The wellness world loves a “cleanse.” Juice fasts, 5-day detox powders, extreme diets. But here is the truth: your body already knows how to detox. You just need to stop getting in its way.

Detox is not about extremes. It is about supporting your body’s natural pathways and removing what blocks them.

When your nervous system is stuck in survival mode, healing anything, from your gut to your mindset to your marriage, becomes almost impossible.

Most of us are walking around in fight-or-flight without even knowing it. That buzzing, anxious, can’t-fully-exhale feeling? That is not just stress, that is nervous system dysregulation.

But here is the truth: you can shift it. You do not need perfection. You just need awareness, consistency, and a few small daily practices that tell your brain, “You are safe.”

Most people think of gut health as just digestion, but it is so much more than that. Your gut is the frontline of your immune system. It is the root of your mood, your inflammation, your energy. It is where healing either begins, or quietly breaks down.

As a caregiver, a nurse, and someone who has walked through deep healing with my own family, I have learned this: you cannot heal what you are not feeding right.

Let’s be honest, most people are not avoiding anti-inflammatory eating because they don’t believe in it. They are avoiding it because it feels hard.

Meal prep. Shopping lists. New ingredients. No sugar, no gluten, no dairy, no fun? That’s what they have been told. But that is not what I teach.