What Is The Chain Creation Theory™?
For years, we have been separating everything. Anxiety goes in one box. ADHD goes in another. Overthinking gets its own box. Perfectionism, people-pleasing, depression, fear, control, chronic overwhelm, and lack of purpose all get treated like separate problems requiring separate explanations. I don't think we have that many boxes. I think we may be looking at different links in the same chain.
That is what led me to develop The Chain Creation Theory™ (TCCT). My theory proposes that when a person spends enough time in survival mode, the nervous system adapts to help them function there. Do something long enough and your brain gets pretty darn good at it. Eventually, the responses that helped you survive can become behaviors you repeat without even realizing why you are doing them.
Then something interesting happens. We start calling those behaviors our personality. We say, “I've always been a people-pleaser,” “I've always been a perfectionist,” “I've always had to stay busy,” or “I've always been an overthinker.” Maybe. Or maybe your nervous system learned something a long time ago and has been repeating the lesson ever since.
That is what I call Chain Creation™. One survival response can influence a behavior, that behavior can influence another response, and that response can influence another behavior. Eventually, you have an entire chain. Years later, you may be trying to change the link you can see without realizing there were links forming long before it.
My research has taken that idea even further. I am exploring whether chronic survival mode can begin much earlier than we have traditionally considered, including during childhood and potentially before birth through prolonged maternal stress. If a developing nervous system is exposed to prolonged stress before a person ever takes their first breath, I think we should at least be willing to ask what effect that experience may have on the nervous system developing inside that environment.
This is also why I stopped looking at restoration as simply changing thoughts or forcing new behaviors. I developed Safe Freedom™ around a simple idea: if your nervous system learned survival through experience, perhaps we can give it new experiences. Not enormous leaps that send the nervous system scrambling right back to what it knows, but small, manageable experiences that allow the brain to collect new evidence. Safe Freedom™ is about giving yourself enough room to experience change without turning change itself into another threat.
Then my music background sent me down another rabbit hole. After decades of playing music, writing songs, and spending ten years running an entertainment company, I began experimenting with what happens when specific Solfeggio frequencies are combined with corresponding musical keys. That exploration became Desmore Frequency™, my developing hypothesis that frequency and musical key used together may assist the nervous system during the restoration process.
I am still researching, observing, testing, and documenting that work. I don't need to pretend I have every answer before I am allowed to ask the question, because discovery doesn't begin with already knowing the answer. It begins when somebody notices something, asks why, and is willing to keep looking.
The Chain Creation Theory™ isn't about convincing you that everything about you came from survival. It asks you to consider how much of what you have always called your personality is actually who you are, and how much of it may be who you learned to be while surviving.
That is the chain I want people to recognize, because you may not have seven completely different problems that somehow showed up in the same life. You may have one underlying pattern that learned how to show up seven different ways.
What Type Of Chain Creator Are You?
