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Food Freedom Fundamentals is open for enrolment ✨🍋🌞

How do we know that food is more than just nutrition? Well there's a few ways but a big one is that eating enough calories doesn't necessarily mean that someone won't binge eat. We can still be restricting even if we are eating enough calories. Food satisfaction is so important and is vital to our relationship with food and overall health. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀

I'm not sure how i feel about raising awareness of things like food insecurity and food justice. I believe that these topics need to be at the centre of our food and nutrition related conversations. With no one ensuring the accuracy of the content that gets shared we frequently see harmful myths getting more traction than the truth. A lot of the conversations about food accessibility and food insecurity don't centre the people who actually experience them and these conversations often don't mention things like capitalism, the food industry prioritising profit, and racisms connection to food. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀

I want to feel at peace, spacious, at home, rested, nourished, energised, strong, and relaxed. I believe that many of us attempt to change our appearance to try and shift some discomfort we might be feeling on the inside. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀

Feeling connected to your body will look different for everyone. Some people find listening to sensations in the body to be connection, others may not have access to these internal cues and may find more connection via their senses or through movement. I find connection through the sensory experience of food, finding ways to offer myself more compassion, grace and gentle care. For me, its about finding ways to not be at war with myself anymore, not starving myself in multiple ways, allowing myself to take up space. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀

The great @thenapministry once wrote "How will you be useless to capitalism today?" and ever since i have tried to find ways to prioritise rest, joy and pause. Intentionally taking time out of my day to eat, drink warm tea watching the sunrise with the dogs and do some pilates and stretch has been empowering and vital for my work around self-worth. We are worthy of rest, no matter how productive we have been. You don't have to earn rest, food or movement. You are inherently worthy of practicing things that make you feel good. This has been hard for me to remember the last few years but any little act of self-care can help show ourselves that we deserve care.⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀

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