Real Food Wellness

11/03/2025

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11/03/2025

On the value of care for the Soul:

If you are reduced to behavioral traits in the DSM-5, faulty thoughts that need reprogramming, or insufficient balance in your neurochemistry, something of critical value might be missed.

James Hollis writes: " While all of these treatment modalities are significant and helpful, they seldom address the most profound need of the modern person, namely, to render one's journey meaningful."

In depth psychology, there is a value to our suffering, something that deepens us beyond just "being happy." When issues of the soul are not addressed, we are treading on the land of superficial treatment and symptom reduction. Even when symptoms are reduced, has something human-making come of it?

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11/01/2025

Happy post-Halloween!

And welcome to the holiday season.

I wanted to briefly address anyone thats feels eating sweets or treats are their "downfall."

If this is you, here's what I've noticed working with clients over the years:

The women that feel most frustrated about eating sugar around the holidays, often report eating it randomly or mindlessly throughout the day.

I want to remind you that it is morally neutral to eat sugar.

Sometimes a grounded relationship with food means relaxing about having candy sometimes. Really.

AND if you find yourself feeling frustrated or disempowered with more sweet treats available over the next eight weeks, (I get it, they're easy to overeat) try this: figure out what sounds good to you and plan it in for your dessert after your lunch or dinner. Assume you will want something sweet that's around and plan it into your meals. I know it might sound basic or unimpressive, but consciously planning in sweets helps a lot of women have a better overall relationship with food.

If you really want to avoid them at all costs, that's up to you to decide.

~ Nutrition, Eating Psychology, & Depth Psychology Counseling ~
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10/31/2025

What's your growth path?

Some women I work with grow by focusing on nutrition more because they, historically, have been a little neglectful about their health or diet. They focus on a goal and learn sustainable steps to get there.

And some of my eating psychology clients grow by learning its safe to stop obsessing about perfect eating. This means they learn to eat nutritionally well without any long-standing shame-driven patterns of control or rebellion with food.

Everyone has their own growth path.

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10/24/2025

The Basics: Eating well around other people/out in the world means you're able to:

-> stay connected to your own preferences and bodily needs

-> allow others to have their own preferences and bodily needs

-> accept that you are on your own path with eating and others are on their own paths too (and these do not have to look the same)

-> notice how different people and environments impact your eating

-> know how to adapt to different circumstances around food and other people (restaurants, vacation/travel, holidays, being around family, being around friends with food hang-ups, etc) that still leaves you feeling healthy and empowered

(something to think about as we approach the holiday season! - Laura)

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10/15/2025

Always dipping back into Marion Woodman's work in the Fall. Exceptionally good....

Jungian Analyst Talk About the Tension Between Spirit and Matter.Marion Woodman 1991. Marion Woodman (1928-2018) was a Canadian author, Jungian analyst, and ...

10/13/2025

Many women that are struggling with their body or their eating, deep down, are often struggling with perfectionism - of having to get it totally right. It's an inner polarization that causes a lot of problems.

The issue is, somewhere under the back and forth pattern of trying to be PERFECT and never living up to that ideal, the undercurrent is shame. Shame that how I feel and who I am at my core is not okay.

Imagine healing or dissolving the underlying shame (that you are you, and nothing has ever really been wrong with you). Imagine the larger implication for your life.

Remember, what seems like an eating problem or a body image problem is often a big psychological Invitation to redeem the feminine, the value of BEING, of FEELING, the value of one's own fullness and humanity.

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10/10/2025

from, Uses of the Erotic by Audre Lorde:

"There are many kinds of power, used and unused, acknowledged or otherwise. The erotic is a resource within each of us that lies in a deeply female and spiritual plane, firmly rooted in the power of our unexpressed or unrecognized feeling....

"For the erotic is not a question only of what we do; it is a question of how acutely and fully we can feel in the doing.
Once we know the extent to which we are capable of feeling that sense of satisfaction and completion, we can then observe which of our various life endeavors bring us closest to that fullness. The aim of each thing which we do is to make our lives and the lives of our children richer and more possible.

"Within the celebration of the erotic in all our endeavors, my work becomes a conscious decision a longed-for bed which I enter gratefully and from which I rise up empowered."

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10/09/2025

NEW CLASS: 3 Pillars to a Beautiful Relationship with Food. (Bridging nutritional science, eating psychology, and IFS therapy/parts work) Sunday, November 2nd at 1pm Eastern on ZOOM. Save your seat here:

Where Nutritional Science Meets Soul

10/07/2025

Underneath most unwanted eating habits or neurotic patterns around food, you’ll find legitimate emotional pain, suffering, or discomfort.

If you slow down and look at the longing or the metaphor…

Going to food makes sense.

Denying food makes sense.

Food is the Great Soother and Great Mother, whether we see the metaphor or not, we can often live out our ambivalence toward emotions and the need for love, soothing, and belonging through a conflicted, push/pull relationship with food and the body.

~ Nutrition, Eating Psychology, & Depth Psychology Counseling ~

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10/03/2025

Why space in life for journaling, painting, dream-tending, soul-tending matters. (When all the energy is often poured into the daily grind....)

["People] think that their security is in their house, their clothes, their job, or their money. Suddenly they can't find security in the these concrete objects. Where do you look for security if you have no INNER world? I mean, once you trust the inner world, it is solid because it gives you your authenticity.

"What I'm talking about is living your own life. You are an individual soul. You have a right to your own uniqueness..."

- Marion Woodman in Common Boundary, vol. 10, no. 4 (July/August 1992)

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