Artful Eating

Victoria Mary Clarke, artist, author, and designer, joins us to talk about her unique relationship to pleasure - one without limits or guilt. She takes our understanding of pleasure to a whole other level. Enjoy! 

Welcome to the Artful Eating Podcast! Karina and Jessica here to explore all things pleasure. From food, travel and sexuality, to all the ways pleasure works on our psyche. We will have monthly guests, whom we admire greatly, to delve into their own personal paths to pleasure. Today we talk about our new collaboration The Inner Journey, you can find out more about it over on artful-eating.com. We hope you carve out some time for yourself to listen in the way that makes you happiest: on a walk, with a glass of wine...remembering that pleasure doesn't discriminate. We can all have it in our own way at any time, should we so choose. In fact, it unites us. Let's explore the path of pleasure.

Over the next four episodes I discuss this question with real people leading good lives. First up is Jeff. I hope you enjoy!

This month our challenge is to be much more considered about what we consume; food, purchases, products... The theme is to waste less, appreciate what we have more and privilege quality over quantity. We've all herd of minimalism, but why is it so hard? I dig into the reasons why we always want more and why our desire can never truly be satisfied. I hope this insight provides you with the understanding and resolve to stop consuming unnecessarily and start appreciating what you already have. 

Why is it important to carve out time for creativity? I explore this with the most creative person I know: Jette Verdi. We chat about seeking out creative inspiration, be it in nature, theatre, music, art or literature. We explore how being creative replenishes one spirit. Privileging space for creativity and play is uplifting, nourishing and helps us feel good.  

We can have a tendency to take our body for granted. We don’t typically feel wonder or awe at how truly marvellous it is. In fact the opposite is often true; we complain of feeling tired, overweight, having a headache, a sore back, need I go on? We focus most on our body when it fails us, instead of celebrating this incredible life-power which serves us in such a beautiful and functional way.

This month  is an opportunity to remedy this. Join me Karina Melvin, author of Artful Eating , as I discuss the body: physical, pleasure, praise and appreciation! 

Join me Karina Melvin as I tackle one of the most common challenges faced by all of us (me included!) - procrastination. We'll look at some simple and highly effective ways of getting the important things done, and that includes the fun stuff such as spending time with friends and family as well as work! 

I cannot believe we are halfway through 2018! This mid-point seems to me the perfect time to reconnect with the Artful Eating philosophy so that's what I've devoted June's theme to.

We really have lost site of the joy of eating and the pleasure of nourishing ourselves with food we enjoy.  This months podcast will definitely help you reconnect with eating for pleasure. It’s time to shift from controlling what and how we eat to listening to our bodies and privileging pleasure. Weight loss is a joyous consequence!

For those of you that are familiar with the Artful Eating way of  approaching food and pleasure, this podcast will be a little refresher and for those who are new to this approach to weight loss, then this is a little introduction, and you can find out so much more by checking out my book ‘Artful Eating’ either on Audible or on Amazon or any good book store.  If you like what you hear on the podcast and are 'hungry for more (pun intended) then do check out my online program which is a comprehensive  training in the Artful Eating philosophy.