Sarah Peyton: From Intense self-hatred to deep compassion and resonant healing

Between The Before & After (The Stories that Shape Us)

Despite having a wonderful family, Sarah Peyton still had something eating away at her inside.
Emotionally unstable and laceratingly cruel to herself, Sarah began to believe she must be defective or crazy. But what she didn't know was just how much the trauma of her family's past had affected her.
After finding a newspaper clipping of her grandmother's divorce trial from the 1930s, Sarah began her discovery of relational neuroscience and transgenerational trauma. This knowledge sent her on a journey to uncovering how she had taken on the patterns of her family's past and how to leave them behind.
Sarah's story goes from emotional confusion to redemption, healing, and love.
In Sarah's words: "Through my live events, online courses, and bestselling book, I help people see that our brains makes sense, and that those things we’ve thought of as emotional difficulties or character defects are actually very normal reactions to relational, cultural and intergenerational trauma.

One of the things I’m often asked is “how does learning about neuroscience help us heal?

Once we start learning about neuroscience we find out how emotional trauma creates self-blame and isolation, and gets in the way of gentleness with the self.

We often think we are broken, that we have character flaws, when in actuality we make perfect sense, given the challenging experiences of aloneness, isolation, relational trauma and more that characterize most modern, capitalist colonial cultures.

We humans are uniquely vulnerable to emotional harm, but we are also uniquely available to hold each other and ourselves with warmth and resonance in ways that re-establish real relationship and engage our brains’ capacity for healing.

How the heck did I get started in relational neuroscience?

For most of my life, I struggled with brutal depression… deadening, heavy sadness that made it hard to muster the energy to take a shower or even brush my teeth. I came to this work because I needed it to heal.

I spent my childhood in Interior Alaska, which is the unceded territory of Athabaskan, Yup’ik and Iñupiaq indigenous populations, as well as many other Alaska Native tribes.

It is largely wilderness, and I miss that landscape every day. What I don’t miss about my childhood home is the world of un-held trauma and unsupported pain.

People who are close to me know that it took me 2 whole years to develop and research the neuroscience materials for my well-known webinar series Healing from Disorganized Attachment. Why? Because reading the intense and painful impacts to children who grow up with intergenerational trauma led to a complete shut-down freeze in me.

I am one of those children who have experienced trauma, and I am one of those parents who have replicated those patterns. Learning about relational neuroscience saved my life and changed my family, my relationships and everything I know to be true.

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