Echo is working hard to provide parents and trauma survivors with information and skills to recover from trauma and break the generational cycles of trauma in our families.
Echo offers a unique trauma-informed, compassionate lens to better understand ourselves and others. We celebrate the resilience of trauma survivors while providing tools to chart a path to recovery.
So many problems that society used to lay at the door of character defects or even genetics – such as addiction, some forms of mental illness, anger issues, lack of parent/child bonding – can now be understood as purely biological adaptations to trauma. In essence, humans adapt to survive danger but sometimes we don’t adapt back once the danger has passed. Not only do these adaptations often no longer serve us, but without education on how to interrupt the cycle, we can also pass on these non-life-serving adaptations to our children. The new science of epigenetics has shown us that the transference of generational trauma can happen even at a cellular level, with trauma overwriting our genetic code.
The good news is that whatever has changed, even at a cellular level, can be changed back through safe, nurturing relationships and environments. Not all of us experienced those relationships in our own childhoods, which makes it harder for us to create the relationships we need to heal and to provide our own children with optimal parenting.
However, Echo believes in the capacity of humans to do better once we have the information and skills we need. Our online training courses are easy to navigate and use simple language so that trauma survivors and parents (as well as survivor-serving professionals) can identify the legacy of trauma, including its influence on how we interact with the world. Echo’s courses cover trauma science as well as emotional regulation and nonviolent communication skills.
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