Katherine Woodward Thomas

Core beliefs at the level of identity that will actually serve as the inner glass ceilings on our potentials.

Now, why they get perpetuated is what's interesting to me.

So that's where they come from.

We're forming identity before we have the cognitive capacity to understand the complexities of what's happening around us.

So everything that is not working, if I'm not getting fed properly, people are ignoring my needs.

If I'm aware that my mother didn't want to be pregnant with me, I might form a self-sense of I'm not wanted.

Absolutely.

And it happens in the womb.

There's scientific evidence, and I cite the evidence in the book.

There's scientific evidence about how consciousness at the level of identity is often imprinted in the womb.

Based on the mother's feeling towards the fetus.

So there's one study that, one story that I put in the book about this baby that was born that would not take her mother's breast when she was born.

She refused the mother's breast.

Of course, the doctors are crazy and they're trying to figure out what's going on.

Because the mother has milk, but the baby won't drink the milk.

They bring her to another mother who has milk and the baby drinks that milk.

So the doctor comes to her and says, wait a minute, what's going on?

What really is happening?

And the mother finally admitted, well, I didn't want her.

I only had her because my husband wanted her.