People sometimes ask me “What’s up with the artichoke? Why do you have a close-up of an artichoke heart as your header?” The answer is simple: it personifies everything I do in my work.

Geneen Roth, author of Women, Food and God, says “It’s not about the food, but it’s not not about the food.” For me, it’s all about the food, except when it’s not about the food: that is, when there’s something else driving patterns of eating, habitual dieting, repeated and failed attempts to eat healthier, obsessing about food, emotional turmoil, and a general lack of pleasure and spiritual flatness.

This work is sort of like eating an artichoke. It’s pleasurable, a little exotic, definitely healthy, a bit out of the ordinary. When you start eating it, it requires some work. It’s not like eating, say, an apple, or a bowl of spinach. As you start to work at it, you immediately get the most luscious tidbits–but still, you have a sense that there’s more underneath.

You have to have a little patience to get through those layers of hard, prickly bits. But when you do, and you arrive at the sweet, tender, slightly nutty heart, it was all worth it.

My job is to help you get there.

To learn more about my classes, consultations and writing, email me at Lisa@InspiredEating.com.

Offering classes and workshops in the Denver metro area, in-person consultations in Boulder, and distance sessions via telephone, Skype and videoconferencing.

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