Growing up with Eastern European grandparents offered us organic food early in our childhood development. We had two well-equipped gardens full of organic vegetables and flowers.
I loved the garden. As a child, I would sit on the wooden boards dividing the rows of vegetables and meditate with the string beans, corn, tomatoes, and carrots. I was often curious about what was under the carrot’s green tops, so occasionally, I would pull it out to see and try to stick the carrot back into the ground before my mother realized what I had done. Unaware that the carrot would not continue to grow.
Or I would pick rose petals and place them on my lips to pretend I had lipstick on. Our backyard garden was not only a source of nourishment but an educational facility. My mom and grandmothers especially had an innate knowledge of where to plant what. The gardens flourished year after year. It was always cooler in the garden than in the rest of the yard too.
I think it was my love for those vegetables that helped me develop into a vegetarian later in life. To this day, I love gardens. It’s soothing to sit under a fruit tree and meditate.
From those early years, I built a foundation for eating healthy. Even during high school, I sought out organic foods. There was one co-op, and it wasn’t always the freshest. After getting my driver’s license, I drove to apple farms and also looked for spring water as often as possible. I remember walking down the aisle of the local market, telling my mother, “There are chemicals in the food.”
Our backyard garden allowed me to think differently about food. Instead of eating packaged food off a metal shelf, I picked food directly out of the garden and developed an awareness of eating organic early in life.
Medical Intuitive + Health Coach
As my professional career developed as a Medical Intuitive and Health Coach organic food was the center point of my coaching and healing. As a young adult, I juiced everything and ate only raw. I studied herbs and homeopathy. I learned massage and bodywork, meditation, and alternative healing became the cornerstone of my life. One of my key points as a Health Coach has always been, “Know who cooks your food.”
Who Cooks Your Food
Cooking food is a sign of love. My grandmother picked all her vegetables from her garden to make soup, which was her pure love expression. I think this is why we love home-cooked food because we get nurtured in the process. Mostly we eat out for a quick, fast food dish, and we don’t even think about who cooked the food.
Do you know who cooks your food? Was the chef yelling or fighting with co-workers? Do they smoke? Gordon Ramsey points out, in his cooking show, Restaurant Nightmares the difference between chef’s attitudes who care vs. the chefs who don’t care and what the food looks like to the customer. Next time you sit down to eat out, look around can you see the chef? Does the chef care enough about themselves to come to work in clean environments? You can feel it when food comes out the food is beaming with energy vs. being slopped onto a plate with no consciousness.
Have you ever walked out of a restaurant and found the food staff smoking behind the restaurant? Or hear the kitchen staff yelling? Where is that anger going? Right into your food. Any emotion the chef experiences goes directly into your food.
One of my pet peeves is a smoking chef. I will walk out of a restaurant if I see the kitchen staff smoking behind the restaurant. The tobacco toxins go right into your food. Even if they don’t smoke for an hour before cooking, toxins are in their body and energetically passing them onto you.
Eat Organic
Eating organic is a healthy way to show love to yourself. Next time you think about going out to eat, take an extra few minutes to ask about the chefs or do research before eating at a particular restaurant. You owe it to yourself to know who cooks your food.