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your symptoms are teachers, not enemies

September 9, 2026 · 1 min read

THE BODY HAS BEEN SPEAKING THE ENTRE TIME, HAVE YOU BEEN LISTENING?

Greetings Wholistic living Community,

Here's something I find myself saying to clients again and again: your symptoms are your teachers.

We're taught to fight our symptoms silence them, cover them, push through them. But your body doesn't create symptoms to torture you. It creates them to tell you something. The bloating, the fatigue, the breakouts, the crashes those aren't random malfunctions. They're messages. And most of the time, they're connected. Usually through the same few roots: what you're eating, how your body is processing it, your stress and cortisol, and whether your nervous system ever gets to come down.

Here's the part that changes everything once you understand it: when you take certain things out of what you're eating, put the right things in, and combine that with the right herbs the body responds.

And when you add in ways to manage your stress and calm your system, whether you call it meditation, breathwork, or your spiritual connection (different words, same medicine depending on who you are) it responds even more.

Your body has been talking to you this whole time. Healing often starts the moment you stop fighting the messages and start listening to them.

Something to sit with 🌿

MaleeahJay

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