Your mother's fears became yours. Her mother's silence became hers. Welcome to the inheritance. You didn't start the fire. But you're holding the matches now. Trauma passes through DNA, through behavior, through what was never spoken. The weight gets lighter with each generation that chooses to heal. End the inheritance. Keep what serves. Release the rest. Break the chain. This is the part we don't talk about enough. The part where you realize your survival strategies have become your prison. The patterns that kept you safe then are keeping you trapped now. You're still responding to threats that don't exist anymore. Still protecting yourself from dangers that passed years ago. Your nervous system doesn't know the war is over. It's still scanning for enemy fire. Still sleeping with one eye open. Still ready to run, fight, or freeze at a moment's notice. And it's exhausting you. Draining your energy. Keeping you from the peace you think you should have earned by now. But here's what ...