Ask the Health Counselor

What I ate today:

Breakfast:
16 ounces of green juice with red chard, apples, ginger root and parsley

Snack:
8 Brazil nuts

Lunch:
salad with romaine, purple cabbage, carrot, daikon, sprouts, 1/2 avocado and cuke with dulse, nutritional yeast, olive oil and Herbamare

Dinner:
6 'Foods Alive Italian Zest' flax crackers
25 ounce smoothie with frozen blueberries, 1 banana and a tablespoon of raw honey

What one question about your food, your body or your health keeps coming up unanswered for you? Starting tonight for one week, I will be answering any and all questions you might have. Please write in by clicking on the word "comments" below. If you do not have a Google account, it takes one minute to create one for free. I will answer every question that comes my way, so if you do send one to me, please follow up the next day by clicking on "comments" for the same blog entry to read my response.

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

What have I noticed in all my years of counseling people with food and their bodies?
That everyone still follows the model out there: Learn the nutrition part; make the changes; lose weight; let go of disease; feel better.
OK, so how come so many come to me still not feeling better and feeling locked up inside with something deeper making them sad about all these changes?
I know so clearly that the new paradigm for our highest health is to go underneath the underneath, and deconstruct our early "relationship" with food and our bodies. Then we can create a new one that supports the nutritional changes we would like to make. How do we do this?

If you understand that food is your most intimate relationship; your life partner; the primary relationship from which all others develop, which of these expressions would describe your personal relationship with food and with your body:

Loving; Warm; Nurturing; Frustrating; Emotional; Ecstatic; Joyful; Weighty; Sad; Depressing; Anxious; Angry; Easy; Stressful


Would you like to have an intimate, blissful, loving, ecstatic, healthy and nurturing relationship with food and your body?

Please email me your thoughts on this....

Next week, I'll be starting my fall teleclasses, which are all about this conversation. If this speaks to you, then let me know and I can tell you more.
"Courageous Eating: Creating a Divine Relationship with Your Food, Your Body and Your Health."
This is my commitment to you.

"It's a New Day; It's a New Age": The Holistic Empire is stepping up and bringing you along! I want to thank my former partner Alan Berger for co-creating this Empire with me; everything in our intention was pure and full of love for humanity. I am so blessed to have shared that vision with another, in all its ecstasy, and now I bless Alan in all his present magical endeavors and commitments to the children of this world and to people of all cultures, as I know he blesses me in mine. We are all one. So, enjoy reading our earlier posts, as they came from high-level health and supreme love. Feel free to comment on those, too, as there's lots of "food for thought" in them.



So, as I look back on 3 years of being a raw foodist, and numerous years as a Health Counselor, what strikes me most in observing all humanity in our quest for health is really what brought me to this field all those years ago: People are suffering with their relationship to food! It's the emotional component that overrides everything else. Food, our most intimate partner, brings us pain and suffering. We can always talk about alkalizing our bodies, getting off of medications, eating raw or vegan or macro and on and on, but the piece that is most missing is a sense of freedom, peace and joy in our relationship with our food. Who loves their body???? I mean Really, Really loves their body and shows it??? Who only has a positive conversation running through their head when they pick up a piece of food that might not be on their daily food plan?? Please, please write me and let me know if you are one of those people, as my personal and professional experience has me put the number of you that might fall into that category in the single digits, if at all.

At a party last Saturday night, around the dessert table, I watched four women with a mixture of bodies, from slender to medium, all help themselves to the cakes while saying out loud, "I was positive I had decided I would not be eating dessert tonight. I really shouldn't be doing this." I want to ask you, readers, what message do you think we are offering our bodies, and ultimately our cells when we recite this mantra over food every single day? Give up? (please comment back)...I'll give you a hint: We not only digest our food, we digest the way in which we communicate our food to our bodies; "shouldn't, don't, bad, guilty, fat, wrong." This is the language with which we digest our food, and this is what get digested and assimilated into our cells.

Please comment back with your thoughts, as I am on a mission to teach you how to relate to your food like you would relate to and partner with your most intimate relationship. Imagine if food were your lover; your husband; your girlfriend, your spouse? How would you treat your relationship??