Workbook: It Didn’t Start with You: By Mark Wolynn: How Inherited Family Trauma Shapes Who We Are and How to End the Cycle

This is an independently created, unofficial, and unauthorized workbook and summary of It Didn’t Start With You and is not the original book. Cosmic Publications is proud to offer fans of Mark Wolynn this companion workbook for It Didn’t Start With You: How Inherited Family Trauma Shapes Who We Are and How to End the Cycle. In our Workbook, we will unpack the main points of Mark Wolynn’s book and provide you with the opportunity to practice the lessons taught. Here you will find the following tantalizing sections. Full Chapter Summaries – Clear and Concise Highlighted Key Takeaways – To help hone in on the main idea of each chapter. Self-Reflection Questions – Designed with you in mind. Not as a textbook test. Action Step(s) – Created to encourage you to take real actionable steps for lasting change. Self-Evaluation – Intended as a way for you to evaluate your own progress with the action step and the lesson. Here are some reflection questions you will encounter in this workbook. Are there any recurring patterns of illness/unhappiness/failures in your family? What are those patterns? Who is affected by them? Do you have a predisposed negative attitude about a thing, place, event, or person, without any explainable reason? Elaborate. Do you pull away from relationships? If not, do you know someone who does? What do you think is the reason behind such behavior? During your parents’ conflict, which one are you more likely to side with? What do you think is the reason behind this allegiance? Who, except your family members, do you think has also become a part of your family system? People who hurt your family or were hurt by them often become a part of your family system. We have truly taken the time to be very intentional with our workbook. Unlike other workbooks, we cater the questions and writing prompts to you the reader, and how you are progressing and relating to the information. Other workbooks simply give you textbook-style test questions about the information that don’t seem to impact you on a personal level. We do sincerely hope you get everything you will need with our workbook. It’s simple but powerful. We encourage you to not give up on your journey to a better life and hope that we at Cosmic Publications can at the very least be a small part of that journey with you. Best Wishes, The Cosmic Publications Team