The One Thing You Must Have to Be Successful in this Journey.

"You don't have to go this alone."

It's a lesson that keeps coming up for me. I'm a fiercely independent person, so looking for a community of support wasn't at the top of my list. In the beginning, I struggled.

A few years ago I started questioning the food I was eating, which turned into questioning the products I used around my home, which turned into questioning the medical care I was receiving, and the medical care I was seeking for my dog, which led me to question the medical care I would seek out for my future kids. I spent so much time researching because a pull on "this thread," made "every other piece of fabric" start to fray.

But I wasn't raised to question things. In fact, maybe it's a Midwestern kind of trust, but no one around me was questioning anything besides my two supervisors at the time. So the three of us would compare notes, but we all shared this feeling of, "We are the weird ones. Are WE truly crazy?" We all felt it. Soon this journey led me to a beautiful woman in Wisconsin, and a Veterinarian who were well ahead of me on this natural path and gave me great comfort that I wasn't crazy. I had just been the subject of many millions of marketing dollars and I had unknowingly, blindly believed it all.

But as time went on, I moved on from that job and that Veterinarian started limiting his client load, and I drifted away from that support group, as shoe-string as it was. And then I had no one. So when that familiar doubt started to creep back in, I started to believe it. I started to believe that I was doing all these extra steps for no reason and the extra money wasn't worth it.

I stumbled. I started believing that natural products made no difference in our lives. I started seeing how much easier it is to just go with the flow, and not question things. And easier looked so much better at the time! "Why did I have to choose the more difficult path? Who am I to stand up and run counter-current to mainstream opinions? What do I know? Take the easier path, Megan. Stop swimming upstream. Maybe your dreams were meant for someone else. You're crazy to think you could have done it. This journey is for other people, not you. No one cares, so why should I?" Pretty bleak, huh? But that is where one's mind will lead you if you let it.

That voice in me that I was making quieter and quieter reminded me to go back and look at why I started this journey in the first place. Because truthfully, I knew in my soul, that I'm not "ignorant" as folks would like to call me. In fact, I have probably done 10s of hours of research more than these folks that were calling me that. Also, science isn't the end all answer for everything. Shocking statements to me at first, but even in my Master's Program we are learning it more and more. Quite frankly we give science more credit than it is able to provide to us at the moment.

In one last ditch effort, I decided that I would join a tribe and if I still believed I was crazy and all this was for nothing, then I would leave it behind and go on with my way. Since we are here on a blog called, Homegrown, you can likely guess what I found.

What I found were people who questioned things like me, who came to the same conclusions as me (even though we had very differing backgrounds). These folks even questioned my assumptions, and caused me to re-think what I believed. I found remarkable evidence of healing that were so evident, even my doubting brain couldn't find question in them.

A tribe, a community, a system of support is everything in this journey. When you start to doubt yourself, they are here to pick you back up. To remind you what you know to be true, even when you aren't getting any reaffirmation in the rest of your life. That group that you can go to to ask, "Am I crazy?" and get a truthful answer. To have a safe place to land in your questioning. To help offer advice when you are stuck. To offer new solutions when it looks like there is none.

To stop you from flapping in the wind all by yourself, where the wind is all your doubts or the doubts of those around you. A community that helps you research your questions, by pointing you in the right direction. That group that thinks outside just what has been marketed to them as the "truth." A tribe that helps you cut through all the noise to find real answers, real solutions, and real hope in a time when we can all use a little more kindness, understanding, and security!

It's my mission to grow this tribe to help support each and everyone of us. To be that safe place to land when you start questioning things around you and you start to feel like, "maybe this is all for nothing." A place where your future self will thank you from joining, as you live a healthier, more abundant, more satisfying life.

So welcome to our Tribe. We are so glad you are here!