Break the Cycle
A Guide to Healing Intergenerational Trauma
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- 109,00 kr
Publisher Description
'Blending science, therapy and personal anecdotes, Break the Cycle empowers readers to disrupt harmful patterns from the past and cultivate new cycles of love and strength.’ Vex King, bestselling author of Good Vibes, Good Life
How to pass on strength not pain to those you love.
When a physical wound is left unhealed, it continues to cause pain and can infect the whole body. When emotions are left unhealed, they similarly cause harm that spreads to other parts of our lives, hurting our family, friends and colleagues. Eventually, this hurt spreads further, affecting entire communities and families across generations.
This is intergenerational trauma. It can lead us to become people-pleasers, co-dependent in relationships and even estranged from our families. The wounds are complex and continue to invade our minds, bodies and spirits long after.
In Break the Cycle, Dr Mariel Buqué delivers the ground-breaking guide to healing inherited trauma. Weaving scientific research with practical exercises and stories from her therapy room, Dr Buqué will help you understand how trauma is inherited from one generation to the next, break the cycle and disrupt the flow of intergenerational trauma with therapeutic exercises, and encourage you to pass on strength - not pain - to future generations.
With a holistic approach to healing that has been absent from the field of psychology for too long, Break the Cycle will help you shift intergenerational trauma to intergenerational abundance.
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Psychologist Buqué debuts with a wise program for repairing intergenerational trauma through a holistic framework that targets mind, body, and spirit. According to the author, readers can become "cycle breakers" by connecting with their "intergenerational higher self"—a consciousness where one's "innate wisdom and ancestral wisdom" reside—to recognize the resilience they've inherited along with their trauma. Using this strength, readers can map out a "trauma tree" that captures the "psychological, physical, spiritual, and cultural characteristics of people in your family and... extended community"; examine the ways their parents were parented, because "the unresolved inner child in your parents becomes the inner child in you"; and learn how to parent one's own children to create a new legacy. Throughout, Buqué outlines plenty of solid exercises ("Recite affirmations that you wish you heard as a child, such as ‘You are such a lovable person'") and tips for starting conversations with family members about intergenerational trauma. Her discussion of the ways collective trauma impacts marginalized families is especially illuminating. Readers seeking a practical and psychologically grounded approach to healing familial wounds will find value here.