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Your Ancestors Still Live in Your DNA: The Science of Inherited Trauma
What if the anxiety, depression, or startle response you carry isn’t really yours? In Part 1 of this illuminating conversation with Dawson Church, we explore the hard science of epigenetics — how emotional experiences and survival instincts are chemically “tagged” onto your genes and inherited by future generations.
Dawson Church, PhD, is the award-winning author of Bliss Brain: The Neuroscience of Remodeling Your Brain for Creativity, Resilience, and Joy... Mind to Matter: The Astonishing Science of How Your Brain Creates Material Reality... and The Genie in Your Genes: Epigenetic Medicine and the New Biology of Intention — which reviewers hailed as a breakthrough in our understanding of the link between emotions and genetics.
You’ll learn:
* The groundbreaking study where mice passed down fear of cherry blossoms for seven generations.
* How depression, anxiety, and quick-startle responses can show up in grandchildren and great-grandchildren.
* Why our brains evolved to focus on “tigers in the grass” — and how that survival wiring now drives chronic stress.
* The surprising link between high cortisol and premature aging, memory loss, and weakened immunity.
* Practical tools — from meditation to energy therapies — proven to rewire the brain and create lasting calm.
As Dawson explains, you are not doomed by your genetic inheritance. By calming the brain’s default mode network and practicing simple, research-backed techniques, you can release ancestral patterns and create new epigenetic legacies — changing not only your life, but the lives of generations to come.
Visit Dawson’s website at eftuniverse.com.
Lisa Bonnice is an award-winning author, podcaster, and former stand-up comic whose work blends humor, heart, and spiritual depth. Her latest novel, Castle Gate, is a historical fiction saga rooted in ancestral trauma and the 1924 Castle Gate Mine Disaster. Learn more at lisabonnice.com and castlegatebook.com.
This interview is part of the Ancestral Healing Summit 2019, a free online event. This recording is a copyright of The Shift Network, used with permission. All rights reserved.
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By Lisa BonniceWhat if the anxiety, depression, or startle response you carry isn’t really yours? In Part 1 of this illuminating conversation with Dawson Church, we explore the hard science of epigenetics — how emotional experiences and survival instincts are chemically “tagged” onto your genes and inherited by future generations.
Dawson Church, PhD, is the award-winning author of Bliss Brain: The Neuroscience of Remodeling Your Brain for Creativity, Resilience, and Joy... Mind to Matter: The Astonishing Science of How Your Brain Creates Material Reality... and The Genie in Your Genes: Epigenetic Medicine and the New Biology of Intention — which reviewers hailed as a breakthrough in our understanding of the link between emotions and genetics.
You’ll learn:
* The groundbreaking study where mice passed down fear of cherry blossoms for seven generations.
* How depression, anxiety, and quick-startle responses can show up in grandchildren and great-grandchildren.
* Why our brains evolved to focus on “tigers in the grass” — and how that survival wiring now drives chronic stress.
* The surprising link between high cortisol and premature aging, memory loss, and weakened immunity.
* Practical tools — from meditation to energy therapies — proven to rewire the brain and create lasting calm.
As Dawson explains, you are not doomed by your genetic inheritance. By calming the brain’s default mode network and practicing simple, research-backed techniques, you can release ancestral patterns and create new epigenetic legacies — changing not only your life, but the lives of generations to come.
Visit Dawson’s website at eftuniverse.com.
Lisa Bonnice is an award-winning author, podcaster, and former stand-up comic whose work blends humor, heart, and spiritual depth. Her latest novel, Castle Gate, is a historical fiction saga rooted in ancestral trauma and the 1924 Castle Gate Mine Disaster. Learn more at lisabonnice.com and castlegatebook.com.
This interview is part of the Ancestral Healing Summit 2019, a free online event. This recording is a copyright of The Shift Network, used with permission. All rights reserved.
Thanks for visiting Lisa Bonnice: Post-Woo Oracle! Subscribe for free to receive new posts and support my work.
Get full access to Lisa Bonnice: Post-Woo Oracle at lisabonnice.substack.com/subscribe