🎧 It Didn't Start With You by Mark Wolynn

In this audiobook, Mark Wolynn explores how traumas from parents, grandparents and great-grandparents can be passed down and show up as depression, anxiety, chronic pain, phobias or obsessive thoughts. This is the unabridged 2016 Penguin Audio edition, and the author reads it himself.

Key Themes

• Trauma passed down through families
• How inherited patterns can show up in our lives today
• Post-traumatic stress research, including the work of Rachel Yehuda and Bessel van der Kolk
• The Core Language Approach for finding and breaking inherited family patterns

Sissoo recommends this because it offers a gentle, practical way to look at family history and how it may shape how we feel. You can listen and reflect at your own pace.

If you would like to talk through family patterns with someone, you can explore Speaking & Listening Therapies on Sissoo.

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