Betrayed By Your Biology

Why are women more anxious than men? What if it's not personality or hormones - but programming? For generations, women have been told they're "just anxious," "too emotional," or "not maternal enough." But what if that anxiety isn't a flaw, but an imprint? A body-based inheritance of fear passed silently through generations of women. In Betrayed by Your Biology, Alexia Leachman reveals the hidden force driving women's mental and emotional health: Reproductive Anxiety Disorder (RAD) - a deep, embodied fear that shapes women's choices, confidence, relationships, and creativity long before they ever consider motherhood. Is RAD the reason some women develop a phobia of pregnancy and birth? Or why others find themselves unable to birth anything - babies, businesses, books, or bold ideas - no matter how hard they try? Drawing on lived experience, client stories, and over a decade of pioneering work through her Fearless Birthing movement, Leachman traces how fear becomes embedded in the body, and what happens once it's released. This is not a book about pregnancy or birth. Or motherhood. It's about womanhood itself - about the invisible fear that keeps women small, silent, stuck and self-doubting, and the radical process of reclaiming power from it. Courageous, compassionate, and unapologetically human, Betrayed by Your Biology reframes anxiety not as weakness, but as wisdom - the body's call to heal what culture taught us to fear. Because your biology isn't broken. It's speaking. And it's time we listened. "I think this is the most important book written for and about women this century - probably ever." "What Alexia has done is give language to something that has shaped so many women's lives without them ever knowing it had a name." "This book will change how women understand themselves, their bodies, and their capacity to create. It's absolutely brilliant." "If this isn't the book everyone refers to for years to come, I don't know what is. " "Compassionate, intelligent, and utterly groundbreaking." Betrayed by Your Biology takes readers beneath the surface of anxiety, into the body's deepest programming. Drawing from neuroscience, trauma theory, and thousands of hours of client work, Alexia Leachman reveals how fear around reproduction doesn't begin in adulthood - it's written into the nervous system through generations of silence, shame, and survival. You'll discover: How cultural conditioning and media myths have turned women's biology into a battlefield. Why so many women feel disconnected from their bodies - and how to rebuild trust from within. The science behind Reproductive Anxiety Disorder (RAD) and how it reframes anxiety as an intelligent body signal, not a personal flaw. Real stories of women who broke free from fear - and what happened when they did. For anyone who has ever felt "too much," "too emotional," or "too afraid," this book offers both language and liberation. It's a guide for every woman ready to understand her body's truth, rewrite her story, and reclaim her innate confidence and creative power. Betrayed by Your Biology doesn't just ask us to heal - it invites us to listen. Because when we stop fighting our biology and start understanding it, everything changes: our relationships, our choices, and our future.