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It didn t start with you book9/12/2023 ![]() Even if the person who suffered the original trauma has died, even if his or her story lies submerged in years of silence, fragments of life experience, memory, and body sensation can live on, as if reaching out from the past to find resolution in the minds and bodies of those living in the present. Pain does not always dissolve on its own or diminish with time. This “bequest” is what’s known as inherited family trauma, and emerging evidence suggests that it is a very real phenomenon. The latest scientific research, now making headlines, also tells us that the effects of trauma can pass from one generation to the next. Illness, depression, anxiety, unhappy relationships, and financial challenges can all be forms of this unconscious inheritance. ![]() Just as we inherit our eye color and blood type, we also inherit the residue from traumatic events that have taken place in our family. We replicate the failed relationships of our parents and grandparents. Unconsciously, we relive our mother’s anxiety. And visualization, active imagination, and direct dialogue create pathways to reconnection, integration, and reclaiming life and health. Techniques for developing a genogram or extended family tree create a map of experiences going back through the generations. Diagnostic self-inventories provide a way to uncover the fears and anxieties conveyed through everyday words, behaviors, and physical symptoms. It Didn’t Start with Youoffers a pragmatic and prescriptive guide to his method, the Core Language Approach.
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