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

Emotional or physical pain doesn’t arise out of nowhere, and it doesn’t always go away with time. Sometimes their roots can be connected not to our own experiences or chemical processes in the brain, but to the lives of our parents, grandparents, and even great-grandparents.

Recent scientific research supports what many people intuitively understand: traumatic experiences can be passed down from generation to generation. Mark Wallin, an expert in working with family trauma, offers methods that will help you identify fears and anxieties that show up in everyday words, behavior, and physical symptoms.

"It didn’t start with you" is a new approach that will help you overcome problems that have haunted your family for many generations.

The examples described in the book are based on real clients of the author. For confidentiality purposes, all names and circumstances have been changed. Any resemblance to real people is coincidental.