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.”