Since you were young, a wedge has been pounded between your body and your common sense. The shim pierced ever deeper: Every time your parents freaked out when your body began to heal itself. Every time a TV commercial made it sound reasonable to expect side effects from ‘cures.’ Every time someone suggested that a fever was worse than a chronic disease. Every time the doctor/priest denied your symptoms. Every time your experience wasn’t seen as being a unique and divine culmination of diet, lifestyle, inheritance, story, emotions, moment, and soul. Every time numbers dictated your options.
We didn’t use to be so divorced from our own wisdom. We used to know how to heal ourselves. Here’s a list of what we’ve lost—and how to reclaim it.
Fevers are not illness - they’re healing responses. Gentle your body through the initiation instead of fighting against it.
Depression is not an illness - it’s your soul telling you that you’re on the wrong path. Go inside, feel your emotions, wait. When the time is right, you’ll emerge transformed.
Immunity is not a matter of antibodies - it’s a complex response by a vast intelligence with a well-developed fallback system that we tinker with in hubris. Instead, strengthen your innate immunity—with diet, rest, laughter, tonic herbs and supplements—and trust your body to do its job. Our bodies work better as holocracies.
Your emotions are not tangential to your health - they’re a signaling intelligence that can alert you to all sorts of phenomenon in your experience, including your health. Anger, resentment, fear, and stress can both cause and be symptoms that something is wrong with your liver and/or kidneys. Be curious about your emotions and, though meditation or prayer, learn to experience them calmly so that you can better hear their messages.
Despite all the mommy & wine t-shirts, addiction isn’t cute - it’s a displacement of unmet needs. Get in touch with your inner child and acknowledge what’s missing. She deserves your loving attention.
Love,
Stella
so much wisdom here thank you Stella. thank you.