Break the Cycle

A Guide to Healing Intergenerational Trauma

By: Mariel Buqué

Narrated by: Mariel Buqué

***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 readers 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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.