It Didn't Start with You
Mark Wolynn
<b>A groundbreaking approach to transforming traumatic legacies passed down in families over generations, by an acclaimed expert in the field</b><br> <br> <i>Depression. Anxiety. Chronic Pain. Phobias. Obsessive thoughts. </i>The evidence is compelling: the roots of these difficulties may not reside in our immediate life experience or in chemical imbalances in our brains&#8212;but in the lives of our parents, grandparents, and even great-grandparents. The latest scientific research, now making headlines, supports what many have long intuited&#8212;that traumatic experience can be passed down through generations. <i>It Didn't Start with You</i> builds on the work of leading experts in post-traumatic stress, including Mount Sinai School of Medicine neuroscientist Rachel Yehuda and psychiatrist Bessel van der Kolk, author of <i>The Body Keeps the Score</i>. Even if the person who suffered the original trauma has died, or the story has been forgotten or silenced, memory and feelings...