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[quote=Anonymous]I recently read a great book called 'It didn't start with you" that examines generational trauma. It gives you these little exercises to identify the scripts that your mother and father had (i.e. I am not important enough to ask for things, etc. ) running through their own heads -- the things they said and didn't say, and the ways in which you might have internalized those scripts. it's helpful to look back and to understand the environment in which you were raised and the scripts which get passed down from generation to generation. I was able to identify a situation in which my mother was kind of dumped off on other relatives while her mother worked, and how she internalized this script that she should just take whatever she was given and not make demands, and the ways in which this affected me with my own struggle to articulate what I want or even to identify my own desires. A really great book.[/quote]
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