Aglaée Jacob, embodied eating coach

25/07/2025

My 3-year-old daughter is my greatest teacher when it comes to anger and boundaries and making her “NO” sacred.

Her anger, her frustration, her rage… she doesn’t repress them! 😉 She expresses them — and strongly.

It even shows up in her dreams. It seems like everything that could make her angry gets replayed in her subconscious while she sleeps, and she can wake up very angry and screaming several times a night.

Yet I assure you, we really listen to her and she has plenty of freedom and choices every single day!

Sometimes she wakes up in that space. Angry. Frustrated. In a bad mood. And I can’t blame her. Dreaming that others don’t listen to you or that you can’t do what you want — it sucks for anyone, and even more when you’re 3.

It can take her a while to get out of that frustration. And sometimes it creates frustration in me too, because I don’t want to start my day like that and I want to help her... but when she’s in that space, she often refuses everything.

So yes, of course, giving her space for her emotions is essential.

And also, finding ways to re---connect. To remind her that she’s not alone against the world. To remind her that she is loved and that it’s possible to feel her frustration and then choose to move on.

Because this day will never come again.
There’s only one today like today.

That’s how our morning ritual of saying good morning to everything around us started. So much so that we made it into a book.

“Good morning life!” is more than a book — it’s a ritual-book to reconnect to oneself, to others, and to life.

I illustrated it myself, even though I’m not an illustrator, because we don’t need to stop ourselves from doing things just because we lack a degree or some “official” talent. We can just do things simply. I hope that by creating these simple illustrations myself, I can give everyone permission to create because we can no longer afford not to create. We have to stop getting in our own way. We must create. Creating is life.

And the cherry on top is that my daughter colored the illustrations herself. Did it require a bit of letting go? Yes. But I believe it makes the book even more perfect. Perfectly imperfect.

If you’re interested, write to me and I’ll send you the Amazon link. I also have paper copies with me.
Thank you! And good morning and have a beautiful dy!

18/06/2025

Petal harvest for the 3 bouquetières aged 1.5-8 yo for our wedding and the peonies will be just perfect for my bouquet!

31/05/2025

I have never felt as exposed and as vulnerable as when my front neighbours came back home with their 3-yo and 1-yo to find my new (and very first!) children’s book my 10-yo left at their door with a little note.

It’s not just a book.

It’s my world view.

It’s my parenting.

It’s the fact that I decided to give myself permission to write AND illustrate the book even though I am no illustrator. And asking my 3-yo to colour it!

It’s me choosing that this book was worthy of being born.

It’s me reclaiming a new way of starting our days with our children, centered around connection instead of hurry.

So yes, as I saw them discover the book on their porch, I felt the same way I would have felt standing naked next to them. lol :)

Have you ever felt that way after sharing something you created?

And truly I think we should all do more of that. Not necessarily with a book, but simply show our true shining colours just a little more.

p.s. I also gave a copy of the 1st print to my mom and she said my parents and my mom texted me this week to tell me that my dad has just finished reading it and was feeling very proud. The little things are the big things.

p.s.2. message me or comment if you're interested in a copy! available in both English and French.

01/05/2025

over the past two months, i’ve stepped away from social media, with just a few brief check-ins. after more than 15 years online sharing my ideas and offering my services—even during my three postpartum periods (!!!)—i hadn’t realized how deeply certain patterns of thinking and doing had infiltrated my subconscious… and what a liberation it is to breathe and discover life without tying my visibility to my survival! thank you, life!

in march, i felt incredibly inspired by making sourdough bread, something i was already doing for my family. i hoped it could be the solution to not working online anymore, especially after seeing many examples of home-based micro-bakeries run by moms across the usa. i even had a name and everything (sacrément bon) and started shopping for equipment to increase my batches… but ultimately, it’s not possible to do this from a personal kitchen in québec where I live to meet regulatory standards… and i really wanted to create something within my current daily life, not “go to work” and rent a kitchen elsewhere as some suggested.

i was disappointed, but if you’ve ever seen one of the indiana jones movies, the stones showing him the way only appear one at a time. or maybe i’m thinking of a different movie—i’m not an expert in this area… but anyway, he has to step onto one stone, and then the next one is revealed, and so on. with trust. without knowing the how or the destination. one stone at a time.

and that’s what my bakery project was.

but for these “stepping stones” to appear, it requires a lot of humility (i know nothing), letting go (what i thought i knew, i no longer know… and in fact, all i know is that i know nothing), and trust (i am guided, and the universe has always supported me, even in moments when i felt so alone)…

… and more than anything, it requires creating s p a c e to listen, to listen to oneself, to listen to the body, to listen to feelings, to listen to sensations…

during a recent embodiment practice, i went to explore what was hidden in my heart, what my soul most wanted to live and feel in this life.

of course, i hoped to have a clear plan with a path from a to z and each step to get there laid out in black and white… aren’t we adorable wanting to know everything in advance? life would be so boring, and it would change our path anyway, right?

the rest of the text here: https://open.substack.com/pub/sagessecorporelle/p/starting-my-micro-bakery-leaving?r=ooxxn&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web

16/04/2025

The Medicine Woman Game: So My Daughters Never Forget (Meeting Your Own Inner Medicine)

“Maman, I want to play doctor. This is a hospital,” says my 3-year-old daughter, who has never seen a doctor in her whole life.

I feel a contraction in my body.

the whole article here: https://sagessecorporelle.substack.com/p/the-medicine-woman-game-so-my-daughters

28/03/2025

How are you?

Short answer: Pretty good. Feeling like I'm in a muddy yet very rich season of my life.

Long answer:

an exploration of the void between two eclipses, where everything dies to be reborn anew.

26/01/2025

Hi beautiful soul! I haven't been on here for a while but I'm back from having had a couple of babies pretty close together and having unlocked whole new levels of body wisdom... and I'm so excited to guide other women to unlock more of these codes within themselves. Reach out with questions and apply here (limited spots): aglaeejacob.com/mentorship

The Body Wisdom Activation Mentorship is a transformative 3-month journey designed to help you re---connect with your body’s innate intelligence, release self-sabotaging patterns, and embody a life of health, vitality, and alignment.

31/01/2024

what is self-love for you? 💗

if 10 of you write CIRCLE , I'd live to hold an inlinge gathering on the theme of self-live for women! 🙏😊

08/01/2024

Re-connecting with my body has been the most challenging (and continues to be) and most beautiful and sacred path I ever walked on. Are you walking it too? 🗝️✨🧬💗🌹

07/01/2024

Sometimes it feels like a big sigh to me to remember that there's nothing to do... just letting fall away what isn't true. 🙏💗🧬🗝️🌹✨✨

20/12/2023

Si tu parles français, viens ici Aglaée Jacob!!!

02/12/2023

They make us fear our own body.

Either so we make it a constant self-improvement project or so that we "leave the building". A mix of both as was the case for me for 2 decades.

NO BODY escapes this, unless you live in the woods all of your life.

FEAR is the most poweful way to CONTROL.

❌ Fear of being fat / gaining weight
❌ Fear of wrinkles and "aging" signs
❌ Fear of symptoms
❌ Fear of hunger and cravings and fullness
❌ Fear of feeling

Fear keeps us looking outside of us.

Fear keeps thinking that someone else knows better.

Fear has us hoping that something outside of us will save us.

Fear that keeps us in our head listening to the internalized voices of fear.

Fear that keeps us dis-connected from the little voice of our intuition until the whispers disappear. 😔

By fearing our own body, we become good customers to the big industries selling us all kind of things promising to help us manage these fears. That's not how it is presented of course. So much happens subconsciously... but that's the mechanics under the hood of ALL of it. Fear is the grease that keeps the wheel turning.

I feared my own body since i was a teenager, which is common for many girls. Our body changes so fast at that age and it feels out of control and can make us feel unsafe. It's all subconscious of course. You probably understand if you're still reading.

And if fear is the most powerful way to control us and take our power away...
.. re-connecting is the solution!

Re-connecting is the way back home.

Re-connecting is how we take our power back.

Re-connecting is the most powerful thing we can do, especially as women.

It changes lives.

It changed mine:

🌸 My health: bye-bye gut issues + PCOS. I feel more vibrant and healthier every year even at 40!

🌿 My energy: no more treating my body like a machine and the ability to tap into my inner life force anytime I need it!

✨ My intuition: more ease in receiving the messages and more trust to act on them!

Are you ready to embark on this ultimate body & soul journey?

"re-connect", a 3-workshop series, is 50% off for a few more days! Embodiment practices. Recorded. Lifetime access. aglaeejacob.com/reconnect