Generational wounds are the interference of ancestral experiences in our lives. When harm is unacknowledged unaddressed or unhealed, response to it keeps showing up in the next generation, even if the harm is no longer present. The response will show up until an offspring heals it, even if it takes 1000 years. Any maltreatment can leave generational wounds. Any group of people who have been systematically oppressed leave generational wounds in the family tree. Any individual who has experienced trauma can pass down generational wounds. We can pass down emotional wounds just as we can pass down disease.