Detoxing can be many different ways for many different people. The most important thing about it is that it needs to work for you. It needs to feel right & good & doable. It needs to be a gentle opening into a new way of life for you. It can not be a one-size-fits-all forceful plan that does not take into account your own completely unique being, from your physicality to your lineage to your emotional trauma. All of these (& more) are necessary pieces so that detoxing supports your highest health & purpose, with who you are & where you are at in your life.
Detox can look like eating a lot of fruit & salads. It can look like transitioning from a Standard American Diet to eating Organic. It can look like replacing factory-farmed meat with grass-fed. It can look like going gluten & dairy-free. It can be nothing but consuming fruit. It can be letting go of sugar, or just transitioning to natural sugars. It can be making herbal teas or taking epsom salt baths or finding a way to ensure 8 hours of sleep at night. It can be crying (tears are an elimination channel for toxins, believe it or not), or laughing or drinking more water. It can be water fasting, or intermittent fasting, or finding natural ways to encourage more bowel movements.
Detox can also be about finding ways to relax the body, mind & feelings. This is actually the most important thing, long-term. Most of us do not know how to fully relax into ourselves, our hearts, our bodies, our minds, our lives, or with each other. We are on-edge most, if not all of the time. We must find out why & work on creating as much peace & safety for ourselves as possible, as often as possible.
Detox is a beautiful healing art & it’s necessary for it to be your own. It’s wonderful to feel moved & inspired by others & what they’re doing to change their health for the better, but that doesn’t mean those ways are right or ultimately supportive for you. We want to repair ourselves in ways that we are ready for, that will truly & fully benefit us for a long time to come. Foot step by foot step, back to the love, goodness, & innocence of our holiness.
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