Sarah Botman, RMT

🧬 Your Body's Hidden Hero: Mucus! 💧

Every day, your body produces around one liter of mucus. While it might seem gross, this slimy substance is actually a crucial part of your immune system.

🧠 Here’s how it protects you:

Traps invaders: Mucus acts like sticky flypaper, catching dust, allergens, bacteria, & viruses before they can reach your lungs or bloodstream.

Neutralizes threats: The enzymes & antibodies in mucus help break down & destroy pathogens.

Keeps tissues healthy: It keeps your airways & digestive tract moist, preventing tiny cracks where germs could sneak in.

Self-cleaning system: Most of it gets swallowed and destroyed by stomach acid! Gross, but genius!

Just like your body’s mucus shields you from harm, there are people around the world working tirelessly to protect others from unimaginable amounts of suffering. 🌍

Humanitarian groups, like volunteer flotillas are risking danger to deliver essential aid like food and medicine to civilians in Gaza, where access to supplies has been critically limited & denied! Their work reminds us that, on every scale.. from microscopic defenses to global acts of compassion... protection & care matter. Oh, & Free Palestine. 🍉

🩷 New Moon in Leo + National Self-Care Day

Self-care wasn’t always sheet masks and bubble baths. It started as an act of revolution... a radical reclaiming of worth, rest, and healing in the face of systems designed to exhaust and erase.

Today, self-care is still revolutionary.. but not in the “buy more, fix yourself” way it’s been sold to us. Real self-care is about connection: to our bodies, our spirits, and our communities. It's how we tend to our inner fire so we can shine brighter and show up more fully... not just for ourselves, but for a world that desperately needs healing.

As a cis white woman living in relative safety, I know self-care cannot be isolated from justice. This industry often sells comfort without acknowledging the harm or privilege behind it. We can — and must — do better.

Let this New Moon be a portal: into deeper awareness, radical softness, and a commitment to care that reaches beyond the self.