Sweet Healing
Free Your Body from Sugar Cravings and Nourish Yourself with Divine Dessert
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Wherever you are, whatever you do, be in love. ~ Rumi
A Gentle Journey: How Best to Use This Guide
You can safely put down your defenses and fears as this is not a book that will further shame you about your desire to gorge on ice cream or reprimand you for listening to that glazed donut that seems to call you by name. Moreover, this means there will be no more guilt-tripping, no more saving up good diet days, so that you can have a bad splurge day. (Yes, let that in). If there’s one thing I believe we’re all learning it is that shaming ourselves does not change anything, but only causes more pain.
Rather, the path unfolding for is about learning to listen to yourself with compassion. It’s about healing. This means learning to respond with new found insight and love while becoming more resourceful with the ability to make fantastic new treats that wholly feed and nourish you. It can be a gentle journey, yet profoundly transformative too.
So to be clear, this book will NOT try to inspire you to have more self-control around sugar. There will be no pumping you up and glazing you over with information overload.
Instead, let this small guide be a companion at your side, like a supportive whisper in your ear or a gentle nudge at your back as you too begin to try your hand at new things that will allow you to explore more sweet possibilities. Even if you do not battle constant sugar cravings, you will discover a new way of eating (and drinking too) with deeper satisfaction that will NOT demand sweet deprivation. It’s a personal process for each of us. What I’ve tried to do here is map out a way for you to move forward with the least amount of struggle.
While I suspect some of you may want to lunge ahead to the Divine Dessert recipes provided in Chapter 4 – and I celebrate your enthusiasm – since each section has principles and ideas that build on each other, it’s important that you harness your eagerness. Focus it upon following the flow of information and guidance as it is presented step-by-step. Soon enough you will encounter a divine dessert with your name on it.
Here’s why the gradual step-by-step process is important: This book is not a diet plan, but rather the opening of a new frontier to explore. While ultimately this will be a place to go wild, creatively engage and discover the sensual enjoyment of whole desserts, your body will be well served to honor a gentle and gradual approach.
Each step offered is best experienced consecutively. Until you have done at least some preparatory healing on your body’s chemical addiction to sugar, you will most likely not be addressing the underlying physical and emotional imbalances that have tripped you up before and may have left you feeling frustrated and defeated. Step-by-step will serve you better. Once established, these “steps” will work in concert, integrated as routines and practices that will support your daily life with you reaping healthy reward.
The recipes included in Chapter 4 will then be a vital resource that will continually serve up divine desserts to a body that’s ready to digest and absorb the nurturing pleasure. You will soon be picking and altering the recipes that delight you the most, experimenting with them, and easily making them a part of your daily or weekly routines. (I can see your coconut oil fingerprints staining the pages now!)
As someone that is continually in conversation with her own digestive system, there’s one last thing I want to stress: the importance of going slowly with dietary change. Our digestion is an extremely complex process and sometimes, especially in the case of severe digestive issues, such as Irritable Bowel Syndrome or Leaky Gut, there will be the necessity to respond to those issues more comprehensively before moving onto the recipe section of this book. In any case, going slowly allows your body, heart, and mind to sync up and work seamlessly together for the long term.
First Things First: Laying the Foundation for Healing
This guide is practical and action-oriented – I want you in your kitchen stirring up deliciousness – yet I’ve done my best to include just enough material to guide and inform you so that you are empowered and able to stay the course, and make your way elegantly and creatively forward. For those of you that want to take your knowledge deeper in places, I’ve included links to resources that I endorse, as they have personally served me well. Otherwise, I will keep you focused only on the essentials that will help you to better understand how to nurture your body and restore and sustain balance and harmony.
I cannot overstate that this is a journey of healing not merely a recipe book where we substitute sugar with healthier alternatives. While we’re divinely blessed to have healthy sweet options, your ultimate sense of freedom means respecting your physical chemistry and emotional body by learning to deeply attune to your needs.
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About the Book
While Ame’s love of healthy baking and cooking spans over 30 years of research and experimentation, she reveals it wasn’t until her mother’s terminal cancer that she was compelled to look more deeply. “My mother’s diagnosis thrust me into my own health crisis, I knew it was time to feed myself better and pursue what truly nurtured me. I knew sugar was slowly destroying my life, yet I didn’t know how to free myself from its sticky grips. “
In this small accessible book, the journey is as much soulfully revelatory as nutritionally illuminating. Ame will guide you on a gentle yet powerfully healing path that she calls “awakening to a new frontier of food and its possibilities”. She states, “We all know simple quick fixes backfire and often hurt rather than help us, but that doesn’t mean lasting solutions to issues and real resolutions to our pain are beyond our reach. They are within our grasp, but we do we need to reach for them.” In fact, Ame’s guiding hand serves up 4 readily digestible steps to make your way lovingly forward to living your “sweet life...”
Step One ~ Claim Your Chemistry, Honor Your Culture:
Healing your internal digestive chemistry, ridding your body of it’s physical cravings, and freeing your body up to be physically nurtured. Includes several cultured recipes.
Step Two ~ Befriending Your Nurturing Adult:
Building a rapport with your Future Self, a self-nurturing presence to serve as your own inner “wiser guide” in making choices that attune you to your own unique “right course of action.”
Step Three ~ Feed Your Cells Well:
Learn what foods actually nourish and rejuvenate, building upon your understanding while empowering you to get creative in the kitchen, so you can discover what feeds you well without confining you to merely following other peoples’ recipes.
Step Four ~ Create Nourishing Divine Desserts:
Make your plentiful pantry from which to craft your nourishing and delicious desserts, creating treats that truly satisfy and heal.
About the Author
Ame Wauters is a Certified Holistic Health Coach from The Institute of Integrative Nutrition, and founder of TheLongevityRecipe.com where she offers gluten-free recipes and guidance to help others craft a self-nurturing way of being and a relationship with food that serves their vitality, lasting health, and happiness. She lives in Novato, California.