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I recently finished reading ‘It Didn’t Start with You How Inherited Family Trauma Shapes Who We Are and How to End the Cycle’ by Mark Wolynn, and I found it to be an incredibly enlightening and transformative book. As someone who has struggled with anxiety and depression for many years, I was drawn to the concept of inherited family trauma and its potential impact on my emotional well-being.

The book is a groundbreaking approach to understanding and resolving difficulties that traditional therapy, drugs, or other interventions have not been able to touch. Wolynn’s work builds upon the latest scientific research in post-traumatic stress, including that of Rachel Yehuda and Bessel van der Kolk.

One of the key aspects of the book is the concept of emotional legacies being hidden, encoded in everything from gene expression to everyday language. I found this idea particularly compelling as it helped me gain a deeper understanding of my own experiences and struggles.

The author provides practical and prescriptive guidance through his Core Language Approach. He offers diagnostic self-inventories, genograms (extended family trees), and techniques for visualization, active imagination, and direct dialogue to reconnect, integrate, and reclaim life and health.

I would highly recommend this book to anyone who is struggling with emotional difficulties or seeking a deeper understanding of their own experiences. It has the potential to provide insights and tools that can help transform your life for the better.

  • INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER TRANSLATED INTO OVER 35 LANGUAGESThis groundbreaking book offers a compelling understanding of inherited trauma and fresh, powerful tools for relieving its suffering. Mark Wolynn is a wise and trustworthy guide on the journey toward healing.Tara Brach, PhD, author of
  • Radical Acceptance
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  • True Refuge
  • A groundbreaking approach to transforming traumatic legacies passed down in families over generations, by an acclaimed expert in the field
  • Depression. Anxiety. Chronic Pain. Phobias. Obsessive thoughts.
  • The evidence is compelling: the roots of these difficulties may not reside in our immediate life experience or in chemical imbalances in our brainsbut in the lives of our parents, grandparents, and even great-grandparents. The latest scientific research, now making headlines, supports what many have long intuitedthat traumatic experience can be passed down through generations.
  • It Didnt Start with You
  • builds on the work of leading experts in post-traumatic stress, including Mount Sinai School of Medicine neuroscientist Rachel Yehuda and psychiatrist Bessel van der Kolk, author of
  • The Body Keeps the Score
  • . Even if the person who suffered the original trauma has died, or the story has been forgotten or silenced, memory and feelings can live on. These emotional legacies are often hidden, encoded in everything from gene expression to everyday language, and they play a far greater role in our emotional and physical health than has ever before been understood. As a pioneer in the field of inherited family trauma, Mark Wolynn has worked with individuals and groups on a therapeutic level for over twenty years.
  • It Didnt Start with You
  • offers a pragmatic and prescriptive guide to his method, the Core Language Approach. Diagnostic self-inventories provide a way to uncover the fears and anxieties conveyed through everyday words, behaviors, and physical symptoms. Techniques for developing a genogram or extended family tree create a map of experiences going back through the generations. And visualization, active imagination, and direct dialogue create pathways to reconnection, integration, and reclaiming life and health.
  • It Didnt Start With You
  • is a transformative approach to resolving longstanding difficulties that in many cases, traditional therapy, drugs, or other interventions have not had the capacity to touch.
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