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Day Six: Body Wisdom

Andrea Hylen
4 min readApr 6, 2020

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Day Six: Body Wisdom

“Put a hand on your heart and a hand on your gut. Listen to your body. When you feel the truth, you feel it in your bones.” ~Anonymous

(Day 6 of 30 days of writing. All of the 30 days are posted on Medium or go to this link and purchase the entire e-book for 99 cents. The Sacred Feminine: Tuning into Your Personal Power. 30 days of Writing and Reflecting)

The messages from your body are another superpower of the feminine. The body has a wisdom that is transmitting information to you. Buzzing, tingling, feelings of fear, anger, joy, and aches and pains. All are clues of information and you can feel the sensations in your body, as you tune in.

Are you listening?

My sister shared a nutrition book with me called, “Eat to Beat Disease: The new science of how your body can heal itself,” by William W. Li, MD. As she read information to me about the 40 foods recommended in the book, I had a series of flashbacks from when I had an autoimmune disease in the 1990’s.

As a kid, I always had stomach issues. I had an aversion to drinking milk and spent many nights sitting at the kitchen table because my mom wouldn’t let me leave until I drank my milk. Most nights, she finally gave in and I left after gagging down a few sips. As a teenager, it was common for me to eat dinner…

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Andrea Hylen
Andrea Hylen

Written by Andrea Hylen

Founder of Heal My Voice and The Incubator. Life Scientist. Live house-free. Widow. Mom of Adult Daughters. Grief. Writing Sexuality. Evolutionary Woman

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