Oct 19, 2022
Have you ever thought about your
birth?
If you’re like most people, you
probably haven’t. And yet, as Stacey shares, according to
Ayverveda’s Sankyha philosophy, 25% of who we are comes from our
conception and birth. This makes safety and food intimately
connected and tangled from before we even make our Earth-side
entrance.
In order to understand food’s connection to safety, we are starting at the beginning. Specifically, our beginnings as we began growing in the womb and then officially made our Earth side entrance.
In this heart-felt, deep conversation, we discuss:
- Stacey’s tumultuous relationship
with food and what she discovered was at the root of her
restriction and then binging-purging symptoms.
- The role our gestation and support our Mother’s do or don’t receive contributes to our sense of safety, according to Ayurveda’s Sankyha philosophy.
- How food provides a sense of
literal structure to our bodies and thus safety. And if we don’t
get the structure or felt presence of being “seen, held, and known”
in relationships, we turn to food for
safety.
- How early stage eating influences what we were “told” about what and how much is available to us. While mainstream emotional eating advice says we binge or overeat in reaction to restriction, we discuss there’s also overeating in anticipation of not having enough food or other forms of safety.
- Why we eat during transitions like work to home or Friday night to weekend and how birth as our first official transition can leave an imprint on how we experience transitions today. And some tips for making transitions easier today so we don’t need food.
- How Stacey’s healing journey to
develop a broader sense of safety beyond food led to her first ever
awe inspiring pregnancies post-meeting her birth
mother.
Stacey Ramsower is an Ayurvedic Lifestyle Coach, Holistic Perinatal Consultant, Somatic Sex Educator, and mother. She supports women through their transformation to Motherhood through ritual practices, hands on work, and private coaching. Stacey is currently pursuing a doctorate in clinical psychology. She lives in Tucson, AZ with her husband and two kids.
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https://www.staceyramsower.com/
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