There was a time when I viewed every symptom as something to get rid of. If I wasn’t sleeping well, I wanted to sleep better. If I felt anxious, I wanted the anxiety to disappear. If my digestion felt off, I searched for the one thing that would fix it. Like many people, I spent years trying to silence my body instead of understanding it. One of the biggest shifts Ayurveda gave me wasn’t a herb, a treatment, or even a particular way of eating. It was a completely different re