Episode 9

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22nd Oct 2025

Healing Trauma with Amy Vincze, Part 2: Inherited Pain and Generational Healing

Generational trauma is real — but what does it actually look like in everyday life? In Part 2 of this conversation, Amy Vincze shares how unhealed patterns, beliefs, and emotions pass through families both energetically and biologically — and how breaking those cycles begins with awareness.

Amy explains how inherited fears can show up as money blocks, emotional sensitivities, or chronic stress, and why healing yourself can ripple backward and forward through your lineage. We also talk about self-blame, anger, and compassion — the messy middle between “It wasn’t my fault” and “It’s still my burden to heal.”

✨ Content Note: General discussion of trauma, family patterns, and emotional healing (no graphic detail).

Key Takeaways

This episode dives into the roots of generational trauma — the emotional and energetic legacies we inherit without realizing it. Amy Vincze and Sacha Holder explore how fear, shame, and outdated family beliefs can shape our choices, and how awareness and compassion can begin to rewrite those patterns. It’s a conversation about reclaiming agency, releasing blame, and choosing healing not just for ourselves, but for the generations that came before and those yet to come.

Keywords:

generational trauma, inherited trauma, family healing, emotional healing, intergenerational patterns, breaking cycles, ancestral trauma, trauma recovery, emotional awareness, EFT Tapping, Amy Vincze, self-compassion, forgiveness, lineage healing, inner child work, reparenting, family dynamics, trauma healing podcast, nervous system regulation, epigenetics, generational patterns, emotional resilience, healing family wounds, holistic wellness, mind-body connection

🎧 Next Episode: The Body Remembers and the Power of Tapping — how emotions live in our bodies and how tapping can help release them.

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The High-Functioning Disaster
High-functioning on the outside. Hot mess on the inside.
You’ve got the color-coded calendar, the competent job persona, the “I’m fine!” mask down to an art—and a mental load heavy enough to throw out your back. Meanwhile, life? That's a hot mess express—total chaos with zero chill and a full tank of emotional baggage. And what makes it even worse? Nearly no one’s talking about it.

Welcome to The High-Functioning Disaster, a podcast for people who are doing their best to hold it together while navigating burnout, grief, trauma, anxiety, caretaking duties, family drama, body image issues, and a to-do list that never quits.

Host Sacha Holder isn’t the disaster (neither are you!)—life is. And this show is about making space for that truth and giving ourselves permission to say it out loud. Every week, Sacha explores what it means to be deeply human in a world that keeps demanding more. Sometimes she’s flying solo, sometimes she brings along guests and friends—but the vibe is always real, raw, unfiltered, and grounded in radical self-acceptance and permission to be human.

We talk boundaries. Body image. Mental health. Emotional labor. The moments where everything feels like too much—and the ones where we catch our breath and keep going.

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Sacha Holder

Sacha Holder is a project manager, podcast host, and bariatric patient who’s not here to pretend it’s all perfect. With over a decade of professional experience and a whole lot of lived experience, she creates podcasts that tell the truth about what it means to live, heal, and grow — through chaos, and curveballs, while keeping it together (mostly).

She’s the voice behind Life in the Bari Lane, a bite-sized bariatric podcast for real people navigating post-op life, and The High-Functioning Disaster, a show about showing up even when everything feels like too much. Through humor, honesty, and zero judgment, Sacha builds community through conversation — because no one should have to figure it out alone.