In today’s world, we are taught to diagnose, to medicate, and most subtly, we are quietly urged to ignore our own intuition. Healing became something outside of ourselves. An outsourced product: a prescription, a treatment, a waiting list. A system not necessarily built with our histories, families, or lived experiences at the center. One that sees symptoms and solutions instead of people and their stories. We are told to measure and manage, but not how to deliberately listen and be aware.
So we went backwards, to where we started, where we came from, to the wisdom of our ancestors.
The Broth Lab wasn’t created to romanticize the past, it was created because the present wasn’t working.
Returning to what our ancestors knew revealed something obvious yet forgotten: the body doesn’t malfunction, it speaks. Which meant we needed an approach that reconnected us to ourselves and our nervous systems instead of pathologizing them. Something that would honor the body and its wisdom.
Our ancestors had rituals, seasons, breath, movement, and community. They understood regulation (at least a certain kind) without necessarily needing to define it. They simply paid attention to what healed and what harmed.
So when modern medicine couldn’t offer what we needed, when it dismissed our underlying symptoms, minimized our experiences, and made us feel like we’re “crazy”... e returned to broth. A staple from our ancestors' kitchens. The wisdom of using the whole animal, simmering the bones slowly, transforming what remained into nourishment. A quiet alchemy that supported and cured the mind, body, and soul.
Broth is the clearest expression of such alchemy, food as medicine, nourishment as regulation, and nutrition as the foundation of our health, emotionally, physically, and spiritually. Remembering that we truly are what we eat. When our bodies don’t receive what they need, it shows up everywhere, in our health, mood, digestion, energy, and everything that encompasses our being.
The Broth Lab is our way of bringing this knowledge back to the forefront of our modern day practices. It is a reminder of what our bodies already knew, an invitation to relearn what was interrupted, and a way to heal in a language older than modern medicine.
