Denver has a lot of like pop up, like Christmas markets and different restaurants. The food place is taking a look at what those food rules are, how those show up for you. When they become rigid rules, they can be detrimental.
Good morning, Cadre. Good morning. Speak Wonder. Happy Saturday. I hope everyone is doing well. I'll give a couple maybe just like a minute to see if anyone pops in.
Are there any fun like leading up to the end of the year traditions that you have or like, things you're looking forward to? Denver has a lot of like pop up, like Christmas markets and different restaurants. I'm really excited for that.
Today is week five of my intuitive eating series. JC asked a really wonderful question that I want to give my perspective on. I think that his question lines up a little more with principle six of intuitive eating. So I'm actually gonna swap around five and six.
In Intuitive Eating, we really look at the food police as being your own thoughts and your own monitor monitoring system. The food place is taking a look at what those food rules are, how those show up for you. When they become rigid rules, they can be detrimental.
Jules: How do you see intuitive eating fitting into a world that has increasingly more binary to it? She says it's a way to really take back your own power and in the spirit of today's theme, recognizing and trusting your own enoughness. Jules: If you have any other questions, drop them in the comments below.
Good morning, Cadre. Good morning. Good morning. Happy Saturday. I hope everyone is doing well. I'll give a couple maybe just like a minute to see if anyone pops in. Good morning. Speak Wonder. Good morning, Luke. Happy Saturday. Hi, Jules. For my question of the day that I've been slacking on in my lives, but I'm really curious because we're now entering the month of December. Are there any fun like leading up to the end of the year traditions that you have or like, things you're looking forward to?
I feel like we don't have a ton of new traditions since being to. Since moving to Colorado. I wish I could say we are someone who like goes out and chops down a Christmas tree and in the mountains that are next to us, but we don't yet. Good morning, Colleen. Good morning, Rachel. Thank you all for popping in. Oh, I'm so excited to have you all. The thing that I am looking forward to this holiday season is Denver has a lot of like pop up and I'm sure this is other places too. A lot of pop up, like Christmas markets and different restaurants will just like fully deck out the entire space and I'm really excited for that.
C. okay, I want to get started today because I don't know if anyone saw in my event posted in the community tab that today is week five of my intuitive eating series and I asked if anyone had any questions and JC actually asked a really wonderful question that I want to give my perspective on and see what you guys think as well. And I think that his question lines up a little more with principle six of intuitive eating. So I'm actually gonna swap around five and six. If you have been here and have been following along, you wonder just visited your hometown.
Oh, it. I'm. I hope you enjoyed the weather because it's still pretty nice here. It's like high of 50s right now. Rachel, you love the Christmas season. Me too. Something just feels cozy about it and loose ends here. Former traditions have ended. Speak Wonder. I think that's a really great opportunity to make new traditions in whatever way you want to do that. Okay, so let's get started. Principle six of intuitive Eating. Some list. It's four because they swapped them around a couple years ago. But principle six is challenge the food please and the food police.
While it can be the world around us, it could be people in your life making comments on food. In Intuitive Eating, we really look at the food police as being your own thoughts and your own monitor monitoring system. And the authors of Intuitive Eating, I think they use the word it's your psyche, right? So it's everything that you have ever kind of internalized and then put on yourself, monitoring what you're doing every single time you're eating. And so challenging. The food place is taking a look at what those food rules are, how those show up for you, differentiating rules from preferences.
Because we're all human, we all have taste buds, everyone has autonomy. You're all allowed to eat whatever you want to eat. Preferences are normal, everyone has them. And when they become rigid rules, they can be detrimental. So learning rules versus preferences and exploring. Did someone say this to me when I was a kid? And it's something I internalized and brought with me into adulthood. Is this from 10 years of looking at the Women's Health magazine and the checkout at the grocery store that always had something that said, like, shed 60 pounds in three days.
Like just little things like that and noticing where they show up for you? This really takes a lot of, I think, self reflection and confronting things that are really uncomfortable that have maybe contributed to behaviors or rules around food. As this relates to JC's question, his question was, how do I see intuitive eating playing? How do I see it fitting into a world that has increasingly more binary to it? So good, bad, healthy, unhealthy. There were a couple other examples of that that he gave that I don't remember off the top of my head.
But to me, the way that I view intuitive eating is a way to bring back your autonomy, to bring back your intuition and your trust and your knowledge, to house within yourself rather than everyone and everything around you. And to me, in a way, it's an act of maybe rebellion, especially as a woman who grew up in the early 2000s with the low rise jeans. It's a way to really take back your own power and in the spirit of today's theme, recognizing and trusting your own enoughness. Because no one knows you better than you.
No expert, no clinician, no therapist, no anything knows you better than you. And that is important and that is valid and that is valuable to the world around you and to be able to. For me, I've been thinking about it kind of in the narrative of like, just the way that culture is going in the United States right now. Like there's a lot of really black and white thinking around everything and we know that the world is not black and white and it shouldn't be. So for me, it helps me to stay grounded in the things that I care about, the things that I want for myself, the Things that help me and motivate me every day.
And this sounds really like woo, but it is such a way. It's a thing that is totally within your control to help push and reinforce that direction, I guess. So I think that's a really good question. C. C. talks about here every week on Saturdays. And that is, you are enough. You've always been enough. You will always be enough. What does it feel like to trust yourself in that? What does it feel like to explore that around food? And not just food, but maybe other areas as well. And to me, that's what intuitive eating does in the nutrition realm.
So that was a little rambly. And it's something I don't think that I've ever quite articulated before. But I do think there's so much more we could go into in it, around it. Rachel, take back my power. Yeah, I think we've seen a shift and it changes, I don't know, every like five or 10 years. And we're definitely shifting back to it. The kind of beauty standards that affect women and men and everyone else, anyone and everyone is affected by the things around us. And so to be able to take back your power, stand strong and stand true, really, really wonderful skills in 2024.
So that's what I've got for you. If you have any other questions. I love answering questions because I think that it. I don't know, it just helps me know what you guys really want to talk about and what you're finding valuable. And I want to give you more of that. Jules, the kids decorate some shape of cookie and you judge them and they get prizes. Ooh, that's fun. Who picks the shape of cookie? Or does it like, does everyone have the same shape? I haven't decorated Christmas cookies in a really long time, and I really want to.
We've also done ugly sweater gingerbread houses and Christmas scenes. That's so fun. I want to figure out something to do Christmasy tradition in the spirit of holidays. Maybe cookies. I used to, before we moved, I would make spritz cookies. I don't know if anyone else is familiar with those. They're literally just like a butter cookie, but they have the little. It's like a little piping gun with different shapes. So. Okay, that's all I've got for you today. I hope you all have a good Saturday or a restful Saturday or a Saturday filled with whatever it is that you are needing.
If you have any more specific questions about intuitive eating or anything nutrition related. You can always drop them on that post I made in the community tab or you can find me oh Speak Wonder. I love that. Bringing coffee or hot chocolate and stand by the Salvation army bell ringer. That is a wonderful idea. Sip and visit and greet people and such a great way to meet new humans. I love it. Okay, thank you all for joining me today. I will will see you back here next Saturday where we go back to principle five of intuitive eating that I skipped and swapped around today.
Thank you all for coming and I will see you another time.
