#736 Transgenerational Trauma - Jen Soriano
Mental Illness Happy Hour
Paul Gilmartin
4.8 • 6.1K Ratings
🗓️ 21 February 2025
⏱️ 102 minutes
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Summary
Jen Soriano is a Filipinx author, musician, and first-generation American. She shares important context about Filipino history and how transgenerational trauma plays out for so many people, including her own family. She also opens up about living with chronic pain and the importance of understanding the mind-body connection. Look for her new book Nervous: Essays on Heritage and Healing.
For more about Jen:
Website: JenSoriano.net | Instagram: @jensorianowrites | Tiktok: @jensorianowrites
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| 0:00.0 | Get the angelries special at McDonald's now. |
| 0:02.0 | Let's break it down. |
| 0:03.0 | My favorite barbecue sauce, American cheese, crispy bacon, pickles, onions, and a sesame |
| 0:08.1 | seed bun, of course. |
| 0:09.8 | And don't forget the fries and a drink. |
| 0:11.5 | Sound good. |
| 0:12.4 | I'm participating restaurants for limited time. |
| 0:15.4 | Welcome to episode 736 with my guest, Jen Soriano. |
| 0:19.2 | If you're new to the podcast, this is a place for honesty about all the battles in our heads from medically diagnosed conditions, past traumas, and sexual dysfunction to everyday compulsive negative thinking. |
| 0:32.4 | And this show is not meant to be a substitute for professional mental counseling. |
| 0:36.4 | I am not a therapist. The website for this show is |
| 0:40.1 | Metalpod.com. Metalpod, also the social media handle that you can follow us at. I want to do a quick |
| 0:47.8 | plug for something I really believe him. They are not a sponsor, just a huge fan of their work. And one of their therapists, |
| 0:56.3 | Renee Johnson, was an awesome guest on the podcast. And they run a support group for LGBTQ plus folks. |
| 1:06.3 | And it's the Open Space Therapy Collective, and the therapists are LGBTQ-plus folks. |
| 1:15.2 | And there's a discount for listeners, et cetera, et cetera, and the link to that will be in the show notes for this episode. |
| 1:26.8 | But you get a discount if you are a |
| 1:28.6 | Patreon donor. But again, I'm not making any money from it. Just a huge fan of their work. |
| 1:35.0 | And I think folks in that community right now goes without saying are under a tremendous |
| 1:42.9 | amount of stress and could use some support. |
| 1:48.0 | All right. |
| 1:51.5 | This is an email that I got from Lindsay. |
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