It Didn't Start With You - Signed and Special Edition

It Didn't Start With You - Signed and Special Edition Book Description Signed Turkey Special Edition - Thick Cover "It Didn't Start With You" is the product of a mission, such a mission that took me around the world, then brought me back to my roots and directed me to a professional career that I had never thought of or designed when I started this journey. For over twenty years, I have worked with individuals struggling with depression, anxiety, chronic illness, phobias, obsessive thoughts, post-traumatic stress disorder, and other debilitating conditions. Many come to me feeling discouraged and hopeless after years of talk therapy, medication, and other interventions have failed to address the source of their symptoms and relieve their suffering. What I have learned from my own experience, teaching and clinical practice is that the answer is not just within our own story. It may not even be in our parents or even their parents. Recent scientific research has begun to show that the effects of trauma can be passed on from one generation to the next. This "inheritance" is the subject of hereditary family traumas, as they are known. The emerging evidence confirms the reality of the system. The pain in the hereditary chain may not always end on its own or decrease over time. Even if the person who experienced the original trauma has died and their story has been covered up and hidden for years, fragments, memories, and feelings of their life experience can live on. It literally extends from the past to the present to find solutions in the minds and bodies of people living today. "It Didn't Start With You" offers a transformative approach to addressing challenges that traditional psychotherapy, medications, and other intervention methods have long been unable to solve. Mark Wolynn does a magnificent job of illuminating the ways that connect us deeply to our ancestors through unresolved traumas that we cannot know and that cause us pain. It offers us techniques and skills that will enable deep understanding, dialogue visualizations, and compassionate reconnection." -James S. Gordon, MD, Author, Unstuck: Your Guide to the Seven-Stage Journey Out of Depression "It Didn't Start With You is about mindfulness practices in the field of trauma therapies It allows you to take a strong step forward in understanding people. A brave, creative and compassionate work." -Sharon Salzberg, Author, Lovingkindness and Real Happiness "This disruptive book offers powerful tools that can improve understanding of inherited family traumas and end suffering. Mark Wolynn is a trusted and wise guide on the journey towards recovery. "-Tara Brach, Phd, Author, Radical Acceptance and True Refuge "Mark Wolyn's extraordinary book cracks the code of family ties and your return home by making you understand what identity history gives you. Filled with life-changing stories, powerful insights, practical tools, and paths to recovery, It Didn't Start With You deserves to stand as a masterpiece right alongside Alice Miller's revolutionary The Drama of the Gifted Child and Dan Siegel's The Developing Mind. You'll never see your family the same way again." -Mark Matousek, Author, Ethical Wisdom "Combining neuroscience and psychodynamic thinking, It Didn't Start with You will transform your life as a highly useful toolbox. With this book, you can get clinical help and gain powerful insights on your own."-Jess P. Shatkin, MD, MPH, New York University Child Research Center Vice President, Author, Child & Adolescent Mental Health (From the Promotional Bulletin)