Pete Smyth

I am surprised at how negative some of these reviews are based purely on the reviewers specific perspective. I don’t see this book as a cure all for all traumatic experiences. It doesn’t try to be either. As mentioned by some: slavery, sexual abuse, violent abuse. There will always be specific relationships where you cannot heal them or be compassionate toward the instigator of the trauma. I work in mental health support, specifically with new dads. What is always coming up as was for myself, is that becoming a parent totally upended our world and we were having a lot of difficult emotions and pain based on our own childhoods and what we had experienced. So I know first hand that this book covers something very important. What this book does do is open your mind to the emotions, relationships, struggles that behest your life, did not just start at you. How your parents were parented and your grandparents directly impacts you. It starts to lift the personal guilt and shame from your shoulders. The love line connection between children, parents, grandparents, will be impacted by traumatic events and disconnects that will resonate through the generations. To the point where even though you didn’t directly experience the traumatic event, the impact of it will flow through you and your children. This is not just “spiritual woo woo” this is based on the research through medical science. It is also discussed in many ancient scriptures and cultures that we are in fact a bridge between the previous 7 generations before us and the next 7 generations after us. What this book portrays through lived stories and personal experiences is how u detests ring some seemingly innocuous events can help us to find the key to our own lives and help to heal our relationships most importantly with ourselves. I’d recommend sticking with it, if you can get the audio version it will feel much more connected. Do the exercises and don’t jump to knee jerk conclusions. Relate the words to yourself and take breaks if it feels overwhelming. 🙏🏻