Troy Terwilliger’s Reviews > It Didn't Start with You: How Inherited Family Trauma Shapes Who We Are and How to End the Cycle > Status Update

Unresolved traumas from our family history spill into successive
for many.
generations, blending into our emotions, reactions, and choices in ways we never think to question. We assume these experiences originate with us. With their true source out of sight, we're often unable to differentiate what is ours from what is not.

conscious parenting-parenting with the awareness that, from preconception all the way through postnatal development, a child's development&health can be profoundly influenced by the parent's thoughts, attitudes, behaviors. "Parents that did not wish to have a child…emotional abuse during pregnancy all represent situations where adverse environmental cues surrounding the birth of their child can be passed on…"

“Recent developments in the fields of cellular biology, neuroscience, epigenetics, and developmental psychology underscore the importance of exploring at least three generations of family history in order to understand the mechanism behind patterns of trauma and suffering that repeat.” (p. 17)

Full circle moment for narrator.