Embodi Love: For the Restoration of Bodily Jurisdiction

restore a right relationship with food and your body

EMBODI CHOICE: restore a right relationship with food and your body

You may recognize some of these experiences:

A sense that food sometimes takes on more compulsivity, urgency, desperation or meaning than it should—especially during stress, uncertainty, or transition.
A feeling that you have lost your choice and agency with food, at times.

Ongoing tension in how you perceive your body, shaped more by internalized standards than lived experience.
Vulnerability to diet, fitness, or wellness messages that promise relief or rescue when change feels urgent.
Confusion about what it means to eat in a way that restores trust, rhythm, and jurisdiction in your body.
Fatigue from years of managing, monitoring, or correcting food and weight rather than collaborating with your body.
A quiet impulse to step outside inherited ideas about beauty, femininity, health, or success and explore what might emerge instead.

eating without compulsivity but with BODILy jurisdiction

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.