Mark Wolynn

Pain does not always dissolve on its own or diminish with time

What I failed to realize at the time is that when we try to resist feeling something painful, we often protract the very pain we’re trying to avoid.

we come from affects where we go,

The family story is our story. Like it or not, it resides within us.

Pain would meld into numbness, and numbness into pain.

the answer may not lie within our own story as much as in the stories of our parents, grandparents, and even our great-grandparents.

neuroscience, epigenetics, and the science of language

inherited family patterns

the day I lost my vision

“Who do you think you are not to have eye problems?”