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Vienna Pharaon is a therapist whose practice centers around helping individuals—and couples—identify old patterns, patterns that often belong to the family system, that have them by the throat. And then, of course, she helps people break them and find new stories for how they show up in the world. Vienna is the host of the podcast, This Keeps Happening and the author of the national bestseller The Origins of You: How Breaking Family Patterns Can Liberate the Way We Live and Love, where she outlines the main themes that she sees in her practice. There is much in these pages to which we can all relate, as she articulates five core, original wounds that revolve around worthiness, belonging, trust, safety, and prioritization.
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ELISE: When did The Origins Of You Come Out? Was it last year?
VIENNA: Yeah, it was February 21st of 2023.
ELISE: Okay, perfect. I love a tidy book structure. And I'm sure so much of your work is messy, right? Or it can't be boiled down to five core wounds. But do you find, in your practice, as you attend to people's pain that typically there's, there is one primary Wound