Online Training

Inherited Family Trauma Training

with Mark Wolynn

Join Mark Wolynn, author of the international bestseller It Didn’t Start With You (Viking/Penguin), and learn effective ways to break inherited patterns of suffering. Whether you’re already working with people or just want to learn more, this professional development course is a fast track to deepening your clinical skills.

In this training, you will learn how to work with clients—both online and in person—identifying the unconscious loyalties, unresolved traumas, breaks in the mother-child bond, and hidden dynamics that contribute to patterns of illness, unhappiness, and dissatisfaction. Gain practical tools you can use immediately — with clients and in your own life. Study online at your own pace.

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It didn’t start with you

How Inherited Family Trauma Shapes Who We Are and How to End the Cycle (Viking/Penguin)

NOW AVAILABLE — the practical, step by step WORKBOOK

  • International Bestseller
  • 3 Million Copies Sold Worldwide
  • Translated into 41 Languages
  • Winner of the Nautilus Book Award in Psychology

Learn how the traumas of our parents, grandparents, and even great grandparents can live in our unexplained depression, anxiety, fears, phobias, obsessive thoughts and physical symptoms—what scientists are now calling “secondary PTSD.”

Documenting the latest epigenetic research—how traumatic memories are transmitted through chemical changes in DNA—and the latest advances in neuroscience and the science of language, It Didn’t Start With You is an accessible and pragmatic guide to breaking inherited family patterns.

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What people say…

  • Thank you so much for sharing such a powerful, transformative workshop with our students. Two of our staff members who participated said it was the best workshop they’ve ever taken here. They also deeply appreciated the time you took after the workshop to continue to answer their questions.
    Sandy Levine
    Program Director of The New York Open Center
  • His unique approach has enhanced my own exponentially beyond any other method I previously employed. Mark’s uncanny ability to uncover the essential dynamics operating beneath physical complaints is nothing short of miraculous. His technique enables a radical shift in perspective for both patients as well as for practitioners.
    Dr. Bruce Hoffman
    Hoffman Centre for Integrative Medicine
  • I heard absolutely excellent things about your workshop. I am chagrined, once again, that I had to miss it, but was gratified to hear that others found it to be not only useful but deeply transformative. It sounds like you bring a very unique, valuable, and grounded voice to this work. I feel like we are really fortunate to be able to provide a platform for bringing your work to our community!
    Clara Lindstrom
    Programs Associate, California Institute of Integral Studies
  • As medical doctors, we often treat the symptom. I’ve witnessed Mark identify the pattern and treat the cause.
    Dr. Russ Kennedy
    The Anxiety MD

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