,” the Tewa Women United director said.
For Sanchez and many others, problems facing the present generation started decades ago. This is the idea behind intergenerational trauma: when the effects of trauma experienced by an individual or community can be passed on to people who have not experienced the trauma themselves.
