A Broccoli and Salmon Sundae

After trying to get married for 3 years, Corbin and I have finally set a date for our wedding!

After trying to get married for 3 years, Corbin and I have finally set a date for our wedding!

We’re getting married on Monday 29th August 2022, at a gorgeous venue in Glasgow that’s been on my swoon list for quite some time.

We have guests coming from as far away as California and Cape Town, and it looks like everyone is in the mood for a party!

As a medium, I am atypical in many ways.

But as a bride-to-be, I am utterly typical. The number one priority is THE DRESS.

Right behind that, my priority is having a fit, toned body to put in that dress!

When we were planning our move to Montreal, I was so excited about all the cool things we’d see and do.

Mushing huskies up the snowy mountains…

Eating maple syrup treats until the point of puking at a sugar shack…

Ice hole fishing at Kanatha-Aki…

But it was not to be.

We moved in February 2020, and lockdown began a week later. All adventures were cancelled.

So…how do you get to know a French-speaking city when you can’t go outside and everything is closed?

By its food of course!

Thanks to the vehicle of culinary indulgence and gastronomical sin that is Uber Eats, Corbin and I spent a year eating our way around Montreal from the comfort and safety of our apartment.

There was ridiculously good pie from Rockaberry…

Mouthwatering Portuguese chicken from Boca Boa…

And, of course, the regional specialty - poutine - from La Banquise.

Our apartment was above a Five Guys burger place. Five Guys and L’Amour du Pain were the only eateries that stayed open near us, so burgers and croissants became a twice weekly occurrence.

I left Montreal with, shall we say, a new ‘COVID coat’ on my body. It was a souvenir of good times, and I regret nothing.

The food in Montreal became our central source of joy, adventure and novelty. It was a season of eating for pleasure.

But, with the wedding booked, I have entered a different season. I have entered the season of eating for beauty and vitality.

I have swapped my morning croissant for oats with full-fat yoghurt, banana and wild blueberries.

In place of a bacon cheeseburger and fries with extra barbecue sauce from Five Guys, I’m enjoying baked salmon with brown rice and either broccoli or asparagus.

In place of my grande-frappe-choco-mocha-caramel-coffee-thingy with whipped cream in the afternoon, I’m enjoying my favourite Japanese green tea that grows near the ocean and tastes like seaweed.

For me, ‘seasons of eating’ is a useful way to think about food. On a fundamental level, we eat to survive, but with the complexity of being human, we eat for multidimensional reasons. And those reasons change depending on which season of life we’re in.

We can eat for pleasure, for ease, for wellness, for fun, for adventure. We can eat for sustenance, for socializing, for novelty, for familiarity. We can even eat for our minds, our souls, and to feel connected to spirit, and to the earth.

We can be hard on ourselves about food. We can feel guilty for what we eat. But I think we should drop the guilt and, instead, seek to understand the reasons why we eat the way we do. Understanding is key, especially, if it’s time to change our eating habits.

I believe we have a deep intuitive knowledge about what our whole being wants us to eat at any given time. And if we want to achieve a certain result, we can ask our whole being what it wants us to eat to attain that result.

In Montreal, my primary needs were to eat to feel good, to have a culinary adventure, and to get to know this new city.

Now, my need is to eat to enter a heavenly wedding dress (and married life) as the hottest, happiest and healthiest I’ve ever been!

We can also eat for a deeper connection to spirit, and for greater clarity in our intuitive abilities.

Many years ago, I asked the spirit world how I might eat to enhance my mediumship. I received two responses.

‘Stop drinking alcohol’, and, ‘Treat food as a medicine.’

I knew spirit was right about the alcohol. I was drinking for all the wrong reasons. But the message that I ought to treat food as medicine took me by surprise, and it permanently changed my relationship to food.

Rather than worrying whether I was getting fat, or how many calories were in my sundae, I started thinking about how I wanted to feel, in body, mind, and spirit, and I started eating to feel that way.

In Montreal, the food I chose to eat was medicine for my soul, and my emotional self. I needed comfort and upliftment - something to look forward to.

Now, I’m eating to experience strength, beauty and energy on my wedding day. I asked my body what it needed to feel that way, and it said, ‘A little bit of fish and lots of vegetables and fruit.’ So that’s what I’m eating.

If you’re in search of greater clarity - in your mediumship, or simply in your intuition - ask your whole self what food it needs to feel clear. A little more water is probably a good start!

Now, I’d love to hear from you. Imagine your current diet is responding to a need you have inside. What is that need?

What kinds of foods do you love to eat?

Please share your thoughts in a comment.