Trust Your Whole Body

The 8th pillar of Soul Work, virtual Cacao events, chicken soup dumplings. plus a new recipe

This week, I dropped a podcast on the eighth pillar of soul work, which is:

Trust Your Whole Body

In the episode, I share how I found my way back to trusting this body after decades of disassociation, ignoring her signals, finding a way to detach enough so I didn’t attach to what others were saying about my soft and sharp curves.

Perhaps you have also spent a lifetime searching for ways to trust your body. If so, this episode is for you, promise. In it, I also come clean on why I wrote my second cookbook, A New Way to Food, and I share an early experience with my soul’s voice.

Here’s a tiny moment from the podcast—

You may listen to the audio or read the transcription.

“One of the first times I heard my soul’s voice, I was lying prone in a savasana pose on a yoga mat, lingering longer than usual. (I highly recommend it.)

And with eyes closed, I asked my soul if there was anything that I needed to know.

A minute later, I received a visualization of my mother. She had passed three years earlier but there she was, a vibrant Honduran woman, seated on a patio with another passed loved one. They were surrounded by tropical plants. They had cocktails in hand. They actually had a cocktail we had all enjoyed together years earlier and it was as if they were almost celebrating.

And they said, “We want you to know that you’re fine. No matter what, you’re fine now and you’re going to be fine.”

And you know, I took that as a kind of universal guidance and I just went on with my day. I did all my things.

But later that evening, I experienced a very emotional reaction to painful, life-changing news.”

If you’d like to know more about what happened along my journey of relearning how to trust my body, I invite you to listen to Episode 77 Trust Your Whole Body of the We Are Magic Podcast.

Listen here.

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Live Events

SACRED CACAO CEREMONY: On Monday, December 18, I will guide you through an experience of softness, connection, and remembrance in order to hear vital messages from your soul and allow your next best steps to surface. This session is designed for creatives, visionaries, leaders, healers, and sweet souls who may be moving through death and transformation, opening up to their own uniqueness, wrestling with uncertainty, considering a major life transition, and keenly interested in detecting the voice of their soul from all the voices within.

The event will be on Zoom. Limited spots. Reserve here.

SACRED CACAO 14-DAY SERIES: Beginning on Thursday, January 11, I will guide you through a daily Ceremonial Cacao practice to open your heart to love, gratitude, softness, and to reveal your soul’s next best steps. This event is perfect for creatives, visionaries, leaders, healers, and sweet souls who wish to receive guidance on their unfolding purpose and plan a soft and satisfying new year. You will spend 10 weekdays in a 1-hour Cacao Session with me and 4 weekend days in your own private Cacao practice, with my sacred instructions and recipes to guide you. All sessions will be recorded.

The event will be on Zoom. Limited spots. Reserve here.

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Over the weekend, I held my first Sacred Cacao Ceremony and, wow, those two hours with eleven other sweet souls was life-affirming (and soul-affirming) in so many ways. Here’s an image of the altar I designed for our two-hour ceremony.

I made a special batch of one of my favorite Cacaos for the ceremony, carting it over to the marsh in four thermoses. I sweetened it with just enough honey to make it delicious. I use raw organic honey and I try to add it once the boiling water has cooled down a little, closer to 180 degrees, to protect the energy of the Cacao and the nutrition in the honey.

I was wiped out energetically post-ceremony. The feeling in my body reminded me of my Eat Boutique days, when I’d need days to recuperate from all the labor of moving boxes and selling small-batch food. This time around though, I needed all day and night to recuperate from the abundance of energy and emotion, both from those in the room and of my ancestors who were ever-present. It’s a lot to hold those present through multiple dimensions but I am learning how to build my endurance and maneuver it with humor and grace.

That evening, I canceled my dinner out plans to stay at home and microwave up some of my favorite frozen soup dumplings. It’s the Steamed Chicken Soup Dumplings from Trader Joe’s and shoppers must think I’m wild for piling eight boxes in my cart at a time. But there aren’t a lot of soup dumplings out by the sea and these hit the spot in a fix or in a fit of exhaustion. Here they are, drizzled with soy sauce and served with an always healing slice of olive bread with butter. Like literally, bread also heals all ills, praise All-That-Is for bread.

The new week started with a bang of busyness so I’ve been finding ways to eat whole foods while buzzing around town and all in my heart as I plan events for December and January. I think Soul Work is an ever-unfolding journey but one worth sharing so I’m hoping to launch a new offering for you to dive deeper into each pillar and bring questions from your own soul into a forum for support and witnessing.

One of the dishes that just can’t-stop-won’t-stop rotation in my kitchen is Cottage Cheese Scrambled Eggs. I can hear some of you shouting, “But you don’t eat dairy!?” Yes, that is true. I avoid most forms of lactose but I came upon a lactose-free cottage cheese that provides a high amount of protein and, gosh, it is so delicious.

Now, I also know that some of you grew up on diets of grapefruit and cottage cheese. If my mention of the stuff causes you to purse your lips, please forgive me. But the creamy taste and the solid protein put cottage cheese high on my roster lately, so much so that I’m coming in with a recipe for paid subscribers.

Naturally, if you’re a free subscriber, it won’t be hard for you to let your intuition guide you to a version that is perfect for healing and soothing your sweet soul.

Just a short note on the paid subscription option: I turned on the ability to support me with a paid subscription because I’m a human who puts in love and also labor into all of my offerings. As an artist and storyteller, I make a living from what I create. While I will keep most content here free and open to the public, I introduced the option for those of you who feel a call to help me keep doing this vital Soul Work. Thank you in advance and forever for your support.