Intuition + Decolonizing Health
Intuition and Health:
Before doctors were popularized, doulas, midwives, herbalists, alchemist, curaderx, witches, energy workers, body workers, and other healers were well trusted. Many of these healers had intuitive and experienced knowledge. They looked around and understood the patterns of the world. By harnessing this, they were able to reach the root of our dis-ease. During the witch hunts and colonial genocidal projects, many traditional healers were murdered leading to a loss of these intuitive ways. Our indigenous ancestors (no matter where you are from) know the medicine has always sat with our connections to self, plants, animals, soil, the elements, one another, our ecosystems and more.
Following your intuition is decolonizing health.
Don’t get me wrong, there is place for western medicine - its advances have saved many lives over the last century, but we cannot deny the failure of the industry to bring accessible, holistic care to everyone. Speaking from personal experience, many doctors and mental health professionals have not been able to solve the puzzles my mind and body have thrown at them. It is only when I have returned to indigenous and traditional medicines that I have found the root of my illnesses.
Here’s a short example (CW: vomiting):
About a year and a half ago, I had a month where I puked almost every morning. I was feeling pressure on my kidneys, a back ache, and like I was on the edge of contracting a UTI. I went to the doctor and they ran their tests, but they found nothing. A MRI, pregnancy test, blood and urine. They shrugged and told me nothing was wrong. Later, I went to an acupuncturist for support. She sat me down and asked what was going on with my body, my life, and my emotional/mental states. She explained that anger lives in the liver and if I’m not letting my emotions express themselves, they will find their own way out. The overload of anger I was holding was putting pressure on my liver and in turn my back and kidneys. Anger was making me sick. Immediately, I intuitively knew what was making me ill. I addressed my anger and the vomiting stopped.
We spend so much money on the shackles of the for-profit healthcare system and it often only mitigates symptoms without offering real rooted solutions. In fact, the US medical industry made up 18% of the GDP in 2021. They are banking! With so much corruption and failure on the part of these systems, we turn to the internet. Health advice is given freely by every other influencer on Instagram. Tbh, I’m not, not guilty of this. It’s a lot to weave through and we know the alternative wellness industry is projected to increase substantially from its already $5.2 billion ‘value’ (2022).
When we are constantly being sold health, it is important we build self-trust and intuition so we can decipher what is good for us as unique beings versus what is good for their wallets.
Intuition is the power and ability to sense or feel direct knowledge through quick and ready insight. Yet, we have been programmed to disregard our feelings, especially our senses. How could we care about our feelings if we are forced to clock in and out five days a week? How do we center our feelings if we don’t have sick pay? We have been trained to neglect our health and ignore our mental and spiritual needs.
Intuition thrives in presence and awareness, but we are taught too numb and distract.
Our abilities to intuit are clouded.
For our mental health and wellness we must intuit:
~ what is making us sick
~ what is healing us
~ what our ancestors are calling or guiding us to do
~ when we need change
~ when to let go
~ when enough is enough
Intuition requires intimacy with self.
We must release numbing to find moments of deep self-awareness, observation, experimentation, somatic embodiment, reflection, and so much more.
Intuition is listening to our internal compass, in turn that means letting the gaslighting and false narratives fall to the side.
I have TWO OFFERINGS to support the building and strengthening of your intuition and connection to self. I hope that with these tools, you can start to rebuild trust and understand the patterns and sources of your disease. Although I will be sharing tools, it is in your self-practice that you will learn the most. I introduce, you develop.
