It Didn’t Start With You : How inherited family trauma shapes who we are and how to end the cycle – 9781785044380

Groundbreaking’ – Tara Brach, psychologist and bestselling author of Radical AcceptanceThe bestselling guide to transforming traumatic family legacies, from the acclaimed psychologistDepression. 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.