The Generational Algorithm by Francisco Castillo

Rewriting the Emotional Code Passed Down Through Generations

The Generational Algorithm empowers readers to break free from unhealthy family patterns and create a healthier emotional legacy through relatable stories, therapeutic insight, and practical steps.

Do you hear your mother's criticism in your own self-talk? Find yourself repeating relationship patterns you swore you'd never recreate?

Your family programmed an emotional “algorithm” into you before you could even speak—and it's still running your life.

Francisco Castillo, Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist reveals how inherited trauma patterns work exactly like social media algorithms. Just as Instagram learns what to show you, your family's programming determines what you feel, who you love, and how you react.
Using the innovative DECODE method and a proven 90-day program, you'll learn to:

• Detect the invisible patterns controlling your choices
• Break cycles of anxiety, people-pleasing, and self-sabotage
• Stop passing trauma to your children
• Transform family pain into generational healing

The Generational Algorithm combines neuroscience, compelling client stories, and practical exercises to help you rewrite the code that's been running your life.

Your healing doesn't just change you. It changes your entire family line.

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Excerpt from The Generational Algorithm © Copyright 2025 Francisco Castillo

<INTRODUCTION>
THE NOTIFICATION THAT CHANGED EVERYTHING

The notification appeared at 2:47 AM, glowing against Sarah’s face in the darkness: “You have memories to look back on today.”

Her thumb hovered over it, already knowing what she’d see. Facebook’s algorithm had no way of knowing that this particular memory—a family photo from five years ago—was the last one taken before everything changed. Before her brother’s overdose. Before her parents’ divorce. Before the silence that spread through her family like a virus, infecting every conversation, every gathering, every attempt at connection.

In the photo, they were all smiling. The algorithm saw happiness and thought she’d want to remember. It couldn’t detect the vodka on her father’s breath, hidden behind his perfect smile. It couldn’t measure the weight of her mother’s antidepressants, doubled that month but never discussed. It couldn’t hear her brother’s dealer calling during dinner, the phone buzzing in his pocket as he hugged their grandmother.