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# Your Anxiety Might Not Be Yours
- URL: https://www.theheroworld.com/your-anxiety-might-not-be-yours/
- Published: 2026-03-21T15:11:50.000Z
- Updated: 2026-08-20T19:15:54.000Z
- Description: What epigenetics reveals about the trauma we inherit — and how to stop passing it on.
- Author: Matteo Scaletti
- Tags: Newsletter, #heroworld, #Migrated-1787253056456, #Import 2026-08-20 15:15

What if the patterns you've been fighting your whole life — the anxiety, the fear, the tendency to shut down or explode — didn't actually start with you?  
  
In my recent conversation with Johanna, she said something that stopped me cold. She explained that when we experience deep trauma, it doesn't just live in our memory. It changes our DNA. And that changed DNA gets passed down — from parent to child, generation to generation — until someone decides to look at it.  
  
This is called epigenetics. And it's no longer just a theory. It's proven science.  
  
What Johanna described is something most of us have felt but couldn't name: the inexplicable fear that has no story attached to it. The grief that doesn't belong to any event in your own life. The rage that seems bigger than the situation.  
  
You may have inherited it.  
  
But here's what epigenetics also tells us: healing is inheritable too. When you do the work — when you face what your ancestors couldn't — you don't just change your own life. You change the trajectory of every generation that comes after you.  
  
That's what the Hero's Journey is really about. Not just your story. The story your descendants will never have to carry.  
  
👉 Watch the full clip here:

  
🎙️ Full episode with Johanna: