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

    Written by Mark Wolynn

    Narrated by Mark Wolynn

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    About this audiobook

    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.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherPenguin Random House Audio
    Release dateApr 26, 2016
    ISBN9780147524645
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    • 2/5
      As an amateur genealogist, I have an interest in epigenetic trauma. I've read the studies the author cites, and hoped he would expand on them further. Unfortunately, the rest of the book reads like a 1990's self help book with no empirical evidence to support his personal brand of therapy, often stretching to make his points fit into the framework of epigenetics. If you want to read this book because you're interested in epigenetics, I wouldn't bother. If you're reading it because you're trying to find an answer to otherwise unresolved personal conflicts, I'm not going to say it won't work for anyone, but your time and money might be better spent elsewhere.
    • 5/5
      I loved it.It explains clearly how trauma is inherited and how to heal your life.I love the specific examples and the questions that you have to ask yourself in order to find out the reason of the problem .

      1 person found this helpful

    • 5/5
      It answered lingering questions I've had almost all my life, specifically about the nature of my relationships and finances. I push forward only to be set back. Looking at the picture beyond myself -- at what I inherited without knowing -- allows for healing at a much deeper level.

      5 people found this helpful