For the first year and a half after launching Positively Devine, I barely posted anything about it at all. Every day I was logging on and seeing images of people being bombed and massacred. I was watching entire populations being deliberately starved. Between the political theater of our corporate red and blue parties, the deafening silence of friends and family, the sheer denial and even outright mockery, and the crushing reality of global events, it just felt so wrong.

How could I possibly post about starting a nutrition business? I would see posts from random influencers and in my head, I would scream, “WHO GIVES A FLYING F?!?” Like seriously I don’t want to hear about your fast fashion haul when I’m being bombarded with images and videos of blown up children in Palestine, 3 year old children digging for minerals with their bare hands in the Congo, or reading articles about women tying rocks to their feet to purposely drown themselves in Sudan to avoid mass SA from happening to themselves and their daughters.

I understand that we all exist under capitalism and we all need to work to make a living. I respect that regular people have to pay their rent in whatever way they can, but it's all just so incredibly hard to navigate, right? How do you make your brain make sense of all of this at the same time? But I noticed that I felt comfortable supporting people whose accounts did both. They shared their outrage over what's happening around the globe, but they also ran a business or just shared their personal lives. Because that's our reality. We have to witness the horror, and despite all that, we still have to work, eat, wash the dishes, and pay the bills.

My nervous system was a complete wreck during that time, and yeah it definitely still is. I’m workin’ on it, I’m really trying over here! But witnessing the daily violence and the media censorship left me frozen. It felt impossible to talk about recipes, functional blood chemistry, and genetics when people are literally fighting for their lives.

But remaining frozen doesn't help anyone. I had to remind myself that a population that's exhausted, chronically ill, and living paycheck to paycheck is much easier to control. The corrupt systems we live under are functioning exactly as designed. They're designed to extract profit and keep us apathetic. They rely on us being too tired to push back …like at all. Like even too tired to even show up to local school board meetings to defend our own kids. They want us too exhausted to fight, too scared to speak our minds, and completely convinced that nothing will change either way because the system is just going to do what it wants. They depend on that exhaustion so you don't have the energy to question where your tax dollars are going or if/why the food you eat is making you sick.

I focus on nutrition and whole-body health because they're the few things we can still control. I'm not here to help you get "beach ready." I'm here because you need the energy to handle the stress of this chaotic reality we live in. You need to make positive choices to stay out of the profit-driven medical system and avoid getting trapped in its symptom/disease management loop …okay, and maybe you can get that beach bod too! We all need to stay strong and making those positive choices, and that all starts with what's on your fork.