Our family history circumstances force us to carry inherited trauma and further transmit it to our children. The social, political and geopolitical mutations of the last two centuries - world wars, dislocation of population, mass killings - all over the world made possible a tremendous traumatic luggage. However, we can change the curse. Recent epigenetic studies showed at what extent the trauma and its effects can be diminished and even eliminated, with the proper guidance and a dramatic life change.
The Trauma Effect. Exploring and Resolving Inherited Trauma by author and therapist Zetta Thomelin is a case study in how to treat traumatic family episodes based on the author´s first hand experience. Written in a very empathic and direct style, this therapeutic memoir can be used as a guidance for anyone looking to heal their own inherited emotional luggage. It is as we are offered an open door into the process, from the very beginning when the trauma itself is identified as such.
It is a very honest and interesting journey that I enjoyed reading that makes you consider your own personal relationship with your family histories and the best way to heal trauma. The approach is sytematic, covering a lot of details, using the extraordinary power of words and stories. It creates such a great effect on the reader, as it shares so many details that are useful to understand the trauma in its entirety: how it settles, how it manifests and particularly why.
The Trauma Effect is a very useful book for anyone looking to heal trauma, through understanding and an empathic approach. A recommended book for therapists and anyone interested in such aspects that are way too frequent in our everyday life.
Rating: 4.5 stars
Disclaimer: Book offered as part of the book tour but the opinions are, as usual, my own
Thanks for the blog tour support x
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