" Tonight, I feel pain
It’s pain from something I endured years ago
It’s a hurt that comes every few months
A pain I’ve come to know as shame
It holds my tongue and doesn’t let me tell
It is not my shame to hold
Yet it holds me down like a foot at my throat "

― Teresa Naseba Marsh , The Courage of a Nation: Healing from Intergenerational Trauma, Addiction and Multiple Loss