It’s a time-honoured, scientifically-proven and globally-recognised fact that breastfeeding provides the best form of nourishment at the beginning of life. As we grow into adults and into the demands of our modern world, we fall into the evolutionary trap – the mismatch between the ways in which our lifestyles and lived experiences do no complement our DNA. Humans have evolved over millions of years to expect certain biorhythms, nutritional exposure and interpersonal dynamics and when these are not fulfilled, the body expresses inflammatory signalling in the form of disease and disorder, which gives rise to a whole host of personal, collective and relational distortion.

So why aren’t we evolving to cope with modern stressors and systems when science knows that the human body has tremendous capacity to change our gene expression? Because we are not designed to evolve beyond the level of harmony with our planet, our solar system and eachother. The body will instead always seek homeostasis and relational continuum, as these are primary to a fulfilling human experience and to our ability to return to unconditional love - the pure essence of a baby before conditioning.

When out of alignment with these primal forces, we spend an inordinate amount of time and energy flailing around and trying to find ways to overcome the suffering. We exist in various degrees of ‘Fight, Flight, Freeze, Fawn’, in which we can only ever try to survive and tread water. We can never heal in this state.

Once we can make sense of what’s happened in our life experience and realise that there is a design, a message, an invitation for growth, we can claw our way out of trauma, toxic patterns and behaviours and better understand who we are, better able to embrace the shadow parts or diseased parts of ourselves previously in exile, and actually go mining for the gold that can be found in the dark.  As Dr Kelly Brogan states, “Suffering ends when meaning begins.”