In the premiere episode, host Lila traces the evolution of key brain regions over millions of years, such as the amygdala and its hyper-vigilance response. She discusses how some key adaptations that served our ancestors by helping survive threats now contribute to common issues when activated by modern stresses.

Through affirmations grounded in our shared evolutionary journey, she aims to help listeners develop renewed self-understanding and compassion by reframing our some of our struggles with the modern world as innate human responses shaped by our ancestral past, rather than personal flaws.

Using this evolutionary perspective, Lila provides a way for listeners to begin reframing struggles with greater self-compassion by acknowledging inner experiences as innate human responses, not flaws, in the broad context of our psychology shaped over millennia by natural selection.

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