Through her book Decoding Your Emotional Blueprint: A Powerful Guide to Transformation Through Disentangling Multigenerational Patterns author Judy Wilkins-Smith introduces to the reader to another type of DNA: emotional DNA. Wilkins-Smith is an expert in the area of organizational, individual, and family patterns. In her book, she brings emotional DNA to the forefront of readers’ minds, explaining to them what emotional DNA is, how it is transmitted, why it is important, and how it can change their lives.
The book begins with an explanation of what emotional DNA is. It then continues on to explain the science behind systemic work and constellations, the “knowing field.” Wilkins-Smith explains to the reader how to find their symptoms, and how to reach transformation. How to look at systemic sentences (example: don’t ask for more than you need, you already have everything you need) and patterns and decide if they are useful at the present time or not. She explains that you can change your emotional DNA. You can start positive systemic patterns and change the future of your system by ending derogatory patterns and starting uplifting ones. Wilkins-Smith helps to explain how systemic work and constellations work through the stories of her clients, and how systemic work helped them.
Throughout the book, Wilkins-Smith pauses to give readers “Systemic Steppingstones,” tips and tricks on how to get started on their own personal journey to transformation. By the end of the book, Wilkins-Smith has provided 25 steppingstones to get the reader started. Distributed throughout the book, the steppingstones address the topic being discussed. Some of the steppingstones teach the reader how to find their area of transformation, and how to identify their symptoms. Wilkins-Smith gives the reader tips on how to make their own constellation, even if they don’t have other people or very much space.
I found Decoding Your Emotional Blueprint: A Powerful Guide to Transformation Trough Disentangling Multigenerational Patterns to be a very interesting read. I liked that the book provided the “Systemic Steppingstones” sections of the books. I found them not only intriguing, but easy to understand how to carry out the steppingstones. Though Wilkins-Smith gave a detailed explanation of how systemic work and constellations work, she explained it in layman’s terms, allowing a novice like me to understand the complexities of emotional DNA. Judy Wilkins-Smith does a phenomenal job explaining everything and helping the reader to understand how they too, can transform their lives for the better through systemic work. Decoding Your Emotional Blueprint is a book I would recommend to anyone who is interested in a simple yet complex read about a new, interesting topic they probably have never heard of.
-Roxxy
