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Overview

Innate Entitlement Framework™ is a psychotherapy model grounded in an understanding of the human body and its developmental processes. Within Innate Entitlement Framework™, human experience is understood as emerging from a state described as Original Biological Unconscious Boundlessness. This refers not to a psychological or experiential state, but to a theoretical biological condition in which the organism exists without consciousness, without agency, and without boundaries. In this model, early human development is conceptualised as occurring within complete biological provision, prior to awareness, identity, or relational knowing.

The maternal body functions as the Original Boundary and first regulatory environment within this conceptualisation. At birth, this containment is not lost but transformed. The infant’s own body becomes the first boundary inhabited after the mother’s body. This body is not yet experienced as “self,” but operates as the initial biological container through which sensation, regulation, and contact with the external world begin. The caregiver now replaces the maternal body as the external regulatory system, supporting the infant’s gradual transition from biological boundlessness into embodied, relational existence.

Within Innate Entitlement Framework™, entitlement is not defined as a belief, attitude, or personality trait. It is understood as an existential and biological condition of worth, belonging, and right to exist, shaped through early experiences of bodily regulation, attunement, and boundary respect. When caregivers respond appropriately to the child’s emerging needs, rhythms, and limits, the nervous system learns that existence is safe, supported, and permitted. This establishes relational entitlement as an embodied baseline rather than a cognitive construct.

When this developmental process is disrupted — through intrusion, neglect, emotional absence, inconsistency, control, or role reversal — boundary formation becomes distorted. In adulthood, these early disruptions manifest as struggles with freedom, disrespect, over-responsibility, submission, control, collapse, chronic guilt, entitlement inflation, or relational conflict. Within Innate Entitlement Framework™, such patterns are not understood as character flaws or fixed traits, but as adaptive nervous system strategies formed in response to early boundary and regulatory failures.

A central and original contribution of Innate Entitlement Framework™ is the concept of Nervous System Achievement™. This reframes achievement away from performance, productivity, or external success, and locates it instead in the capacity of the nervous system to sustain regulation, flexibility, and presence across relational and existential contexts. Nervous System Achievement™ describes a developmental state in which the individual no longer relies on hypervigilance, collapse, compliance, or control to maintain safety. Instead, the nervous system is able to meet life responsively, metabolising experience without chronic threat activation. This represents a fundamental shift in how life is lived through the body, rather than how it is managed through behaviour or cognition.

Healing within Innate Entitlement Framework™ is therefore not aimed at rigid boundary enforcement or identity correction, but at the restoration of connection through embodied regulation. The developmental trajectory mirrors human maturation as understood within the model: from Original Biological Unconscious Boundlessness, through embodied boundary formation and relational entitlement, toward conscious, relational boundarylessness.

This mature developmental state is articulated as Existential Embodiment Presence. In this state, the individual is fully embodied, fully boundaried, and fully present, yet no longer identified with attributes, roles, emotional states, or defensive structures. Presence is not something the person practices; it is the natural expression of a nervous system that has achieved stability, entitlement, and flexibility. Here, the individual does not merely experience life — they become the experience, living as both the content and the context of their existence.

Operating within the broader framework is the applied developmental model known as Mindful Attribute Boundaries (MAB). The MAB model addresses how individuals become fused with attributes — such as roles, responsibilities, emotions, identities, or beliefs — when boundary development is incomplete. Through mindful, embodied awareness, MAB supports the capacity to have attributes without being defined by them. This restores internal differentiation while maintaining openness, connection, and relational engagement.

Mindful Attribute Boundaries function as the bridge between early boundary formation, Nervous System Achievement™, and Existential Embodiment Presence. They allow the individual to remain open without collapse, boundaried without rigidity, and connected without loss of self. Rather than fragmenting the self, Innate Entitlement Framework™ supports integration — where boundary, entitlement, nervous system regulation, and presence operate as a unified whole.

Innate Entitlement Framework™ was developed to integrate and complete fragmented schools of thought across psychotherapy, trauma studies, attachment theory, nervous system regulation, boundary theory, and mindfulness-based approaches. Rather than competing with existing models, it provides the missing developmental logic that shows how these domains belong to one continuous human process — from biological beginnings (as conceptualised within the model) to mature, embodied presence.

Academic Positioning & Disclaimer

Innate Entitlement Framework™ is an original theoretical and applied model developed by Janaína Mahé (2025). This overview presents the conceptual foundations of the Framework for educational and professional purposes.

A formal academic paper articulating the theoretical rationale, interdisciplinary grounding, and clinical implications of the model is currently in development.

In parallel, a practice-based book titled Innate Entitlement Framework™: In Practice

Embodied Boundaries, Nervous System Achievement™, and Existential Presence is forthcoming and will translate the Framework into applied clinical, therapeutic, and embodied contexts.

The Innate Entitlement Framework™ integrates developmental psychology, trauma theory, mindfulness, non-dual awareness, neuroscience, and relational models into a single embodied developmental arc that restores selfhood, boundaries, entitlement, and presence—without fragmentation, bypass, or self-erasure.

While drawing from mindfulness and non-dual traditions, the Innate Entitlement Framework™ remains firmly grounded in embodiment and developmental psychology. The framework does not aim to dissolve the self, but to restore it to a state of relaxed, de-identified presence within the body’s natural boundaries. This allows individuals to experience profound openness and connection with life while remaining fully embodied, entitled, and engaged in human relationship.

The Innate Entitlement Framework™ is an original theoretical model developed by Janaína Mahé.

This framework, its name, and all associated concepts are the intellectual property of the author.

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