Eating as a Mirror: What Are You Really Digesting?
Apr 25, 2025
🍽 How You Eat Is How You Live
Every bite you take carries more than flavor.
It carries your habits, your emotional state, your beliefs about nourishment and worth.
Are you rushing?
Distracted?
Obligated to finish everything on your plate?
Your eating reflects your relationship with receiving — with taking in life — and with what you believe you deserve.
🔍 Awareness at the Table
When you bring awareness to eating, the meal becomes a mirror.
You notice:
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How fast or slow you eat
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Whether you chew or swallow mindlessly
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How much you taste
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Whether you stop when satisfied or push past it
The act of eating becomes an invitation to wake up — not only to your body, but to your inner world.
🤢 The “Undigested” Parts of Life
In Gestalt terms, we speak of “introjects” — things we’ve swallowed whole without chewing, questioning, or rejecting.
We do it with food… and with life:
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Messages from childhood
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Social conditioning
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Internalized voices that say “you must” or “you should”
Awareness through eating brings those introjects to the surface — where they can finally be seen, chewed on, and possibly… spit out.
🧘♂️ Awareness Through Eating: A 21-Day Practice
In my Awareness Through Eating course, we use eating as a gateway to inner transformation.
Each day, you receive a short audio lesson and journal prompt — guiding you through:
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Slowing down
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Chewing with presence
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Noticing emotion and resistance
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Exploring the symbolic nature of food and digestion
The first 7 lessons are free. You can begin today.
🌿 Final Thought
The way you eat reflects the way you live.
But it can also become the way you change — gently, moment by moment, bite by bite.