🌿 September Is a Sacred Reminder

This month holds causes close to our hearts:

• Healthy Aging Month

• Pain Awareness Month

• National Fruits & Veggies Month

• Library Card Sign-Up Month 📚
  (Knowledge = empowerment. It’s the #1 predictor for a long life. This brings peace to this lifelong lover of learning 🌻)

📅 Important Days to Honour

• ✉️ Sept 1 – World Letter Writing Day (I still handwrite letters like my mom 💌)

• 🕯️ Sept 10 – World Suicide Prevention Day

• 🌈 Sept 23 – Celebrate Bisexuality Day

• 🌍 Sept 26 – World Environmental Health Day

• ❤️ Sept 29 – World Heart Day

• 🧡 Sept 30 – National Day for Truth & Reconciliation (Canada)

💪 Labour Day Truth

Today is Labour Day in Canada 🇨🇦
(Not worldwide—most countries observe May 1.)

But for us parentified first-borns, Labour Day hits different.

We’ve been working since we were kids.
Now we’re single parents holding 2–3 jobs.
Still showing up with a smile.
Still helping others heal— Even while our bodies break down 💔

🫶 To Our Tribe of Parentified First-Borns

You’ve been holding it down since childhood.
You’re often the sickest.
You’re underpaid. You’re unsupported. You’re exhausted. You feel invisible with your invisible illnesses.

🧠 Why You Feel Hot, Wired, Inflamed
Learn more in today’s video

It’s not just burnout. It’s biology.

• First-borns get the highest toxic load in the womb

• If you were born sick, your immune system started compromised

• Stress → inflammation → leaks in gut, brain, body

• That means IBS, insomnia, neck pain, histamine overload

• Living or working in mould or asbestos?
  That’s a toxic soup that makes everything worse

🥦 Microbiome & Mould Recovery Tip

Your gut thrives on 25–30 different plant fibres each week
🌱 That doesn’t mean 30 apples 🍎
—it means a little variety goes a long way.

Think of your microbiome like a jungle—diverse, alive and interconnected.

The more colours, textures and plant fibres you feed it, the stronger and more resilient it becomes 🌿🦋

✨ Even a few bites of something new adds to your gut’s diversity and helps restore balance after mould and trauma.

👉 Share food with family to keep cost down—split apples, rotate greens, swap veggies
🍇 Wash your fruits & veggies
🍊 Organic if you can, but don’t stress—rinsing helps
🌿 Skip leftovers if histamine flares

✅ Wash Produce Well - we don’t take new toxins in while detoxing toxins and trauma from our tissues.

Before you enjoy your fruits and veggies, give them a good rinse:

• Fill a bowl with cool water

• Add a splash of vinegar or baking soda

• Soak produce for a few minutes, then rinse under running water

• Pat dry with a clean towel (or air dry)

This helps remove dirt, bacteria and pesticide residue—keeping your body and microbiome happy 🌱

🔥 When Your Body Leaks, You Feel Hot

That’s inflammation screaming for rest.

🌱 What Helps (Even If You’re Broke + Busy)

• ✅ Wash produce well

• ✅ Eat low-histamine, fresh foods

• ✅ Avoid alcohol (yes, even “healthy” wine) + man-made toxic sugar

• ✅ Rest with deep vagus breaths—5 minutes counts

• ✅ Practice Buddha Berry Tree Method™ slow + mindful (Detoxing takes time to undo a lifetime of toxins and trauma stored in our tissues)

💡 Questions for You

🧘 How do you rest + de-stress in five minutes?
🍏 What’s one food from Mother Nature you’ll add today for your microbiome?
👧 What’s one responsibility you were given as a kid that was too much, too soon?

From grade 5 on, I was the one making sure my mom got to work—a job that came with a side of fried egg sandwiches.

That early responsibility shaped me, but it also taught me how to care.
It became my quiet way of saying “I love you,” a ritual I still honour for those I cherish every Christmas morning.

Share yours in the comments. I’ll share mine too.
And if you have a question, just hit reply to this email and I will add it in a future video.

💛 You’re Not Broken

You’re biologically overwhelmed.
You deserve healing—not just survival.

Sending loving kindness from Canada’s capital,
De-Stress With Momma Lovey Dee 🥰 For inner peace in a toxic world.