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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 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.