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The Rules We Swallowed
Essays for curiosity, contemplation, and a closer look at what we take in.
We take in more than food.
We take in language, expectations, beliefs, relationships, definitions of health and success, ideas about who we should be, and stories about what a good life is supposed to look like. Some nourish us; some once did. Some were never really ours, though we may have carried them for years.
And all of it meets a body.
Through the physiology of the gut, the language that shapes meaning, and the ordinary experiences of being human, these essays explore the conditions from which we meet life, what we take in along the way, and what happens to us through the encounter.
Because living requires exchange. We have to be permeable enough to receive what nourishes us and distinct enough to remain ourselves as we are changed by what we encounter.
Not everything we take in needs to become us.
Sometimes, seeing the relationship more clearly changes what becomes possible next.
What We Were Fed
Some of what shapes us arrived so gradually we stopped noticing it came from somewhere else. These essays explore the expectations, inherited beliefs, relational patterns, and cultural rules we have taken in—and what becomes possible when we can distinguish what has influenced us from what we want to carry forward.
The body has never existed apart from the life being lived. It is shaped through what we encounter, what we carry, what we take in, what we release, and what becomes part of us along the way. Perhaps the invitation is less about becoming better at managing ourselves and more about becoming curious about the living already happening.
The body we inhabit.
What we were fed.
The life we metabolize.
And everything that becomes possible when we begin to notice the relationship.
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