It Didn’t Start With You shows how the traumas of our parents, grandparents, and even great-grandparents can live in our unexplained depression, anxiety, fears, phobias, obsessive thoughts and physical symptoms – what scientists are now calling “secondary PTSD.” Documenting the latest epigenetic research – how traumatic memories are transmitted through chemical changes in DNA – and the latest advances in neuroscience and the science of language, It Didn’t Start With You is an accessible and pragmatic guide to breaking inherited family patterns.