The Trauma You Inherited, and the Healing You Inherited Too | Marquita

What if your ancestors handed down more than trauma? Marquita Maxwell, LPC has spent 18 years in the counseling room, and she wants to put something next to intergenerational trauma that rarely gets named: intergenerational healing. In this conversation with Dr. Anna Dinallo she talks about epigenetics and inherited medical distrust, about standing at the door of no return in Africa, and about what it costs to practice as yourself inside a profession that was not built with you in mind. In this episode: Why she edits and morphs the modalities she was trained in, because the people who wrote the foundational theories "did not look like me" Brainspotting, IFS and somatic work, and why she refuses the disease model Harriet Washington, Henrietta Lacks, and how medical distrust becomes culture The counselor's own inner work: "they can only go as far as I've gone" Dr. Dinallo on why they once walked away from counseling altogether Whose theory we teach, and the global epistemologies left out of the syllabus "It is hard work, but it's also heart work." (Marquita Maxwell) A closing contemplation from Dr. Dinallo: where might you be editing or masking parts of your higher self so that you fit into a culture with a long history of dominance?