Reviews

Emotional Inheritance: A Therapist, Her Patients, and the Legacy of Trauma by Galit Atlas

danielle_godin's review

emotional reflective medium-paced

4.5

I love reading about therapy and people who are in therapies stories. It reminds you that everyone has problems and issues and that not everyone has it figured out or can do this whole being alive thing alone. 

elibletsch's review

dark emotional hopeful informative inspiring reflective sad medium-paced

4.5

pola_reads's review

emotional hopeful inspiring lighthearted mysterious reflective medium-paced

4.25

I really appreciate this book. It’s incredible learning how our ancestors’ trauma could be passed down onto us and live with them. True acknowledgement of trauma, whether it’s yours or your ancestors, is needed to start healing.

mialeee's review against another edition

emotional hopeful reflective medium-paced

4.0

emamoretti03's review against another edition

emotional informative inspiring reflective relaxing sad medium-paced

3.75

Profondo e molte delle storie vere sono veramente sorprendenti. Mi ha colpito in molti punti in quanto è facile entrare in empatia con i pazienti

epatrickmaddox's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional hopeful informative mysterious reflective sad medium-paced

4.0

ohcorrica's review

5.0

Emotional Inheritance is a beautiful, illuminating, and transformative book. While everyone is carrying generational trauma somehow, secrets that are passed down, and hidden histories, this book focuses on the big and the small. Dr. Galit Atlas takes you along with incredible stories of her patients, sharing the hard things they have been dealing with. She gives them space to process their families' trauma and gives them courage and permission to grieve. Through stories of the Holocaust, Israeli Veterans, loss, love, and forgotten memories, Dr. Atlas encouraged us to understand, feel, and grow.

Everyone can benefit from this book regardless of if you have known trauma, religious trauma, or dark family secrets.

aly_ei's review

challenging emotional hopeful informative medium-paced

4.25

megyerhot's review against another edition

emotional reflective fast-paced

4.25

alittlebird's review

5.0

This is one I know I'm gonna sit with and possibly come back to in another six months or a year. An introspective and human exploration of epigenetics and environmental activations of our own experiences through actions of our forebears. The anecdotes she chose to share, while sometimes containing heavy topics never felt inaccessible or too heavy, and all of them had relateable components.