Homogenous healthcare and lifestyle advice
Homogenous lifestyle and health advice has been a more recent part of my journey over the last few years with regards to my health and how I am working towards helping other people with their health.
It's about learning about how a lot of the mainstream healthcare advice is fabulous, but it's not a one-size-fits-all. Everybody is individual, very individual. And so the health advice that we are given for some people is perfect, and for other people totally unhealthy.
This learning for me, was highlighted with what turned into a very severe episode of eczema and urticaria. My hands initially, then my arms and then legs and then torso became covered with burning, red, dry itchy rash that was driving me insane! I was allergic to everything I touched. The mainstream healthcare professionals wanted to treat it with medication (steroids and antihistamines), but that's just treating the symptom and not addressing what the underlying cause was. I wanted to find more where the root of the problem was.
Me being me went on a deep dive about how can I understand more about what I can do to serve myself? I tried a few different things, including different diets involving eating lots of raw foods, and tried detoxing. These things potentially made it a fair bit worse, which I know only too well can often be a necessary part of the healing process. In my work I’m looking for change as a healthcare professional. So sometimes things need to get worse before they get better. But they didn't get better, they just kept getting worse.
Ayurvedic
This led me to an Ayurvedic practitioner, which was amazing and very life changing. They did a very in-depth consultation, which was all about me as an individual, my current health issues, my previous experiences, right through back to childhood. The thing that blew me away is she could almost predict what experiences I had had in the past from the symptoms that I was experiencing currently, which I found astonishing. I had some great changes with that, but it meant changing things that I didn't really want to change, so it was hard.
It came to the forefront that I was using food to hide emotions that I hadn’t been dealing with. This is one of the big triggers for eczema. But the regime that she gave me, even though probably 95% of my eczema disappeared, but not all the changes proved sustainable for me. I then started to look into human design, and my human design journey began.
Human Design
Human design has been a massive game changer as many people who know me know already. But I found out that I am what's called “closed taste” on my chart, and that means I'm supposed to eat the same things. I've got a really primitive digestive system. I'm supposed to eat local, eat simple, and I really don't need much food. I eat too much it’s too much for my digestion to cope with, and that is a health problem in itself. There are many elements in our charts that can help shed light on all aspects of health-related issues. This is just one of mine.
I just wanted to let you guys know that if you're doing the “healthy” things that we are taught are good for us, that may not be the right course of action for you as an individual.
My journey is about helping you to figure out which of those things is helpful, which ones are genuinely serving you and which ones aren't. Because if you are doing lots of things that don't serve you, then it can actually be damaging to your nervous system. If your nervous system is not firing on all cylinders, it is less able to give you the clear cues, to help guide you in the right direction.
This is where I can help you with the human design, to improve your health, and turn down the flight, fight, freeze response so that you are more able to tune into what your body needs to thrive, not just to survive.
If this resonates, you want to know more, then get in touch and let’s arrange a time to chat to discuss what you would like some help with with a free discovery call.
And in the meantime, have a beautiful day. Take care.
