177: How to End Generational Trauma in 30 Minutes | Mark Wolynn

177: How to End Generational Trauma in 30 Minutes | Mark Wolynn

September 8, 2026 · 59 min · Episode 177

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Mark Wolynn discusses how generational trauma can affect individuals and the mechanics behind inherited patterns of behavior.

Access Kelly's Turn On Training here . Save your seat for Kelly's Turn on Training here . Access Kelly's Beauty Backroom event here . If you've done years of inner work and still feel stuck in the same patterns, you probably inherited your trauma. Mark is the director of The Family Constellation Institute and the author of It Didn't Start with You, a book that has sold more than three million copies and reframed how we think about depression, anxiety, and chronic illness that seem to come out of nowhere. I've been a family constellation zealot for years, and this conversation gets at the thing I've struggled to explain to people who assume this work is magical thinking. Mark walks through the actual mechanics of how a grandmother's car accident can show up as a granddaughter's self-injury decades later, and why conventional psychiatry keeps missing it. We talk about the Harvard Mastery of Stress study, the three unconscious ways we reproduce a broken bond with a parent, and the specific milestones (marriage, pregnancy, moving, rejection) that tend to trigger inherited patterns. If you've ever wondered whether a fear, a symptom, or a relationship pattern is actually yours, this is…

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