Wondering where everyone is and is anyone looking at their relationship with food???? Please tell me you are out there; I want to hear one voice. I know you exist. When you eat, your mind plays tricks with you that take you away from the loving kindness food is to your body. Instead, you fear it is the enemy and you enter into battle with each meal. But the only one who gets wounded is you. You are the one who struggles with living in this cycle everyday, wishing and wishing it would finally stop.
Did I tell you that I once weighed 220 pounds? That was when my weight wasn't going up and down every other day. I even remember feeling completely resigned to it never changing; never.
I couldn't allow myself to even appreciate my worth or beauty. My lover Food and I were in such a conflicted relationship; one day up, the next down.
Today my relationship with food is ecstatic. I do not exaggerate. I dance with food; from preparation to ingestion, this relationship is loving and intimate. Food honors me and in return, I choose foods that nourish my soul.
When I eat, I offer gratitude for each aspect of my food.
Tonight, I offer compassion and an open ear for those of you who struggle...I hope you come forth to share your story with me.
HolisticGirl

Courageous Eating: Creating a Divine Relationship with Your Food, Your Body and Your Health

Only a couple of days until we start our teleclasses again. When I held Courageous Eating this summer, those of us in the class were able to uncover major childhood scenarios and conditioned belief systems that contributed to our present struggles in treating our bodies with self-love and eating in a way that both offers us joy and health consistently. Our relationship with food can go back to the way our parents and siblings interacted with us around the dinner table: If we were not properly protected, allowed to be heard, listened to, embraced and encouraged to be magnificent, and this also played out at mealtime (our daily and life-sustaining ritual of feeding ourselves properly), then we learned at a young age that food was: Scary; anxiety-producing; something we could control when we could not control the words and actions of those closest to us. We could also treat ourselves poorly with food because that is the message we got; that we didn't deserve to be great. Food became a personality; our primary relationship; the one that took on the character traits of our other primary relationships. In order to shift this relationship with food, we need to deconstruct the old belief sytem and reconstruct one that holds food as our most intimate lover. How would you like your relationship with your most intimate lover to be?
I love the teleclass format: It enables participants to share freely without monitoring other people's physical responses. It's actually an amazing way to create intimacy and bonding without our egos, or "monkey minds," getting involved and making up stories. There is a real freedom of expression in hearing others share from their hearts and support each other fully without interpreting body language.
Tuesday night from 8:00 - 9:00 PM begins: Courageous Eating part I; Creating a Divine Relationship with Our Food, Our Bodies and Our Health. It's a 4 week series that takes place via dial-in conference call. Tuesdays for Women; Thursdays for Men.
Then on Wednesday night we start: Courageous Eating Part II; Food, Fitness & Focus, where we put concrete pratices into place on eating in a way that supports our mood and our health and integrating physical exercise into it. If you want to come on board, you can email me at theholisticempire@yahoo.com
In Health & Bliss,
HolisticGirl