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Decoding Your Emotional Blueprint: A Powerful Guide to Transformation Through Disentangling Multigenerational Patterns
Break free from the patterns that hold you back and open to your most extraordinary life with systemic dynamics and family constellations work.
Everyone knows we inherit our physical DNA, but few people realize we also inherit our emotional DNA― an ancestral blueprint of thoughts, feelings, and actions handed down to us through multiple generations of repeated family patterns. In Decoding Your Emotional Blueprint , transformational coach Judy Wilkins-Smith shares the good news that no matter what blueprint you’ve been given, you have the power to change your life.
Wilkins-Smith adeptly guides readers through both the art and science of creating lasting transformation by working with systemic dynamics and constellations. As she explains, all of the different systems we belong to―our families, organizations, careers, religions, clubs, cultures―subtly determine how we think, feel, choose, and act. When we illuminate our invisible allegiances to these systems, we’re able to make new choices and watch a world of possibilities open before us.
Decoding Your Emotional Blueprint brings you a wealth of hands-on strategies and practices so you can learn to detect hidden and multigenerational patterns, recognize their purpose, and then transform old cycles to create an extraordinary life. Throughout the book, you’
• Learn to make the invisible visible by decoding your use of language and your body’s messages
• Identify the gifts that are often hidden within the pain and messiness of a family or other system
• Understand the physical, emotional, and neurological changes that happen through systemic work
• Break free from the immensely powerful meta patterns that keep you in a systemic trance―including gender, war, natural disasters, and religion
• Explore the ways your unconscious patterning impacts every area of life―relationships, money, health, and more
With inspiring stories of real transformation, fascinating explanations of the science behind this work, and practical tools and exercises, Wilkins-Smith will expand your idea of what you think is possible for your life and help you make your greatest visions a reality.
Everyone knows we inherit our physical DNA, but few people realize we also inherit our emotional DNA― an ancestral blueprint of thoughts, feelings, and actions handed down to us through multiple generations of repeated family patterns. In Decoding Your Emotional Blueprint , transformational coach Judy Wilkins-Smith shares the good news that no matter what blueprint you’ve been given, you have the power to change your life.
Wilkins-Smith adeptly guides readers through both the art and science of creating lasting transformation by working with systemic dynamics and constellations. As she explains, all of the different systems we belong to―our families, organizations, careers, religions, clubs, cultures―subtly determine how we think, feel, choose, and act. When we illuminate our invisible allegiances to these systems, we’re able to make new choices and watch a world of possibilities open before us.
Decoding Your Emotional Blueprint brings you a wealth of hands-on strategies and practices so you can learn to detect hidden and multigenerational patterns, recognize their purpose, and then transform old cycles to create an extraordinary life. Throughout the book, you’
• Learn to make the invisible visible by decoding your use of language and your body’s messages
• Identify the gifts that are often hidden within the pain and messiness of a family or other system
• Understand the physical, emotional, and neurological changes that happen through systemic work
• Break free from the immensely powerful meta patterns that keep you in a systemic trance―including gender, war, natural disasters, and religion
• Explore the ways your unconscious patterning impacts every area of life―relationships, money, health, and more
With inspiring stories of real transformation, fascinating explanations of the science behind this work, and practical tools and exercises, Wilkins-Smith will expand your idea of what you think is possible for your life and help you make your greatest visions a reality.
256 pages, Paperback
Published June 7, 2022
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June 15, 2023
It gave me some food for thought about where my limiting beliefs might have come from. I found some of it to be tended towards manifestation and talking to our ancestors etc. and I’m not a believer in that.
July 26, 2022
An interesting way of approaching one's deeper issues. Worth a read if you need help accessing your base issues.
August 10, 2022
I first heard of Judy Wilkins-Smith and her work about multigenerational emotional blueprints on Tami Simon's "Sounds True" podcast a couple of weeks ago. And, it was very intriguing to say the least. So much so that it drove me to get her book "Decoding Your Emotional Blueprint". I enthusiastically dove right into reading it since I felt it to be quite relevant to me especially with all of the emotional baggage that I have been stuck with for most of my adult life.
The first few chapters were interesting. Most notably how our ancestors all carried with them a variety of emotions that were set into motion through their circumstances. And, how each successive generation is a collection of the previous generations emotions and the baggage it comes with. And, how each of our environments can further change our emotions. Furthermore, introducing systemic dynamics and constellations to help disentangle these emotional hangups.
But, from there the book seemed to take a nosedive into a collection of case studies from Wilkins-Smith own private practice. And, from that point on I lost a connection to the book. For the next subsequent chapters none of the issues explored in these case studies pertained to me and I could no longer relate. One of the downsides to this book is that it doesn't seem to address those of us who have come from estranged families. Those of us who have been abandoned or have no clue who our family is.
As a result, I simply lost interest and tried to push through but could no longer do so. Perhaps if I would have glossed through these chapters and given it more time. But, I just couldn't. I'm giving it two stars for at least having learned some new things about the mind, our emotions, and the ancestral link to how we are wired. But, two stars also because there didn't seem to be any practical ways to explore this blueprint for those of us who have essentially lost any knowledge about our family.
Nothing personal. But this just wasn't for me.
The first few chapters were interesting. Most notably how our ancestors all carried with them a variety of emotions that were set into motion through their circumstances. And, how each successive generation is a collection of the previous generations emotions and the baggage it comes with. And, how each of our environments can further change our emotions. Furthermore, introducing systemic dynamics and constellations to help disentangle these emotional hangups.
But, from there the book seemed to take a nosedive into a collection of case studies from Wilkins-Smith own private practice. And, from that point on I lost a connection to the book. For the next subsequent chapters none of the issues explored in these case studies pertained to me and I could no longer relate. One of the downsides to this book is that it doesn't seem to address those of us who have come from estranged families. Those of us who have been abandoned or have no clue who our family is.
As a result, I simply lost interest and tried to push through but could no longer do so. Perhaps if I would have glossed through these chapters and given it more time. But, I just couldn't. I'm giving it two stars for at least having learned some new things about the mind, our emotions, and the ancestral link to how we are wired. But, two stars also because there didn't seem to be any practical ways to explore this blueprint for those of us who have essentially lost any knowledge about our family.
Nothing personal. But this just wasn't for me.
May 2, 2023
A must read
Great insights. Practical tips to change your life course immediately. Judy shares many real life, relatable experiences that reinforce our common challenges.
She plots a path out of the maze.
Great insights. Practical tips to change your life course immediately. Judy shares many real life, relatable experiences that reinforce our common challenges.
She plots a path out of the maze.
October 27, 2023
NetGalley Review
Absolutely great read, I’m tra8ning in ancestral trauma in yoga / very much the same concept and values etc. great resource for anyone including teachers of this topic. Absolutely goin to incorporate this as a tool for my student to use for self practice.
Absolutely great read, I’m tra8ning in ancestral trauma in yoga / very much the same concept and values etc. great resource for anyone including teachers of this topic. Absolutely goin to incorporate this as a tool for my student to use for self practice.
July 23, 2023
Surprisingly specific explanations and good demystification of constellations (something of a mystery still remains).
September 29, 2023
couldn't finish it-not enough new info
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