06/17/2025
I've had many recent questions and concerns surrounding what we conventionally term "Seasonal Allergies".....So here it is:
Seasonal Allergies ~ A Deeper Truth?
What if “Seasonal Allergies” aren’t what we’ve been told?
The conventional story says: “Your immune system overreacts to harmless things like pollen, dust, and grass.”
But ask yourself…Why would a system that has evolved for millions of years suddenly see tree pollen as a threat?
It's like saying the forest is attacking you — when you are, in truth, part of nature itself.
“Allergies” may be a SYMPTOM of an Internal Imbalance —And not a mistake.
You’re not reacting to pollen. Rather, you may be reacting to your body’s inability to respond coherently to your environment.
Pollen, grass, dander — these are natural, ancient substances. They belong. But when the inner terrain is burdened, stagnant, congested — the body becomes hyper-reactive, defensive, and disconnected from its environment. Seasonal allergies are not an “immune error” — they, in fact, may be a message that your body can no longer dance with the rhythms of nature anymore.
Every spring, nature goes through a detox surge: the sap rises, animals shed, earth cracks open. Your body wants to detox too — but if your liver is sluggish, lymph is stagnant, bowels are slow, then when pollen hits, your system overflows. Histamine becomes the signal of pressure the body can’t release.
Allergies are a pressure valve. They're not about the pollen — they're about what’s already backed up inside you.
Allergic reactivity is a symbol of disconnection from the natural world. We no longer sleep with the sun, touch the earth barefoot, eat in season, cleanse with the cycles, or sing with the wind.
Instead, we spend all day inside filtered buildings, we chronically suppress emotion, we eat sugar in winter and salad in snow, and we forget we are wild. The body begins to see nature itself as a threat — because we’ve lost our co-regulation with it.
Seasonal allergies often spike during transitions — spring, fall. These are threshold times in nature — times of expansion, shedding, change. If your system is holding unresolved emotion, trauma, or resistance to movement…your body may interpret the winds of change as danger. The sneezing, swelling, and congestion becomes a metaphor: "I can't take this in" (runny nose). "I don’t want to see this" (watery eyes). "I'm overwhelmed" (sinus pressure).
So What Actually Helps?
- Support Your Organs of Elimination
- Re-Pattern Your Relationship with Nature
- Let Your Breath, Tears, Or Sound Move Old Emotion
- Sync With Nature’s Cycles
Seasonal allergies are not an error. They’re a call to restore your wild coherence with the earth, your body, and your emotions.
Allergies not a diagnosis, but a compass — pointing you back to what you’ve forgotten: You are not separate from nature. You are nature.