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A review by em_currie
It Didn't Start with You: How Inherited Family Trauma Shapes Who We Are and How to End the Cycle by Mark Wolynn
3.0
UNFINISHED:
I was really hoping it would be an educational book ON trauma and epigenetics, NOT how to deal with your inherited trauma. So, if I'm honest, this book is not for you if your relationship with your parents/family is bad enough that you can't have honest and open communication (or any at all). I was easily able to extend my belief to the interesting and almost impossible sounding testimonies scattered throughout the first part of the book and I appreciated the concepts of "core language" and "core sentence" I definitely know myself a little better after reading. But I literally could not finish it. And I tried. I put in the effort to try and coax the information I might need from my living relatives and I was given nothing in return.
Guess I'll just have to find something else to blame for my terrible health problems
I was really hoping it would be an educational book ON trauma and epigenetics, NOT how to deal with your inherited trauma. So, if I'm honest, this book is not for you if your relationship with your parents/family is bad enough that you can't have honest and open communication (or any at all). I was easily able to extend my belief to the interesting and almost impossible sounding testimonies scattered throughout the first part of the book and I appreciated the concepts of "core language" and "core sentence" I definitely know myself a little better after reading. But I literally could not finish it. And I tried. I put in the effort to try and coax the information I might need from my living relatives and I was given nothing in return.
Guess I'll just have to find something else to blame for my terrible health problems