Your Healing Timeline Has a Purpose

Do you ever wonder why it feels like everyone else is healing faster than you or your child?

Comparing timelines is something I see a lot of and it's something I have experienced myself. It can be really hard to be months into your journey and see someone else making remarkable progress in just two days! 

There’s this quiet pressure most women carry, and no one really talks about it out loud. The pressure to grow faster. Heal faster. Figure things out faster. To not fall behind. To keep pace with whatever invisible timeline we think we’re supposed to be on. And when healing is part of the story, that pressure multiplies. You start comparing your child’s progress to someone else’s. You compare how quickly someone else’s skin cleared or how fast another woman felt “better” in her body. You start thinking your timeline means something about you. Or your motherhood. Or your effort. Or the choices you’ve made.

Your timeline is not a measure of how well you’re doing. Your timeline is a mirror of who you’re becoming.

Healing isn’t just symptoms leaving the body. It’s the nervous system learning safety again. It’s the mind slowly moving out of survival mode. It’s the body trusting itself enough to let go of things it’s been holding for years, gosh, for most of us… our entire lives. And deep growth, the kind you actually feel in your bones, never happens on a schedule. It unfolds in the pace your life can hold. The pace your motherhood can hold. The pace your nervous system can hold.

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Transcript

There’s this quiet pressure most women carry, and no one really talks about it out loud. The pressure to grow faster. Heal faster. Figure things out faster. To not fall behind. To keep pace with whatever invisible timeline we think we’re supposed to be on. And when healing is part of the story, that pressure multiplies. You start comparing your child’s progress to someone else’s. You compare how quickly someone else’s skin cleared or how fast another woman felt “better” in her body. You start thinking your timeline means something about you. Or your motherhood. Or your effort. Or the choices you’ve made.

But here’s what’s been coming up in our private community, The Rebalancing Collective, and in my own life. Your timeline is not a measure of how well you’re doing. Your timeline is a mirror of who you’re becoming.

Healing isn’t just symptoms leaving the body. It’s the nervous system learning safety again. It’s the mind slowly moving out of survival mode. It’s the body trusting itself enough to let go of things it’s been holding for years, gosh, for most of us… our entire lives. And deep growth, the kind you actually feel in your bones, never happens on a schedule. It unfolds in the pace your life can hold. The pace your motherhood can hold. The pace your nervous system can hold.

I’m in a season right now where my pace looks different than it ever has. My kids need more from me. Their schedules are full. Their emotions are bigger. The conversations are deeper. And every part of me feels how quickly time is moving. I have this bone chilling awareness of how the busier we get, the faster the years start to blur. And I don’t want to look up one day and realize I missed the very season I’m trying to savor because we were involved in too many activities or doing too much.

So choosing slowness isn’t effortless. It’s something I have to fight for every single week. To not get swept into the urgency of everything happening around me. To not let the momentum of life pull me into a pace that doesn’t feel aligned. To consciously pause. To breathe. To see my children. To actually be present. This isn’t slowness because life is slow. This is slowness because I’m choosing it.

And this choice is reshaping me. It’s shaping how I parent. How I lead. How I build my business. It’s teaching me that slow doesn’t mean stuck. Slow doesn’t mean behind. Slow can be the most powerful rhythm in the world when it’s intentional.

And it’s the same with healing. Some families heal in one rebalancing cycle. Some need two. Others have lost count. My own son ended up needing five back to back rebalances to fully heal. Not because he wasn’t responding. Not because anything was wrong or because it wasn’t working. But because the depth of what he was healing required time. His nervous system needed time. His inflammation needed time. His story needed time. And every layer he moved through shaped who he became on the other side of it.

And not just him. I needed time too. My nervous system needed time to settle. Time to shift out of that hyper-vigilance. Time to stop watching every symptom like it was a warning sign and instead start trusting the process. Because our children don’t heal separately from us. They co-regulate with us. They borrow our steadiness. They borrow our belief. They borrow our safety. And I didn’t realize it then, but part of his healing timeline was tied to mine.

This is why I have an entire lesson on our nervous systems inside of the course that comes free with the Gut Rebalance Kits and Symptom Specific Bundles. 

I had to slow down enough to actually see and celebrate the small improvements that eventually added up to his full healing. To stop needing everything to change overnight. To stop gripping the outcome so tightly that I couldn’t see the tiny shifts happening right in front of me. I had to learn how to regulate my own body so that his body could finally relax into healing.

When we compare timelines, we step out of our own body and into someone else’s life. We forget that each child, each mother, each family has a completely different load they’re carrying. Different stress patterns. Different past trauma. Different sleep rhythms. Different levels of inflammation. Different seasons of life. Different nervous system capacity. And that means healing timelines can never truly be compared.

Something that so many mothers don’t realize is that when our babies develop symptoms early in life, especially within those first six months, it means they inherited an imbalance we didn’t even know we were carrying. Most of us didn’t grow up understanding gut health. We didn’t know how stress, birth control, antibiotics, pregnancy, and even our own childhoods shaped our microbiome. We didn’t know it was possible to pass an imbalance on when we ourselves never recognized the signs in our own bodies.

This means the healing is so much deeper than any of us realize when we get started down this path. A mother and child don’t heal on separate timelines. Even when you’re not breastfeeding, you still share your  microbiome. Imbalance is intimate and healing is intimate. The shifts you make in your body support your child’s body, and the shifts your child makes support yours. You move as a unit. You grow as a unit. You heal as a unit.

And once you understand that, the timeline stops feeling like a race. It starts feeling like a relationship.

And the truth is, the timeline is the teacher. The timeline is shaping you. Slowing you down where you need to anchor. Speeding things up when you have the capacity. Pausing when your nervous system needs a breath. Surging when something finally clears. Every bit of it is guiding you into the mother and woman you’re becoming. Every bit of it is preparing you for the life you have always dreamed of. And it is doing the same for your child. 

This is something I think about all the time. If growth happened faster, most women wouldn’t be able to hold it. If healing happened overnight, most families wouldn’t have the nervous system safety to maintain the changes. The pace is not punishment. The pace is protection. It’s wisdom beyond our understanding. 

So if your child’s rash hasn't cleared as fast as someone else’s.
If your cravings took longer to shift.
If you’re three weeks into rebalancing and it feels slow.
If you see someone else’s story and feel that tightening in your chest.
I want you to remember this.
Your timeline is divine.
It is exactly what your body can hold.
Exactly the rhythm your growth requires.
Exactly the path your motherhood needs.

Healing is about more than symptoms disappearing. It is the identity you grow into as your or your child’s body releases what it’s been carrying. It is the wisdom you learn in the waiting. It is the strength you discover in the setbacks. It is the deeper emotional inflammation you start clearing as your and your child’s bodies starts clearing the physical.

Your timeline is not something you can force. It’s something you have to honor.

And when you finally stop fighting the pace of your healing and start trusting it, you stop feeling behind. You start feeling rooted. You start feeling grateful, proud, and deeply aligned. Because you finally realize that this exact timing, this exact season, this exact pace, is the only one that could grow you and your child into who you’re meant to become.

Transformation of the week:

This week’s transformation is one that really captures what happens when you heal from the root. A mama shared that her two-and-a-half-year-old son had dark circles under his eyes, a bloated abdomen, trouble sleeping, and eczema on his belly… and all of it disappeared in one month. She said, “I have had food intolerances, abdominal bloating, and recurring candida for the past 10 years and now healing. Thank you.”

Reading this really moved me because it highlights something I see every single day. When the gut is imbalanced, the symptoms don’t stay in one place. They ripple. You see them in the skin. You see them in digestion. In sleep. In mood. In the immune system. And you see them in children so quickly because their bodies are so sensitive to inflammation and imbalance.

Dark under-eyes. Bloating. Eczema. Restless sleep. These symptoms aren’t aren’t random or disconnected. They’re signs that the gut and immune system are overwhelmed. And as soon as the gut begins to rebalance, those symptoms start to fade because the inflammation driving them begins to calm. The immune system stops overreacting. The detox organs finally have support to function optimally. And the nervous system can settle enough for the body to heal.

And what I love even more about her message is that she is healing too. It is the most beautiful experience in the world to heal together as a family. So often as mamas we prioritize our children and forget about ourselves. Healing yourself further supports your child’s healing and even more than that, it changes the mom you get to be everyday. 

This is the beauty of healing from the gut outward…

A child who finally sleeps. A belly that isn’t inflamed. Smooth skin that can breathe again. A mama whose decade-long symptoms are finally softening. This is the kind of transformation that reminds us that healing is possible, no matter how long you’ve struggled or how many things you’ve tried.

Question of the week:

This week’s question is one I know so many of you wonder. A mama wrote to me and said:

“Hi! I took antibiotics since I was a little child. I had an allergic reaction to amoxicillin, I also had all my childhood vaccinations. I have kids now and I’ve never given them antibiotics. Can I still heal from all the heavy metals and antibiotics from childhood? And how would I go about it correctly?”

Yes, you can absolutely still heal. Your body is unbelievably resilient. Even decades later, it can heal from antibiotics, heavy metals, vaccine residues, and the imbalances they created. I see this every single day. It is one of the most empowering parts of this work… understanding that it is never too late to heal. 

What happens is that these layers from childhood don’t disappear. They settle deep into your body. They weaken your microbiome. They dysregulate your immune system. And because the gut holds over 80 percent of the immune system, those early hits to the gut set the stage for so many symptoms later in life… food sensitivities, hormone imbalances, anxiety, depression, fertility complications, chronic inflammation, fatigue, bloating, and that sense of “I’ve never felt quite right.”

The Ultimate option of the Women’s Gut Rebalance Kit is so powerful for women in this exact position. It does two things at the same time. It clears the bad bacteria, yeast, mold, fungus, parasites, heavy metals, and old toxins that have been sitting in the body since childhood. And at the same time, it replenishes the microbiome, restores minerals, and rebuilds the foundation that antibiotics and toxins weakened.

As those deeper layers begin to clear, the entire body shifts. The immune system strengthens. Inflammation finally calms. Hormones regulate. The liver stops feeling overwhelmed. And your body starts detoxifying naturally again, the way it was always meant to.

I always want to be transparent that this level of healing doesn’t happen overnight. If your body has been carrying and growing these layers of imbalance and overgrowths for years, sometimes decades, it takes time and commitment to release them. This is why I recommend getting the Ultimate Kit on an 8-week subscription. It saves you 10 percent, gives you free shipping, and most importantly, it sets the expectation that this is a process. You aren’t doing a quick cleanse. You’re rebuilding the foundation of your body.

And if you’re in the US, adding Balance CBD can be incredibly supportive because it helps regulate your nervous system, your hormones, and your detox pathways while your gut heals.

So if you’ve carried symptoms for years… if you’ve always wondered whether what happened in childhood is still affecting you today… the answer is yes. But the even bigger truth is that your body knows exactly how to release them once you give it the right support.

This is one of my favorite kinds of healing stories to witness, because it shows the brilliance of the body. And it is never too late to heal.