Sharing Your Low-Tox Journey
Becca Crawford
Some of you may be at the very start of your low tox journey while others may be further along the path. Heck, some of you might be seasoned campaigners (or what I call low-tox ninjas).
Whatever stage of your wellness journey you’re at, I’m sure it has got you to start thinking about the toxic chemicals ubiquitously found in conventional personal care products and cleaning products that line supermarket and pharmacy shelves and that make their way into laundries, bathrooms, bedrooms and kitchens across the world. I call these “everyday” chemicals because they are found in products we and our kids use each and every day which accumulate in our system, wreaking havoc to our health and the planet’s health.
When I started on this journey over 20 years ago, I wanted to scream the urgency of this crisis from the rooftops and my knee jerk reaction was to first and foremost educate and save my nearest and dearest – my friends and family. I wanted them to join me on this crusade because I cared about their wellbeing and didn’t want them to succumb to the toxic overload that leads to avoidable illness and disease.
To my dismay and shock, my family and many close friends were not as receptive to kicking the chemicals as I was. Maybe they were fearful of change or maybe it was cognitive dissonance – the complete incomprehensive that legal products could really be that bad for our health. Or maybe they thought natural products were too expensive (even though I retorted with “Have you seen how expensive cancer treatment is recently?”) or maybe they didn’t know which products to healthy swap to or where to get them from or maybe getting them from all manner of places instead of a one shop supermarket shop was just all too hard.
Maybe it was a combo of all these reasons. And maybe, just maybe, it was my delivery. So. If you can relate to this, here’s 3 tools that help you help your friends and family to kick the hormone-disruptive toxic chemicals and lead them onto a less toxic, more nourishing path with a little more ease and grace:
Invite them to one of my 2 hour live “The Essentials” workshop held in person in Sydney at my home almost every month (next one is July 17th 2pm). You could join them if you can- it is so much more fun to healthy swap with a buddy; and/or
Send them the link to request to watch my 50 minute pre-recorded online “The Essentials” workshop covering the same material but in abridge format that they can listen to at a time that suits them. You could even watch it together with a bowl of organic popcorn loaded with unrefined salt and grass fed butter (yum yum!); and/or
Send them our new Clean Living brochure that beautifully summarises the conversation that starts the all-important ripple effect.
After all, the greatest gift you can give your friends is the opportunity to change their life by empowering them to reclaim power and take back control of their health.
Love Soulla xx
