Transcript
The generational trauma affecting,
the actual trauma that I went through,
I think for me it expanded
and it brought forth
a lot of those feelings
that I grew up with,
those emotions and those
thoughts that were around me
from relatives and other
veterans and women in my family,
because we were always seen as...
Different.
Or maybe that we were people
that had to be controlled.
And so it was kind of
difficult going through that,
and so you have both of those
traumas coming together,
and I think it really
fairly affected me overall
as far as how I was dealing with people,
because I had a lot of
relationship issues,
not just friendships, but
actual romantic relationships.
I didn't have very good boyfriends,
and you know, I let them
treat me a certain way,
because I felt like that's how
I'm supposed to be treated,
and I think it was because of
knowing how women had been treated before,
who were, you know, Indigenous women,
and how women in my family were treated,
how other women I had
met had been treated,
and I felt like that was
supposed to be the norm.