The Gut Knows: Environmental Toxicity & Sensitivity
Windows of Health #2 & #3: Clearing What Doesn’t Belong
“Set it down,” the body whispers. “This weight was never yours to carry.”
If the gut is the intuitive seat of yes and no—then it is also the first place where the body registers what doesn’t belong.
Toxins. Triggers. Stress. Expectations.
Your gut doesn’t just digest food—it digests life.
🪞 Window #2: Environment & Toxicity
How do you know when your environment has become toxic?
Sometimes, it shows up as bloating, fatigue, or brain fog. Other times, it looks like chronic overwhelm, irritability, and the inability to rest. And sometimes, it’s just a feeling: “I don’t feel safe here.”
This window includes:
Heavy metals
EMFs, plastics, mold, and radiation
Pesticides and poor-quality food
Emotional toxicity (criticism, judgment, abuse)
Collective energetic toxicity (racism, homophobia, injustice)
The gut is sensitive to all of it.
🧘🏽♀️ Detox isn’t just physical. It’s emotional.
In Household Medicine: Wisdom of the Gut, we consider:
Identifying your personal toxicity exposures (physical and emotional)
Learning how to reduce or avoid them
Activating your body’s detox pathways
Creating safe inner and outer environments where you can heal
Your gut flora—your inner ecosystem—is sensitive to emotional environments.
People with high empathy or neurodivergence often need clearer boundaries, safer spaces, and more nature. You can’t detox if your nervous system thinks it’s still in danger.
🌀 Window #3: Allergy & Sensitivity
This window begins with the question:
“Am I overreacting?”
From a medical lens, allergies are overreactions to non-dangerous things: food, pollen, pets. But the truth is—your body rarely overreacts without a reason.
Allergy = Your body setting a boundary.
Sensitivity = Your body asking for softness.
Histamine = Your body's way of saying "this is too much."
And this applies to emotional triggers, too.
🫁 Emotional Allergies
Think of emotional allergies as trauma loops—those moments when your body and brain respond as if the past is happening right now. They live in the nervous system, in the gut, and in the fields between people.
Examples:
The smell of alcohol triggering panic (from childhood)
Being asked a question and suddenly freezing (old fear of getting it wrong)
Chronic people-pleasing as a "learned" allergic response to disapproval
In the course, we guide you through recognizing:
What is yours vs. what was inherited or absorbed
When your body is having a true allergic response vs. a trauma echo
How to calm the gut, soothe the immune system, and unhook from the past
🌿 Gut Wisdom = Boundary Wisdom
Your gut is the frontline of your health story. It tells you:
When something is toxic
When something is too much
When it’s time to say no
When you need to set it down
💌 Ready to Trust Your Gut?
🧠 Household Medicine: Wisdom of the Gut
📅 Starts Thursday, May 1 6-7:30PM PT
🌀 5 Weeks | Live Zooms | 3 Healing Modalities
🎥 Replays | Chakra Integration | Supportive Workbook
🌸 Emotional + Physical Detox Tools Included