12/08/2025
✨Eating For Emotional Health
This isn’t just a Winter Regimen in my practice, but it’s a great time to introduce it as we go inward and the state of our mental health comes more easily to the surface of awareness.
🌊Harmonize your energies in motion (e-motions).
🫐Your gut health is reflective of and works with your mental health which influences / is influenced by your emotional health.
Most of the time we are eating to ‘feel’ a certain way - contentment, energized, happy, loved, ready for the world, strong etc. Why not shift the lens, then?
🌀The three Mahagunas in Ayurveda are the three main universal driving qualities of Nature - essential forces that exist in all things, experiences, and in you! All three matter and play a vital and essential role to the Earth experience.
🩵Sattva is the state of purity, balance and harmony. We aren’t meant to live in this state in every moment- we are meant to get our hands dirty and be in the grit and grandeur of the human experience. So, we aim to come back home to this, but unless you are a monk on a mountain, you are getting into the next two forces of Nature!
🔥Rajas: It’s the warrior energy, influx of information, a ton of action, creation… the force that brings transformation! We need it, but consuming a diet that soothes Rajas, would be my general humanity recommendation for vitality and continued progress. We are in Rajasic times.
😴Tamas: Don’t hate on this necessary force because it isn’t loudly dynamic like the others… rather, it’s so strong in its conviction it’s quite literally this - REST. It is essential to balance rajas. Help one to restore. But. We often get stuck here in the heavy, slow, stagnant, stubborn energy (Sounds a lot like Winter, yeah? This is common to balance in this season.) I picture it as the final phase of the natural cycle.
Sattva is the starting point much like Creation. Rajas turns it into something. Tamas - the completion, which is also truly an ending. Then you wake yourself back up, kindle your Rajas, and journey towards Sattva. Only to do it all over again! The joy! ☺️
