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When a Life
Breaks Open, 

Science Explains
What Happens Next

A transformation framework built from cell biology, neuroscience and lived experience. Six stages. Each with a biological parallel. Each with a practical protocol.

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Transformation is not only emotional. It is biological.
 

The Science of Becoming explains what happens when a person, a leader, or an organization begins to change. It draws on biology, neuroscience, faith, and lived experience to show why real change requires more than willpower.

The same biology that moves a person from collapse to capacity moves teams and workplaces through fracture, burnout, and renewal. Old patterns give way. New capacity is built.

The Transformation Biology Assessment™

Discover the stage of transformation that most closely reflects your present experience and receive a practical next step based on the six-stage framework.

Complete the assessment and receive The Biology of Becoming, a complimentary introduction to the six-stage framework.

Coming September 12, 2026

The Science of Becoming:
The Biology of Transformation

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This book is for anyone who survived something, rebuilt after something broke and wondered why the person who emerged felt both unfamiliar and true.

The collapse was not the end.

The rebuilding was not random.

You were never falling apart.

You were becoming.

MEET THE FOUNDER

Dr. Karla Hylton Dixon

Dr. Karla Hylton Dixon is a PhD biotechnologist, educator, author and keynote speaker working at the intersection of science, identity and human transformation.
 

Through The Science of Becoming Institute, she translates biology and neuroscience into courses, training and practical frameworks for individuals and organizations navigating disruption and change.

 

She is also the founder of Women Who Emerge, a community where women experience belonging and live the principles of becoming together.

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