Why is this work important?

Is Decolonize your Diet for You

 Ask Yourself? 

• • • What was the environment you grew up in like?
    • Do you know that your original environment this is part of your original gut biome. 
  • What is your relationship to your Ancestral foods and diet? Do you have a positive relationship with your ancestral diet or have you been colonized around food and diet? 
  • What is your relationship to your body?
  •  What beliefs do you hold around your ancestral foods?
  •  Do you endorse diet culture?
  •  Do you eat unhealthy foods or process foods out of convenience? Do you know that you can make realistic and easy changes to improve your overall well-being? In this program you will be inspired to take action steps. 
  • In our fast-paced culture, what was modeled to you in terms of your relationship and connection to your food? 
  • What stories about ancestral foods and diet did you grow up with and which stories do you wish to now Reclaim?  

• This offering holds the intetion of being a transformational journey into your relationship with your ancestral diet.
• This offering invites you to reclaim more of your ancestral and cultural identity through the food you eat.
• It invites you to see your ancestral diet as medicine
• You will receive practical tips and suggestions to connect with your ancestral healing foods and remedies. To integrate them into your life.
• You will walk away feeling empowered in mending your connection to your ancestral wealth, which inlcudes food.
• You will walk away feeling more nourished instead of restricted. 

Do you know what your mom ate, what was her diet like when you were in her womb? What was her environment like? This ancestral memory is still informing your health, your biology and your relationship to your ancestors.

This is a living link. The way you digest and absorb nutrients, the way you relate to your environment. You not only inherited physical traits but also a whole gut biome. And this is also part of your identity. 

Decolonize your Diet: decolonizing your soul is a journey of Reclamation to help you remember your ancestral tangible wealth which includes the foods your ancestors ate because your whole gut biome, tissues, organs, muscles and bones are made of what your mother ate when you were in her womb and so your body has an affinity (through ancestral cell memory) to foods that are ancestral =closer to your original gut biome. 

I hear many speaking about Decolonizing our minds and while this is important, it is only part of the equation/inner work of ancestral identity reclamation.  

What about decolonizing your diet and your plate?What about going deeper into our ancestral roots and beginning to decolonize the foods we eat as part of our reclamation?

What is missing in retreats and decolonial spaces are conversations around our relationship with our ancestral foods. When we skip those soulful conversations, we inadvertently perpetuate colonial ways of being that further disconnect us from our cultural identities, roots and ancestral ways.

 To only focus on decolonizing our minds without also integrating ancestral foods is disconnecting the mind from the whole body.

Let’s rekindle our digestive fires by bringing the kitchen closer to the conversations around decolonization. 

Decolonize your Diet was inspired by my recent in-person retreat gathering in which we asked women to join us in the kitchen as part of the medicine and the teachings. I have been hosting those retreats for years now, but in my recent retreat, it became clear that we need to bring the core place of any retreat or in-person gathering, the kitchen and the nourishment closer to the work we are offering and the teachings around re-indigenizing.

Not only were the meals nourishing but the warm co-creation and joy that was created in the kitchen through our participation, and through sharing ancestral memories of food, recipes and belonging was part of the medicine, part of the whole experience and made it truly memorable.

By tending to our nourishment, root and foods, we tend to our souls. 

When we connect and begin to question what is our relationship with our ancestral diet, what is in our plate and begin to question subconscious programing like adopting somebody’s else diet because it is considered more refined; diet culture, excessive fasting even when our bodies need nourishment instead of restriction to root us in, we begin to reclaim our ancestral memory.

Subconscious programming may look like adopting the idea that the European cuisine is more refined, (like french cuisine) Or that the Mediterranean diet is the best diet for longevity and while this may be true for some, often for those of us who have been severed from our ancestral roots and identities, this only removes us and further disconnects us from our cultural identities. 

The exchange for this 8-weeks offering is $ 888

Full program Schedule link: Canva Schedule