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17 Healing Affirmations for Connecting Food and Self-Love

Writer's picture: Tara Lee ClasenTara Lee Clasen

Affirmations increase your well-being and can shift your decision making. This graphic is from the Food & Mood Journal- A tracking guide to connect the food you eat, the emotions you feel, and increase the healing power of deep self-love.
Affirmations increase your well-being and can shift your decision making. This graphic is from the Food & Mood Journal- A tracking guide to connect the food you eat, the emotions you feel, and increase the healing power of deep self-love.

Self-love is your untapped energetic potential. You came into this world open, loving, and complete. You came into this world capable of making rooted and intuitive choices regarding your health and wellness.


Make no mistake: this culture has created the difficulty within many women. Society bombards women with messages that their stomachs should look flatter and their lips fuller. Advertisers—even those claiming to promote health—often create ads to shame you and then sell you a solution. At a young age—and for many reasons—girls develop a disrupted relationship with food.


Self-love is a force that is unmatched by its healing abilities. When we practice the art of self-love, we are slowly learning to return to who we really are: a soul rooting this body to the earth. When love guides your choices, you step away from food fads and diet culture and instead, you make choices that make you feel truly good.

Affirmation is the tool used to etch self-love onto your record. You repeat the affirmation and you build a new pathway, a new groove, in your mind and heart. Affirmation does not make you impervious to all our cultures’ pressures, but it can improve your wellness and you can return to it time and time again. It is through the practice of self-love that you reclaim your own truth.


As an author on women’s holistic health and wellness books, and as a physical medicine provider specialising in women’s TMJ pain, neck pain, and pelvic floor pain and dysfunction, I have witnessed firsthand just how powerful affirmation is. Literally, as women repeat affirmation while we work on their bodies, muscles begin to unwind and pain subsides. This is especially true in the jaw.


I offer the Food and Mood Journal to get women repeating positive affirmation. If you like this information and the 17 positive affirmations below, you can find space to record them in the Food and Mood Journal - A tracking guide to connect the food you eat, the emotions you feel, and increase the healing power of deep self-love.


Enjoy these 17 healing, positive food and self-love based affirmations:


1) I trust my mind and my body to tell me what they need.


2) I deserve to be nourished and fulfilled by food.


3) I feel rooted and safe in my food and drink choices.


4) It does not matter if I feel a perfect love for myself or my choices. Every day, I start fresh and commit myself to the journey of greater self-love.


5) I grant myself unconditional permission to love every bite of every meal that I eat.


6) Perfection is not the medicine I am searching for. Love is the medicine I am seeking.


7) My inner relationship needs time, patience, and I need to practice loving myself as I am. Today, I make thoughful and kind choices.


8) Before eating, I slow down, and I mindfully observe the sensation of my breath and the thoughts in my mind. Slowing down is something that I will accomplish.


9) There are no good foods or bad foods. I do not need to feel bad about myself to accomplish a goal. I will not wait to be kind to myself before I accomplish a goal. I love myself and my choices in the here and now.


10) I know that making intuitive and individually healthy food choices takes practice and patience, and is a worth-while journey for me to be on. I will feel positive about myself and love myself during this lifelong adventure.


11) Food is many things, and individual medicine is one of them. My individual medicine with food is to simply to love it, and love myself, while preparing and eating it.


12) As I eat, I taste each bite; I chew mindfully. I pause. I am thankful for the gift of food and my daily chance to receive this energy.


13) I am grateful for my body and the chance to root myself with nourishment.


14) I slowly gravitate towards positive beliefs about food and my mind and body. I slowly integrate this profound new way of thinking into the deepest part of my core being.


15) Our culture does not have a healthy and grounded view of what a body should look like. I celebrate my human body, my human face, and my human heart. I celebrate the adventure of life and I know that food is yet another part of this joyful journey.


16) I will not restrict myself. I will eat with consistency and pay loving attention to the signals that my mind-body system is sending me.


17) And last, here is a long affirmation that illustrates an important concept in all my texts. Use the affirmation below to reframe your thinking about food as healing medicine.


Repeat: Cultures have labeled food as medicine for thousands of years. To me, hearing food as medicine does not imply perfection. When I think of food as medicine, I think of adding some garlic to my meal or developing a relationship with some seasonal veggies. I know that food is medicine as I eat with joy. Joy enters my body with every bite of every meal I eat. And I know that medicine enters my life in many creative ways throughout the day.


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FULL COLOR! 8.5 x 11 useable workbook size! Gently & lovingly encourages some plant-based choices!
FULL COLOR! 8.5 x 11 useable workbook size! Gently & lovingly encourages some plant-based choices!



 

About the author:

Since 2004, Tara Lee Clasen has been assisting women on their healing adventures. As a woman-focused physical medicine provider, also trained in Eastern medicine, she knows transformation is possible and knows that with reflection and self-love, your future is full of bright possibilities.



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