Karla Hylton Dixon
You have survived something.You are standing on the other side of it, functioning, moving forward by every external measure. And still, in the quiet hours, you feel it: the weight of not fully understanding what happened to you, what it produced, and who you are now that it is over.The Science of Becoming is for anyone who has survived one version of life and is trying to understand who they are becoming next.Dr. Karla Hylton Dixon is a PhD-trained biotechnologist, award-winning author, and founder of Women Who Emerge. She is also a woman who has been on the floor twice and rebuilt her life from the rubble.In The Science of Becoming, she brings together biology, neuroscience, and the science of living systems with the deeply personal account of her own transformation. Through concepts including apoptosis, neuroplasticity, adaptation, emergence, and epigenetics, she reveals a powerful truth: transformation is not only emotional. It is biological.This is not simply a book about surviving difficult things. It is about understanding what happens after survival, when the life you knew no longer fits and something new is beginning to emerge.Because inspiration says: you can do this.Understanding says: here is what is actually happening inside you, and here is why it is not the end of your story. It is the architecture of it.You were not falling apart. You were becoming.Welcome to the science of it.
