How to Become a Food Goddess

Published on Thursday, 10 March 2011 22:00

A food goddess is a woman whose relationship with food comes from a place of celebration and nurturing. She views imagining, creating and sharing food as an opportunity to express welcome and inclusion to friends and family.

To achieve the status of food goddess, a woman has to overcome the adversarial position she may experience around food in relationship to the shape or weight of her body. By viewing food as an adversary that must be fought and conquered, she loses some of the innate feminine that centers in abundance and giving. Being a food goddess is all about achieving a balance that allows her to experience freedom and joy in her body, as it is.

When a woman surrenders the battle to sustain a media projected body image, she will stop depriving her body of those foods that convey feelings of satisfaction and pleasure. As she stops the deprivation process of diets, her relationship with food will moderate and become more balanced as she is able to listen to what she needs instead of crave what she is told she cannot have. A goddess status is a position of empowerment. This is how a woman takes back the center of caring for those around her. When a woman crosses the threshold and becomes a goddess, she will smile more often, laugh more often, sing more often. These awakening expressions will soften her features, turn up the corners of her mouth and vanquish the demon of stress. She is likely to talk more, giggle more, dance more and carry herself more upright. This is the emerging goddess who has discovered it is more than okay to be a woman who loves to grow, experiment and play with her food.

A food goddess may be fat or skinny, but usually she is between the two. When a woman is in a good place mentally, she is able to listen to her body. She doesn’t eat from a desire to feel love or fullness from the food-she eats just what her body needs. Over time, this will shape a woman into her natural figure.

When a woman reclaims her relationship with food, she takes back the center of her home life. The ability to joyfully join with other foodies in the creation of tasty, nutritious foods is regained as a way to network socially and keep the people she cares about close and in good relationships. Giving nurtures the soul. Celebrating extended family and friends fights loneliness and depression and creates resources that will help sustain her through hard times and weak moments. Finding the path toward becoming a food goddess can begin by inviting one friend over for a meal. If the woman doesn’t know the first thing about cooking, she can make it a lets-make-it-together meal by picking a recipe out of a book or off the Internet, buying the ingredients and sharing the fun with her friend.

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