LIFE STEPS COACHING

Something I've been drawn to cultivate via my last few juice fasts is a simple gratitude for the beautiful bounty and quality of food I am blessed with. I grew up saying "grace" with my family before meals. Then, for my entire adult life I felt distant from that ritual, even rejection of it, while taking food and eating for granted. I guess food and eating rituals have simply either lacked my attention altogether, or engaged me in frustraing battles for so many years as I've jumped from scattered pieces of advice or information about food, to one diet or another. Juice fasting is beginning to have the positive effect of bringing me back to the beginning. With a limited focus on the simplest of foods entering my body, I feel a truer and more refined sense of gratefulness for the gifts and pleasure these foods give me. I think about the short and otherwise insignificant life of each piece of fruit on each plant, the sun, the soil, the watering, all this energy multiplied so many times over, the farming, the harvesting, the packaging, the delivery - all of this just to make a simple drink. As the juice fast gives me the insight to see it this way, I am actually overwhelmed with very tender humility. It moves a desire in me to extend this level of sensitivity and appreciation out into my everyday life.