The wellness world is obsessed with the idea of “healing.” Healing your gut, healing your hormones, healing your metabolism.
It sounds positive. It sounds empowering. But it’s based on a flawed premise.
The premise is that your body is broken and you, with your superior intellect and your arsenal of supplements and protocols, must fix it.
It positions you, once again, as the hero/mechanic and your body as the broken-down car. It reinforces the very disconnection that is the root of the problem.
What if your body isn’t broken?
What if it’s been functioning perfectly, responding exactly as it should to the stressful, unnatural, and often hostile conditions you’ve been putting it in?
- That “broken” metabolism that won’t let you lose weight? That’s a perfectly functioning metabolism that has intelligently slowed itself down to conserve energy during what it perceives as a chronic famine (i.e., your years of dieting).
- That “broken” gut that gives you bloating and pain? That’s a perfectly functioning gut that is screaming for a different kind of food or a calmer nervous system.
- Those “broken” hormones that are all over the place? Those are perfectly functioning hormones that are responding exactly as they should to chronic stress and inflammation.
Your body is not broken. It is a brilliant, responsive, and adaptive system. It has been doing its absolute best to keep you safe and balanced in the face of the chaos you’ve been throwing at it.
The problem is not that your body needs healing. The problem is that you have not been listening to what it needs to be healthy.
You don’t need to fix your body. You need to get out of its way.
You need to stop imposing your will, your protocols, and your latest “healing” strategy on it, and instead, create the conditions for it to do what it already knows how to do.
And what are those conditions?
Safety. Nourishment. Rest.
That’s it. That’s the big secret.
When you regulate your nervous system to create a state of safety, when you provide it with adequate nourishment, and when you give it the deep rest it requires, it doesn’t need you to “heal” it. It heals itself.
Stop trying to be the hero. Start being a humble and attentive partner.
If you’re tired of being the mechanic for a car that isn’t broken, this is a different path. If you’re ready to learn how to create the conditions for your body’s own intelligence to emerge, you can find more info at www.cetfreedom.com. Or send me a message.
