Intergenerational trauma podcast episode4/11/2024 My dad has one sister and she struggled with anorexia. My dad has always struggled with OCD, with perfectionism. We know that so much of personality and temperament can be genetic. I know personally I spent so much time trying to be good enough so that I would hear from my dad that he loved me or that he was proud of me, which wasn't anything that he was capable of.Įllie: How did that affect who you actually became personality-wise and what your temperament really was longterm? His trauma, what he experienced absolutely shaped my growth, my childhood, my lifetime experience. Johanna: Oh my goodness, without a doubt. Would you say it, it caused you to be more approval seeking and seeking affection specifically? There were about 13 of them that lived in a studio apartment and they didn't even have running water. Eating once a day was actually a really, really good day.Įllie: The aftermath of these traumas affected Johanna in very tangible ways. When you turn it over to my mom, she was also born and raised in Europe, but she was born into a very, very poor family. Johanna: His father, and pretty much everybody besides his mother and his brother were killed in Auschwitz. My father was separated from his mom and for the next six years, actually lived on a farm in the outskirts of Paris and was really left to his own accord to take care of himself truthfully.Įllie: Johanna's father wouldn't see his family again until after world war II had passed. When he did finally see them, there weren't many left. He was in a Jewish ghetto and at the age of three, when the Germans came into the ghetto to round up the Jews to take them to the concentration camps, my grandmother, my father and my uncle narrowly slipped away and were able to go into hiding. My father is actually a Holocaust survivor. Johanna: Whenever I am asked to share my story, I always bring it back to my parents, because so much of what they experienced in their life had such significance on my life. We'll also cover some helpful steps to getting a diagnosis, even if your regular physician is not familiar with eating disorders. I am the CEO and founder of the Alliance for Eating Disorders Awareness.Įllie: We're going to see how the interplay of genetics and the life experience of your parents play into the development of an eating disorder and what you can do to change the tide. Today, We get to talk with Johanna Kandel. They affect not only the immediate future but also generations who follow. It's so easy to forget that the ripple effects of trauma reach beyond our present moments. TranscriptĮllie: When I first sat down with today's storyteller, she told me that to know my story is to know my heritage. We also discuss helpful steps to getting a diagnosis if a medical provider is not clued in so that you can access recovery. We explore how her body image issues and eating disorder unfolded and why it took years to receive a diagnosis and find treatment. Johanna Kandel grew up the daughter of parents who survived the Holocaust and with roots in deep poverty - traumas that continued to shape her life even though she was born long after they occurred.
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