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A Guide to Healing Intergenerational Trauma
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Dr. Mariel Buqué
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Dr. Mariel Buqué
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***The Instant National Bestseller***
A Next Big Idea Club must-read title for January 2024
The definitive, paradigm-shifting guide to healing intergenerational trauma—weaving together scientific research with practical exercises and stories from the therapy room—from Dr. Mariel Buqué, PhD, a Columbia University-trained trauma-informed psychologist and practitioner of holistic healing
From Dr. Mariel Buqué, a leading trauma psychologist, comes this groundbreaking guide to transforming intergenerational pain into intergenerational abundance. With Break the Cycle, she delivers the definitive guide to healing inherited trauma. Weaving together scientific research with practical exercises and stories from the therapy room, Dr. Buqué teaches listeners how trauma is transmitted from one generation to the next and how they can break the cycle through tangible therapeutic practices, learning to pass down strength instead of pain to future generations.
When a physical wound is left unhealed, it continues to cause pain and can infect the whole body. When emotions are left unhealed, they similarly cause harm that spreads to other parts of our lives, hurting our family, friends, community members, and others. Eventually, this hurt can injure an entire lineage, metastasizing across years and generations. This is intergenerational trauma.
This trauma is why some of us become estranged from our families, why some of us are people pleasers, why some of us find ourselves in codependent relationships. This trauma can be rooted in the experiences of ancestors, who may have suffered due to unhealthy family dynamics, and it can be collective, the result of a shared experience like systemic oppression, or harmful ingrained behaviors in a culture like the acceptance of physical discipline of children, or even a natural disaster like a pandemic. These wounds are complex, impacting our minds, bodies, and spirits. Healing requires a holistic approach that has so far been absent from the field of psychology. Until now.
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Critic reviews
“With all the family trauma we carry, Break the Cycle carries healing for us. With all the pain around us and fully ingrained in us, Dr. Mariel Buqué brings holistic and multidimensional healing for every part of us. What a timely, indispensable, and restorative book.”—Ibram X. Kendi, New York Times bestselling author of How to Be an Antiracist and Stamped from the Beginning
"Dr. Mariel Buqué’s work is filled with essential gems that help us understand the depths and layers of intergenerational trauma and equip learners of her work to master how to Break the Cycle. Her approach toward intergenerational healing practices is comprehensive, holistic, humanizing, and real. She helps us see how mental health practices can be accessible, culturally responsive, and applicable to people across the world who wish to internalize her healing techniques in ways that can produce sustainable effects in their lives and for future generations to come. This literary work has the capacity to shift the way we see the phenomenon of trauma and helps us to envision a world where emotional freedom from the grip of generational pain is indeed possible.”—Layla Saad, NYT bestselling author of Me and White Supremacy
"Dr. Mariel offers a comprehensive and groundbreaking approach to healing trauma at the root. With a method that is both empowering and a call to action, her work masterfully interweaves science, therapeutic practices, and ancestral wisdom; offering you restorative tools to disrupt generational patterns of trauma at the individual and collective level."—Resmaa Menakem MSW, LICSW, SEP, New York Times bestselling author of My Grandmother's Hands
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- Length: 7 hrs and 36 mins
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Indigenous author Renee Linklater explores healing and wellness in the Indigenous communities on Turtle Island. Drawing on a decolonizing approach, which puts the “soul wound” of colonialism at the center, Linklater engages ten Indigenous health care practitioners in a dialogue regarding Indigenous notions of wellness and wholistic health, critiques of psychiatry and psychiatric diagnoses, and Indigenous approaches to helping people through trauma, depression, and experiences of parallel and multiple realities.
By: Renee Linklater
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Breaking the Cycle
- The 6 Stages of Healing from Childhood Family Trauma: Support and Recovery for What You Were Once Powerless to Change
- By: Kaytlyn Gillis
- Narrated by: Clare E Steffan
- Length: 7 hrs and 24 mins
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Most of us are only starting to become aware of how our foundational years contribute to who we are today. Our childhood environment shapes the foundation for our sense of self, how we feel about the world, and how we relate to others. If we experienced trauma or dysfunction along the way, it likely disrupted the pathways to these fundamental structures. Understanding our trauma is not about blame, but about understanding, learning, and growing. In most cases, our caregivers did the best they could with the tools they had, often while dealing with external or internal stressors as well.
By: Kaytlyn Gillis
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You Sound Like a White Girl
- The Case for Rejecting Assimilation
- By: Julissa Arce
- Narrated by: Julissa Arce
- Length: 5 hrs and 48 mins
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In this dual polemic and manifesto, Julissa dives into and tears apart the lie that assimilation leads to belonging. She combs through history and her own story to break down this myth, arguing that assimilation is a moving finish line designed to keep Black and brown Americans and immigrants chasing racist American ideals. She talks about the Lie of Success, the Lie of Legality, the Lie of Whiteness, and the Lie of English - each promising that if you obtain these things, you will reach acceptance and won’t be an outsider anymore.
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Thank you!
- By mexime on 09-01-22
By: Julissa Arce
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It Didn't Start with You
- How Inherited Family Trauma Shapes Who We Are and How to End the Cycle
- By: Mark Wolynn
- Narrated by: Mark Wolynn
- Length: 8 hrs and 16 mins
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As a pioneer in the field of inherited family trauma, Mark Wolynn has worked with individuals and groups on a therapeutic level for over 20 years. It Didn't Start with You offers a pragmatic and prescriptive guide to his method, the Core Language Approach. Diagnostic self-inventories provide a way to uncover the fears and anxieties conveyed through everyday words, behaviors, and physical symptoms.
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It Didn't Start With You
- By Deborah J. on 10-14-18
By: Mark Wolynn
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Heal Your Ancestral Roots
- Release the Family Patterns That Hold You Back
- By: Anuradha Dayal-Gulati
- Narrated by: Mary Johnson
- Length: 7 hrs and 57 mins
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Many people find themselves feeling stuck, unable to reach their goals. The same problems keep showing up in jobs and relationships no matter how much they try to make changes and overcome obstacles. What if the patterns that repeat in your life and relationships didn’t originate with you? The source of your challenges could be rooted in ancestral trauma calling out to be healed. An energy practitioner specializing in ancestral and emotional healing, Anuradha Dayal-Gulati provides exercises and tools that can help you recognize and release negative family patterns and enhance positive ones.
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Extremely helpful to understanding family energies
- By Chaya on 10-22-23
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Triggers
- Creating Behavior That Lasts - Becoming the Person You Want to Be
- By: Marshall Goldsmith, Mark Reiter
- Narrated by: Marshall Goldsmith
- Length: 6 hrs and 36 mins
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In business, the right behaviors matter. But getting it right is tricky. Even when we acknowledge the need to change what we do and how we do it, life has a habit of getting in the way, upsetting even the best-laid plans. And just how do we manage those situations that can provoke even the most rational among us into behaving in ways we would rather forget?
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I wish everyone could read this book!
- By J. Hook on 09-04-15
By: Marshall Goldsmith, and others
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Living Resistance
- An Indigenous Vision for Seeking Wholeness Every Day
- By: Kaitlin B. Curtice
- Narrated by: Kaitlin B. Curtice
- Length: 5 hrs and 17 mins
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In an era in which "resistance" has become tokenized, popular Indigenous author Kaitlin Curtice reclaims it as a basic human calling. Resistance is for every human who longs to see their neighbors' holistic flourishing. We each have a role to play in the world right where we are, and our everyday acts of resistance hold us all together.
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How is she always this good?!
- By MJ on 03-08-23
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Good Food, Bad Diet
- The Habits You Need to Ditch Diet Culture, Lose Weight, and Fix Your Relationship with Food Forever
- By: Abby Langer
- Narrated by: Natalie Duke
- Length: 6 hrs and 58 mins
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Empowering, inclusive, smart, and a must-have, Good Food, Bad Diet will give you the tools to reject diets, repair your relationship with food, and lose weight so you can move on with your life.
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Good content, terrible language
- By Joshua Schroeder on 07-22-21
By: Abby Langer
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Tías and Primas
- On Knowing and Loving the Women Who Raise Us
- By: Prisca Dorcas Mojica Rodríguez, Josie Del Castillo - illustrator
- Narrated by: Prisca Dorcas Mojica Rodríguez
- Length: 7 hrs and 51 mins
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Born into a large, close-knit family in Nicaragua, Prisca Dorcas Mojica Rodríguez grew up surrounded by strong, kind, funny, sensitive, resilient, judgmental, messy, beautiful women. Whether blood relatives or chosen family, these tías and primas fundamentally shaped her view of the world—and so did the labels that were used to talk about them. The tía loca who is shunned for defying gender roles. The pretty prima put on a pedestal for her European features. The matriarch who is the core of her community but hides all her pain.
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A little of all of Us.
- By Alondra on 04-27-25
By: Prisca Dorcas Mojica Rodríguez, and others
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Tending Grief
- Embodied Rituals for Holding Our Sorrow and Growing Cultures of Care in Community
- By: Camille Sapara Barton
- Narrated by: Camille Sapara Barton
- Length: 5 hrs and 5 mins
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We live in a culture that suppresses our ability to truly feel our grief—deeply, safely, and on our own terms. But each person’s experience is as unique as the grief itself. Here, Camille Barton’s take on grief speaks directly to the ways that BIPOC and queer readers disproportionately experience unique constellations of loss.
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The Leader's Guide to Storytelling
- Mastering the Art and Discipline of Business Narrative, Revised and Updated
- By: Stephen Denning
- Narrated by: Graeme Malcolm
- Length: 10 hrs and 42 mins
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This revised and updated edition of the best-selling book A Leader's Guide to Storytelling shows how storytelling is one of the few ways to handle the most important and difficult challenges of leadership: sparking action, getting people to work together, and leading people into the future. Using myriad illustrative examples and filled with how-to techniques, this book clearly explains how you can learn to tell the right story at the right time.
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Not appealing.
- By Jiali Chen on 07-09-23
By: Stephen Denning
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The Truth About Leadership
- The No-fads, to the Heart-of-the-Matter Facts You Need to Know
- By: James Kouzes, Barry Posner
- Narrated by: Don Hagen
- Length: 4 hrs and 13 mins
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In these turbulent times when the very foundations of organizations and societies are being shaken, leaders need to move beyond the pessimistic predictions, the trendy fads, and the simplistic solutions. They need to turn to what’s real and what’s proven, to understand what the evidence tells us about how exemplary leaders get extraordinary things done. This is the imperative that best-selling, award-winning authors James M. Kouzes and Barry Z. Posner have undertaken in their engaging, personal, and bold new audiobook....
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Good Information; Presentation—Not So Much
- By John on 06-17-11
By: James Kouzes, and others
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For Brown Girls with Sharp Edges and Tender Hearts
- A Love Letter to Women of Color
- By: Prisca Dorcas Mojica Rodríguez
- Narrated by: Prisca Dorcas Mojica Rodríguez
- Length: 9 hrs and 16 mins
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The founder of Latina Rebels and a “Latinx Activist You Should Know” (Teen Vogue) arms women of color with the tools and knowledge they need to find success on their own terms.
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Must Read for BIWOC
- By Veronica Garcia on 09-24-21
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What My Bones Know
- A Memoir of Healing from Complex Trauma
- By: Stephanie Foo
- Narrated by: Stephanie Foo
- Length: 10 hrs and 2 mins
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By age thirty, Stephanie Foo was successful on paper: She had her dream job as an award-winning radio producer at This American Life and a loving boyfriend. But behind her office door, she was having panic attacks and sobbing at her desk every morning. After years of questioning what was wrong with herself, she was diagnosed with complex PTSD—a condition that occurs when trauma happens continuously, over the course of years.
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Complex PTSD from a patient's point of view!
- By Howard_a on 05-24-22
By: Stephanie Foo
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- betsy
- 01-09-24
A must read!
Loved everything about this book. It took me to my childhood memories. So much healing exercises. Very easy to understand and follow. Definitely buying to have an hand always.
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- Natasha
- 04-01-24
The most insightful book I have ever listened to
Dr. Mariel is so thorough! I have learned so much about myself and others after listening to and practicing the teachings in this book. I have a newfound passion to study trauma after listening to this book and I am currently in the process of changing my major. Thank you so much for sharing your knowledge with the world. I purchased the audiobook and now I’m purchasing the physical book to add to my library collection!
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- Wendy
- 01-11-25
A Must Read For Generational Healing
Dr. Mariel Buqué’s Break the Cycle is a groundbreaking and deeply validating resource for anyone seeking to heal intergenerational trauma. As a therapist who specializes in supporting clients navigating family of origin trauma, I found this book to be an invaluable tool—not only affirming the work I do but also introducing fresh, actionable ideas I’m eager to integrate into my practice. Dr. Buqué combines deep clinical expertise with compassionate storytelling, making complex concepts accessible and relatable for professionals and laypeople alike.
I had considered collaborating with a colleague to write a book about intergenerational trauma, but after reading Break the Cycle, I no longer feel the need. Dr. Buqué has written the book I dreamed of creating, offering insights and guidance that are both profound and practical. Her emphasis on breaking cycles of harm and fostering generational healing is a gift to the field of mental health and to anyone on a journey of healing. This book is a must-read for therapists, clients, and anyone who dares to dream of a more connected and healed future.
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- Donna Morgan
- 02-25-24
Healing for you & those in your heart
Author (who is also reading) is wise, comforting, and offers a practical, sustainable path to healing not only yourself, but the lives of all those you touch. Author is understanding.
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- Regina Brown
- 04-10-24
Break new ground with Break the Cycle
As the author states “this book was cultivated out of the deep desire to see a generational shift on how we approach trauma healing”
this book offers a deeply nuanced, trans•generational take on trauma.
As someone who only learned the term C-PTSD in 2019, I have been looking for Dr. Mariel Buqué nuanced lens for 5 years.
The fact that it is set up to be a guided workbook based on 2024 science: nervous system & poly•vagal science … and a takes a social justice stance - makes it a complete work of healing art.
So grateful this book exists.
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- Indiana Correa-Poole
- 12-29-24
The entire book was beautifully written!
This book came into my life just in time to help me through my own healing process and being a cycle beaker but did not have a name until now. Thank you
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- Joseph
- 02-14-24
Outstanding
I’m barely on social media, but I came across her post and I immediately recognized that she knew on a deep level what she was talking about. As I listened to this book, I felt like I was listening to a fellow mystic. She talked like the science and research was just affirming what she already knew.
It’s the same thing with me, I work in finance and when I talk about behavioral finance, a relatively new field that combines traditional finance with psychology and neuroscience, people are blown away, but it’s because I meditate for hours everyday and have done deep self introspection vis psychedelics that I have so much insights into the human mind and nervous system. I feel the exact same way listening to this book, like she’s speaking from keen observation, intuitive knowledge and scientific research.
I have done soo much trauma healing work that the information in this book was so familiar to me, and I still learned so much. I felt seen and understood listening to this book. As a Haitian man, I’m so glad this mystical knowledge is deeply understood by Caribbean peoples. It’s badly needed.
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- K. Pitter
- 01-14-24
Thoughtful & Relatable!!
Dr. Buque’s book provides a deep dive into intergenerational trauma, drawing on her personal experience, clinical prowess and knowledge of alternative healing practices. The book goes beyond mere inspiration, bringing consciousness and offering insightful explanation and practical guidance with a myriad of techniques to break the cycle of intergenerational trauma. Break the Cycle is a valuable resource for those prepared to embark on their own healing journey. Well done.
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- soribel genao
- 01-14-24
Healing on heavy-rotation!
Could not stop listening!!
Dr. Buqué gave words to all of the movements and memories I was not equipped to define or have language for as a child and beyond. Her works and voice guides us to remove the layers of historical context that doesn’t belong to us as individuals and as a collective. Intergenerations of pain, shame, loyalty and other descriptors of what was deemed as weakness has given vulnerability a new level of strength and love. Radically. If you are also seeing a therapist, what a complimentary resource to guide us through those memories and moments that we didn’t have the courage to speak about or language to describe. Thank you for your time and seeing so many of us with your heart and mind, Dr. Mariel Buqué!
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- Itzel
- 09-29-24
Get ready to take notes
I loved how intense it got and how it opens so much
In so little time totally reading 5 more times
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