Daily Writing Prompt: What strategies do you use to maintain your health and well-being?
I listen to my body. Always have.
It whispers before it screams. If you learn to hear it, you’ll catch things early. I don’t believe in Allopathic medicine unless I break a bone or find myself in a true emergency. The rest? I think the system is broken. Pills for every problem, profit before people.
Instead, I turn to what’s real.
What’s old.
What grows.
I grow my own food whenever I can. There’s something deeply healing about putting your hands in the soil, watching something sprout, and then feeding yourself with what you’ve nurtured. That’s medicine, the kind that doesn’t come in a bottle.
I use herbs and essential oils for most things. Tissue salts and flower formulas.
Lavender for sleep.
Peppermint for headaches.
Elderberry in winter, nettle for strength, lemon balm when the world gets loud.
These are the gifts the earth gave us, and we’ve forgotten how to use them.
I believe health is about connection to the body, the land, and the quiet voice inside that knows what you really need.
Rest when you’re tired.
Move when it feels good.
Cry if you must.
Laugh often.
And most of all, trust yourself.
Your body holds more wisdom than any white coat on payroll.
You just have to get still enough to hear it.
UNDER THE WILL... OVER THE DRAMA... 
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