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It Didn't Start with You: How Inherited Family Trauma Shapes Who We Are and How to End the Cycle
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How unresolved trauma from our family can unconsciously affect your beliefs and behaviors today.
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I'm Glad My Mom Died
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Not just beautifully written, this memoir tells a very honest experience of how we tend to cope with emotionally unavailable environments as children. One of my favorite parts was how Jennette describes her eating disorder recovery as constant slips that quickly spiral into shame. Shame quickly leads to what her therapist described as "slides", stifling our progress. I try to focus on compassion when slips happen because they're inevitable and shame has rarely been successful in keeping me on track towards my goals. Progress is never linear.
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Fawning: Why the Need to Please Makes Us Lose Ourselves—and How to Find Our Way Back by Dr. Ingrid Clayton
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For the self-proclaimed people pleasers and perfectionists out there. This book gives both real life examples of how the fawn response as a reaction to trauma leads us to feeling burnt out and struggling to find out way back to trusting ourselves and others. It also gives practical advice and modalities of therapy to seek out.
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"What My Bones Know" by Stephanie Foo
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Phew. This one was tough to read at first but trust me when I say to keep going. Stephanie Foo’s memoir about healing from complex trauma is such an important example of why therapy is not one size fits all. If something isn’t working for you, I encourage you to keep trying to find what does. So many great takeaways but one worth remembering: ALL emotions are purposeful AND beneficial. Even the negative ones. “They tell us what we need. Anger inspires action. Sadness is necessary to process grief. Fear helps keep us safe. Completely eradicating these emotions is not just impossible—it’s unhealthy.”
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