The October 2025 Book of the Month

by Patricia McGuire, LPC-MHSP

10/8/2025

The October 2025 Book of the Month is Emotional Inheritance: A Therapist, Her Patients, and the Legacy of Trauma by Galit Atlas.

From the back cover: “Those we love and those who raised us live inside us; we experience their pain, we dream their memories, and these legacies shape our lives in ways we don’t always recognize. Emotional Inheritance is about family secrets that keep us from living up to our full potential, create gaps between our desires and out actions, and haunt us like ghosts.

In this transformative book, Galit Atlas entwines the stories of her patients, her own memories, and decades of research to help us identify the links between our life struggles and the ‘emotional inheritance’ we all carry. For it is only by following the traces those ghosts leave behind that we can truly change our destiny.”

This book offers valuable insight into intergenerational pain, presented from a clinician’s perspective and enriched by the personal stories of the author and her clients.

Go deeper: https://www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/galit-atlas/emotional-inheritance/9780316492119/

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