For all of the intergenerational trauma,
you also hold in your body
the strength of your ancestors
who survived.
Your blood and genes
hold the wisdom and resilience
of generations who came before you.
Generations who overcame impossible odds,
who found joy in the darkest times,
who used their oppression as a teacher,
who learned to stand,
who learned to fight,
who felt unimaginable pain and loss
and still built something that led to you.
You hold the strength and resilience of those generations
alongside their pain.
You hold their capacity for joy, vulnerability, and creation
alongside their heartbreak.
You have intergenerational resilience
and intergenerational strength,
not only intergenerational trauma.
Survival is in your blood.
