Reflections: Can we be Born in the Wrong Body Really?

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"A surreal, symbolic representation of a person gazing into a mirror, but the reflection doesn’t match — suggesting internal conflict, dissociation, or a fractured sense of identity. The figure may appear androgynous or blurred in form, with elements like shifting shadows, layered faces, or a body made of mismatched parts. The setting is minimal or dreamlike — evoking themes of being 'born in the wrong body,' self-perception, and transformation."
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First published 15/3/23 – Last updated 26/6/25

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Can we be Born in the Wrong Body Really? by Natacha Neveu for TheSortingHouse

Born in the Wrong Body? Embracing Our Self on the Path to Acceptance

Is it possible to be born in the wrong body? Or is this a reflection of something deeper: a society that’s become increasingly detached from nature, truth, and organic creation?

Cartoon animation illustrating two women discussing that they feel everyone is sad and blaming it on the moon, but the moon replies that it is actually those who have unresolved issues that need to work on them, such as asking can we be born in the wrong body.
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The Only Body We’ll Ever Know

Our body is the only body we have. How can we be born in the wrong body?

We were born into the physical awareness of ‘I’ with only this body.

I’m of the opinion then, that it’s impossible for us ever to find ourselves living in the “wrong” body. To suggest or enable this amongst us is pure madness. A confusion born of having nothing more worthwhile to concern oneself with. An obsession with self that is all consuming. A normalisation of distortion only possible in a synthetic world so far detached from our animal nature as part of a coherent, natural whole.

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Nature’s Beauty Poem: We Know Where We Belong

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A person dancing under a stormy sky illustrating the contrasts and power in nature's beauty poem. Photo de Craig Whitehead sur Unsplash.
Reading Time: 3 minutes

First published 18/11/21 – Last updated 18/6/25

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Nature’s Beauty Poem: We Know Where We Belong by Natacha Neveu for TheSortingHouse

Here’s a raw, reverent ode to our savage nature. A poem about nature’s beauty, an offering from the wild, undomesticated being that still lives inside of a materially crafted us. It comes from the place that remembers natural instinct, organic rhythm, and what’s real beneath all the synthetic noise.

It’s a thank you to the cosmic mother; our earth, origin, source, and a nod to anyone who feels that pull to return to something honest, something told of in tales of old. Inspired by the art of strong women and the men shaped by them. This adoring nature’s beauty poem moves through elemental archetypes and paradoxes; fire and water, air and earth, gentleness and ferocity, destruction and rebirth.

Think of it as a reminder, a call to come back to yourself regardless of what is happening.
When we drift too far into the numbness of modern life, our bones still know the way home.
Our breath still remembers the trees.
Our hearts still move with the tides.
To honour what’s fierce and gentle, messy and sacred.
To find rhythm again, to rest in between, and to remember what it feels like to belong to our earth’s song.

A close up shot of moss, ivy and ferns on the forest floor. The dappled sunlight is highlighting the plants, a perfect symphony in nature's beauty poem.

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How To Make Homemade Tibicos Fruit Kefir

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Home surface showing different dried and fermented items in diffused light, showing that homemade tibicos fruit kefir is attainable by all.
Reading Time: 7 minutes

First published 10/6/25 – Last updated 27/6/25

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Homemade Tibicos Fruit Kefir Recipe by Natacha Neveu for TheSortingHouse

How To Make Homemade Tibicos Fruit Kefir

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Learn how to make homemade tibicos fruit kefir the simple way, no experience needed. Whatever you call it: Tibicos Kefir, Fruit Kefir or Water Kefir, your inner microbiome (and your parched taste buds) will thank you.

Probiotics don’t have to come out of a lab, carbonation doesn’t have to come out of canisters and homemade fermentation doesn’t have to be complicated.

Homemade tibicos fruit kefir AKA living water kefir is an ancestral, refreshing, nourishing and gut-loving probiotic drink you can easily make yourself. Thus bypassing industrial processes, undisclosed “natural flavourings” and gut microbe-destroying chemicals or pasteurisation.

Consequently with just quality filtered water, organic untreated lemon, a couple of dried figs (still organic obvs), and some tibicos kefir grains, you can brew a naturally fizzy, fruity water kefir.

A fermentation vessel with lemons sat in a dark home garden setting.
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Does Perfection Exist? An Exploration of Reality

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First published 27/4/2020 – Last updated 03/6/25

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Does Perfection Exist by Natacha Neveu for TheSortingHouse

“Does Perfection Really Exist?”

If you’ve been feeling uneasy about the state of the world, you’re not alone.

What if that discomfort is not a problem, but an invitation? An invitation to look inward and awaken the transformative power that lies dormant within.

The change we want and need. It’s already here for those that choose it. All that remains is to act consciously with inherent perfection.

Does perfection exist in nature at sunset, a lovely golden hour view of pine trees amongst a wild, open expanse of hilly, rocky nature landscape.
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Awakening in a World of Discomfort

Know that this state of disarray is meant to be, it cannot be otherwise. No amount of worrying, denying, or avoiding will change what must be healed from within.

Only conscious action aligned with inner truth can create meaningful, sustainable change outside of ourselves.

Respecting that each is on their own path, their own timeline, can also help when times get rough.

As babies we arrive as pure energy, whole loving souls into this material matrix that we navigate with our physical bodies over the years. Although some get through without too much of a scratch, most are broken down into a “reality” ripe for manipulation either covertly or overtly.

Regardless of what has happened to a soul during this experience, we must each break the loops and heal our hearts from the carnage of these traumas and internal conflicts.

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How To: Easy Homemade Magnesium Spray Recipe

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Dark glass spray bottle labeled 'Homemade Magnesium Spray' on a cozy home counter with salt flakes in a ceramic dish – natural DIY skincare recipe setting.
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Curious About Topical Magnesium or Already a Believer?

If you’re intrigued by the benefits of magnesium oil spray or simply want to see what the fuss is about, you don’t need to spend a fortune on boutique bottles. With just two simple ingredients, you can make your own homemade magnesium spray in minutes, quickly, easily, and affordably.

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Women Empowerment Poem: If the Ocean Was a Woman

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Wild ocean horizon seen through a dark rock opening, symbolizing feminine strength, mystery, and nature’s power.
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First published 11/2/2022 – Last edited 30/4/2025

Wild Woman Poetry

In this evocative wild women empowerment poem, the ocean becomes a mirror for feminine strength, accepting inevitable aging with grace, and the raw, untamed beauty of our female spirit.

Explore how the tides and cycles of nature echo the journeys through the feminine.

At once deep and shallow, our energies oscillate through time and challenges gaining wisdom, and relearning about our inherent wild woman underneath it all.

Wild Woman Poem

If the Ocean was a Woman

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Is Weather Manipulation Real? Are Our Skies Being Engineered?

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Sky with clouds and airplane trail, illustrating concerns about weather manipulation and geoengineering
Reading Time: 7 minutes

First published 14/12/2020 – Last edited 10/6/2025

Real clouds are becoming a rare sight in our increasingly engineered skies.

When will more people start to appreciate the value in observing what is actually happening around us (and therefore to us)?

When will the epidemic of individual thought erupt?

A pandemonium of pondering what something could actually mean on a personal and collective level with open discussion.

Rather than just blindly buying into what is being claimed sensationally, or enforced arrogantly by often misaligned and ignorant others regardless of the “sides”?

What’s Happening to Our Skies? The Decline of Natural Clouds

Sure, we could go as far as pondering the concept of what is real and what isn’t?

However, for the purpose of this post, let’s content ourselves to establishing that I’m talking about “real” clouds as they appeared in our childhood prior to the 2000s.

You know, the clouds of our memories, the ones we were told are naturally generated by the regular heating and cooling water cycle of our planet… as opposed to the chemically induced or manipulated phenomena I think we witness much more of in our skies nowadays.

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The Environmental Impact of Cigarette Filters: Mind Your Butts

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Used cigarette butt lying on coarse pebble sand at the beach, highlighting plastic pollution and the The Environmental Impact of Cigarette Filters.
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First published 26/8/2019 – Last edited 06/5/2025

Cigarette Filters and the Hidden Cost of Littering on Our Environment

When most people think of litter, plastic bottles or food wrappers often come to mind. Yet there’s one type of waste that is arguably more toxic, smaller and basically hiding in plain sight. We’re talking about cigarette filters, a severely under-estimated and massive contributor to plastic pollution and ecosystem damage.

Every year, billions of cigarette butts are dropped on streets, beaches, and parks. They may be small, but the environmental footprint is anything but. In fact, cigarette filters are the most littered item in the world, and they’re wreaking havoc on soil, waterways, and marine life.

The Environmental Impact of Cigarette Filters: What Are Cig Butts Really Made Of?

It’s easy to assume the soft white interior of a cigarette filter is cotton and biodegradable. In reality, it’s cellulose acetate, a type of plastic made from wood pulp but highly chemically processed into a form that’s tough and slow to degrade like all other plastic.

Unlike paper or cotton, this material can take years, sometimes a decade or more to break down.

And even as it does, it doesn’t ever vanish. Instead, it breaks into tiny plastic fragments, microplastics and nanoplastics, that settle into the environment and enter our food chain.

The total impact of discarded cigarette filters on our health and environment is mind-blowing.

Once cigarette filters have filtered toxic cigarette smoke the cigarette butts are themselves full of these toxins, much like the smokers that have discarded them.

The known carcinogens of cigarette butts then leach from the cigarette filter into the ground and waterways. Damaging living organisms and the organic ecosystems that come into contact with them; such as fish, birds and insects.

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