Beyond the Macros and Supplements Lies a Deeper Truth
In our wellness-obsessed world, we're constantly chasing the next protocol—tracking macros, researching supplements, following trending biohacks. Yet while quality nutrition and movement matter, there's a fundamental reality many overlook:
Your health isn't just what you do—it's who you are, every single day.
The Inner Environment
Your body responds continuously to your internal landscape. Your thoughts, beliefs, self-talk, energy, and boundaries aren't secondary factors—they're the foundation. They create the soil where either illness or healing takes root.
Each day presents a choice, whether we recognize it or not: Will you be your own medicine or your own poison?
Be Your Own Medicine
Speaking to yourself with genuine compassion
Creating space for emotions rather than suppressing them
Embracing rest without guilt or justification
Honouring your body's signals when it says "no"
Accepting yourself fully now—not 10 pounds from now, not when you're symptom-free, not when everything is "fixed"
Or Your Own Poison
Living in persistent self-judgment and stress
Pushing through exhaustion when your body needs rest
Sacrificing your needs to meet everyone else's
Believing healing must be chased, purchased, or earned outside yourself
The Courage to Heal
True healing isn't pretending everything is fine. It's turning toward discomfort with courage and curiosity so you can move through it. It's transforming your state, not just modifying your routine.
The reality is clear: You're either cultivating an internal environment that supports safety, regulation, and vitality—or one that perpetuates stress, shutdown, and inflammation.
Powerful Practices That Support Your Inner Healing
When you're ready to shift from poison to medicine, these evidence-based approaches can help:
IEMT (Integral Eye Movement Therapy): This gentle yet profound technique helps release emotional patterns and limiting beliefs stored in your nervous system, allowing you to process experiences that may be unconsciously driving your stress response.
SSP (Safe and Sound Protocol): By recalibrating your autonomic nervous system through specially filtered sound, SSP helps your body recognize safety again, shifting from survival mode to a state where true healing becomes possible.
Intentional Rest Practices: Deep relaxation techniques like Yoga Nidra and guided rest provide your system with the profound restoration it needs to heal:
Yoga Nidra: This "yogic sleep" practice guides you into a state between wakefulness and sleep where deep healing occurs
Restorative yoga: Using props and minimal effort to support complete relaxation
Deep relaxation protocols: Structured practices that systematically release tension throughout your body and mind
These practices work because they address the root—your internal state—rather than just treating symptoms. They create the conditions where your body remembers its innate capacity to heal.
The power of your internal state cannot be overstated.
You are the soil. You are the medicine. You are the choice.
So today, ask yourself: What are you choosing to be? Your own poison... or your own healing?
About | Emma Toms - The Confident Wellness Coach