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

2 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

lookingforwonder's review against another edition

challenging emotional hopeful reflective medium-paced

2.5

The first couple of chapters are very informative when it comes to inherited trauma. The rest of it is more of a self-help book. I had anticipated more scientific background, but the book often comes out more Freudian and there's no studies to back up his suggestions of how to help people with inherited trauma. And the author's claim that "psychopaths" (which is already a loaded term mental health professionals shouldn't be using) are created by parental neglect has been debunked. This made me question the first two chapters I'd thought were well-researched. Still, some of the self-reflection questions may help people and it does have some interesting research included on inherited trauma. The author shares his client's stories (with their permission and detailed altered) which deal with family trauma and the subsequent result of how it affected the client. These stories include various kinds of trauma, told in passing more than graphic. I've labelled the ones I've remembered, but I'm sure I'm missing a few.

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Content Warnings

Minor: Addiction, Alcoholism, Chronic illness, Death, Genocide, Mental illness, Suicidal thoughts, Antisemitism, Grief, and Death of parent