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I've recently started recommending a book to my clients who may be struggling to understand how an unexplained symptom, entrenched belief or aggravating behavior pattern is showing up in their lives. The book, "It Didn't Start With You," by Mark Wolynn, is subtitled "How Inherited Family Trauma Shapes Who We Are and How To End the Cycle". Mark Wolynn is the founder and director of the Family Constellation Institute, and has taught at many training centers, clinics and hospitals. He has worked with clients suffering from phobias, depression, anxiety, chronic illness, PTSD and other debilitating conditions. Even after many years of talk therapy, medication and other interventions, many of these clients had failed to uncover the source of their symptoms or allay their suffering. Mark's work dives deep into the family history of trauma, identifying inherited family patterns of fear, feelings and behavior that are passed down through generations. What clients often discover is that many of their problematic emotional, behavioral and physical symptoms are "borrowed" from others in their family history. Using what he calls the "core language approach", Mark uses specific questions to help people discover the root causes of their symptoms, exposing the original traumas and unveiling the tools and images needed for healing. In " It Didn't Start With You", readers can learn to use these tools to gain greater self-awareness, understanding, forgiveness and freedom.