Nature. Full Stop.

Ooooooooh this week was a whole lot of feelings about old family baggage on food and body stuff... Then— full stop, pausing to get help when you've exhasuted your own troubleshooting, and how can we organize a care package swap of some kind??

WHO KNEW? Sometimes embracing convenience foods can result in way better fueling than trying to avoid them. And embracing an different kind of freeze: When you're hot and bothered and moving fast, sometimes the solution is to just slow the eff down.

Figurative and ACTUAL nutritional deficiencies. Needing more guard rails for our fueling. New discoveries about why we're horribly dehydrated. And *how* many creatures live in Courtney's house??

More lessons from our under-regulated, overstimulated kids. Alone time (what's that?) as a nutrient, Needing physical containment and touch (and not always able to identify that need).

Early mornings like runaway trains that predict the rest of the day (and our entire brains), hurdling towards the dysregulation of summer schedules, the need to just power through it, and yes, we're in another eggy-breakfast phase.

Sick again? What the EFF.

Feeling like a clown punching bag that won't pop back up, grounding things (like eating food!) to avoid flying out of our bodies, choosing to steop off the rollercoaster of restriction and "reward," the power of sweet potatoes.

Taking care better care of ourselves for 2 days and then.... you know the rest. Endless bedtime needs from our kids, shuffling the deck on our priorities, looking for new clothes that make us feel like we're not wearing clothes, and— everything bagels with the everything baked-in?? No thanks. Seeds catching fire in the toaster is part of the experience.

This week was a serious "know yourself" week for both of us. Medical stuff for ourselves and our kids, what we really need for "self care," what we want to eat today... sometimes the external message that we are overthinking and overreacting becomes silencing of our intuition. No thanks. Let's turn up the volume on that internal voice.