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It Didn't Start with You — The Fear You Inherited Before You Had Words | The Book Brief Project
It Didn’t Start with You offers one of modern self-help’s most seductive possibilities: the fear, anxiety or emotional pattern shaping your life may have begun before you were born. Mark Wolynn argues that families transmit trauma across generations, and that the language we use about our deepest fears can sometimes point backward toward experiences that were never originally ours.Wolynn’s method centers on what he calls the “core language” of inherited family trauma — recurring words, fears and catastrophic expectations that may echo unresolved experiences within a family. At its most…
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