What if detox is only sometimes the answer

And why health is built in SO MANY WAYS

I have taken a big step back from supplements, detox, protocols, and healing my body in that way. It has been about 9 months of doing just the basics.

And I know you hear it so loudly on Instagram that we need foundations before detox and drainage before detox. And yep, that’s true. But that’s not what I’m going to talk about here.

I’m going to talk about mindset. Eek… that sounds too professional or too cliche. What’s another word for it? How about renewing your mind? Fixing your thoughs on truth? Taking your thoughts captive? I like using Biblical language as a Christian and I think words matter so much. Renewing your mind is way better and deeper than just saying mindset. It has real meaning in my opinion.

We read renew your mind in Romans 12:2 and we can just breeze past it. Yeah, renew my mind, got it. But do we really understand it? I don't know about you, but I didn’t and don’t think a lot of us really understand the power that comes from our thought life.

2 Corinthians 10:5 says to take every thought captive. Not some thoughts, not only Tuesday’s thoughts. But every thought! That’s a big thing, all thoughts.

If you ask yourself honestly— do I take all untrue thoughts that run through my mind captive and replace them with truth? I’m going to answer for you and say probably not. And maybe some of you actually are thinking that your thoughts are like the wild wild west. They are very wild and free (and not the good kind).

I used to think my thoughts didn’t really matter. I used to think as long as I did the right protocol, killed all the opportunistic pathogens, and ate the right food then I would be so healthy and feel great.

Working on my thought life wasn’t even something I thought about. Doesn’t everyone have some pretty crazy thoughts swirling in their head? But if they aren’t crazy or inherintly sinful then they don’t harm anyone, then I’m ok, right? It’s just a fleeting thought. That isn’t true. They harm you and what you think is what you start to believe and then take action on or ruminate on. Proverbs 23:7 states “For as he thinks in his heart, so is he”. What we think is what we become or at least what sneaks into our identity.

I started to realize in 2024 that I needed to work on my thoughts, fears and belief systems that influence my day to day life. I was talking to my practitioner and she said my body needed a rest and she wanted me off of almost all supplements and drainage tools for 2 months and trust my own body for healing and to work on my nervous system being stuck in fight or flight.

I had two responses. The first was deep fear and the other was complete relief. They coexisted together because my body and brain was so exhausted from pushing so hard on protocols. And yet I was so scared because all I knew was protocols and supplements for healing. I really didn’t trust my body and thoughts began swirling in my head about the symptom flares and not being able to heal if I stop taking all the supplements and stop frantically researching healing tools and protocols.

I decided to trust her because I felt the Lord confirm her recommendation with so much peace. And I stopped castor oil packs, foot baths, red lights, vibe plate, etc. I just let my body be and it was such a good time. It was during the spring/ summer and I spent so much time sitting outside reading my Bible, praying, hanging with my kiddos and trusted that my body wouldn’t fall apart.

Spoiler alert: My body didn’t fall apart.

I actually gained a deeper trust of my body. And it made me dig deeper into the thought loops and belief systems about healing that were runinng me into stress and more symptoms.

I started seeing how influential what we believe is and what we are fearful of that really drives us. We tend to not acknowledge the true reality of our thoughts and we get stuck into a chronic stress response. And that stress response equals symptoms (I like to call them sensations).

Those symptoms won’t fully go away without working on our brain and nervous systems. A protocol won’t fix it. And in some cases the protocol could make you worse because your system is already in danger zone and you’re pushing too hard to detox. Your stress bucket is overflowing and you’re forcing your body to adapt to a lot of change in physiology. Which is ironic because the goal of the protocol is to detox and start to reduce your toxin load which should equal healing. But sometimes it just makes us worse.

It believe that doing a protocol or detox can be beneficial but it needs to be in the right time. If your body is ready for it, you should be able to do the protocol slowly but without huge herx reactions or mood symptoms raging. If your body can’t do a protocol and you have increased in sensitivity to supplements and meds, then I would say that belief systems and renewing your mind is what you need to focus on for the time being. You need to get your body and brain out of danger mode before you can push doing detox protocols.

The bottom line is God created your body whole and to heal. We also live in a broken world and don’t always see healing in the way or timing that we want to. Don’t keep thinking your body is broken. Don’t see the outside world as something making you so sick (yes it happens), but not everything is against you or out of your control. Trust your body can learn to regulate and really begin to renew your mind against those untrue thoughts and beliefs. It can be hard work but it is so transformative from the inside out!