Healing inherited trauma - how your family history lives in your body, with Dr Meher Chahal

About this episode

Dr. Amanda Ferguson discusses healing inherited trauma with Dr. Meher Chahal, exploring how family history impacts mental health.

In the latest episode of Psych for Life, I chat with Dr. Meher Chahal on healing inherited trauma. Dr Chahal is a medical doctor, author, astrologer, entrepreneur, and investor trained in western medicine, psychiatry, systemic and family constellations therapy, Hellenistic astrology, and Jungian coaching. She left her psychiatry residency to pursue a radically different approach to mental health — one that looks beyond the individual to the family lineage and ancestral patterns that shape our...

People in this episode

Host: Dr. Amanda Ferguson

Guest: Dr. Meher Chahal

Topics covered

• inherited trauma
• family history
• mental health
• systemic therapy
• ancestral patterns

Keywords

• inherited trauma
• family lineage
• mental health
• systemic therapy
• ancestral patterns

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Hellenistic astrology, Jungian coaching

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