Audrey Hyams Romoff: How Childhood Trauma Changes DNA

Audrey Hyams Romoff's mother was one of the youngest children to survive the Auschwitz concentration camp, liberated at just 8 years old — and that childhood trauma shaped four generations of women in ways Audrey never fully understood until decades later.Audrey Hyams Romoff is the founder of Overcat PR and author of The Ripple Eclipse, a memoir tracing four generations of women in her family and the inherited trauma that runs through all of them. She recently traveled to Auschwitz with PBS NewsHour for the 80th anniversary of its liberation.She explains:- How profound childhood trauma can physically alter your DNA — and be passed to your children and grandchildren (epigenetics)- Why her mother's Holocaust survival made Audrey's most ordinary life decisions feel like abandonment to her- What Audrey found when she opened boxes of her parents' belongings years after their deaths — and the 127-page unedited interview transcript that changed how she understood her mother- Why she doesn't believe in closure — and why "livable" might be the most honest goal anyone can have after profound loss- How compartmentalization can be both a survival tool and a trap that prevents healing📍 FOLLOW JORDANA:Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/jordanagoldlist/Website: https://www.jhgcriminallaw.com/📍 FOLLOW AUDREY:Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/audreyhyamsromoff/Website: https://www.instagram.com/audreyhyamsromoff/📍 THE RIPPLE ECLIPSE:Amazon: https://www.amazon.ca/Ripple-Eclipse-Turning-Inherited-Trauma/dp/1998206491Indigo: https://www.indigo.ca/en-ca/the-ripple-eclipse-turning-the-tide-of-inherited-trauma/61b10bc2-2995-3b17-b869-cecd03246f95.htmlBarnes & Noble: https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/the-ripple-eclipse-audrey-hyams-romoff/1148428319