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How to Tell If You Inherited Emotional Trauma + How to Let It Go
By Mark Wolynn — 2020
With new discoveries in epigenetics now making headlines, many of us are asking an important question: What are my children really inheriting? Can my baggage, the unfinished business I don't deal with, pass on to my kids? Without knowing it, could I be hurting them?
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