By getting into a curious and kind conversation about how we feel in relationship to food, and the way we feel in our bodies and in the world, we can begin to sketch out steps, tools, practices, and approaches for coming into a greater sense of harmony and health through food. This can be as simple and practical as starting the day with a glass of water and a quick walk or stretch, to a comprehensive grocery list and meal plan along with ways to destress, ready our bodies for nourishment, and even working to create communities of care and support around our relationship to food and lifestyle.

There are many ways in to a conversation about feeling healthy and balanced in our bodies, and strong and nourished in our lives. Food is just one of these ways, but because it is something we engage with many times each day, it is a really accessible place to start asking questions like, ‘How am I feeling about my relationship to food?’, ‘How am I feeling in my body?’, ‘Do I think I could be feeling better?’ ‘Does my relationship to food bring me stress, confusion, ease, pleasure, satisfaction, indifference, etc…?’

Through a collaboration based on consent, accountability, gentle curiosity, and as much transparency as feels safe and supportive, we will create a space to encounter where we are right now, and how we are feeling.  By acknowledging ourselves in the present we can begin to notice what is speaking in us, and the places that are speaking the loudest are where we can begin to check in, explore and support.

Accountability

As a person of white settler ancestry, with all the advantages afforded a male body, Jay is deeply committed to a life-long practice of Somatic abolitionism (ending white-body supremacy). This work further focuses on decolonization (cultural, psychological and economic freedom, and the right to self-determination), including learning from and honouring lineages of queer intersectional feminism, and Indigenous Kinship worldviews. Jay is in daily practice with these understandings to create authentic, accountable and transparent community and action. Jay wishes to use their position of advantage, access and safety, to redistribute knowledge, sharing, caring and resources, to bring justice and intimacy back into the body and its relationships. Jay’s practice is a reflection of the work they are deeply committed to and choose to build their life around, leaving compassionate room for growth, change and learning/unlearning.