Talking about that trauma from your mama with Mark Wolland, my name is Andrea and this

is adult child.

Welcome back to adult child where we take a deep dive into the impact of growing up

in a dysfunctional family.

And today we are diving deep with Mark Wolland, the author of the critically acclaimed

bestseller It Didn't Start With You, how inherited family trauma shapes who we are and how

to end the cycle.

Now we've talked about Mark in this book several times on the podcast.

If you have not listened to episode 12, I highly recommend that you do.

This is where I break down the concept of generational trauma.

How trauma is passed to us not just psychologically and emotionally, but also genetically.

And we will be diving deeper into this with Mark as well as a myriad of other topics such

as attachment trauma.

This conversation is so fucking good you guys and this was a bucket list interview for

me, so I'm so excited for y'all to hear it.

But first, I want to talk a little bit about the core language approach, which is a therapeutic

model that Mark created and this helps us discover the root, the core trauma that is causing

our present day struggles.

And this is why I didn't heal for so long.

This is why there was a Brian number one followed by a Brian number two.

It didn't matter how many 12 step means I went to, how many four steps I did, how many

CBT therapy sessions I had or how many times I promised myself to do things differently

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