We are always experiencing deaths and new beginnings

I'm back! I finally experienced COVID and needed to take the last few weeks off. I know, as an entrepreneur and someone with a message I want to spread, I'm supposed to be consistent no matter what. But that's not what I'm about, and that's not what Intuitive Eating and meditation are about. We are not consistent no matter what. Our needs change day to day, month to month, year to year. I hope that the next time you need to rest, you remember that. 

Meanwhile, we are wrapping up a month of contemplating grief in the Intuitive Eating for Life community. It brought up a lot of stuff for a lot of people, in part because we just don't let ourselves think or talk about grief regularly. We only acknowledge it in its most extreme manifestations and try to put it behind us as quickly as possible. Yet this is not how emotion works. 

Grief is a normal human emotion that, if we're aware and honest, we are always experiencing to some degree. Days come to an end, relationships end, our bodies change, wonderful meals come to an end, so do just meh ones. Everything is impermanent, meaning every comes to an end eventually. That's not easy.

Simultaneously, new life arises. A new day dawns, we make new friends, the trees sprout leaves and the flowers blossom each spring. This is the way of things. Our job is to learn to work with this reality.

As it turns out, Intuitive Eating and focusing on the relationship with food and body is a wonderful entry point to dealing with reality. And meditation supports us to stay, to become curious, to tolerate and ultimately accept uncertainty, discomfort, and impermanence little by little.