What is Common is Not Always Normal

and an interdependent view of health

I look at a lot of Hair Tissue Mineral Analysis (HTMA) tests, food journals and health histories. What I see over and over is…

• Adrenal Burnout patterns (I have yet to see more than 5 HTMA tests without this pattern, out of the hundreds I’ve seen.) This is a significant adrenal issue pointing to chronic adrenal gland malfunction. It takes a long time to recover from.

• Rampant under eating and inconsistent eating

• Women and men who are tired but cannot sleep deeply

• Women and men who are misjudging their mental, emotional, and physical capacity in ways that are significantly affecting their health

• Women and men who believe if they can do it, then they have to do it. (Not true)

• Women and men in their 30s and 40s whose glandular function is like that of a 75 year old 20 years ago

• Women and men who are severely depleted but believe they don’t have a reason to be

• High levels of Aluminum in the body

I wondered to myself the other day, how common does an imbalance/disease have to be until we recognize it is not an individual problem but a collective one?

I say this a lot: “It is common, not normal?

I find myself feeling desensitized to what adrenal burnout actually means, because it’s so common. Every single person’s test I see has high levels of Aluminum. I don’t even register it. It’s becoming normal to me, but it is not normal.

Overall, as a collective, our bodies are tired and toxic. When 90% of Americans are metabolically unwell, when do we stop treating our health struggles as an individual failing and start looking at what is collectively zapping our energy?

Think about a day when you were extremely under slept or hungover. How happy were you? How motivated did you feel? Was there a way to force yourself out of the depressive exhaustion? No! You could try, but when you’re dragging you can’t fake it for long. This is how so many people move through life, maybe without registering what they’re feeling isn’t normal, simply because it’s so common.

That’s where we’re at as a collective. Dragging but desensitized to it.

This isn’t meant to be doom and gloom. It’s just meant to be a wake up call to the fact that, yes, we can each do our best to rest and realign our energy towards activities that give us life instead of take it away, but no matter how much we do that as an individual, the collective stream is currently going to opposite way.

Interdependence needs to become even more of a buzzword. We are being asked to wake up to how much of our individual health is dependent upon our environment.

I have long said, focus on what you can change. Clean up your area. Clean up where you’re sitting. This is what we can do. AND also recognize that we are part of a system that is screaming for greater alignment. Integrity is so important and we are being asked to step more fully into it, individually.

Being brutally honest with ourselves about what we are participating in, while at the time, being brutally honest with ourselves about what we actually have capacity for. Running around feeling ashamed, exhausted, desperate and trying to fix the world ain’t the solution. Running around feeling ashamed, exhausted, desperate and trying to fix ourselves ain’t the solution, either.

Wake up calls are wonderful opportunities for alignment.

To quote one of my fav movies of all time, The Big Lebowski, “Nothing is fucked here, dude.”

When we can see more clearly, we can do better. Simple as that.

Sometimes the things we need to look at most are the things we are most staunchly avoiding.

I led the women in my program FERTILE through a 15 minute somatic practice this morning around just this, so I’ve decided to share just the practice with my paid ReMothering members.

Enjoy! I would always love to know what you’re taking away from the practice.