How to Fuel Radical Self-Love With Food

To practice radical self-love is to live life in a way that honours your worth, enoughness, and inherent right to happiness, here and now, just as you are. This can be easier said than done in a world that’s bursting at the seams with diets, quick fixes, and perfectly filtered faces. It can feel like there’s always something you can do better or somewhere you’re falling short in life.

Food is an especially challenging area when it comes to practicing radical self-love. It’s often fraught with expectations around what’s “healthy” or what your food choices say about you. On the other hand, it’s also a perfect way to actually fuel your radical self-love.

In this article, we’ll be encouraging everyone to let go and love themselves more while delving into how we can create more self-compassion with food.

Eat Mindfully

Eating can be a pleasurable experience—if you’re mindful as you do it. Funny enough, it’s often the case that you’re not actually paying attention to your food as you eat it. It’s the practice of being present with yourself, your food, and the experience at each meal. It’s about taking pleasure in each bite, no matter what the food is.

Let Go of “Good” and “Bad”

This is another lingering habit from living in a world consumed by diet culture. You may have been taught, or simply learned by hearing and watching others, that some foods are “good” while others are “bad.” One way to fuel radical self-love with food is to let go of this rating system. Instead, let all foods have a place in your life. Everything from a bowl of cereal to a cookie or a veggie stir fry can be pleasurable, nurturing, and supportive in different ways. There is no such thing as being “perfect” when choosing food. There’s just loving yourself and honoring your desires.

Fill Your Life With Radical Self-Love?

Food is a great tool to practice and fuel radical self-love. Learning how to create more self-love around food should be an important part of anyone’s wellness journey. Use these ideas to tune more deeply into your intuitive desires, learn to trust yourself, and finally see all food for what it is: an opportunity to nurture, love, and care for yourself, no matter what you’re craving.