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The Official It Didn't Start with You Workbook

The Companion to the Worldwide Bestseller

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Pub Date Dec 09 2025 | Archive Date Feb 07 2026

Viking Penguin | Penguin Life


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The must-have companion to the million-copy bestseller, a comprehensive guide to understanding and transforming the impact of traumatic family legacies on our daily lives

Depression. Anxiety. Chronic pain. Obsessive thoughts. The roots of these difficulties may not have originated with us—but with our parents, grandparents, or even great-grandparents. As a pioneer in the field of inherited family trauma, Mark Wolynn has helped people for more than thirty years break long-standing patterns of suffering. Now you can break those patterns too: this workbook, the companion to his international bestseller It Didn’t Start with You, offers a pragmatic and easy-to-follow guide to his method, the Core Language Approach. Through a series of experiential exercises, thought-provoking prompts, and practices based in neuroscience, you may discover that the symptoms you’ve suffered with your whole life are really just fragments of unresolved trauma in your family history. This workbook is a transformative experience that will teach you how to heal the past, reconnect with yourself, and reclaim your life, health, and vitality.

Some of the experiences you’ll explore on your path of self-discovery include:
  • Tracing your family history back to unresolved traumatic events.
  • Following your words, fears, symptoms and behaviors to understand your deepest emotions.
  • Exercises for healing both attachment and generational trauma.
  • Practices to release unconscious patterns of illness, emotional blocks, and destructive behavior.
  • New work that expands upon the concepts from It Didn’t Start with You to further your healing journey.
The must-have companion to the million-copy bestseller, a comprehensive guide to understanding and transforming the impact of traumatic family legacies on our daily lives

Depression. Anxiety. Chronic...

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ISBN 9780593994436
PRICE $20.00 (USD)
PAGES 224

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