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Dr. Mariel Buqué is a Dominican-American psychologist, intergenerational trauma expert, and sound bath meditation healer.
Known for: Break the Cycle: A Guide to Healing from a Toxic Family
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Break the Cycle: A Guide to Healing from a Toxic Family
Some of the pain we carry did not begin with us. In Break the Cycle, Dr. Mariel Buqué argues that many of our deepest emotional struggles—chronic shame, relationship instability, people-pleasing, emotional numbness, and constant hypervigilance—are shaped not only by personal experience, but by trauma passed down through families and reinforced by culture. This book shows that healing is not just about understanding what happened in your childhood. It is about recognizing inherited patterns, calming the body that has learned to live in survival mode, and choosing new ways of relating to yourself and others. Buqué writes with the authority of a clinical psychologist who specializes in intergenerational trauma, while also bringing a warm, culturally sensitive, holistic perspective to mental health. Drawing from psychology, neuroscience, attachment theory, and ancestral wisdom, she offers both explanation and practical guidance. The result is a compassionate roadmap for anyone trying to make sense of a painful family history without being defined by it. Break the Cycle matters because it names a truth many people feel but cannot yet articulate: healing yourself can also become an act of healing generations.
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Understanding Inherited Pain Across Generations
Many people assume their emotional patterns belong only to them, but some wounds arrive long before we have words for them. Buqué explains intergenerational trauma as the transmission of unresolved pain, fear, coping strategies, and relational habits from one generation to the next. This can happen ...
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Mapping the Family System Clearly
What feels like a private struggle is often part of a larger family design. Buqué uses a family systems lens to show that no behavior exists in isolation. Roles emerge in response to stress: the caretaker, the scapegoat, the achiever, the lost child, the peacekeeper. These roles may help a family ma...
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The Body Remembers What The Mind Buries
Healing does not happen through insight alone, because trauma is not stored only as a story. Buqué emphasizes that the body carries the memory of chronic stress through the nervous system. Even when someone intellectually understands their family history, they may still react with panic, shutdown, n...
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Naming Family Secrets and Silent Rules
In many toxic families, what damages people most is not only what happened, but what could never be spoken. Buqué shows how secrecy, denial, minimization, and taboo topics keep trauma alive across generations. Families may hide abuse, addiction, infidelity, mental illness, financial instability, or ...
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Culture, Oppression, and Collective Wounds Matter
Family pain does not exist in a vacuum. One of Buqué’s most valuable contributions is her insistence that healing must include cultural and social context. Trauma is not only personal and familial; it is also shaped by racism, migration, colonization, poverty, gender norms, religious pressure, and c...
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Boundaries Turn Survival Into Self-Respect
One of the hardest lessons for people from toxic families is that love without boundaries often becomes self-abandonment. Buqué reframes boundaries not as punishment, selfishness, or rejection, but as acts of emotional clarity. In unhealthy family systems, boundaries are often mocked, ignored, or tr...
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About Dr. Mariel Buqué
Dr. Mariel Buqué is a Dominican-American psychologist, intergenerational trauma expert, and sound bath meditation healer. She is known for her work on holistic mental health and cultural healing practices, and her insights have been featured in major media outlets such as The New York Times and Vogu...
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Dr. Mariel Buqué is a Dominican-American psychologist, intergenerational trauma expert, and sound bath meditation healer. She is known for her work on holistic mental health and cultural healing practices, and her insights have been featured in major media outlets such as The New York Times and Vogu...
Dr. Mariel Buqué is a Dominican-American psychologist, intergenerational trauma expert, and sound bath meditation healer. She is known for her work on holistic mental health and cultural healing practices, and her insights have been featured in major media outlets such as The New York Times and Vogue.
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