AVAILABLE APRIL 21STInvisible Inheritance
A GUIDE to HEALING ANXIETY ACROSS GENERATIONS
BY: DR. NICOLE THAXTONWhat if anxiety isn’t a flaw—but a story your body has been trying to tell you for years?
For anyone who has lived with anxiety, been raised by an anxious or unhealed parent, or is trying to parent a child who struggles, this book is a revelation. Blending gripping memoir with over a decade of clinical expertise, anxiety expert Nicole Thaxton, PhD, LPC, CPCS, exposes the hidden patterns that shape anxious individuals and families, and shows how they can finally be broken.
Invisible Inheritance unfolds in four parts—(1) The Stories We Carry—Five Generations of Anxiety, (2) Understanding the Legacy of Anxiety, (3) Breaking the Cycle—Tools for Healing, and (4) Creating a New Emotional Legacy—Parenting from Enoughness—as Dr. Nicole journeys through how generational anxiety can be both understood and healed, and a new emotional legacy founded. “Dig deeper” sections throughout the book give readers actionable, clinically informed tools for reflection, discussion, and healing along their anxiety journey.
This life-changing book will help you:
Understand where your anxiety truly comes from
Rewrite your emotional responses in real time
Build a new emotional legacy for yourself and your family
THIS BOOK IS FOR YOU:
If you see yourself repeating generational patterns you swore you would break.
If you are exhausted from carrying pain, trauma, and anxiety, and are ready for a different way forward.
If you want to raise emotionally resilient children, but aren't sure how to change what feels instinctual.
what readers are saying
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This is a powerful, vulnerable, and incredibly useful book. [Dr. Nicole] is writing in a space that a lot of people need, but don’t have words for. It’s personal. It's the culmination of so many generations of experience, and I think it's both healing and brilliant that [she] thought to stop and write this all down… I’m so amazed.
— Beta Reader
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[Invisible Inheritance] has brought a lot of healing for me. It showed me the work of healing and growth never ends.
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Throughout the book I had several clients in mind that I can’t wait to share this book with. It gathers so much of what I care about and share with clients into one place.
- Beta Reader/Therapist
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I found this to be a book of hope and encouragement. It acknowledges many things that people don't always have the ability to identify within their families or even in themselves.
— Beta Reader
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I will absolutely be purchasing the book and taking notes about the "how-to" parts toward the end.
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I really think this is something anyone my age who wants to be a parent should read.
- Beta Reader
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Meet Dr. Nicole
Nicole Thaxton, PhD, LPC, CPCS is a Licensed Professional Counselor, Certified Professional Counselor Supervisor, author, keynote speaker, and the founder of a large, multi-site mental health practice serving thousands of clients across metro Atlanta.
Recognized for her work with anxious achievers, Dr. Nicole brings over a decade of clinical experience alongside her own deeply lived understanding of anxiety—as a clinician, leader, daughter, wife, stepmother, and mother. Her work focuses on helping individuals understand anxiety not as a flaw to fix, but as an adaptive response shaped by experience, family systems, and legacy.
In addition to her clinical leadership, Dr. Nicole speaks nationally to organizations, teams, and conferences on building emotionally healthy and high-performing cultures, relationships, and legacies. Her debut book blends clinical insight with relatable storytelling, offering a relational guide for healing anxiety.
She lives north of Atlanta, Georgia with her husband, RJ—a fellow therapist—and their three daughters.
“Anxiety is more than a feeling
and much more than a diagnosis;
it is a journey we walk
(or sometimes, wrestle with)
over a lifetime.”
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