Focus:
On our intuition (or “instincts” if you like that word better) and allowing it to guide us and releasing the desire to follow the urgent directions of our dysregulated nervous system.
Repetition:
I was gifted intuition (or instincts).
I KNOW the voice that was placed so lovingly within me to help guide me through my day.
I will learn to listen to my gifted voice instead of the voice of urgency which is in opposition to love and healing.
Mitochondria and Fascia
As we heal, we want to increase the health of our mitochondria and fascia. Our mitochondria are our primary energy producers and can only eat fat and protein. Our fascia is a collagen structure that not only “holds us together” and is the reason we can move voluntarily and involuntarily, but also directly impacts our mental health, as it stores our trauma.
Restoring the Mitochondria
We are restoring our mitochondria and ATP energy with the ARP foods, by removing too many carbohydrates and ultra-processed foods, and by restoring our sleep, doing detox baths, cold therapy, fasting, and movement.
You could experiment with supplementing carnitine, CoQ10 and/or Urolithin-A. It is best to bring in one thing at a time and give it a few weeks to see if it makes a difference. Bring in the Urolithin-A for one month — that is all that is needed to clean out wastes and allow for biogenesis. We have not used these supplements, but they are available and can be helpful, especially if you are deficient in the first two!
I will add here that Methylene Blue should not be used by those who have mitochondrial dysfunction, as it can cause a crash. If you insist on trying it, please do so with just a drop per day.
Restoring the Fascia
We are restoring our fascia through breathing, posture, movement, collagen-rich meat stock, removing inflammation, somatic exercises, and practising being with our symptoms and pain.
As you move throughout the day, consider purposeful movement. For example, squat and spread the knees with the elbows as you enter each room; when bending over, make sure you are keeping legs and back straight, hip-hinging and adding in a stretch and some swaying as you go down and come back up; do slow and measured marches, rotating your hips as you go; do neck rolls between every few dishes; “try” to touch your ceiling, opposite walls, etc. Get creative with your body and have fun consciously trying to stretch all of your fascia throughout the day.
How Mitochondria Work
Your mitochondria are the powerhouses inside each of your cells — tiny structures with folded inner membranes that give them more surface area to do their work, which is turning the fat and protein you eat into usable energy (ATP) through a chain of steps: glycolysis, the Krebs cycle, and the electron transport chain. That energy is what powers everything from muscle contraction to nerve signals to moving nutrients across your cells. This is exactly why feeding your mitochondria well, and giving them rest, cold, movement and fasting to clean house, matters so much for how you feel day to day.
How Fascia Works
Your fascia is the connective webbing that runs through your entire body — under your skin, around your muscles and organs, everywhere — made mostly of collagen for strength, elastin for stretch and recoil, and a gel-like ground substance that keeps it hydrated and slippery so things can glide. It carries nerve endings that tell your brain where your body is in space, and it carries blood vessels that feed it and clear its waste. Fascia is what holds your shape and posture, lets you move smoothly, and cushions and protects everything underneath it. When it gets injured, inflamed, or held tight from stress for too long, it can become restricted and adhered, and that shows up as pain, stiffness, and even chronic pain patterns like fibromyalgia. The good news is that fascia responds to the same things that help everything else heal: movement, stretching, breathwork, and manual therapies like myofascial release, which coax it back open and let stored tension and emotion release.
Keep Going
You are doing great at restoring both of these beautiful markers of health! Keep enjoying your soups, your morning routine, your breathing and movement! Everything we do has a purpose — we are rebuilding ourselves from the foundation to the skies!
Musical Breathwork is an excellent resource! Her free content on Instagram is wonderful, and she also offers affordable courses.