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I hope you’re never looking at broccoli and peanut-butter at the same time though. That sounds like an awful dish.🤣

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This was painful yet powerful to watch. I remember at one point in my life, eating brought me so much ache. I would react to everything I ate and would have to lie down every time because my body would feel like a rock for hours after. But I had to eat to survive even if it brought so much pain. I don't exactly know what that was and hope to never experience that again. I'm so grateful I can eat almost anything today.

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Thank you Nadia for taking a moment to listen and watch. Sounds like some of the voices struck a chord. What a mysterious and unnerving experience you had with food! So glad to hear that's behind you.

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Yes, I felt them deeply, and it can be painful, of course, but empowering too. It was truly bizarre. I have it to some degree sometimes, when I flare up. But never this worse. Thank goodness!

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Nov 22, 2023Liked by Kimberly Warner

I needed this today and I will never look at broccoli 🥦 and peanut butter the same again LOVE it

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Nov 22, 2023Liked by Kimberly Warner

This is so interesting to me - the way as a society we obsess over food, so often for "beauty" reasons, as a corollary to body issues, so centered around food-as-guilt and denial - but the stories in this video show people with serious health issues and diet considerations, and they are talking about the enjoyment and sensuality of it (and about the frustration of not always being able to eat comfortably.) Very thought provoking.

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Yeh, food is so layered with meaning! When I watch my cats eat the same damn tin of pâté day after day after day (and with great enthusiasm), I have to wonder, “What would they add to this conversation?”

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I like how this exemplifies the idea that “living well is not about eradicating our wounds and weaknesses but understanding how they complete our identities and equip us to help others.”x

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Nov 22, 2023Liked by Kimberly Warner

@KimberlyWarner Omg. This video is ... I'm at a loss for words. In this time of food, I will never think about it in the same way. Thank you, Kimberly for this transformational gift.

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I’m so happy to hear this resonated. The “food” conversation in the media is quite one-dimensional so I’m grateful to have had the opportunity to curate this diversity of perspectives. ❤️

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So many things I love. But here's two.

1) Peanut Butter and her description of how she eats it, the sensuality of it and the pleasure she clearly gets from it. Reminded of me when I was very little. Living in a small one bedroom apartment with my mom. I would wait for her to get home from work after school. I would climb up in a chair, get a spoon and dip it in the smooth peanut butter jar. I would then tuck the spoon upside down in my mouth, sit in front of the TV and savour my peanut butter spoon snack for hours. Sometimes that would be dinner too. Wow, this brought back memories.

2) Dylan - what can I say. I love him. He is presence personified. I cried my eyes out at the end of this video.

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