It's Time to Become Your Own Health Advocate

Looking inward and finding alternative methods for healing.

Jan 08, 2026

Welcome to Aligned!

Becoming your own health advocate starts with recognizing that you know your body better than anyone else.

In this week’s Video Workshop we explore the importance of doing your own research, trusting your intuition and simple adjustments you can make to improve your health without creating more stress.

While traditional medicine can be lifesaving, it often focuses on managing symptoms rather than identifying the root cause of illness—leaving many people feeling unheard or stuck in a cycle of prescriptions.

Improving your health means asking better questions, tracking patterns in your body, and understanding how nutrition, stress, sleep, emotions, and environment all play a role in healing. Many people aren’t aware that unresolved emotional stress and energetic imbalances can manifest as physical symptoms, which is why listening to your intuition is so powerful—it often signals when something is “off” long before tests do.

By slowing down, tuning into your body’s signals, and exploring holistic approaches alongside medical care, you reclaim your power and create a more connected, personalized path to true wellness.

Use the following questions to explore the possible emotional root cause to physical symptoms:

Where is your current stress coming from?

Job
Finances
Relationships
Misalignment with Self
Other

What unresolved trauma* have you experienced that causes you recurring stress, depression or anxiety? (Remember, this can be from something small such as a classroom situation in grade school.)

Childhood
Relationship(s)
Death
Illness
Other

What causes you to be misaligned with your true Self and where do you avoid listening to your intuition?

Codependency
People Pleasing
Lack of Self Care
Too Busy/Avoidance
Bad Habits
Stuck in Old Belief Systems
Wrong Career, Relationships, Environment…

*If you have deep trauma work to do, energy work helps but you may need a licensed therapist. Please contact a therapist if you need help. I do have a few I can refer you to.

Use the following questions to explore some of the small steps you can commit to and begin to implement change:

What is one thing you can implement this week to:

Make time for Self Care.
Say “No” when you feel pressured to say “Yes”.
Add movement/get out in nature.

Pick one area to start working to improve nutrition:

More veggies.
Eliminate or cut back on gluten, dairy and/or sugar
Begin to remove processed/packaged/fast foods from diet.

Choose one thing to eliminate from food/environment that will lessen exposure to chemicals?

Start using cleaner laundry soap & fabric softener.
Remove and replace candles and scented items.
Eliminate processed/packaged foods.
Eliminate bad oils (vegetable, canola, etc). Use coconut or avocado instead.
Begin to replace perfumes, lotions & makeup/skin care products with cleaner versions.

Choose one thing you want to work on to eliminate excess noise or things that bring your energetic frequency down.

Exposure to Electromagnetic Frequencies.
Media (news, social media…).
Toxic people (people that are controlling or codependent, people that steal your energy or people that cause you to worry about their opinions).

What are you going to start doing that light’s you up?

Understanding your Human Design can help you with discovering causes to some physical symptoms.

Projectors

Projectors do not have a Defined Sacral Center, meaning that they don’t have the energy to work a typical 9-5 job without multiple breaks. Conditioning has caused all of us to fall into patterns of over working or over exerting energy but for Projectors, this misuse of energy will cause extreme fatigue and even depression. Adrenal fatigue can be a big issue for Projectors as they just don’t have the bandwidth to keep up with other Types. Rest for reset and quiet time are essential. They may tend to get sick more often when their energy is being misused.

Generators/Manifesting Generators

Generators and Manifesting Generators have Defined Sacral Center and therefore, the life force energy to accomplish a lot. The key for them is using all of that energy for doing things that light them up. When energy is used doing meaningless tasks and when they say “yes” to something just because they have that unlimited energy (or out of the need to be seen and accepted), they may struggle with fatigue and trouble sleeping at night. The other cause for sleep issues fro Generators & MG’s is not using enough physical energy each day. They are designed to use up all of their energy and fall asleep easily. They may experience burnout or chronic fatigue when energy is used incorrectly.

Manifestors

Manifestors are in their “not-self” when they feel anger. This anger may express itself in physical pain, chronic illness, liver issues or tension. This can affect blood pressure and can also cause crashes after big bursts of energy. Manifestors are designed to work hard as they are initiating a project or an idea and then pass the work on to Manifesting Generators or Generators and then rest until it’s time to initiate again. They are not designed to complete projects so when they push through or force something to completion, it can affect their physical body as this is a misuse of their energetics.

Reflectors

Because Reflectors have every Center open, they are extremely sensitive. When they use their energy incorrectly, they are subject to overstimulation, frequent illness (low immunity). They tend to be sensitive to a lot of noise and have more food sensitivities. They may be more sensitive to medications and supplements. Reflectors pick up so much energy that their symptom are sometimes inconsistent and they tend to suffer from more hormone fluctuations.

In addition to knowing how your Type functions, following your Strategy & Authority are important tools in knowing what to say “yes” or “no” to.

If you are ready to learn your Human Design or need a refresher, I offer monthly virtual “Aligned by Design” classes. I also offer 1:1 Human Design Chart Sessions for beginners or to dive deeper into your Profile, Gates (Gifts), Purpose, and more.