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Detox isn’t complete without these

Summary:
This post explores the often-missed half of daily detox: what your body needs during the detox process to fully complete it. Emotional release, nervous system regulation, and mineral-rich nourishment aren’t extras. They are essential steps in helping your body actually let go & repair.

Estimated Reading Time: 5 minutes


We’ve been talking about detox all month, but here’s the truth most people miss: detox isn’t just about what we cut out. It’s about what we let out emotionally and what we bring in to replenish.

Your body is detoxing every day through your breath, sweat, digestion, lymph, and skin. Supporting that process isn’t about a once-per-year overhaul or daily restriction. It’s about creating the right conditions for release, repair, and renewal so your body can naturally let go of what it no longer needs or was never meant to carry.

In this next piece of the series, we’ll explore how emotional release, nervous system nourishment, and rebuilding with minerals and protein are part of the detox cycle itself. This is where the real radiance happens.


Detox Isn’t Just About What You Let Go Of Physically

1. Emotional Detox: Your Body Keeps Score

You can eat all the right things, but if your nervous system is overloaded, your liver is sluggish, your emotions have no outlet, or you're chronically overstimulated, your body will hold on to that too.

That unfinished cry, that feeling you shoved down, the boundary you didn’t set? Those don’t just vanish.

Unprocessed emotions live in your tissues and add to the body’s load, impacting your skin, digestion, energy, and mood. Like unprocessed food, unprocessed emotions create stagnation.

And when things stagnate, especially in your liver, lymph, and nervous system, your body’s ability to eliminate waste slows down. The result? Puffiness, reactivity, irritability, acne, fatigue, anxiety, gut issues, or even that familiar sense of being "off".

Emotional release is part of the detox process. Crying, laughing, journaling, dancing, resting, moving... these are not luxuries. They are medicine.

💭 Reflection prompt: Where are you feeling emotionally stagnant or blocked? What do you think you might need to get things moving?


2. Pleasure, Play & Joy Are Part of the Cycle

A built-in part of detox.

Joy supports the nervous system, bringing us out of fight-or-flight and into rest, digest, and repair, which allows detox to happen in the first place.

After your system releases something, whether a toxin, a thought, or a trauma, it needs a way to regulate. That’s where Pleasure & Play come in again, not as fluff, but as functional tools that remind your body it’s safe to continue letting go.

Joy is not just a mood booster. Laughter, play, connection, music, creative expression, sunshine, hugs, dancing barefoot in your backyard—these are all daily detox tools just as much as lemon water and leafy greens.

🤍 Joy is medicine.


3. Rebuild What Daily Detox Uses Up

Even gentle, everyday detox uses up resources. Your body burns through minerals, amino acids, and antioxidants every day as it filters, processes, and lets go of waste.

If we don’t replenish those building blocks, the system stalls out. That’s when we feel it. Breakouts. Brain fog. Irritability. Fatigue. That sense of flatness that doesn’t ever quite go away.

These are your foundational resources:

  • Minerals
    Magnesium, zinc, and selenium help your detox enzymes do their job, while potassium supports elimination through the kidneys and cellular waste transport. They also support calm, sleep, and skin clarity.

    Think leafy greens, pumpkin seeds, avocados, and some good sea salt sprinkled with intention.
  • Protein & Amino Acids
    Your body needs amino acids to do the deeper work of detoxification, especially in the liver, where toxins are prepped for safe elimination.

    Protein is also your repair crew. It supports skin resilience, gut lining integrity, enzyme production, and tissue rebuilding.

    Eggs, beans, nuts, bone broth, and ethically sourced meats are beautiful ways to give your body what it actually needs to repair—not just survive.

  • Antioxidants
    Vitamin C, vitamin E, and compounds like sulforaphane (found in cruciferous  veggies) help neutralize toxins and soothe inflammation. These antioxidants also support the production and recycling of glutathione, your body’s master detox molecule.

    Glutathione plays a central role in liver detoxification and cellular repair. But it can become depleted when we’re under stress, inflamed, or exposed to too many toxins.

    Brightly colored fruits and vegetables aren’t just pretty. They are powerful allies in helping your body restore balance.

 

  • Hydration
    It sounds basic, but water is one of your best detox tools.

    Aim for consistency, and consider adding minerals to your water for improved cellular hydration to help your kidneys and lymph do their job.

Final Thought

Supporting detox isn’t just about getting things out.
It’s about giving your body what it needs as it lets go—emotionally, physically, and energetically.
Emotional release. Joy. Nourishment.
They are detox.


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2 comments

  • This is so great. I often think of detox as only having to do with what I eat (food, supplements, etc) but never really thought about my system as a whole thing and what else might be needed to support the process that those foods and supplements encourage.

    Ian
  • I enjoyed reading your post… as always! Just this a.m. I was reading about the importance of selenium in regard to hair loss. A single Brazil nut was mentioned. Sounds familiar? Thenyou also bright it up. It’s now on our grocery list!

    I need to work on putting play into my life. That’s something I don’t do as I’m always at the end of the “To Do” list."

    Thank you so much for these… and other… reminders of what to change in my life. Or at least try to!

    Andrea

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