You Can't Get There From Here
Healing the Inheritance You Didn't Ask For
Fiona Ellis · Balboa Press · A Division of Hay House
Most people aren't stuck because of lack of effort — it IS a mindset problem. But the mindset problem isn't all theirs. It's inherited — patterns from family and society they don't consciously know they're carrying.
This book brings neuroscience into common language for the people who have done the work but keep hitting the same wall. And for the people who love them and can't understand why.
Softcover · ISBN 9798765206836 · Ebook coming soon
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Three historical fractures. One living inheritance.
Spirit vs Body
The fracture between your embodied, feeling self and the "proper" civilised self. Repression, purity culture, shame around desire.
Being vs Doing
You are only worthy if you are productive or useful. Rest is laziness. We became machines. The exhaustion culture.
Women vs Men
What was meant to free us became another fracture. Independence without intimacy. Strength without softness. Leadership without reciprocity.
This book is for you if...
→ You've done the personal development work and still hit the same wall
→ You've rebuilt yourself so many times you've stopped painting the walls the colour you actually want
→ You know you're carrying something that isn't entirely yours — you just don't have the language for it yet
→ You love someone who keeps self-sabotaging and you can't understand why
→ You're a practitioner looking for the framework that names what you've been intuiting for years
→ You want the science, not the affirmations
If you have read Bessel van der Kolk's The Body Keeps the Score and felt the answer was close but not complete — this is the next layer.
The wounds are not just yours. The healing is.
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