Reviews tagging 'War'

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

3 reviews

patydenisse's review against another edition

challenging emotional hopeful inspiring reflective fast-paced

4.0

It’s a great book, I feel like it’s a must for people who’ve tried it all, podcasts, books, self care articles, etc. 
I like that you have to write and think about your past and your family. 
I think I’ve actually became closer to my parents while and after reading this book, it helped me a lot just to change a little bit my perspective. 
I don’t give it 5 stars just because I felt there were times where the book was very repetitive and used a lot of examples of patients that felt like I had read them before or very similar. 
It has a lot of trigger warnings, so I would definitely suggest reading this when you feel ok to do some self exploring and revisit trauma, look out for yourself.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Alcoholism, Cancer, Child death, Chronic illness, Death, Domestic abuse, Drug abuse, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Genocide, Gun violence, Hate crime, Infertility, Infidelity, Mental illness, Miscarriage, Panic attacks/disorders, Physical abuse, Racism, Rape, Self harm, Sexism, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Slavery, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Terminal illness, Torture, Violence, Antisemitism, Grief, Car accident, Abortion, Suicide attempt, Death of parent, Murder, Pregnancy, Fire/Fire injury, Cultural appropriation, Abandonment, Alcohol, Sexual harassment, War, and Classism

jomick's review against another edition

emotional reflective slow-paced

3.0

It went from interesting to heavy real fast. A lot of extreme examples of trauma. A lot of feeling like I may have ruined my children with my own stress as a mother with NO insight or instruction in how my own healing may or may not impact my living children. It’s very one note as far as focusing on finding out what happened to your ancestors and offering what they need—but no information for the future. I found it to be heavy and left wondering if it was useful at all for my specific situation. I can’t say I would recommend it.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Toxic relationship, and War

lydiagraceg's review against another edition

challenging emotional informative reflective medium-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Child abuse, Emotional abuse, Genocide, Murder, and War