It Didn't Start With You

It Didn't Start With You by Mark Wolynn

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"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

It Didn't Start With You and its companion, The Official It Didn't Start with You Workbook, provide 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.

Mark Wolynn is an internationally recognized authority on inherited familial trauma. He is the 2016 Silver Nautilus Award winner in Psychology. He has taught thousands of doctors and treated thousands of patients suffering from depression, anxiety, panic disorder, obsessive thoughts, self-injury, chronic pain, and sickness as the director of The Family Constellation Institute in San Francisco. He is a sought-after lecturer who conducts workshops at hospitals, clinics, conferences, and educational institutions all over the world. He's taught at the University of Pittsburgh, the Western Psychiatric Institute, Kripalu, The Omega Institute, The New York Open Center, and the California Institute of Integral Studies, among others.

His poetry has been featured in The New Yorker and his writings have appeared in Psychology Today, Mind Body Green, MariaShriver.com, Elephant Magazine, and Psych Central. Mark Wolynn's website is www.markwolynn.com.

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ISBN 13	9781101980385
ISBN 10	1101980389
Title	It Didn't Start With You
Author	Mark Wolynn
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Penguin Putnam Inc
Year published	2017-04-25
Number of pages	256
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