“The emotions, traits, and behaviors we reject in our parents will likely live on in us. It’s our unconscious way of loving them, a way to bring them back into our lives.” Mark Wolynn It Didn’t Start with You: How Inherited Family Trauma Shapes Who We Are and How to End the Cycle Read more…
Mark Wolynn – The Pain of Loving
“When family members lead unhappy lives or suffer an extremely difficult fate, it’s often easier to reject them than to feel the pain of loving them. Anger is often an easier emotion to feel than sadness.” Mark Wolynn It Didn’t Start with You: How Inherited Family Trauma Shapes Who We Are and How to End…
It Didn’t Start with You: How Inherited Family Trauma Shapes Who We Are and How to End the Cycle
Depression. Anxiety. Chronic Pain. Phobias. Obsessive thoughts. The evidence is compelling: the roots of these difficulties may not reside in our immediate life experience or in chemical imbalances in our brains—but in the lives of our parents, grandparents, and even great-grandparents…
