Diets and nutrition programs profess to be the cure-all for everyone. But how can this be when we are so incredibly different? Even though no one can really tell us ‘what’ to eat exactly, here are a few guidelines for ‘how’ to eat. If your digestion is not causing you to suffer in any way, then you don’t necessarily need to shift anything…
We Are What We Eat. Be Your Own Medicine with Food as Medicine Consultations
Food is our medicine. Our food choices can be medicine that is working for us, or it can be working against us. The kicker is having the tools to know the difference. When we have the tools to know, and make choices based on the knowing, then we get to be in a really groovy place with what we eat. I offer Food as Medicine consultations to help you uncover your own unique tools so your relationship with food becomes an empowering, healing and joyful aspect of your life.
Food as Medicine consultations can work in cahoots with your treatments or be a separate experience all together. The underlying foundation of the work I do is that there is no "one way" that works for everyone. Our journey of discovery is successful and sustainable because it is focused on the unique you; what works for your body, what works in your life, what proves to be enjoyable for you.
There is so much information out there about what is 'good' for us and what is 'bad' for us. It can be challenging to weed through all the diets and supplements, and rules, and programs. My feeling is that 'diets' and 'programs' don't work for everyone, they are too generalized and too rigid, and not custom fit for the individual. We all have very unique digestive systems. We all have very distinct preferences. We all have varying amounts of time available to buy, prepare, and cook our meals. Like every other form of therapy I utilize, food therapy is the same in that it has to be custom fit. Food as Medicine consultations are brilliant, because they rise up and meet your unique self and body needs.
“Food is the number one infatuation of the western world. We have an abundance of choices. This is a gift. We have the privilege of being picky. We have the privilege of making choices that are right for our bodies. We have the privilege of putting together unique ways of operating around food that are enjoyable and doable for us. The enjoyment is how we rise up and meet the gift. ”
There are 'many reasons' why we do not enjoy our relationship with food. There are many reasons why we don't feel nourished by what we eat. There are many reasons why we don't take responsibility for our choices around food. There are many reasons why we have acute or chronic digestive ailments.
The 'many reasons' are rooted in one or more of the following:
We are not listening to the intelligence of our bodies.
We are following rules that do not apply to us.
We have lost interest in the sourcing, growing, preparing, cooking relationships with our food.
We have wrapped our choices up so tight around weight management that we don't see another way.
We are overwhelmed with the amount of information about food and diets and programs that we just give up.
We have forgotten that we are the one that knows the most about our own body, we are our own expert.
The importance of pulling these out one by one by their tap root, weeding out the 'many reasons' for dysfunction is paramount to the Food as Medicine journey.
A consultation can be a one time stand alone meeting to discuss direction and choices. A consultation can be a year long journey together; a possible combination of treatments, classes, and one-on-one consults all with the specific purpose of supporting your body's healing and your goals for thriving.
Consultation design and timing is based on diagnostic findings and your personal desires and goals; how much you want to learn, and how much you already know, how deeply you want to move into and shift your relationship with food. You tell me what you want and I rise up to meet that with a custom designed curriculum, with the intelligence of Eastern Medicine and Western Nutrition and food therapy, with mindfulness and body awareness techniques and ways to 'check in' when making choices, with clearing and cleansing, planning, shopping, preparing foods, even growing if you want to go that deep.
This process is an distinct opportunity to leave habits, discomfort, digestive disorders, old stories, and ways of relating to food behind and move into an incredible relationship with gratitude and enjoyment of your Food as Medicine.
