Food Therapy

Filled with accessible strategies to help you heal from within through the foods you eat, FOOD THERAPY explores the vital connection between nutrition, stress, and trauma recovery. Food is therapy—and the choices you make each day impact your capacity to heal from anxiety, stress, and even trauma. In Food Therapy, Somatic Educator Luis Mojica offers a groundbreaking approach to eating to support the nervous system, adrenals, and glucose balance. When you learn how nutrition impacts your emotions and your body, every food choice becomes an opportunity to shift your biochemistry and support your goals. Whether you’re a therapist, a nutritionist, or someone looking for new ways of relating to food and your body, this book reveals how to: Build your personal awareness of food’s power to stimulate, depress, or balance your body. Destigmatize your cravings, recognizing that any food can be an ally on the path of healing. Interrupt cycles of emotional eating and understand the emotional, relational, or nutritional needs you’re trying to fill. Reduce food-induced stress so you can better handle life’s stressors. This is not a cookbook or a one-size-fits-all diet of dos and don’ts. This book is for anyone seeking a radical departure from diet culture, deprivation, and shame. It is a guide to becoming a conscious alchemist, deeply in tune with your body, using food as a medicine