220 - The Trauma You Didn't: Unconscious Wounds & Epigenetics w/ Mark Wolynn
Adult Child
Andrea Ashley
4.9 • 1.9K Ratings
🗓️ 4 March 2026
⏱️ 68 minutes
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Summary
What if the anxiety you feel didn’t start with you at all? This episode uncovers how inherited trauma and unconscious patterns shape our lives,
Mark Wolynn is a leading expert in inherited family trauma and director of the Family Constellation Institute. , and author of the acclaimed ‘It Didn’t Start with You.
He recently published a revised and updated edition of his international bestseller It Didn’t Start with You: How Inherited Family Trauma Shapes Who We Are and How to End the Cycle, along with The Official It Didn't Start with You Workbook.
- The 4 Unconscious Themes — The most common ways we carry or repeat family trauma without knowing it
- The Latest in Epigenetics — What new research shows about inherited trauma
- Your Core Trauma Language — How the key to healing often lies hidden in your own words
- What You Carried From the Womb: How in-utero trauma shapes your nervous system
- The Break in Early Attachment: Why not feeling seen, known, or soothed by your mother qualifies as big T trauma
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