Thank you for joining us for episode 388 of Live Happy Now.

Do you ever wonder why you think or feel the way you do for seemingly no reason?

Well, today's guest is here to crack that code and explain it to us.

I'm your host, Paula Phelps, and this week I'm sitting down with Judy Wilkins-Smith, a world-renowned speaker, author, and expert in family patterns.

In her new book, Decoding Your Emotional Blueprint, she explains how our DNA is influenced by trauma and emotions and can create multigenerational patterns that limit us from reaching our full potential.

She's here to tell us how to identify some of those beliefs and patterns, and more importantly,

give us the tools to overcome them. Let's listen.

Judy, thank you so much for coming on Live Happy Now.

Hi, poor ladies, lovely to be with you. I can't wait to have a conversation.

Well, I always like talking to someone with that Texas accent that you have there.

Of course, yes. Deeply Texas, right? All the Texan way from South Africa.

That's lovely. I absolutely love your accent. So we're excited to talk today because the work that you're

doing is so important. It is so life-changing. And it has been so widely overlooked. As soon as I heard

about this and started delving into what you're doing, I knew we needed to have you on the show.

So let's start by having you explain what you're talking

about when you reference our emotional DNA. Sure. So you understand that you inherit your

physical DNA. You don't even think about it. It doesn't matter whether you know your mother and

father or not. You inherit that hair, those eyes, that smile, and we don't give it two thoughts.

We just know that's who we are.

We've come from somewhere.

What people don't understand is that we also have another component, which is our patterns

of thoughts, feelings, actions that create these patterns that then become mindsets that we think are the truth,

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