About Sacred Bite

Thank you for joining me at the table!  Sacred Bite celebrates the miracle of our humanity and the divinity that is naturally inherent in food.  Now that we have entered the third millennium, we must awaken to the fact that we are one with ourselves, one with each other, and one with the planet. In many ways, our alienation from the environment has led us to unconsciously feed ourselves into a global food frenzy.  Heavier than ever, Americans spend billions of dollars on weight loss programs and products while billions of people hunger for food every day. Clearly, external hunger cues have disturbed our natural state of equilibrium.  In response, SacredBite nourishes our relationship with food for the benefit of our individual, communal, and environmental well-being.  It helps us recover the body-centered spirituality necessary to bring about healing.  And, by necessity, a body-centered spirituality must involve food, the substance of life.  So, please, feast upon the morsels of inspiration that will be shared with you to develop a healthy relationship with food.

Soul Food

Over my past twenty years as a nutritionist, I have grown to appreciate food as an amazing metaphor for love. Far beyond providing us with macronutrients (protein, fat, and carbohydrates) and micronutrients (vitamins, minerals, and antioxidants), food feeds our souls. Beginning with some common and familiar expressions, we can see how food and eating convey emotion:

An apple a day keeps the doctor away.
It was a piece of cake!
He chewed me out.
She’s a peach.
I can’t stomach the idea.
He’s nuts over her.
He’s been waffling over the decision for weeks.
They went bananas over the new proposal.
If life gives you lemons, make lemonade.
What’s your cup of tea?
Wake up and smell the coffee!
If life is a bowl of cherries, why am I stuck in the pits?
That’s the next best thing to sliced bread.
What’s eating you?

Looking more deeply, we can ask ‘What foods did the universe set upon the table for us? Do we eat these foods whole, or do we process them until they lose their intended nutrient content? How does our fast food culture reflect our spiritual lives? How can food help us to transform our individual and communal relationship with the planet? And how can a co-creative relationship with the planet help us to transform our relationship with food?’
There’s no question about it; what we eat has short- and long-term consequences to our individual, communal, and environmental health. When we can accept that the foods we eat impact our bodies, we can begin to make choices that support the lives we want to live. In some ways, by giving attention to what and how we eat, we free ourselves from the dis-ease that tends to occupy our thoughts when we are not well. After all, dis-ease is the attempt of the body to communicate that some conscious shift in our habits and patterns must be made. SacredBite helps us to rediscover the tools that are naturally present within us to help inspire and improve our eating habits — and help pave the way to a healthier expression of life!