This is a YouTube video titled "The Ultimate Guide to Overcoming Challenges Insights from High Achievers" containing a monologue by Beverley Simpson recorded in May 2025. Beverley shares a personal anecdote about differing cultural food experiences to illustrate how belief systems form and influence thought patterns, emphasizing that not all reactions stem from trauma.
Similarly to how we say, like, there's no such thing as, like, good and bad food. Like, food is just food. Like, I think that's. That's something that's super important about, like, whether it's trauma or it's not. Like, the belief system that was established was simply just that. The belief system, whether it was coming for a good or a bad place or not, it was. It was the belief. The example I share here is growing up. I'm. I'm from Ohio, so I've had people look at me crazy that even when I say it, they're like, what are you talking about? I grew up where when we would eat breakfast, we would have dippy eggs, which meant you only cook the bottom of the egg and you only, like, barely cook the top. But that meant that the yolk was there so you could, like, dip your toast into it and eat the. You know, have the yolk on your toast that way. I'll never forget the first time I went to my friend's house and her mom made scrambled eggs. And so I'm sitting down for breakfast after we have, like, a sleepover, and I'm looking at my plate, and I'm like, what is this? Like, I. I thought we were eating eggs. Like, I did not believe that to be true, that that is an egg, because I had never seen an egg cooked that way. Now, see, this isn't a trauma response because, oh, my gosh, like, the egg tried to attack me. No, it was just the belief system that was instilled because of my environment. And so it doesn't mean that somebody has to have a trauma response in something for that to be where a thought pattern or a habit will follow.
