if there is one thing that i have learned in my short 4 decades, it's that there is no one-size-fits-all.
that means there is no universal magic-plant pill, miracle therapy, or secret set order to "healing".
i didn't just passionately teach about regenerative nutrition — i actually resolved health crises' (for myself, my partner, our dog, friends ...and their menagerie of 2 and 4 footed farm animals..) with "natural medicine"...
until i couldn't.
while i myself rarely got sick — i spent close to a decade using water fasting, intermittent fasting, regenerative diets, sleep hygiene, breathwork, movement, purges, detoxification, light therapy, plant medicine (wild greens/teas/herbs/spices etc), whole food supplementation (marrow, liver/liver oil, eggs/'whole' beings etc), to heal all manner of dis-ease.
tinctures, oils, balms, compresses, honeys, clays, charcoals — you name it, if not on me, it was on my mental map: a crystal clear flow chart superimposing human anatomy, seasonal diets, healing protocols, how to activate curative foods (such as tumeric, which—to name but one factor—requires both oil and piperine, found in black pepper, to make curcumin—the active 'medicinal' compound—bioavailable), and when to enagage detox protcols — which not only require robust intestinal health (which acts as a clear path for liberated toxins to quickly exit—rather than circulate and cause damage to—our system), but also to align with the nutritional & physiological profile of the season — which mother nature has very cleverly designed to support a very specific circadian cascade, where each domino is set up — to build on the previous domino.
ie you don't seed in the summer.
(and you can't harvest what wasn't seeded in the spring.)
until one day i got sick...
and this time, the more i optimized my diet/"lifestyle" — the faster my health deteriorated.
because i was forcing myself to stay in the jungle — when what i needed, was the desert.
the bones of joy describe the terrain each one of us must traverse, and learn to master, but it doesn't come with any rules.
it is but a map of the different elements that we must navigate — with each one of us following our own unique truth.