Table of contents

Healing Generational Wounds in Muslim Families

A rigorous path to understanding intergenerational trauma, family systems, divorce patterns, emotional immaturity, Family Constellation, and Islamic ethics of repair

Read each section in order. Every title can be opened as a TheoryTrace document.

• Cover
• Copyright
• How to read this book
• Introduction
• Chapter 1: Seeing the Family as a Living System
• Chapter 2: Foundations of Trauma, Attachment, and Emotional Development
• Chapter 3: How Intergenerational Trauma Is Transmitted
• Chapter 4: Family Scripts, Roles, and Invisible Loyalties
• Chapter 5: Why People Marry Before They Are Ready
• Chapter 6: The Root Causes of Divorce and Chronic Marital Breakdown
• Chapter 7: Emotional Immaturity in Parents and Elders
• Chapter 8: Ego Defenses, Shame, and the Refusal to Apologize
• Chapter 9: The Child’s Burden: Parentification and Cycle-Breaking
• Chapter 10: Islamic Anthropology of the Family
• Chapter 11: Birrul Walidain Without Enabling Harm
• Chapter 12: Parental Responsibility in Islam
• Chapter 13: Sin, Wounds, Accountability, and Compassion
• Chapter 14: Family Constellation as a Systemic Lens
• Chapter 15: Meilinda Sutanto’s Family Constellation Principles in Practice
• Chapter 16: Mapping the Family System
• Chapter 17: Boundaries, Adab, and Emotional Safety
• Chapter 18: Communication, Repair, and Difficult Conversations
• Chapter 19: Healing the Nervous System and Rebuilding the Self
• Chapter 20: Marriage as a Site of Healing or Repetition
• Chapter 21: Parenting Without Repeating the Cycle
• Chapter 22: Forgiveness, Reconciliation, and Letting Go
• Chapter 23: Building a New Generational Covenant
• Chapter 24: Integration, Discernment, and the Path of Lifelong Healing
• Conclusion