08/07/2025
✨ When you speak your truth — especially in emotionally charged or meaningful ways — you activate your nervous system, emotional memory, and potentially even influence gene expression.
~ DNA “lighting up” refers symbolically to epigenetics — the study of how behavior and environment can cause changes that affect the way your genes work. Speaking your truth, especially in safe, empowering environments, can reduce stress hormones like cortisol, and increase oxytocin (connection), dopamine (reward), and serotonin (well-being). These shifts have a biological effect on your cells.
~ Speaking your truth can regulate the vagus nerve — a core part of your parasympathetic nervous system that helps bring the body into calm, safe states. When you speak from a place of authenticity and alignment, you’re helping your nervous system rewire from survival into safety and presence.
💫 Memory and cellular activation:
~ Emotions stored in the body are often linked to traumatic imprints. When you speak your truth, especially truth that has been repressed or silenced, it can bring those emotional memories to the surface — this is biological integration. Your brain literally creates new pathways as you process and express repressed truths. This is the “activation” — your brain and body begin remembering safety, coherence, and identity.
✨ So… Speaking your truth isn’t just spiritual, it’s somatic. You’re not just healing old wounds; you’re literally rewiring your brain and body to align with your authentic self.
~Krista Demers
Overly credit: Everything Aligns