02/08/2026
Your blood carries more than your own experiences; it also carries the stories, resilience, and survival of your ancestors.
From a mind–body–spirit perspective, familial hypercholesterolemia and elevated Lp(a) aren’t just heart conditions or lab numbers — they are inherited biological rhythms carried through the blood. Medically, blood reflects how the body responds to genetics, stress, inflammation, and survival over time. FH and Lp(a) don’t begin in the heart; they begin upstream, in genes and in how the liver clears cholesterol. When clearance is impaired, cholesterol stays in circulation longer, and the heart becomes the messenger, not the cause.
Medicine also shows that long-term stress and survival physiology can influence gene expression, inflammatory signaling, and how reactive the blood becomes. These adaptations once protected life in harsh conditions, favoring vigilance, clotting readiness, and endurance. Spiritually, this mirrors patterns carried through bloodlines — the need to endure without rest or processing loss. Over time, the body can continue responding as if the danger never ended.
When asked, “When are you going to stop breaking your own heart?” (A question my friend asked me that will forever remain in my mind) the question isn’t blame — it’s awareness. Breaking our own heart often means living from survival instead of truth, from fight-or-flight instead of flow. Healing begins when we teach the body a new language of safety, regulation, and authenticity. This isn’t punishment — it’s a wake-up call. An invitation to live with intention and truth, to let go of old wounds, and to allow the body and blood to release what they were never meant to carry. The heart doesn’t betray — it guides us home to a new rhythm, where survival gives way to presence and life is lived fully in the now.
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