How Food Reflects the Soul: Using Mindfulness to Heal Wounds and Cultivate Deep Self-Love With Gina Worful

Episode Highlights With GinaHow our relationship with food is a mirror into our inner world and how this starts the day we are bornEvery single person on the planet develops a relationship with food and how this impacts usAssociations we can develop around food, like food being a source of love and affectionKnowing how to eat healthy is only about 5% of our drive and decision making when it comes to behaviors95% of what influences our behaviors comes from the subconscious mindSomething important to understand around hunger that might make things like Ozempic irrelevantThe one piece of science that if you can understand, you will have so much compassion for your bodyWhen your body is in a state of stress or your nervous system is activated and this increases your hunger hormones, as well as an area of your brain that is responsible for sensing when you are full doesn’t become active anymoreGet curious and move toward the thing that you are scared to look atHow to learn to listen to your body and trust itWays to learn how to shift your awareness into your body and learn to really feel itDeveloping mind/body harmonyTools to create regulation in the body to begin to tune inCravings are one of the misunderstood aspects of ourselves and what we can learn from themOvereating is an attempt to fulfill the soul’s unmet needs Resources MentionedGina Worful - Mastering Mindfulness InstituteGina Worful - Instagram