Meal Making Transformation for Healthier, Happier Eating
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Hi, I’m Mary Collette.
I’d like to introduce you to something entirely new if you struggle making healthy meals.
- What if a big part of the problem is the thinking and beliefs you bring into the kitchen, and
- What if you could meet with greater success by embracing the kitchen and cooking as vital pathways to good health?
I hope you’ll follow along as I share more about this unusual approach. It may well be the missing link you’ve been hoping for.
Headwinds–the constellation of headwinds you face
It’s probably hard to remember a time when life was not so chaotic, stressful and overwhelming. And it’s probably just as hard to imagine when things will ever be under control so you can make meals that take good care of you.
So, what’s the end game here? Will things ever change and get better? Or do you just give up? Resign yourself to never making and eating the health-giving meals you long for?
- What if there was a way to escape the “modern life trap?”
- What if you could get to a place with a little calm and sense of control, where you could make and eat the meals you deeply crave: Wholesome, vegetable-rich, yummy—and quick and easy!
Hope–for quick, easy, delicious and healthful meals
Can I offer you hope through an entirely new approach: Not another diet, not more recipes, not another quick kitchen tip, not a new super food.
Instead, a new, deeper, transformative way of thinking.
“Mary,” you’re probably saying, “How can a thinking transformation help me? I need quick and easy recipes, I need kitchen tips to save time, I need better pans, I need an Instant Pot, I need a diet app, I need a shopping service . . ..
But don’t you already have all these kinds of things?
Take a look around your kitchen. Most people have drawers and counters filled with time-saving appliances and gadgets, access to thousands of recipes from cookbooks and the Internet, a shopping service app on their smartphone, a grocery store with prepared veggies and whole grains, and an endless stream of nutrition information from multiple sources.
This is why I’m challenging you to consider a new, hopeful solution, something transformative that goes beyond quick tips, more recipes and cool gadgets.
- What if we took a look at the deeper thinking, perspectives, assumptions and values we bring to the kitchen?
Magic–breakthrough, without struggle or stress
It’s because our thinking and beliefs are what drive us. In other words, our actions follow what we value–naturally, without stress or sacrifice.
So if, at the deepest, heartfelt level, we value the very special (almost sacred) act of feeding our bodies well, something wonderful happens: Our lives open up to make room for healthy meal making. The time, motivation and energy show up to make the health-giving meals of our dreams.
Kind of like magic.
Limiting Beliefs–experience freedom from convenience thinking
Unfortunately, we don’t get to experience that meal making magic. Instead, we’re trapped by limiting beliefs, e.g., cooking is too hard, tedious, time-consuming and overwhelming for ordinary home cooks.
These limiting beliefs have been put there by our Convenience Eating Culture. It has made us believe that cooking is not a worthwhile use of our time and we should instead eat convenient but health-compromising processed foods.
Yet these limiting beliefs are not our thoughts and beliefs. It is only modern food marketing that has convinced us to believe that eating factory-made convenience foods is an acceptable substitute for real, whole foods.
Happily, we can change our beliefs at any time—and open the door to easeful, everyday healthy cooking and eating!
Transformation–go deeper & shake things up by the roots
So once again I’m asking, do we need a transformation, reframe, and re-imagining of our relationship to food, eating, the kitchen and cooking?
Do we need to shake things up by the roots?
I know that sounds like a tall order when it feels like you have no time. But guess what? Transforming the way you think takes barely any time, just three simple and quick steps:
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Your Transformation Guide
In the cultures we admire for their healthful and delicious diets, the kitchen and cooking play a central and very much valued role. Much as we might want to, we cannot follow their lead without reframing and transforming our relationship with cooking and kitchen. We must see, embrace and value them as critical pathways to the good health we crave.
This is the lesson I learned from the health crisis I and my children suffered 35 years ago. While an allergen-free, vegetable-rich diet healed us fairly quickly, sustaining that eating approach was not easy as I juggled child-rearing plus a new business. I ranted and raved at the “injustice” of having to make real, whole food meals three times a day, every day. Why couldn’t we just order a pizza, eat a PBJ or make a cheese quesadilla?
Gradually, however, I realized that the kitchen and cooking were healing modalities as vital as any pill or supplement. I came to see them as my allies and partners, delivering the good, energetic health I so loved. Clearly, this deeper transformation in thinking was an absolutely critical foundation for making a good diet happen consistently, despite a crazy busy life.
I wish you wonderful good health and if my experience and hard-won wisdom could help you go deeper and transform the thinking and perspectives you bring to the kitchen, I would love to be your guide and partner.
You have really helped me over the years to slowly shift my thinking about cooking and the kitchen. I’m so much more willing to try things and to actually spend time cooking. I enjoy it now!
– Kimberley, from our reader community
I can absolutely see how what you’re creating could be a meaningful complement to the work of health coaches and nutritionists, especially in supporting implementation and day-to-day integration. It sounds like you’re building something really impactful here, keep going with it.
– Elyse Wagner MS, CN, LMHCA, A Nourished Life Health Coaching
You were a wonderful SoulShift guest. Your grace and enthusiasm for your message are both motivating and inspiring.
– Mindy Gorman-Plutzer, FNLP, CEPC, CHC Functional Nutrition and Eating Psychology Coaching
You are always inspiring!
– Hawten, from our reader community
Thank you so much for your talk today! I learned a lot and cannot wait to start implementing some new ideas and ways of thinking. I can see it’s just a mindset shift that needs to occur. That really helps me–that it just takes changing the mindset.
– Simone, participant in “The Inconvenient Truth About Healthy Eating”
Thank you for adding me to your newsletter list! This is fun and informative stuff. I appreciate it!
– Therese, new member of our reader community
What a joy it has been to get to know you and work with you. Your enthusiasm and commitment to engage people in healthy eating and cooking is so evident in everything you do.
– Leslie Feurborn, LiveWell Longmont Worksite Wellness Coordinator
It’s been four years since I took a class but I’m still enjoying cooking, and just shared last weekend how taking your classes changed my relationship to cooking and allowed me to feel comfortable in the kitchen and with cooking.
– Maureen
Before this class I felt uncomfortable in the kitchen. Now I am excited about cooking and trying new things!
– Amanda
I loved the class.
– Elaine