Hey there, friend–
What if I told you that some of the struggles you’re facing right now didn’t start with you?
You weren’t born believing you weren’t enough. You weren’t born afraid to use your voice, or feeling like it’s your responsibility for fixing everyone around you.
Yet, somewhere along the way, these beliefs, fears, and emotional patterns became yours.
Passed down through generations, they silently shaped how you see yourself, how you relate to others, and the choices you make.
What Are Generational Patterns?
Generational trauma isn’t always about a single event—it’s the repeated cycles of belief, behavior, and emotional survival strategies inherited from those who came before us.
This can look like:
🌀 Belief Systems: “Love is painful,” “I have to struggle to succeed,” “Having wealth is bad,” “Rest is laziness.”
🌀 Emotional Coping Mechanisms: Suppressing or deflecting your feelings and emotions, avoiding conflict—your own and that you experience with others, or always needing to be in control.
🌀 Survival Strategies: Perfectionism, people-pleasing, self-sacrifice, quitting, running away or shutting down when you feel triggered.
🌀 Inherited Trauma: Anger, sadness, fear, scarcity, shame, or grief carried forward from past generations.
Why understanding this matters is because we carry the pain and burdens of our ancestors.
We often repeat these patterns—even when they don’t serve us, even when it doesn’t make logical sense—because they feel familiar.
Why You Can’t Just “Think” Your Way Out of These Patterns
You’ve probably tried. You’ve read the books, done the affirmations, maybe even gone to therapy.
Yet, the same wounds, the same reactions, the same self-sabotaging behaviors keep showing up–over and over and over again.
That’s because healing inherited patterns requires more than just awareness—it requires going within and doing the deeper inner work.
The subconscious mind runs the show. It stores everything we’ve inherited—beliefs, emotions, and trauma responses.
Unless we go inward and reprogram these unconscious imprints, we stay stuck in loops we don’t even realize we’re repeating.
Breaking the Cycle: Where to Begin
If you recognize yourself in any of this, please know that you are not bound to your past. The fact that you’re aware of the pattern(s) means your subconscious mind is ready to let them go.
Here’s where you can start:
1️⃣ Identify the Pattern: What beliefs or behaviors feel like they’ve been passed down? Where do you see repetition in your life?
2️⃣ Feel It to Heal It: Instead of bypassing the discomfort, sit with it. Where do you feel these inherited emotions in your body?
3️⃣ Rewrite the Narrative: What’s a new belief you want to embody? How would the healed version of you respond differently?
4️⃣ Get Support: Healing deep generational wounds isn’t meant to be done alone. Having the guidance of someone who is highly trained and specializes in subconscious reprogramming makes all the difference.
This is the exact work we do inside WITHIN: The Inner Work, my Legacy Program for women ready to break old cycles and step into full emotional freedom.
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You are not responsible for the pain you inherited, but you are responsible for healing it. And when you do, you don’t just heal yourself—you free the generations that come after you.
With grace,
Tris
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An International Bestselling Author, Lifestyle and Leadership Coach and speaker, Tris Thorp is one of today’s leading experts in the field of personal growth and leadership development, specializing in emotional healing, women’s empowerment and shadow work.
Having spent a decade traveling the world, being trained by and sharing the stage with Dr. Deepak Chopra in the field of social emotional learning, consciousness and mindfulness-based practices, Tris has a real gift for integrating the ancient spiritual teachings with modern-day science and mindfulness to help people all over the world let go of their past and create an empowered new future.
During her tenure at the Chopra Center, Tris apprenticed under the Chopra Center’s co-founder Dr. David Simon, co-facilitating the Healing the Heart and Emotional Freedom workshops alongside him. Prior to his passing in 2012, Dr. Simon appointed Tris as the person to carry on his teachings in the field of emotional healing. In addition, Tris was fortunate to be mentored by the late Debbie Ford prior to her passing in 2013, which is where she continued her extensive studies of the unconscious mind and concepts of the persona and shadow. After the loss of her two mentors, Tris went on to become certified through the Ford Institute as a coach specializing in Shadow Work and reconciling mental and emotional issues stemming from past experiences. She continues to share the gifts of emotional healing and facilitating this work in the footsteps of her former mentors.
Tris is the International bestselling author of Healing Your Heart: Rewrite Your Story with Awareness and Intention. A guide book to understanding your emotions, how we create our story and workable tools and techniques to heal from the past, Healing Your Heart stewards you through the process of releasing mental and emotional baggage, forgiving yourself and others, setting and enforcing boundaries and consciously communicating your needs in a loving and effective way so you can be who you’re meant to be, do the things you want to do and have all that you deserve to have in this life.
Tris is also the co-author of bestseller Mental and Emotional Release® with Dr. Matt James. Written in a language both professionals and non-professionals can understand, Mental and Emotional Release® offers real life case studies, an overview of MER and its foundation, step by step scripts to follow, and clinical efficacy studies comparing MER to other therapies.
Clearly in her dharma, Tris’s passion and dedication to gently guide people on their inward journey through personal growth is evident in her work as a Lifestyle and Leadership coach, Trainer of Mental and Emotional Release and workshop facilitator. She teaches various courses on leadership development, personal empowerment, social emotional learning and higher states of consciousness – both in online courses and her certification programs, live workshops, VIP retreats and 1-1 clients.
Tris Thorp is Board Certified by the Association of Integrative Psychology as a Trainer of Mental and Emotional Release ®, Master Practitioner of Neuro Linguistic Programming, Hypnosis, and Mental and Emotional Release ®, a Certified Reiki Master, and an Experienced Registered Yoga Teacher with Yoga Alliance.
Tris is devoted to inspiring and empowering others to cultivate and maintain mindfulness-based lifestyle practices that lead to greater clarity, purpose and fulfillment. Through one-on-one coaching, online programs and live events, Tris specializes in helping people to fully release negative emotions, limiting beliefs and unconscious patterns, enabling them to make quantum leaps into the life they are truly meant to be living.