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It Didn't Start with You

How Inherited Family Trauma Shapes Who We Are and How to End the Cycle

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It Didn't Start with You

By: Mark Wolynn
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Depression. Anxiety. Chronic pain. Phobias. Obsessive thoughts. The evidence is compelling: the root of these difficulties may reside in the traumas of our parents, grandparents and even great-grandparents. The latest research affirms that traumatic experience is passed on to future generations and that this emotional inheritance, hidden in everything from our gene expression to everyday language, plays a greater role in our health than ever previously understood.

Building on the work of leading experts in neuroscience and posttraumatic stress, Mark Wolynn has developed a pioneering approach to identifying and breaking these inherited family patterns. Having worked with individuals and groups on a therapeutic level for more than twenty years, It Didn't Start with You is his accessible, pragmatic and transformative guide to a method that has helped thousands of people reclaim their lives.

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Critic Reviews

"Groundbreaking." (Tara Brach)
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A great book if you are looking to heal intergenerational trauma that may be holding you and/or your clients back.

A helpful guide to heal inter generational trauma

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Potential to heall self and generational wounds. BEST book I have purchased, and have gifted to those in need. It's life changing <3

If you buy one book, this needs to be it!

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very useful material and insights. Offers food for thought and encourages understanding of behaviours and self-awareness

it didn't start with you

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Great book, helped me work through some old fears and traumas that were getting in the way.

Core sentence, core language

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Very eye opening and captivating book. I think it really helped me to understand myself and my trauma a whole lot more than any other book I’ve read so far.

Great book

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some interesting psychology techniques. needed more evidence based research, too much mindfulness and new age mysticism than spiritual concepts.

Started out good. interesting concept

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