Why Doing Less Helped Me Heal More

After years of chasing protocols, supplements, and “fixes,” I've learned that slowing down and simplifying is the most healing thing we can do

Hi fam!

I know it’s been a minute since I’ve written, and there’s so much I want to catch you guys up on. I just got back from spending over a month at a clinic in Switzerland where I was getting some really deep healing and treatment for my health. It was one of the hardest things I’ve ever done physically, mentally and emotionally but also one of the most deeply transformative. I’m not quite ready to share the full experience yet because I’m still very much processing and integrating it all, but I will soon, I promise.

Since being back, I’ve decided I’m making big shifts in how I approach my healing. I’m done forcing myself to take a million supplements that make me feel worse, done outsourcing my healing to everyone around me and done pushing myself to do a bunch of shit I’m not even sure is helping move the needle. so, you’re probably wondering what I am doing. well, long story short, I’m keeping things simple.

I’ve realized the hard way that doing less is actually far more powerful.

For the last two years I believed that the more I did, the faster I would heal.

More supplements.
More protocols.
More practitioners.
More detoxes.
More input.
More effort.

But that mindset didn’t just make me rigid and restrictive, it created so much fucking fear and overwhelm that it became debilitating. I was constantly feeling more dysregulated, more disconnected, and consumed by everything I thought I had to do just to keep from backsliding in my health. In reality, my nervous system was stuck in a state of hypervigilance trying to track every little thing I was “supposed” to do in order to heal.

What I’ve been slowly learning (the hard way) is that less really can be more. Simplicity is medicine.

When I started focusing on quality over quantity, things started to shift:

• Less supplements, but more targeted and supportive ones.

• Fewer protocols, but more nourishing rituals I could actually show up for.

• Fewer voices in my head/external input, and more space for my own inner guidance.

There’s a quiet confidence that builds when you stop outsourcing your healing to everything outside of you. When you start listening to your body instead of constantly trying to fix it. When you create just enough structure to feel grounded, but not so much that you feel restricted. I’m still deeply in the middle of learning that dance, but it’s definitely something I wish someone had told me sooner.

So this is where I’m at right now: coming back to the basics.

✨ morning ritual and connection time with my soul (lighting a meditation candle, sitting in prayer and gratitude)

✨getting sunlight in my eyes first thing in the morning followed by a short walk around the block

✨quality green juice

✨making my favorite cup of decaf coffee with frothy homemade coconut milk, perfect aminos mocha powder and animamundi mushroom blend

✨the 4-6 supplements that I actually know support me

✨ DNRS brain retraining program (this has truly been game changing)

✨no screen time an hour before bed and a hatch alarm clock

✨swapping regular lights for red lightbulbs and candles

If you’re feeling overwhelmed in your life, I highly recommend doing an audit. seeing what you’re doing and consuming everyday and asking yourself what should stay and what can go. and take it from someone who has been in the depths of “doing it all”…you don’t have to do it all to get better. you don’t have to chase every protocol, or keep adding more and more. Sometimes the most healing thing you can do is pause, take a step back and come home to the simple things.

I’ve been loving this way of living and I don’t see myself going back. Keeping it slow, peaceful and intentional.

Can’t wait to continue to share, I’ve missed you guys! Let me know how you’ve been, what’s going on in your world and anything you wanna hear from me about. I’d love to hear from you. 💌

Hugs,
Nat