October

Happy Fall and Hello to All! If I am reaching you in the southern hemisphere, enjoy my words nevertheless during this time of sea-changes.

For those of you who have been with me since the beginning of The Daily Dose, you know I can sometimes hang out in la-la land, postulating the hypothetical, psychological and metaphysical realms of health and wellness without much guidance and often with more questions than answers. Of recent and perhaps with the formation of my brand and tenuous solidification of my identity and career I have begun to ground myself in the practical, physical realm and excitedly incorporate this sway into my writing. Some things remain the same however and as I do enjoy a bit of humor I invite you all to find comic relief in the fact that the monthly post goal I had updated for myself from the daily and/or weekly post goal that proved impossible has alas been sojourned once again! We will thus hold ourselves to tuning in to nature as one of my very first articles alluded and I will hold myself to publishing for you content on a schedule that is inspired by change and cycles of change which I am sure will be frequent and topically pertinent enough to keep me busy and my audience, you all, informed and amused. Thank you for being with me here.

Since my last newsletter I have been pondering the ideas of death, rebirth, and reincarnation. While I hearkened in the August letter about concepts of generativity and legacy and young life, this newsletter is more about the connectivity of health and wellness to decay and decomposition. Through some recent learning I have been reacquainted with the reminder that as humans we are made up of cells but much of the great orchestra that arranges the symphony of our chemical lives occurs via our byproducts and metabolites, the breakdown of such cells and fuel to form messengers. Supporting this aspect is visible in life outside of our own but not necessarily within our own daily mechanisms. Take mushrooms for instance, which have reached new heights of publicity within the healthcare industry. The class of fungi consume what is dead, generating not only their only life source but intense intelligent networks of communication that mirror the cerebral.

In this way the resulting intellectual network created by our own microbiome containing bacteria, phages, virus and fungus alike, metabolize the food that we take in to in turn produce chemical messengers that communicate with our very life force and all organ systems on all levels. While the diet trends run rampant and it is difficult to decipher what to eliminate and what to include, I do know that food, guilt, pleasure, and wellness all seem to resonate within ones intuition. It appears that the root cause of most illness is an infancy of perceived peril and trauma, micro-crises that affect us all through age and time and driven by greed, displacement, and migration to strange lands. Thus replacing the very compound from mother's milk in adulthood is a bizarre but promising fix for the myriad health disorders that a 'leaky gut' can bring and I can offer the tidbit of knowledge that endorses the use of colostrum as a means to heal centuries long assault on our safety and confidence as a modern people.

The resounding secret of truth seems to be within the exploration of such and therefore I leave you with the idea that ultimate health can be found in whatever we had deemed dead to us, whatever we had sensed or assumed, or proven with lab values was lacking. Love, safety, wonder, enlightenment, achievement, success, and peace lie within us all but it may take the resonance of substances and foods to remember this holy status. Enjoy your food this season and listen to both your guilt and your pleasure as well as your heart and your pulse for within the heart according to some lies the all-knowing mind. The veil is thin this time of year and you can use this to tailor your reserves and countenance with wisdom and growth.

Huzzah!

With love,

Caroline, Aevum Coaching