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You Can't Get There From Here

Healing the Inheritance You Didn't Ask For

A Note on Evidence

This book draws on peer-reviewed science, clinical findings, published works, Indigenous wisdom traditions, and twenty years of direct practice with clients. The research spans epigenetics, quantum physics, neuroscience, ancestral healing, and behavioural psychology.

Not all sources carry the same weight of traditional scientific evidence. This register distinguishes between evidence tiers so you can evaluate each claim on its own terms and pursue your own deeper research. Where a claim is contested, emerging, or based on practitioner observation rather than peer review, that is noted honestly.

This is a living document. The science is still catching up. New studies arrive. Findings evolve.

As ecologist Allan Savory observes: "If you look at the breakthroughs in science, almost always they don't come from the center of that profession — they come from the fringe." — Return to Eden (2020)

Peer-Reviewed Published Book IP / Framework Cross-Cultural / Indigenous Historical Pop Culture / Film

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Opening — You Can't Get There From Here 4 sources

SRC-001 Published Book

Ask and It Is Given: Learning to Manifest Your Desires

You Can't Get There From Here — origin phrase attribution

Hicks, Esther & Jerry | 2004 | Hay House | hayhouse.com →

SRC-035 Published Book

Soul Retrieval: Mending the Fragmented Self

Shamanism — ancestral healing, soul retrieval, indigenous healing traditions

Ingerman, Sandra | 1991 | HarperOne | harpercollins.com →

Sandra Ingerman, Foundation for Shamanic Studies. Also cite Michael Harner 'The Way of the Shaman' (1980).

SRC-036 Published Book

You Can Heal Your Life

Louise Hay — positive thinking / healing framework

Hay, Louise L. | 1984 | Hay House | hayhouse.com →

SRC-037 Published Book

The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People

Stephen Covey — seek first to understand, then to be understood

Covey, Stephen R. | 1989 | Free Press / Simon & Schuster | franklincovey.com →

Chapter 1 — The Science They Left Out 17 sources

SRC-002 Peer-Reviewed

Parental olfactory experience influences behavior and neural structure in subsequent generations

Epigenetic inheritance of trauma across generations (cherry blossom / fear conditioning study)

Dias, Brian G. & Ressler, Kerry J. | 2013 | Nature Neuroscience | doi.org →

⚠️ This study demonstrates F2 inheritance (grandchildren). Critically, researchers used IVF/artificial insemination to rule out behavioural transmission — sperm was sent to a separate lab and neuroanatomical changes still persisted. The seven-generation claim in this book draws on multiple converging evidence streams.

SRC-003 Peer-Reviewed

Holocaust Exposure Induced Intergenerational Effects on FKBP5 Methylation

Intergenerational transmission of Holocaust trauma / cortisol dysregulation

Yehuda, Rachel et al. | 2016 | Biological Psychiatry | doi.org →

SRC-004 Peer-Reviewed

Cohort Profile: The Dutch Hunger Winter Families Study

Dutch Hunger Winter — famine effects on second and third generations

Lumey, L.H. et al. | 2007 | International Journal of Epidemiology | doi.org →

SRC-005 Published Book

The Biology of Belief: Unleashing the Power of Consciousness, Matter and Miracles

Epigenetics — environment controls gene expression, not just DNA

Lipton, Bruce H. | 2005 | Hay House | hayhouse.com →

⚠️ Lipton's work is widely read but contested in mainstream science. Referenced here as an accessible introduction to epigenetics; specific biological claims are supported by peer-reviewed sources.

SRC-006 Published Book

The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma

Trauma stored in the body / somatic approach to healing

van der Kolk, Bessel | 2014 | Viking | besselvanderkolk.com →

SRC-007 Published Book

Healing Back Pain: The Mind-Body Connection

Chronic pain as repressed emotion / mind-body connection (TMS)

Sarno, John E. | 1991 | Grand Central Publishing

SRC-008 Peer-Reviewed

Manifesto for a Post-Materialist Science

Post-materialist science framework — consciousness beyond brain

Beauregard, Mario et al. | 2014 | EXPLORE Journal | opensciences.org →

SRC-009 Peer-Reviewed

Double-slit experiment

Observer effect, quantum consciousness

Various (foundational) | 1801 (orig) / ongoing | sciencedirect.com →

SRC-010 Published Book

The Triune Brain in Evolution: Role in Paleocerebral Functions

Three brains — triune brain model (reptilian/limbic/neocortex)

MacLean, Paul D. | 1990 | Springer | springer.com →

⚠️ The triune brain model is a useful teaching framework but has been critiqued in modern neuroscience as an oversimplification. Referenced in this book as a pedagogical model, not as current consensus neuroscience.

SRC-011 IP / Framework

Changing Belief Systems with NLP

NLP Logical Levels of Change model

Dilts, Robert (inspired by Gregory Bateson) | 1990 | Meta Publications | nlpu.com →

SRC-012 Peer-Reviewed

A meta-analysis of cognitive behavioural therapy for adult depression

CBT limitations / surface-level change critique

Cuijpers, Pim et al. | 2019 | Comprehensive Psychiatry | doi.org →

SRC-033 Published Book

Scattered Minds: The Origins and Healing of Attention Deficit Disorder

ADHD, depression, anxiety as symptoms not root causes — diagnostic label reframe

Maté, Gabor | 1999 | Vintage Canada | drgabormate.com →

SRC-034 Peer-Reviewed

Relationship of Childhood Abuse and Household Dysfunction to Many of the Leading Causes of Death in Adults

ACEs — Adverse Childhood Experiences study (CDC-Kaiser Permanente, 17,000+ participants)

Felitti, Vincent J. et al. | 1998 | American Journal of Preventive Medicine | doi.org →

SRC-038 Published Book

Learned Optimism: How to Change Your Mind and Your Life

Martin Seligman — Learned Optimism / CBT foundation

Seligman, Martin E.P. | 1991 | Alfred A. Knopf | penguinrandomhouse.com →

SRC-039 Published Book

The Divided Mind: The Epidemic of Mindbody Disorders

John Sarno — specific title cited in personal CFS healing narrative

Sarno, John E. | 2006 | ReganBooks / HarperCollins | harpercollins.com →

SRC-040 Documentary / Film

Crazywise

Shamanic cultures and psychosis framing — healing potential vs pathology

Borges, Phil (director) | 2016 | Balthazar Films | crazywisefilm.com →

SRC-041 Documentary / Film

Music for Mushrooms

The decades-long journey to Australian legalisation of psilocybin and MDMA therapy

Various | 2022 | musicformushrooms.com →

SRC-042 Peer-Reviewed

International Pilot Study of Schizophrenia / follow-up studies

WHO cross-cultural schizophrenia outcomes — developing nations vs industrialised countries

World Health Organisation | 1973 (orig) / ongoing | who.int →

Chapter 2 — When Did You Last Laugh, Dance, Sing? 7 sources

SRC-013 IP / Framework

Structure of Magic Vol I

The NLP Communications Model (Fred The Head) — how internal representations shape behaviour

Bandler, Richard & Grinder, John (orig); Ellis, Fiona (Shamanic NLP adaptation) | 1975 | Science and Behavior Books

Original NLP comms model = Bandler/Grinder. Fiona's adaptation (Shamanic NLP / Fred The Head) is original IP.

SRC-014 Peer-Reviewed

Reticular Activating System

What we look for, we find — RAS / social media parallel

Various | ongoing | Neuroscience literature | ncbi.nlm.nih.gov →

SRC-015 Published Book

The Polyvagal Theory: Neurophysiological Foundations of Emotions, Attachment, Communication, and Self-regulation

Parasympathetic nervous system — rest, digest, regulate

Porges, Stephen W. | 2011 | W.W. Norton | wwnorton.com →

SRC-016 Peer-Reviewed

Emotional Freedom Techniques for Anxiety: A Systematic Review With Meta-analysis

EFT Tapping — efficacy for trauma and anxiety

Clond, Morgan | 2016 | Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease | doi.org →

SRC-017 Published Book

Get Out of Your Mind and Into Your Life: The New Acceptance and Commitment Therapy

ACT — Acceptance and Commitment Therapy — values-based action

Hayes, Steven C. | 2005 | New Harbinger | newharbinger.com →

SRC-043 Published Book

Breaking the Habit of Being Yourself

Dr Joe Dispenza — body as habit machine / environment and identity

Dispenza, Joe | 2012 | Hay House | hayhouse.com →

⚠️ Dispenza is cited here for a specific observable point — that the body overrides the mind and environment anchors habit — which has broader scientific support beyond his own work.

SRC-044/045 Published Book

The Body is the Barometer of the Soul / The Secret Language of Your Body

Noontil & Segal — emotional causes of physical symptoms reference texts

Noontil, Annette (1994) | Segal, Inna (2010) | innasegal.com →

Chapter 3 — The Wounds You Didn't Choose 5 sources

SRC-018 Historical

A Study of Victorian Prostitution and Venereal Disease (in Suffer and Be Still)

Victorian Era — sexual repression, purity culture, body shame

Sigsworth, E.M. & Wyke, T.J. | 1972 | Indiana University Press

SRC-019 Historical

The Making of the English Working Class

Industrial Revolution — productivity as worth, dehumanisation of labour

Thompson, E.P. | 1963 | Victor Gollancz / Penguin | penguinrandomhouse.com →

SRC-020 Published Book

The Way of the Superior Man

Polarity collapse — masculine/feminine dynamics

Deida, David | 1997 | Sounds True | soundstrue.com →

Polarity Pendulum base model attributed to Remi Pearson (Meta Dynamics). Fiona's masculine/feminine mapping and geopolitical application are original IP.

SRC-021 Published Book

The Archetypes and the Collective Unconscious (Collected Works Vol. 9, Part 1)

Archetypal psychology — Jung and universal patterns

Jung, C.G. | 1959 | Princeton University Press | press.princeton.edu →

Fiona's three-wound system and 68 archetypes are original IP built from Jungian foundations.

SRC-046 Pop Culture

The Big Bang Theory

Sheldon Cooper — emotional disconnect illustration for polarity section

Lorre, Chuck & Prady, Bill (creators) | 2007–2019 | CBS / Warner Bros.

Chapter 4 — Healing Across Time 7 sources

SRC-022/049 Peer-Reviewed

Fear memories require protein synthesis in the amygdala for reconsolidation after retrieval

Memory reconsolidation — why healing old memories works

Nader, Karim; Schafe, Glenn E.; LeDoux, Joseph E. | 2000 | Nature | doi.org →

SRC-023 Published Book

The Body Keeps the Score (Ch. 19: Rewiring the Brain)

Why talk therapy alone fails — trauma lives below conscious access

van der Kolk, Bessel | 2014 | Viking | besselvanderkolk.com →

SRC-024 Published Book

No Bad Parts: Healing Trauma and Restoring Wholeness with the Internal Family Systems Model

Parts work / IFS — ego as protector, not enemy

Schwartz, Richard C. | 2021 | Sounds True | soundstrue.com →

Key reference for 'ego as oldest friend' framing. Distinct from Fiona's Embodied Parts Integration™ (AIM IP).

SRC-025 IP / Framework

Time Line Therapy and the Basis of Personality

Time Line Therapy® — healing root cause memories

James, Tad & Woodsmall, Wyatt | 1988 | Meta Publications | timelinetherapy.com →

Foundation for Integrated Timeline Therapy™ (AIM). Fiona Ellis's adaptation integrates shamanic and spiritual dimensions — original IP, distinct from James's original methodology.

SRC-026 Peer-Reviewed

MDMA-assisted therapy for severe PTSD: a randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled phase 3 study

Psychedelic-assisted therapy / MDMA for PTSD

Mitchell, Jennifer M. et al. | 2021 | Nature Medicine | doi.org →

MAPS Phase 3. Australia TGA approved MDMA (PTSD) and psilocybin (TRD) effective 1 July 2023. ✅ Verified.

SRC-047 IP / Framework

Matrix Therapies®

Pip MacKay — Matrix Therapies® (ITT expansion)

MacKay, Pip | 2000s (approx) | matrixtherapies.com.au →

SRC-048 IP / Framework

TCI Deep State Repatterning™

TCI Deep State Repatterning™ (ITT expansion)

TCI (Transformational Coaching Institute)

Chapter 5 — Planting The Life You Want 8 sources

SRC-027 Peer-Reviewed

Universals in the Content and Structure of Values

Values-based behaviour change — IVM conceptual foundation

Schwartz, Shalom H. | 1992 | Advances in Experimental Social Psychology | doi.org →

Fiona's Integrated Values Matrix™ (IVM) is original IP — distinct from Schwartz theory.

SRC-028/030 Published Book

Ask and It Is Given

Manifestation / Law of Attraction — reframed on Fiona's terms, used once

Hicks, Esther & Jerry | 2004 | Hay House

SRC-029 Published Book

The Biology of Belief (environment as culture medium)

Social environment as determinant of health outcomes / petri dish metaphor

Lipton, Bruce H. | 2005 | Hay House

SRC-050 Published Book

The Hidden Messages in Water

Masaru Emoto — rice experiment / water molecule photographs

Emoto, Masaru | 2004 | Beyond Words Publishing

⚠️ Emoto's rice experiment and water molecule photography have not been independently replicated under controlled conditions. The book acknowledges this: "not independently replicated under controlled conditions yet." Referenced as an illustrative example, not primary evidence.

SRC-051 Published Book

The Values Factor

Dr DeMartini — void values / animal sanctuary story

DeMartini, John F. | 2013 | Berkley Books | drdemartini.com →

SRC-052 Published Book

Nice Girls Don't Get the Corner Office

Lois Frankel — conditioning into masculine corporate behaviour

Frankel, Lois P. | 2004 | Business Plus / Warner Books

SRC-053/059 Published Book

The Three Waves of Volunteers and the New Earth / QHHT

Dolores Cannon — past life regression, quantum consciousness, QHHT

Cannon, Dolores | 2011 | Ozark Mountain Publishing | qhhtofficial.com →

One of two most pivotal mentors. Framed through personal experience, not clinical evidence.

SRC-054 IP / Framework

Human Design System

Generator type — Fiona's energy reference

Rave / Ra Uru Hu (orig) | 1987 | jovianarchive.com →

Chapter 7 — The Journey Home 4 sources

SRC-055 Published Book

The Hero with a Thousand Faces

Joseph Campbell — Hero's Journey / monomyth

Campbell, Joseph | 1949 | Princeton University Press | press.princeton.edu →

SRC-056 Historical

Rosa Parks — Montgomery Bus Boycott, 1955

One person changing civilisational trajectory

Historical record | 1 December 1955 | rosaparks.org →

✅ "Kept her seat" is factually accurate. Parks refused to give up her seat in the middle section to a white man.

SRC-057 Cross-Cultural / Indigenous

"We are all visitors to this time, this place…"

Australian Aboriginal Proverb — visitors to this time and place

Aboriginal Australian (traditional)

⚠️ This quote is widely circulated but its specific Indigenous origin is contested and often unverified. Attributed in the book as "Australian Aboriginal Proverb."

SRC-058 Peer-Reviewed

Special Theory of Relativity / popular writings

Albert Einstein — fourth dimension of time

Einstein, Albert | 1905 (orig) | britannica.com →

Multiple Chapters 4 sources

SRC-031 Published Book

Daring Greatly

Shame and vulnerability — shame needs witness to heal

Brown, Brené | 2012 | Gotham Books | brenebrown.com →

Note: "Shame needs shadows, healing needs witness" is attributed to Remi Pearson (original upstream source unknown).

SRC-032 Cross-Cultural / Indigenous

Seven Generations Principle

Ancestral healing / seven generations — Indigenous and cross-cultural framing

Various Indigenous traditions | Iroquois Confederacy (Haudenosaunee) | UN DRIPS →

Seven-generation framing predates Western epigenetics. Combined with Dutch Hunger Winter, Yehuda, and cherry blossom study as converging evidence streams.

SRC-060 Peer-Reviewed

Psychoneuroimmunology (field)

Emotional environments and biological outcomes

Various (field of study) | Ongoing | sciencedirect.com →

SRC-061 Documentary / Film

Return to Eden

Allan Savory on peer review blocking emerging science — "if a paper is peer-reviewed it means everybody thought the same therefore they approved it"

Poels, Marijn (director); Savory, Allan (interview) | 2020 | Documentary | YouTube →

Allan Savory, Zimbabwean ecologist, co-founder of the Savory Institute. His holistic land management has reversed desertification for decades but remains contested by mainstream academia — a living example of the pattern this book names. Added post-publication as supplementary validation. "The finest candle makers in the world couldn't even think of electric lights."

AIM Blog Sources

Research cited in Archetypal Integration blog articles

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Sources grouped by topic. BRS = Blog Research Source. Where a source also appears in the YCGTFH register, the SRC number is noted.

Science Meets Spirituality 10 sources

BRS-001 Peer-Reviewed

The Effects of Grounding (Earthing) on Inflammation, the Immune Response, Wound Healing, and Prevention and Treatment of Chronic Inflammatory and Autoimmune Diseases

Free electrons from earth neutralise inflammation, regulate cortisol, improve sleep

Oschman, James L., Chevalier, Gaétan & Brown, Richard | 2015 | Journal of Inflammation Research, 8, 83-96 | doi.org →

Cited in: Get Yourself a Grass Hug | The Four-Point Reset

BRS-002 Peer-Reviewed

The Biologic Effects of Grounding the Human Body During Sleep as Measured by Cortisol Levels

Sleeping grounded for 8 weeks normalised cortisol secretion, improved sleep, reduced pain and stress

Ghaly, Maurice & Teplitz, Dale | 2004 | Journal of Alternative and Complementary Medicine

Cited in: Get Yourself a Grass Hug

BRS-003 Peer-Reviewed

Grounding To Treat Anxiety

Grounding confirmed as adjunctive treatment for anxiety through vagal stimulation

Koniver, Laura | 2024 | Medical Research Archives, Vol. 12, No. 12

Cited in: Get Yourself a Grass Hug

BRS-004 Peer-Reviewed

Grounding and the Gut-Brain Axis

Grounding directly influences vagal tone, supporting digestion and gut-brain communication

Scientific Research Journals | July 2025

Cited in: Get Yourself a Grass Hug

BRS-005 Peer-Reviewed

Grounding the Body Improves Sleep Quality in Patients with Mild Alzheimer's Disease

Grounding improved sleep quality by an average of 62%

Lin, CH et al. | 2022 | Healthcare

Cited in: Get Yourself a Grass Hug

BRS-006 Peer-Reviewed

Electrical Grounding Improves Vagal Tone in Preterm Infants

Grounding improved vagal tone in neonatal care

2017

Cited in: Get Yourself a Grass Hug

BRS-007 Peer-Reviewed

Shinrin-yoku (Forest Bathing) and Nature Contact: Effects on Cortisol and Immune Function

20 minutes of nature contact significantly reduces cortisol; phytoncides boost natural killer cell activity by up to 50%

Various (Li Q. et al. / Frontiers in Public Health) | 2018-2023

Cited in: Get Yourself a Grass Hug

BRS-008 Published Book

My Stroke of Insight: A Brain Scientist's Personal Journey

Neuroanatomical basis for the 90-second emotional cascade; the chemical lifespan of an emotion in the body

Bolte Taylor, Jill | 2006 | Viking | drjilltaylor.com →

Cited in: The Four-Point Reset

BRS-009 Peer-Reviewed

Practical Applications of Grounding to Support Health

Overview of grounding applications for health outcomes

PMC | 2023

Cited in: Get Yourself a Grass Hug

Earthing Institute research library: earthinginstitute.net/research →

Referenced in: Get Yourself a Grass Hug

Relationships & Polarity 7 sources

BRS-010 Peer-Reviewed

Gender Differences in Emotion Expression in Children: A Meta-Analytic Review

Meta-analysis of 166 studies (21,709 participants) confirming baby boys and girls show virtually no difference in emotional expression

Chaplin, Tara M. & Aldao, Amelia | 2013 | Psychological Bulletin, 139(4), 735-765 | PubMed →

Cited in: Boys Will Be Boys

BRS-011 Peer-Reviewed

Parental Socialization of Emotion Expression: Gender Differences and Relations to Child Adjustment

Parents pay more attention to boys displaying anger and girls displaying sadness

Chaplin, Tara M., Cole, Pamela M. & Zahn-Waxler, Carolyn | 2005 | Emotion, 5, 80-88 | PubMed →

Cited in: Boys Will Be Boys

BRS-012 Peer-Reviewed

Summarizing 25 Years of Research on Men's Gender Role Conflict

Boys and men punished for displaying vulnerable emotions

O'Neil, James M. | 2008 | The Counseling Psychologist, 36(3), 358-445

Cited in: Boys Will Be Boys

BRS-013 Peer-Reviewed

Boys Don't Cry: Masculine Norms, Self-Stigma, and Help-Seeking Attitudes

Endorsement of masculine norms suppresses help-seeking in men

Vogel, David L. et al. | 2011 | Journal of Counseling Psychology, 58(3), 368-382

Cited in: Boys Will Be Boys

BRS-014 Peer-Reviewed

Gender and Emotion Expression: A Developmental Contextual Perspective

How gender differences in emotion expression emerge through development

Chaplin, Tara M. | 2015 | Emotion Review, 7(1), 14-21 | SAGE →

Cited in: Boys Will Be Boys

BRS-015 Statistical Data

Causes of Death, Australia, 2024

3,300+ suicide deaths; 75% male; men die by suicide at three times the rate of women

Australian Bureau of Statistics | 2024 | abs.gov.au →

Cited in: Boys Will Be Boys

BRS-016 Statistical Data

Suicide and Self-Harm Monitoring: Deaths by Suicide Over Time

Highest male suicide rate: men aged 55-59; male depression routinely missed

Australian Institute of Health and Welfare | Ongoing | aihw.gov.au →

Cited in: Boys Will Be Boys

Life • Love • Legacy

This is a living document. Updated as the evidence base develops.

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