Because just one episode speaking to Deborah MacNamara about her book, ‘Nourished: Connection, Food And Caring For Our Kids (and everyone else we love), wasn’t nearly enough, I followed up with this episode. In this hour I savour some of the insight received and more content, highlights from my conversation with Deborah, content from the book and reflections on topics covered such as comfort food, how mazlow went wrong, love and caretaking, being the good provider, food as addiction, vulnerable feelings and more. By the end of the podcast, I was connected to my own memories of food and my own vulnerable feelings as I asked Deborah’s poignant question, out loud and for all of us to curiously explore our own answer to. “If one person could cook for you, who would it be?”

Enjoy.

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Listen to my conversation with Deborah here.

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“Just because you eat food doesn’t mean you’re nourished.” Deborah MacNamara

Deborah MacNamara returns to the podcast with podcast host Julie Cusmariu to discuss her groundbreaking new book, ‘Nourished: Connection, Food, And Caring For Our Kids (and everyone else we love).

Deborah MacNamara takes us on a deep and insightful journey through storytelling, a fantastic riddle (the answer to which is revealed in this podcast at the end), provocative questions, developmental science and robust research to help us make sense of our relationship to food and to reclaim nourishment. I couldn’t agree more with what Dr. Gordon Neufeld declared “After reading this groundbreaking work, it will be impossible for you to ever view food as just food again.”

And I just loved this question posed by Deborah on page 74 of the book and to those she interviewed for Nourished “If you could choose one person to cook for you, who would it be?” What a great and poignant question to ask each other and our kids. There is so much to gain from reading this book, so much to digest and take in, so much to savour and explore. May it provide you with as much nourishment as it provided for me. Thank you Deborah and thank you everyone for tuning in and for the work you are doing in this world as providers and caretakers.

Praise for Nourished

“Nourished is not only a book on parenting, but also arguably a foundational book on becoming a provider in the deepest sense of that construct, form the inside out, to all sides of the child, and fo all the seasons of parenting.” Gordon Neufeld. PhD.

“A timely, wise, and much-needed book. In a society that alienates us from our caregiving instincts, its lessons could not be more urgent.” Gabor Maté, MD.

“Stunningly beautiful, an ode to love, relationships and food. Dr. MacNamara shows how true nourishment is about connection and how the family meal can be a celebration of emotional closeness.” Mona Delahooke, PhD.

Listen to the two previous conversations with Deborah MacNamara on the Julie in Conversation podcast.

Rest, Play, Grow: Making Sense of Preschoolers (or anyone who acts like one)

Making our way through with Deborah MacNamara

About Deborah MacNamara

As a trusted and experienced clinical counsellor for over 25 years in mental health and educational settings as well as private practice, Deborah serves as a leading international expert who provides counselling and educational services to support parents, professionals, and educators. She is also a professional speaker who has presented to the United Nations and The Dalai Lama Center for Peace and Education. Deborah specializes in the relational-developmental approach based on the work of Dr. Gordon Neufeld, empowering parents to become the expert on their children with everyday questions and practical strategies. She came to this work as a new mother herself, curious and confident that his approach could shift not only her children’s futures forever, but also her professional approach to supporting and helping others. Today, she serves on Faculty at the Neufeld Institute. Deborah is the author of the best selling book, Rest, Play, Grow: Making Sense of Preschoolers (or anyone who acts like one) which has been translated into 14 languages and the children’s picture book, The Sorry Plane, which is available in three languages. Her newest book is Nourished: Connection, Food, and Caring for our Kids (and everyone else we love). Www.JulieinConversation.comDeborah MacNamara returns to Julie in Conversation to discuss her recent book ‘Nourished: Connection, Food, And Caring For Our Kids (and everyone else we love).’ www.MacNamara.ca

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Here’s an excerpt from a meditation that was part of my most recent podcast ‘first of all, check inward’ shared in the context of an upcoming virtual workshop I am hosting with Nicole Schiener @peaceandpossibility , Registered Psychotherapist and Compassion Fatigue Professional, ‘Caring Without Carrying It All.’

May you enjoy these almost 4 minutes to check inward and put ‘it’ all down and then return when you want to let go and put ‘it’ all down again.

Listen here

When the opportunity arises and you can take a moment to tune ‘it’ all out, if you so choose, maybe this brief meditation (almost four minutes) might resonate for you; a ‘time out’ to slow down, to let ‘it’ go, to momentarily put down the overwhelm. I acknowledge and honor where you may be, the experience you may be living, what you may be navigating, who you may be caring for in addition to yourself. May you feel ease, some relief and care for yourself and each other (those who you know and those who you do not yet know).

If we honor and care for your own capacity, would you agree that we make more room to care for and honor and ‘see’ others

May you find benefit. Wishing you the best.
Wishing you more peace inside. Praying for peace for all beings.

The title of this meditation shares the name of this 4 week virtual group program Nicole Schiener, (Registered Psychotherapist and Compassion Fatigue Professional), and I are hosting in February 2024 for Sensitive Changemakers, Helping Professionals, Caregivers and Creatives. @peaceandpossibility

February 2024

PRE-APPROVED for 3 Continuing Education Credits (CECs) for the Canadian Counselling and Psychotherapy Association.

Join us to
Reduce overwhelm, reactivity and exhaustion
Prevent burnout and compassion fatigue
Develop and set better boundaries
Know what matters to you and what you want
Deepen trust in yourself

Know your limits
Know your wants
Listen to and make sense of your finely tuned nervous system
Practice body based exercises and trauma informed experiences to support you in caring without carrying it all
Slow down
Let go
Trust your intuition and somatic knowing.

We have designed this program to support you in protecting your time and energy and to honour your capacity and needs as a changemaker, helping professional, creative and caregiver.
www.CaringWithoutCarryingItAll.com

Thanks for tuning in to you.

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Which best describes you?

A. Are you a highly sensitive person?
B. Are you an introvert?
C. Are you a highly sensitive introvert?

Alane Freund and Julie Cusmariu help unpack what it means to be an introvert, how it does and does not relate to being highly sensitive and what you can do, and value about being one or the other, or both!

Alane is a cherished guest and friend of the podcast and always provides such great practical tips and strategies that will benefit you at home and at work and in the world as you create change.

“We always say if a person who is highly sensitive can get in a position of power, then they can change the culture.” Alane Freund.

Let us know in the comments about you and your experience with this topic.

Show notes:

Join me and Nicole Schiener: Caring Without Carrying It All – February 2024 . RECEIV A FREE 15 minute intuitive reading with me or a FREE 15 min reiki session for the first 6 people to register.  http://caringwithoutcarryingitall.com

Discovering Joy retreat. A daylong retreat for HSPS Check it out and sign up here

Here is Alane Freund, Introvert https://youtu.be/vpfOBIH1VWc?si=-IliqkcGKsWepuCO
Introvert Backlash https://youtu.be/8pn3PxbFBlo?si=v_xpMmm2rBpY64qI

What Kind of Introvert Are You? https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/beautiful-minds/what-kind-of-introvert-are-you/ https://scottbarrykaufman.com/the-real-science-of-introversion-and-the-rest-of-personality/

Podcast episode: https://scottbarrykaufman.com/podcast/understanding-the-science-of-introversion-and-extraversion-with-dr-luke-smillie/

Here are links from my previous podcast conversations with Alane.

https://juliecusmariu.com/2023/01/highly-sensitive-person/highly-sensitive-parents-a-conversation-with-alane-freund-and-julie-cusmariu/

https://juliecusmariu.com/2020/09/voices-that-create-change/alane-freund-on-being-a-highly-sensitive-person-in-uncertain-times/

https://juliecusmariu.com/2018/08/julie-in-conversation-motherhood/alane-freund/

Alane’s talk at Google: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2tKDnsns2bg

Are you Highly Sensitive? Take the self-test here.

Find Alane here: Links to events at https://www.alanefreund.com/events/

To join the AYHS membership for two ongoing AYHS Live workshops a month at well below half price and discounts on Alane’s groups and consultation.
Follow Alane IG- / areyouhighlysensitive
YouTube – / @areyouhighlysensitive Meet Alane Freund, LMFT, International Consultant on High Sensitivity www.alanefreund.com & www.areyouhighlysensitive.com

Alane Freund, MS, MA, is an International Consultant on High Sensitivity (ICHS) and family therapist who helps highly sensitive adults and youth focus on solutions through education, consultation, and speaking. She has developed numerous programs for highly sensitive people and clinicians, including her monthly workshops at Are You Highly Sensitive. She is known for her widely recognized Talk at Google, Understanding the Highly Sensitive Person. Alane Freund can be reached through her website, www.alanefreund.com.

Julie Cusmariu is broadcasting from unceded Indigenous lands Tiohtia’ke, known as Montreal, Canada which is the traditional territory of the Kanien’kehá:ka. Kanien’kehá:ka and has long served as a gathering place for many First Nations including the Haudenosaunee , st-lawrence iroqouains, mohaawk and Huron-Wendat and is now home to many diverse First Nations, Inuit and Metis peoples.

About Julie in Conversation

Julie Cusmariu is a Certified Professional Coach, Mentor, Facilitator, Intuitive Consultant and Podcast Host and Producer with over 16 years of experience in the field of coaching, healing, and transformation. Julie supports leaders and change makers trust their intuition, honour the wisdom of their body and use their voice for change. Julie is the host of Julie in Conversation, is the host and creator of Dance Your Intuition and offers the experience of movement and music to individuals and organizations as an opportunity to connect to and access their inner intelligence and wisdom. www.JulieinConversation.com

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The podcast that emerged this week was a meditation. A moment to pause. A space to welcome the swirling feelings. May it be of benefit.

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#mediation #listen #feelings #heart #acknowledge #individualandcollective

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