High standards, but a little more carefree.

A quick piece on constantly fearing toxins.

A quick one I wrote and shared on Instagram last week. I could expand on the nuances, but I want to share this in its punchy-ness.

I don’t know when wellness went from eating well, working out, sunshine and community to being afraid to touch receipts.

I don’t know who needs to read this (me over the years that’s for sure)— You can live vibrantly without constantly looking over your shoulder for the next toxin here to destroy your life. My motto is high standards, but carefree. It’s a daily practice.

I used to live as if I needed to be so on top of every single aspect of wellness, every potential toxin, every spickle of EMF. But how much life does that obsession take? I mean, talk about high cortisol.

I am ‘that gal’—   home birth, natural remedy, organic farmers market, sauna, circadian biology, move my body, low tox, whole house filter, little-emf-thing-on-my-devices, colonic, linen bedsheets, stainless steel/cast iron pans gal. I even have a ceramic slow cooker that i had to hunt Japanese stores to buy because I fall on the ‘extra’ side of the scale. Do not get me wrong— I am not at all dismissing the importance of awareness, and of lowering the toxic load. But we’ve also got to lower the toxic load in our minds.

The constant barrage of wellness information which is too much for our minds and bodies to metabolize. Yes, I do believe that the enormous amount of information we try to consume makes us congested and overwhelmed physically as well as mentally.

I refuse to live in that kind of fear or fragility. I refuse to believe that my vitality is dependent on ticking the 273784959383 boxes of ‘hot wellness trends’ that are flying around the internet at lightning speed, especially when you’re in the industry.

Some things move the needle. But not all do— they just chew into your peace. What moves the needle more than anything, is setting your standard, and then learning to relax. Less stress-filled hyper vigilance, more relaxed awareness.

Most everyone is trying to sell you something, and most are using fear. The volume is astonishing, and fear compounds.

I saw an ad the other day that told me that a cut on a non stick pan releases something like 7283838 microplastics. Instantly I thought about all the years I had those pans. Why didn’t I know back then? What have I done?

There is ALWAYS something you can do better, but if you perceive yourself to be someone who needs a 158 step Biohacking routine in order to feel vital, then what does that say about your faith in the very nature you claim to side with?

Please take a moment to clear out your feed. Stop letting intense opinions grate on you and leave you feeling afraid of your own shadow, breath and farts. Listen, and decide what matters most for your wellbeing right now, and follow the path. Follow some things, but not all things. Stop letting yourself be whiplashed around by every compelling ad, telling you that you need yet another product in order to have a chance at survival.

Yes, we are exposed to more crap than ever.

Yes, there are brilliant minds making amazing discoveries about how nature is already equipped to rise to the occasion.

But you cannot implement it all at once, and you are chewing away at your life force by trying. Start with what matters most.

Streamline your pursuit. Stop being thrashed around by people trying to scare you out of breathing.

Deal with what is in front of you. Deal with it lovingly and well. Take proactive measures to live a long and vital life. But remember that both action and faith are pro vitality, constant fear is not.