Emotional Inheritance
Books | Psychology / Mental Health
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Galit Atlas
Award-winning psychoanalyst Dr. Galit Atlas draws on her patients' stories—and her own life experiences—to shed light on how generational trauma affects our lives in this "intimate, textured, compassionate" book (Jon Kabat-Zinn, author of The Healing Power of Mindfulness). The people we love and those who raised us live inside us; we experience their emotional pain, we dream their memories, and these things shape our lives in ways we don’t always recognize. Emotional Inheritance is about family secrets that keep us from living to our full potential, create gaps between what we want for ourselves and what we are able to have, and haunt us like ghosts. In this transformative book, Galit Atlas entwines the stories of her patients, her own stories, and decades of research to help us identify the links between our life struggles and the “emotional inheritance” we all carry. For it is only by following the traces those ghosts leave that we can truly change our destiny.
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Author
Galit Atlas
Pages
288
Publisher
Little, Brown
Published Date
2022-01-25
ISBN
0316492116 9780316492119
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"Where to start with this one? I listened to Dr Atlas on the podcast “ We Can Do Hard Things” and bought her book immediately. This area of neuroscience is fascinating. Our bodies and mind really do carry the trauma of generations back and we don’t even realize it. By sharing the family trauma with the current generation, gives them a leg up as they move forward in their lives. A really great book. I will look for Dr Atlas from here out for sure. "
Jacquelynne AB
"This book could not have arrived at a better time in my life. The stories and realizations are amazing. I read this book in 2 days. Could not put it down! "
Chandni Patel
"I was lucky enough to win this book in a Goodreads Giveaway!<br/><br/>I honestly wish this book was longer! I could’ve even gone for more research discussions, which is something I never thought I’d say.<br/><br/>As for the patient stories Atlas chose to include, they were obviously more buttoned-up compared to your everyday person’s therapeutic journey, but credit where credit is due—they were extraordinary. (Perhaps I just wish I could see my own journey more in these pages.)<br/><br/>I feel as though the examples taught me the extraordinary way these individuals inherited trauma, but I wanted more of the general to perhaps better apply it to my own life."
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Kayla Randolph
"Relatable "
Val J