I’ve long talked about the importance of imbuing our food with conscious energy. We imbue our food no matter what, but if you direct this energy when you are conscious of what you’re imbuing it with the results become an eating experience that can nourish you far deeper than when you eat quickly and unconsciously […]
Feeding Your Relationship With The Medicine Of Chili
Jon and I just got back to our family cabin in Idyllwild, California this week after 3 months of travel. And it was 3 months of fast travel as opposed to slow travel which is what we tend to either aspire to or do. This means that we didn’t stay in any one place longer […]
Fried Eggs And Rice, My Long Passed Father + Comfort Food
I love fried eggs and rice. Two eggs over hard with a bit of accessory crunch, white rice and on occasion, depending on how the rice was made (moist or dry) a small sliver of butter melting on top. It is my most favorite comfort food passed down to me by my father, who would […]
The Thread of Healing In The Food Of Our Familial Ties
As many of you know, my mother has Alzheimer’s and we have been in the process of taking care of all the things a life contains and needs attending to when you begin to loose the capacity to manage them. My mother can no longer live alone. But it’s also time for my brother, who […]
Dear Human Who Eats (A Meditation On Questions About Love) A Valentine From Me To You
Dearest Human Who Eats… And Is Love, What if you just Loved yourself? Like, the kind of ‘Love yourself‘ where when you come to mind, there is the warmth of an internal self hug that leaves you with a spring in your step. The kind of Love that leaves no room for shame or judgment […]
When The Insatiable Hunger And Craving Has Nothing To Do With Food
Throughout my life I have had moments of overeating to stuff back feelings. Discomfort, pain, grief that might have seemed much to large to deal with, always seemed quieter when I ate more than I needed to. I think it’s like this for many of us. We comfort ourselves with food in order to quiet […]
5 Food Books To Read This Year
I’m constantly in a state of glee over how many great food books are published each year. Though admittedly, it also causes me great anxiety because I want to read all. the. books, but can’t quite find the time for it. This year, 2016, my goal is to read 2 books a month for a […]
The Problem With Turning Food Into Numbers: Weight Watchers, Oprah and The Separation Of Life From Wellness
We have all witnessed a lot of talk in the last few months about Oprah’s involvement with Weight Watchers. There are those in the excitement camp, feeling that this will be a new burst of energy and popularity in the business that had been seeing a decline in popularity and those that are shocked that […]
A Winter Blessing On Solstice From Me To You
A Winter Blessing For You I wish for you to feel the warm soft shroud of Winter’s cool darkness, no matter what climate you might be living in currently. That this shroud be a sense of internal safety, a call home to that place within you that has always been there. Safe, strong, healing and […]