Have Your Pickle and Eat It Too

A radical approach to food, mindfulness, and the holidays in collaboration with nutrition coach Jessica Taylor ✨

In the spirit of the approaching holidays and thinking about boundary setting, I reached out to my nutrition and lifestyle coach Jessica Taylor to collaborate on a piece about food and mindfulness — two concepts we’re pretty much obsessed with.

I started working with Jessica in October 2019, and my relationship to food has changed completely. My mindset around eating and drinking has made a monumental shift away from shame and panic, to abundance and freedom. Strengthening my meditation and mindfulness practices has played an important role in this growth. I wanted to write with her about these interconnected concepts to begin to dismantle the harmful attitudes we have around food.

To begin, we want to acknowledge our own privileges in even being able to have this conversation. Both of us are educated, white femmes, living in Chicago with easy access to grocery stores and fresh ingredients. We acknowledge that our privilege allows us to have conversations about mindfulness with more ease than so many other folks. We honor this fact by recognizing that our experiences are our own and are not universal. To support those in Chicago who are systemically harmed by the systemic racism rampant in our city’s geography, housing, and…