Nourish: Food and Eating self-paced course
Less rules, more awareness. Less control, more kindness and compassion.
If eating has become a place of shame, rules, or trying to control everything, you're not alone, and you're in the right place. Most of us carry something around food. A list of good and bad foods, a set of rules we never chose, or shame that follows us to the table whatever our size or history. This course is a gentle place to set some of that down.
What I offer here meets you where you are, when food feels full of rules and you're tired of the harsh voice around eating and your body. My hope is that you come to feel more ease around food, and more at home with yourself.
This is not a diet, not a set of rules, nutritional guidance, not one more thing that we're doing wrong or that we need to live up to. This is a place to gently set some of that down. Safety is the ground for nourishing ourselves.
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Safety is the ground for nourishing ourselves. When we're stressed or rushing, our body can't digest well, and it's hard to feel at ease with food. We start there, in our body, and we go slowly. Across nine lessons we move from understanding how stress gets in our way, into simple practices for pausing before a meal, through the harder territory of shame and the inner critic, and out toward comfort and ease.
We work gently, and there's never any pressure to change a thing. Our relationship with food, eating and our body is built up over a whole lifetime, and we can take our time unwinding it with compassion.
For a long time I carried beliefs about myself that shaped how I lived, including how I ate. Like many people, I didn't always notice how much they were running in the background. When I began meditating, I started to see how much I was suffering through harsh, critical thoughts. What changed everything was letting go of shame and learning to meet myself with kindness.
I live in a larger body, and I know that shift is possible around food and eating. I've worked with people who struggled with shame and control around food, and with others who were becoming aware of how their thoughts shaped their eating. We're not broken. We learned to cope the best way we could, and now we can move into something new.