Have you ever heard of “the tipping point”—or what many call “the rain barrel effect”? 🌧️💧
Most of us have experienced small versions of this in everyday life…
You indulge at a big dinner—maybe too much sugar, flour, or fried food. You feel sluggish afterward, but you bounce back the next day. ✔️
You stay up way too late, have a couple of drinks, sleep terribly, and then drag yourself through the next morning—but once you get back to your routine, you feel normal again. ✔️
A single event doesn't break us.
But tiny things, done repeatedly, absolutely can.
🌡️ What Happens When You Do Small Things Every Day… for 365 Days?
One skipped night of sleep? Fine.
One processed meal? Not ideal, but recoverable.
One day without sunshine? Happens to all of us.
But what about when these become patterns?
That’s where the rain barrel effect comes in.
Here are the “little” things that quietly add up… day after day… year after year:
✨ Not enough red meat and protein
✨ Not enough sunshine
✨ Putting sleep at the bottom of your priority list
✨ A diet filled with seed oils, sugars, flour, and alcohol
None of these will destroy you overnight.
But stack them together, consistently, and your “rain barrel” fills drip… by drip… by drip.
And if you don’t counteract them with healing habits—sunshine, real food, restorative sleep, minerals, and nourishment—your rain barrel eventually overflows.
That overflow is what we feel as:
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Sudden burnout
Skin rashes (psoriasis, eczema, etc.)
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Mysterious symptoms
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Hormonal crashes
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Autoimmune flares
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Weight gain
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Mood changes
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“Falling off a cliff” physically
Except it wasn’t sudden.
It was cumulative.
It was the rain barrel.
💥 My Own Rain Barrel Overflowed: What I Learned the Hard Way
This is exactly what happened to me when I was vegan. 🌱
I thought I was being healthy. Truly, I did. Then I was diagnosed with four autoimmunes.
It is only in hindsight, I can see so clearly that my habits were slowly—quietly—breaking me down.
Here’s what my daily reality looked like:
❌ No red meat for years
❌ Tons of bread and carbs (which meant seed oils, sugars, and flour)
❌ Trying to feel full on foods that weren’t actually nourishing
I didn’t collapse overnight.
I declined little by little… until I hit what felt like a sudden crash.
I used to describe it as:
“My body just fell off a cliff.”
But now I know better:
It wasn’t a cliff.
It was a slow leak of vitality—one that went unnoticed until the barrel finally overflowed.
That overflow was my wake-up call.
It forced me to listen.
It pushed me to make changes.
It taught me to rebuild from the inside out.
And that’s why I’m so passionate about helping people recognize these patterns before they hit their tipping point. ❤️🩹
🌱 The Good News: You Can Empty Your Rain Barrel
Your body is always speaking.
Always guiding you.
Always telling you the truth.
And the miracle is:
Just as small daily stressors can break you down…
small daily healing habits can build you right back up. ☀️🥩😴💧
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Sunshine
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Real food
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Red meat and minerals
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Quality sleep
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Lowering hidden inflammatory triggers
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Restoring your nervous system
Lowering stress
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Giving your body what it has been deprived of for years
Drop by drop, you can empty your rain barrel.
Drop by drop, you can reclaim your health.
Drop by drop, you can rebuild a body that feels vibrant, strong, and alive again.
I’m living proof. 💛
