EMBODI NOURISHMENT: Eating Without Intervention

Imagine being a fish swimming in waters saturated with conflicting, subliminal messages—about self-care, worth, the body, weight, and food. These messages are not neutral. They can function as what I call archetypal parasites, weakening immunity by distorting perception, disrupting neuroceptive clarity, and quietly training the body to remain vigilant and self-doubting. Over time, it becomes difficult to know what is actually threatening, what is merely noise, and what truly belongs to you.

Now imagine being taught, from a very young age, how to operate this vehicle called your body—but the instructions were fundamentally misaligned with how the vehicle actually functions. You follow the rules, apply the techniques, and comply with the guidance, yet keep crashing. Eventually, the blame turns inward: willpower, discipline, pathology, trauma. Rarely do we question whether the operating manual itself was extractive—designed to override bodily jurisdiction rather than work with it.

What often goes unrecognized is that there is a living, self-organizing intelligence within you—one oriented toward regulation, repair, and relationship. This intelligence does not respond well to urgency, intervention, or moralized control. It responds to conditions: time, rhythm, imaginal space, and accurate threat discrimination. When those conditions are restored, food no longer needs to function as an intervention, and the body no longer needs to defend itself through urgency.

This work is an invitation to reorient—not toward fixing, but toward restoring jurisdiction. To question inherited models of care that feed on desperation. To allow imaginal life, nervous system regulation, and embodied discernment to return. Health, in this view, is not imposed or rescued. It emerges when the right conditions are present.