Keep It Simple: What My Body Taught Me About Healing Slower
Have you ever been around someone rushing to get out the door… and suddenly you’re rushing too?
Their urgency becomes your urgency.
Their stress becomes your stress.
Before you even realize it, your chest tightens, your thoughts speed up, and everything feels a little chaotic.
And if you’re like me, rushing never actually works.
That’s when I start spilling my water, dropping things, forgetting what I walked into a room for.
More effort… worse results.
And I’ve realized something important:
This is exactly what happens when I try to rush my healing.
Healing is not a race
One of my personal mottos has become:
“Keep it simple. Keep healing forward.”
Because healing is not a race.
You are going to get there… and it will take the time it takes.
Lately, I’ve been reminded of this again as I’ve had well-meaning recommendations come my way—things like iron infusions, injections, GLP-1 medications, and more.
And I want to be clear: I am not judging those who choose to try them.
But I’ve learned something very important about my own body.
My body does not respond well to force.
It does not heal faster under pressure.
It does not thrive when I try to “hammer” results into place.
Instead, it responds to gentleness.
Consistency.
My experience with trying to speed things up
I’ve been down the path of chasing quicker results before. I can name a bunch of avenues I am sure but one that comes to mind is bioidentical hormone replacement therapy (BHRT).
And every time, instead of getting ahead, I ended up needing to recover from the approach itself.
Side effects.
New symptoms.
Stopping then rebalancing.
More time—not less.
I’ve also worked with functional medicine protocols that involved a large number of supplements and constant adjustments.
And while the intention was good, I became overwhelmed.
It was too much.
Too expensive.
Too complicated.
And ironically, I didn’t move forward.
That experience taught me something I will not forget:
More is not always better.
The Moment I Refused to Rush Past the Celebration
The same conversation reminded me of is this:
We don’t stop enough to acknowledge progress.
We’re always moving to the next thing—the next fix, the next lab, the next protocol.
But when we do this, we miss what is already changing.
I recently had labs come back, and my CRP was 0.5.
Now, if you’ve never struggled with inflammation, that number might not mean much.
But for me, it means everything.
Because my inflammation used to be high.
Really high.
And when I saw that number, I felt proud.
Proud of the version of me who kept going when results weren’t fast.
Proud of the consistency that didn’t feel exciting at the time.
Proud of the small daily choices that compounded into real change.
Because inflammation is not a small thing.
And today, I get to see the result of that work.
Why I choose simplicity now
This is why I’ve come back to simplicity in my healing.
Right now, my routine looks like this:
My homeopathic remedies
Whole food vitamin C + desiccated liver (low dose, because of mast cell and COMT gene mutation) in the morning
Magnesium glycinate at night
Digestive enzymes before meals (adding in per the conversation with my doctor)
That’s it.
Simple. Supportive. Sustainable.
And this is also why I love homeopathy—it meets the body gently, without overwhelming it. It helps the body shift in big ways by supporting it, not pushing it. And it is affordable.
Final reminder
If you take anything from this, let it be this:
Healing does not have to be fast to be effective.
You do not have to force your body to get results.
And you are allowed to go at the pace your system actually responds to.
Because the goal is not just to “get there.”
It’s to get there well.
And your body knows the way. You can trust the process.
