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

3.1 AVERAGE

angeliki_pa's review against another edition

2.0
informative inspiring slow-paced
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karen_pants's review against another edition

2.0
informative slow-paced
I'm a believer in generational trauma, but this book feels like it's reaching. I recognize that this is a new field of study and I'll definitely be interested in learning more on this subject but this book wasn't it for me. 

I could write more but if I did it would be longer than this book was. idk what I was expecting here, but I'm feeling very disappointed.

yaels's review against another edition

DID NOT FINISH: 31%
Didn't seem to take into account that some relationships are unhealthy and should not be salvaged, and that not all behaviours can or should be overlooked.

fabi66's review against another edition

3.0
emotional informative inspiring reflective fast-paced

ysa342's review against another edition

DID NOT FINISH: 10%
I read 25 pages. It sounds like any self help book, narrating simple stories. 
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paintedpolarbear's review against another edition

DID NOT FINISH: 11%
im gonna track down a physical copy because i have GOT to check this man's bibliography 

rhwimer's review against another edition

4.0
Very helpful and practical. My only complaint is the focus on mothers as (practically) solely responsible for trauma passed on.

di_pet's review against another edition

3.5
informative medium-paced
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virnasc's review against another edition

2.0
fast-paced
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blasfemmous's review against another edition

3.0
emotional hopeful informative reflective medium-paced
i would have had so much more respect for this book if it didn’t demand the repair of a parent child relationship is on THE CHILD. the book also claims that parents don’t want to be belittled or spoken down to, yet it’s our jobs as children to remedy the relationship because they lack the emotional intelligence to begin reparations on their own? this book is filled with contradictory nonsense that enables the older generations to continue their abuses upon their adult children. i thought this would be a book focused on epigenetic research, instead it was filled with anecdotal self-help opinions.