Jun 6 • 2. The Mirror Speaks
Before you blame your hormones ...
I hear it all the time: "my hormones this" "my hormones that".
Seriously, if your hormones are that "off the rails" maybe pause for a second and ask yourself why they would do that?
What if it's not because of "menopause" or some other false design fault?
What if it's to do with what you're surrounding them with every single day?
Because the people handing out body-fixing drugs and dietary fixes for supposedly broken bodies, rarely stop to factor this in.
We are living in a world absolutely saturated in synthetic chemicals and somehow we act shocked when our bodies start struggling to regulate.
And maybe menopause does factor in here.
Not because it's the problem, but because it reveals what the body has already been dealing with for years. Not creating the issue, but exposing what the body can no longer compensate for.
One of the biggest examples? - Laundry detergents and fabric softeners!
And before people dismiss this as dramatic, explain this to me:
Why can someone else's laundry products transfer onto my own clothes so strongly that even after washing them three times the smell is still there?
Why can I get into a car and smell the previous passenger chemically?
Why can someone walk past me outdoors and leave behind a cloud of synthetic fragrance hanging in the air?
That is not "freshness."
That is chemical persistence.
These products are literally designed to coat fibres, cling to fabrics, survive washing, and continuously release fragrance compounds into the air. That "clean laundry smell" people are addicted to is synthetic chemical exposure being normalised as cleanliness.
And the part that is the most insane to me of all this, is most people do not even notice it anymore because they are so deeply saturated in it themselves.
The day you remove this stuff from your own environment is the day you realise how hideous and insidious it actually is.
Once your body is no longer constantly bathing in synthetic fragrance you suddenly notice how aggressive it all feels. The smell becomes overwhelming. Artificial. Suffocating.
You start realising that what society has labelled "clean" often smells more like a chemical spill than anything remotely natural.
I'm now on day two of inhaling the residue left behind from a one-hour session in my home.
One hour.
The smell is still here.
It's in the air. It's on surfaces. It's lingering in the environment long after the person has gone.
And that raises a question.
If the imprint left behind after a single one-hour visit is this difficult to remove from my home, what is the impact of living inside that exposure every day?
What is it doing to the body?
And yet people are inhaling this all day long.
Sleeping in it.
Wearing it on their skin.
Wrapping babies in it.
Breathing it in from pillows, clothes, carpets, sofas, cars, offices and public spaces ...
Then wondering why their bodies are inflamed, dysregulated, reactive and exhausted.
At some point we need to stop treating the body like it is malfunctioning for no reason.
The body responds to the environment it is living in. It's that simple.
So maybe stop blaming your hormones for reacting to a world drowning in synthetic chemicals and start asking what you are asking your body to process every single day.
At what point do we stop asking what's wrong with our hormones and start asking what we're exposing them to?
Always with love ❤️
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