It Didn't Start with You: How Inherited Family Trauma Shapes Who We Are and How to End the Cycle

It Didn't Start with You

How Inherited Family Trauma Shapes Who We Are and How to End the Cycle

2016 • 246 pages

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Average rating2.8

15

DNF. It had some parts that were interesting, but the continuous insistence of the necessity of repairing my relationships to my parents (who are completely self-centered and unrepentant about ways they severely mistreated me, and who continue to gaslight me today) was extremely off-putting. It felt like the author didn't anticipate that a reader might genuinely have had an unempathetic, selfish parent who valued their children's well-being drastically less than their own self-identification as a “good parent.”

November 21, 2023