During our Book Insider Crew discussion on Tuesday, we discussed epigenetics. I found a short video explaining what it is and thought it was worth sharing, continuing our discussion on "you are not your DNA."

Chapter 2: Your Grandmother's Pain Is Living in Your Body The question: What feeling do you carry that you are not entirely sure is actually yours? Tonight’s discussion questions: - What feeling or behavior in your life, when you trace it back, looks exactly like something you saw in your mother or grandmother? - Where in your body do you carry stress, tension, or emotion? And does that location match someone else in your family? - When did you first realize that some of your pain might be inherited rather than personal? - If you accepted that your exhaustion has a history — not just a present — what would change about how you treat yourself right now?

The pattern you keep trying to break has a history older than you. In 2022, when I sat down to map out my own transformation, I started reading the research on epigenetics, on how trauma changes gene expression across generations. And I cried. Because science was finally confirming what I had always felt. Your grandmother's unresolved heartbreak. Your mother's anxiety. The way your body braces for impact before anything has even happened. Some of that is inherited. Biologically. But here is the part that changes everything — it is reversible. Every conscious choice you make is literally rewriting your gene expression. Tonight, Tuesday, April 21, we are going into the science, and why it changes everything. Free. One hour. Inside Awakened & Limitless. Drop a question you have been sitting with in the comments.

You didn’t lose your ambition. You didn’t become ungrateful. You didn’t forget how hard you’ve worked to get here. You just woke up one day and realized… the life you built fits someone you used to be. That’s not a crisis. That’s an invitation. You haven’t failed your life; you’ve outgrown the version of yourself who created it. That’s where we start.

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