It Didn't Start With You, The Body Keeps the Score, Why Has Nobody Told Me This Before? 3 Books Collection Set

This three-book collection brings together It Didn’t Start With You, The Body Keeps the Score and Why Has Nobody Told Me This Before?, each exploring trauma, mental health and coping through a different lens. Across the set, the focus ranges from how distress can be carried across generations, to the wider impact trauma can have on individuals and families, and practical skills for navigating life’s challenges.

The books draw on research and clinical experience to describe how traumatic experiences may shape health and wellbeing, and to outline approaches intended to support recovery and resilience. With perspectives that include inherited emotional patterns, traumatic stress and therapist-informed techniques, this set offers a broad introduction to contemporary thinking around mental health.

Included titles

• It Didn't Start With You
• The Body Keeps the Score
• Why Has Nobody Told Me This Before?

Key details

• Three-book collection set
• Includes Why Has Nobody Told Me This Before? in hardback
• Why Has Nobody Told Me This Before? is written by clinical psychologist Dr Julie Smith
• The Body Keeps the Score is presented by an expert on traumatic stress

Synopses

It Didn't Start With You

The book suggests that difficulties such as depression, anxiety, chronic pain, phobias and obsessive thoughts may have roots in the traumas of parents, grandparents and great-grandparents. It references research indicating that traumatic experience can be passed to future generations, with effects that may be reflected in gene expression and everyday language.

The Body Keeps the Score

This title describes how trauma can have devastating effects on sufferers, their families and future generations. It proposes a new paradigm for treatment, moving away from standard talking and drug therapies towards an alternative approach intended to heal mind, brain and body.

Why Has Nobody Told Me This Before?

Drawing on years of experience as a clinical psychologist, Dr Julie Smith shares skills for getting through life’s ups and downs. The book is described as a handbook of therapist toolkit techniques, offering simple, expert advice and coping methods aimed at supporting resilience.