Why My Journey Makes Biological Sense — And Why Yours Does Too
When people read my story — leaving Brazil at twenty-three, moving to London alone, rebuilding my identity from the inside out, sensing injustice long before I had the words for it — they ask me the same question:
“How did you survive so much and still grow?”
The answer is not mindset.
It is not willpower.
It is biology.
Modern science now validates what my body had been telling the truth about all along:
We are relational organisms.
We are shaped by connection.
We collapse through disconnection.
We heal in safe relationship.
Below is the science — in simple, accessible language — behind everything you’ve lived with me, and everything I teach inside the Innate Entitlement Framework™.
1. Your Nervous System Learns From Your Environment
Epigenetics shows that early relationships directly influence how genes related to stress, safety, and emotional regulation get expressed.
In practical terms:
Your environment literally writes itself into your biology.
The way you were held, supported, ignored, or overwhelmed becomes the foundation for how your nervous system responds to life later on.
2. Your Body Predicts Life Based on Past Relationships
According to Allostasis and Social Baseline Theory, the human body is always predicting safety or danger using memories of past connection, support, and threat.
When I moved to London at twenty-three, people assumed I was brave.
But the truth?
My organism was predicting safety.
My biology knew before my mind did.
3. Connection Is a Biological Regulator
Polyvagal Theory shows that your:
- heartbeat
- breath
- digestion
- facial muscles
- voice
- and emotional states
…are directly shaped by the relational signals around you.
You don’t feel calm with certain people by accident.
Your biology is reading cues long before you’re conscious of them.
4. Trauma Is Relational — And So Is Healing
Trauma science is clear:
What overwhelms us is not the event itself —
but the absence of support during the event.
Healing happens when your nervous system finally experiences:
- safety
- presence
- attunement
- boundaries
- connection
In other words: healing is a relational experience, not a cognitive one.
5. Societies Are Biological Too
Public health research confirms that inequality, chronic stress, and social disconnection physically damage the body.
My lifelong sensitivity to injustice in Brazil wasn’t a flaw.
It wasn’t emotional intensity.
It was biology telling the truth before I had the language.
Why My Framework Is Different
Most psychotherapeutic models treat symptoms as individual problems that live inside a single person.
The Innate Entitlement Framework™ recognises something far more accurate:
Biology, psychology, relationships, environment, and society
are one continuous relational field.
Your symptoms are not personal failures.
They are intelligent adaptations.
Your healing is not a mystery.
It is your relational intelligence reorganising itself.
This is the science behind my story —
and the story behind the science I teach.