I often refer to this deep health hole I have been in, which I am finally making progress crawling out of. 

I have thyroid autoimmunity, so I was avoiding eating food that creates imbalance and confusion in my immune system, as I have for the last 12 years. I’ve also been living in an endlessly moldy house that has been a devastatingly expensive and illness-inducing whack-a-mole situation. 

I kinda got lackadaisical about finding new possibilities for why I was so sick because mold is my kryptonite, and it’s got my immune system whacked out. Makes sense. So, I kept focusing on the mold in my house and in my body. But that wasn’t working at all. I just kept getting sicker. 

Because I tweak and experiment with my body every Spring and Autumn in my lymph and liver-loving program, RENEWAL, I knew my body was behaving strangely around toxins. Because, sometimes, despite a tighter diet, I would gain weight even when I would push detoxification. Strange. That feels pretty shitty, ...

In part one of this "New Skills" series, I shared how learning more about Applied Polyvagal Theory and actively strengthening the ventral branch of my Vagus Nerve have completely reset my frayed nervous system. If you missed that post, check out my chitty-chat on the blog here.

This week, I am sharing the second tool that helped me escape my health hole. 

Fascia Work! 

Thank GOD for fascia work. I cannot imagine living life without this anymore. Here’s the scoop:

My body was so bad at eliminating toxins. Epically bad. I run a cleanse/body reset program called RENEWAL each year in the Spring and Fall. My diet gets super fine-tuned, and I spend 6 weeks pouring TLC into my body. No matter what I do, I never lose more than 6 pounds. I have adjusted things 500 ways till Sunday, and nothing. Nada. Zilch.

To put this in perspective, I have a lot of weight to lose - probably about 30 more pounds until I am comfortable, but I am finally on my way down. Despite having the hea...