Reviews tagging 'Abandonment'

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

veskumelooni's review

emotional informative reflective fast-paced

3.0

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Content Warnings

Minor: Death of parent and Abandonment

bf54life's review against another edition

emotional informative medium-paced

1.0

Skip this book!!! I do not recommend this book! He uses poor science to justify his own views. As much as I could, I tried to take away useful information and disregard the bad; but the science and logic behind his views are very poor. He tries to use a one size fits all approach for this topic, but it doesn’t work. If you are a survivor of abuse from your parents skip skip skip this book. Absolutely terrible science and even worse advice 

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Content Warnings

Minor: Child abuse and Abandonment