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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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We cannot make another person change his or her steps to an old dance, but if we change our own steps, the dance no longer can continue in the same predictable pattern.4
