Your family
gave you a
personality
Now it's time to choose your own.
Understand the generational patterns you inherited: how your family shaped your attachment, your relationships and the inner child you still carry. Discover who you are beyond your family dynamics.
Free on the App Store for iPhone · Android coming soon
Does any of this
sound familiar?
These aren't random struggles. They're generational patterns passed down through families—and they can be understood.
Same relationship, different person?
You keep attracting the same type of partner and experiencing the same problems.
Anxious without knowing why?
Your worry didn't come from nowhere—it's been passed down for generations.
Losing yourself to keep the peace?
You change your personality depending on who you're with, forgetting what you actually want.
Distance didn't bring freedom?
You moved away but your family still lives rent-free in your head.
Stuck in the middle?
You're the family messenger, the therapist no one asked for—exhausted from picking sides.
Becoming your parents?
You swore you'd be different, but you're catching yourself saying the exact things they did.
"What if everything you think is 'just you' is actually inherited?"
Learning that feels like
self-discovery
A Duolingo-style experience that makes understanding your family dynamics engaging, accessible, and transformative.
Discover Your Patterns
Take engaging quizzes and assessments that reveal how family dynamics shaped your personality, attachment, relationships, and choices.
Learn at Your Pace
Bite-sized lessons teach Family Systems Theory in everyday language. No jargon, just insights that click.
Track Your Growth
See your progress through interactive metrics, collect insights, and watch yourself understand the 'why' behind your behaviors.
Choose Your Path
Armed with self-knowledge, make conscious choices about who you want to be—beyond the patterns you inherited.
Interactive Lessons
Theory made practical
Personal Metrics
Track your patterns
Insight Collection
Save what matters
You can't change your past,
but you can change
what you pass forward.
Generational patterns end when someone decides to understand them.
That someone could be you.
Start with a free test
A few minutes, instant results, no sign-up. See which family patterns and attachment style show up in your relationships.
Family Patterns Quiz
Fusion, triangles, cutoff or repetition: find the pattern you picked up growing up.
12 questions · 3 min →Attachment Style Test
Secure, anxious, avoidant or fearful-avoidant, and how your family shaped it.
12 questions · 3 min →Differentiation of Self Test
How well you stay yourself while staying close to others: the core idea of Bowen theory.
15 questions · 5 min →
Frequently asked questions
What is Inherited Dynamics?
Inherited Dynamics is an iPhone app that helps you understand the generational patterns you inherited from your family. It teaches Bowen Family Systems Theory through bite-sized lessons, quizzes, self-assessments and guided “Family Talk” conversations, so you can see how your family shaped your personality, relationships and reactions.
What are inherited family patterns?
Inherited family patterns are ways of relating that pass down from one generation to the next: how a family handles conflict, closeness, stress and emotions. Common examples are losing yourself to keep the peace, getting caught in the middle of other people’s conflicts, handling family tension through distance, and repeating the same relationship dynamics as your parents.
Can you break generational patterns?
Yes. Patterns are learned, which means they can be understood and changed. The first step is seeing them clearly: noticing what repeats in your family and in your own reactions. Family Systems Theory then focuses on differentiation of self: staying connected to your family while thinking and choosing for yourself.
How does my family affect my attachment style?
Your attachment style forms largely in early relationships with your parents or caregivers. Inherited Dynamics looks at the family patterns underneath it: emotional fusion is closely related to anxious attachment, and emotional cutoff to avoidant attachment. You can take our free attachment style test to see where you land.
Is this inner child work?
It is related. Inner child work focuses on the child you were and the needs that went unmet. Inherited Dynamics looks at the family system that child grew up in: the roles you took on, the patterns you absorbed and how they still show up. Many people find the two approaches complement each other.
Is Inherited Dynamics therapy?
No. Inherited Dynamics is an educational app, not therapy and not medical advice. It can help you understand your patterns and make conscious choices, but it does not replace a licensed mental health professional.
Is Inherited Dynamics free?
The app is free to download on the App Store, and the first chapter is free. The full course is available with a subscription. Our tests on this website are completely free and need no sign-up.
Is Inherited Dynamics available on Android?
Not yet. Inherited Dynamics is available for iPhone on the App Store, and an Android version is coming soon.
Your personality
isn't yours.
Yet.
Start understanding the patterns that shape your life. Learn who you are beyond your inherited dynamics.
Free on the App Store for iPhone · Android coming soon
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