It Didn't Start with You: How Inherited Family Trauma Shapes Who We Are and How to End the Cycle

Description INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER TRANSLATED INTO OVER 35 LANGUAGES “This 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 and 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 brains—but in the lives of our parents, grandparents, and even great-grandparents. The latest scientific research, now making headlines, supports what many have long intuited—that traumatic experience can be passed down through generations. It Didn’t 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 Didn’t 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 Didn’t 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. Publisher : Penguin Life; Reprint edition (April 25, 2017) Language : English Paperback : 256 pages ISBN-10 : 1101980389 ISBN-13 : 978-1101980385 Item Weight : 8.4 ounces Dimensions : 7.76 x 5.08 x 0.44 inches Customers say Customers find the book insightful, helping them understand themselves, and appreciate its well-explained content and compelling stories. Moreover, the book receives positive feedback for its readability and value for money. However, customers disagree on the comfort level, with some finding it deeply compassionate while others feel uncomfortable. Additionally, the pacing receives mixed reactions, with some finding it spot-on while others note it becomes repetitive at the end. The book receives criticism for not being trauma-informed. AI-generated from the text of customer reviews