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

Episode Highlights With Gina

• How our relationship with food is a mirror into our inner world and how this starts the day we are born
• Every single person on the planet develops a relationship with food and how this impacts us
• Associations we can develop around food, like food being a source of love and affection
• Knowing how to eat healthy is only about 5% of our drive and decision making when it comes to behaviors
• 95% of what influences our behaviors comes from the subconscious mind
• Something important to understand around hunger that might make things like Ozempic irrelevant
• The one piece of science that if you can understand, you will have so much compassion for your body
• When 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 anymore
• Get curious and move toward the thing that you are scared to look at
• How to learn to listen to your body and trust it
• Ways to learn how to shift your awareness into your body and learn to really feel it
• Developing mind/body harmony
• Tools to create regulation in the body to begin to tune in
• Cravings are one of the misunderstood aspects of ourselves and what we can learn from them
• Overeating is an attempt to fulfill the soul’s unmet needs

Resources Mentioned

• Gina Worful - Mastering Mindfulness Institute
• Gina Worful - Instagram