Wolynn asks readers to closely examine their deepest fears and the most traumatic experiences of their lives (and their ancestors’ lives). Trigger warning: I’ve never added a trigger warning to anything I’ve published, but this time it is definitely in order. I hope it gives you new insight and new hope in your own journey. In this article I’ll summarize the most powerful lessons I learned from the book, told through the lens of my own personal journey. It Didn’t Start With You is the distillation of Wolynn’s more than 20 years of experience helping those people find the roots of their symptoms in intergenerational trauma (which he calls “inherited family trauma”), and heal from it. The author Mark Wolynn is the founder and director of the Family Constellation Institute in San Francisco, where he works with people struggling with depression, anxiety, chronic illness, phobias, panic disorders, obsessive thoughts, PTSD, and other debilitating conditions. Until a friend recommended a book on the topic called It Didn’t Start With You (affiliate link), and I decided to challenge my assumptions and see what it had to offer. I had only heard about it in very woo-woo circles in San Francisco, and for that reason assumed it was pseudoscience or a metaphor. I have to admit I never believed it was a real thing. For years I’ve heard about a phenomenon called intergenerational trauma – the idea that the impact of traumatic events can be passed down from one generation to the next.
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