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It Didn’t Start with You: The Mystery of Inherited Trauma

By Mark Matousek — 2016

A revealing talk with Mark Wolynn of the Family Constellation Institute.

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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.

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Mark Wolynn
2025
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The Trauma of Slavery Is Encoded in the Genes of Black People

Studies done on Jewish holocaust survivors show trauma is passed down from generation to generation through DNA. Over hundreds of years of slavery, is it plausible Black people have that traumatic experience encoded in their DNA?

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2016
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Survivor Café: The Legacy of Trauma and the Labyrinth of Memory

As firsthand survivors of many of the twentieth century's most monumental events—the Holocaust, Hiroshima, the Killing Fields—begin to pass away, Survivor Café addresses urgent questions: How do we carry those stories forward? How do we collectively ensure that the horrors of the past are not...

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Elizabeth Rosner
2017
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Ending the Cycle of Inherited Family Trauma with Mark Wolynn (Interview) | The Cabral Concept #1798

I had the pleasure of speaking with Mark Wolynn about a topic that doesn’t get enough of the credit it deserves. And since Mark literally wrote the book on it, I asked him to explain what inherited family trauma is and what we can do to begin to heal.

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Mark Wolynn
2021
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Mark Wolynn: It Didn’t Start with You

Unconsciously, we relive our mother’s anxiety. We repeat our father’s disappointments. We replicate the failed relationships of our parents and grandparents. 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.

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Mark Wolynn
2017
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Ancestors: The Shamans Cave

Healing Patterns Passed Down Through our Ancestors In this week’s show Renee Baribeau and Sandra Ingerman will talk about how many of the behavior patterns we wish to heal are carried down through our ancestors and family.

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Sandra Ingerman
2019
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Information Medicine: The Revolutionary Cell-Reprogramming Discovery that Reverses Cancer and Degenerative Diseases

The universe is not a mechanical system of matter—it operates like a cosmic network that runs on and is connected by information. Information “in-forms” and underlies all of the physical world, including the human body. In this book, Pier Mario Biava, M.D., and Ervin Laszlo, Ph.D.

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Ervin Laszlo, Pier Mario Biava, Deepak Chopra (foreword)
2019
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Energy Healing for Trauma, Stress & Chronic Illness: Uncover & Transform the Subtle Energies that Are Causing Your Greatest Hardships

Join renowned spiritual healer Cyndi Dale as she shares groundbreaking techniques for resolving challenging energetic and spiritual issues. Trauma and pain caused by environmental, physical, psychological, electronic, and spiritual forces can have major effects on every aspect of your life.

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Cyndi Dale
2020
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Intergenerational Trauma