Intuitive Eating

Dear Friend,

Are you eating to live and stay in alignment with a renewing wellbeing and ease?
Or are you living to eat serving compulsive behaviors and emotional cravings?
Or maybe you just withhold nutritional love from yourself altogether?

I was a compulsive eater, giving way to all my cravings, stuffing all my emotions and staying quite busy exercising and competing, socializing to a distraction  and working crazy corporate hours.

I never thought about what the food I was putting into my body was actually “doing”.  I was so bogged down and distracted in my unprocessed emotions, memory and trauma,  doing whatever I could to avoid them. Over a long period of time, I developed inflammation in my body that showed up in many aches and pains, stress, and then a persistent walking pneumonia that brought a halt to everything. That was a game changing diagnosis for me. It caused me to take a deep pause and reflection of myself - mentally, emotionally, physically and spiritually.

Food wasn’t my only bad habit, but it was a big part of my holistic picture. Becoming  conscious about my motivation to eat was one of my greatest acts of self-love and care. 

Fast forward 25 years. Now I consciously eat to live and experience a continuous flow of wellbeing and deepening connection to my inner beauty and higher self. My body knows exactly what it needs and I listen.  Priceless!  
There are a lot of - diet/ nutrition perspectives floating around,  offering to fix this and that. I tried some, especially during the times I had aches and pains or was exercising to compete. In some cases a fix occurred, often temporarily though. I’ve learned that my body’s needs change as often as I do. 

One perspective of eating doesn’t fit all!

Learning to eat intuitively and take full responsibility for my nutritional choices and overall wellbeing is what best serves my freedoms and fullest expressions.   Right now I’m on day 7 of the Medical Medium’s Liver Rescue 3:6:9 cleanse.  I like to cleanse with seasonal changes. This cleanse is easy on the system and allows me to eat nutritionally dense foods that restore and renew the liver, which was in need of some love. 🙏🏻
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Like I said , food is one part of self care and is integral to my mental, emotional and spiritual self-care.
Exercise, time in nature, SOMA breathwork, meditation, moon magic, journaling and sensual play are also ways to care for yourself and stay in alignment with wellbeing.💃

Pics: liver rescue spinach soup, salad, orange vinaigrette dressing and cleansing staple, asparagus. 

Embrace the Energy of 
Your Best Self
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