unrestricted the book by tammy guest

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In this blog, I want to take you on an adventure of my mind. As I’ve been putting together a very new expo, NatExpo Liftoff, specifically created for new natural health practitioners and those who are making a comeback to the profession, I’ve been recollecting and reflecting on some of the other conferences that I’ve run over the past few years.

Recently heading back into clinical practice, I’ve also been revisiting some of my favourite moments with clinical speakers. One of the standouts from the Activated Probiotics Conference 2022 was the amazing and incredible Leah Hechtman. She had all of our minds blown and our jaws on the floor in this notion that, certain things can be transferred from our lineage in a very tangible way.

It’s actually hardcore science that at some point, we, as a seemingly individual, exist in multiple individuals at once. And this notion of:

  • Where do we begin?
  • Where does our mission for life begin?
  • Where does our body of work begin?

Often, our body of work comes from ideas we’ve had when we were kids or the way in which we conducted ourselves as kids. But if we exist pre-this, then I wonder what influences our body of work then? So, I was having a think about this and sometime in the Christmas of 1948, my grandmother had my mum’s growing body inside her, and my mum’s growing body had growing ovaries and eggs that had half my DNA inside them.

The notion that a woman’s placenta, isn’t actually a woman’s placenta, blows my mind. It’s actually a collaboration between mum and baby to transfer all sorts of information, but also cells! It’s a materno-fetal organ, which means it’s a transient organ that only lives a little while, unlike all other organs. Cells from mum to me were already going through when I was in her uterus, and my cells were going back to her. The interesting thing is while she was in my grandmother’s uterus, similar things occur – cells cross over – if our cells are the things that make us up, then how is it that we are actually made up of multiple people?

There’s a couple of different studies specifically showing that particular cells can be accrued and integrated in our bodies.

There’s a study from 2012 that had noticed that women had a couple of cells hidden in their brains that had the Y-chromosome. When they checked out the DNA, the material was actually cellular material from their sons. And so at some point, if my mum was able to still have cells from her mum, and those cells somehow, by chance, transferred when I was in utero, not only do we have my DNA, but we have my cellular material being crossed across these layers.

I can only imagine what my grandmother’s life was like on that Christmas, pre-babies. And then what she was being exposed to, interestingly enough, up until the end of 2022, I found myself in the same suburb! After traveling the world, living in 30 or different countries and 30 or different houses, I found myself living in the same suburb as when my grandmother gave birth to my mum.

I wonder about not just the genetics and not just the cells, but the epigenetics.

  • What were the things that she was nutting out on how to bring a family together?
  • What were the things she was nutting at as to how she was going to make money?
  • What were the tings she was nutting out on how to live a creative life or how to travel and adventure?

They are all similar questions to what I have, but I wonder about how those particular ways of thinking and being and nourishing, shifted and changed half the DNA that was actually inside my mum at the time, that then went on to become me and then went on to become my youngest as well. I wonder how that shaped the cells and the water that was inside those cells that carries memories and how that shaped the body of work that I have and I continue to create.

Where do you think that your individual body of work (the thing that you are here to do) comes from? This is the thing that only really you can do because of the influence and lineage that you’ve had alongside the different cellular, genetic, epigenetic influence, and so much more.

Even if you haven’t ever considered this, we still have it inside of us on some level. I wonder about how that connectedness to so many different environments and so many different stories and so much different lineage actually does come into consideration with what you are creating for yourself, your loved ones, and your potential clients.

If you’ve enjoyed this blog or you found it interesting or you’d like to share it, please do so. Also, if you would like to join us and you are a practitioner who is starting the journey of understanding your body of work in practice or you’re just coming back to practice, we’d love to see you at NatExpo Liftoff in February 2024. See you there!

unrestricted the book by tammy guest