The Emotional Inheritance Workbook - by Galit Atlas (Paperback)

About the Book

Understand yourself better through exploring your own emotional inheritance with this workbook from bestselling author Dr. Galit Atlas

Book Synopsis

Understand yourself better through exploring your own emotional inheritance with this designed interactive workbook from international bestselling author Dr. Galit Atlas.

We all carry the experiences of our parents and our grandparents within us-their dreams, their pain, their memories, their secrets. It is this emotional inheritance that impacts who we are and how we address the challenges in our lives. In her international bestseller Emotional Inheritance, Dr. Galit Atlas shared stories from her patients and from her own life that show these links, and now she invites you on a further journey to think, feel, and grow.

This beautifully designed workbook will help you unlock your full potential through a series of writing prompts and thoughtful exercises. In this essential self-help guide you will:

Explore: Examine your upbringing and understand new things about yourself and your family's history.

Dig Deep: Discover what you don't know about your family, and pay attention to what these gaps may mean in your own narrative.

Follow the Clues: This workbook will lead you to surprising insights into the patterns of your past, such as the meaning of your name, the story behind your birth story, and the signs of survivor guilt.

Reflect: Journal and welcome the feelings and dreams that can show up when you open your mind.

Heal: Change doesn't happen in one day, allow yourself to come back to these exercises and learn from your answers over time.

Unpacking your emotional inheritance is a profound process. This workbook will help you connect the dots from your past, present, and future to find endless emotional possibilities and a path to happiness and growth.

Don't miss the insightful book Emotional Inheritance, "Galit Atlas is not only a gifted psychoanalyst, but a gifted writer as well" (Dani Shapiro, author of Inheritance).

Review Quotes

Praise for Dr. Galit Atlas and Emotional Inheritance:

"An intimate, textured, and compassionate exploration of intergenerational trauma, how it is carried and transmitted within families, and how it can be skillfully invited in, recognized, attenuated, and perhaps resolved through the therapeutic relationship, metabolizing what has hitherto not been named or nameable."―Jon Kabat-Zinn, author of The Healing Power of Mindfulness

"A gem for anyone, but it is an essential read for those seeking to understand trauma, therapy, and the healing process."―Bruce D. Perry, MD, PhD, coauthor (with Oprah Winfrey) of the #1 New York Times bestseller What Happened to You?

"Atlas's heady and beautiful book offers much insight, as well as tools for beginning to unpack the stories we're living, stories that aren't actually ours to live."―Oprah Daily

"Dr. Atlas writes with profound living compassion for those who have carried, in their bodies, minds, hearts, spirits and souls, the most often unspoken and secret traumas of their own hurt elders."―Dr. Clarissa Pinkola Estés Reyés, author of Women Who Run with the Wolves

"An illuminating book. The stories Dr. Atlas shares reveal the potency of our inherited wounds, showing how the experiences of our ancestors shape our lives in quiet but far-reaching ways, and how we all have the potential to heal."―Lori Gottlieb, author of Maybe You Should Talk To Someone

"A powerful, lucid, deeply empathic exploration of the legacy of generational trauma, Emotional Inheritance makes clear that Galit Atlas is not only a gifted psychoanalyst, but a gifted writer as well. I loved this book and was stirred by it."―Dani Shapiro, author of Inheritance

"Insightful, perceptive, and provocative-but also tender, touching, and personal. Dr. Atlas uses ordinary language to explain how we are born with psychological legacies that we cannot escape, but which we can, with her help, understand."―Juliet Rosenfeld, author of The State of Disbelief