When James Van Der Beek spoke about his experience with cancer, he didn’t talk about achievement.He didn’t talk about legacy.He talked about self love & how we are all inherently worthy of it.About how so much of our identity is built on earning it. Performing for it. Achieving for it. Becoming “something” in order to deserve it.And how illness stripped that away.In this episode, I break down:• James final videos & interviews• How conditioning teaches us our worth is transactional• The Sun in Gate 49 at the time of his passing — and the message of revolution from the I ChingGate 49 is about higher principles. About revolt. About rejecting what is no longer aligned.What if the real revolution… is realizing you were always worthy?What if the real revolution… is realizing that your purpose was always simply to be you?If you’ve ever felt like you had to become more in order to be loved — this conversation is for you.Find out your bodygraph on my website here: https://www.ashleybrianaeve.com/Learn more about Gene Keys here: https://genekeys.com/ref/1717/And if you enjoy more long form written work I invite you to join me on Substack here: https://substack.com/@ashleybrianaeve#jamesvanderbeek #genekeys #humandesign #findyourpurpose #adhdselfimprovement

Over the years, I’ve noticed a pattern among high-performing entrepreneurs and brand builders.

It isn’t a lack of discipline.

It isn’t a lack of ambition.

And it certainly isn’t a lack of intelligence or talent.

It’s a misunderstanding of where motivation is actually coming from.

Most people assume that burnout happens when you take on too much. In reality, it happens when you repeatedly say yes to goals your nervous system, and soul, was never designed to sustain.

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High performers are often the last to notice when their nervous system is under strain. In this episode, I explore how the body keeps score under chronic stress — and how subtle signals can show up long before burnout or breakdown. Using a Body Keeps the Score framework, I unpack nervous system overload, freeze responses, and stress without completion, and share my recent experience with sleep paralysis as a real-world example of what happens when the body speaks before the mind catches up. This conversation is about listening earlier — before the body forces a stop.

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