Jules Blaine Davis on The Kitchen Healer and Becoming Yourself
Jules Blaine Davis joins Doro and Tricia on Health Gig to discuss her new book The Kitchen Healer: The Journey To Becoming You. With insight and ‘heart-work’ Jules shares her wisdom on how to nourish life by becoming yourself and how it’s an ongoing forever conversation. We discuss the beauty of Wood Board Love and creating spaces that encourage expression and healing. Join us as we nourish our minds, hearts, and bodies.
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Quotes:
Take out the silver, uncover that couch. I have no idea how long I'm going to be here. I want to see the beauty. I don't want to just do it on one holiday a year. Jules Blaine Davis
The work to nourish your deepest life and the journey to becoming who you are is a forever conversation. I am never graduating from the program of Becoming Me. Jules Blaine Davis
The kitchen is so phenomenal. It's where the stories are created for so many of us. Jules Blaine Davis
Show Notes:
Jules Blaine Davis: Expression is so. It's so awesome. I didn't realize that it was a healing modality.
Jules Blaine Davis: My mom was an artist and many things. My dad was a neurosurgeon.
Jules Blaine Davis: We're constantly scanning the field for what needs to be fixed and what's wrong and what I do all the time. And that script is so old. I mean, it's tattered.
Jules Blaine Davis: This is a forever conversation. The work around what it looks like to nourish your deepest life. It truly is the journey to becoming who you are. And we're doing that forever. I’m never graduating from the program of becoming me.
Jules Blaine Davis: That's all happening in the kitchen. And it's historical, it's patriarchal, it's archeological, emotional. It's socio-economical.
Jules Blaine Davis: You don't want to eat that over and over again. Then why am I making it so stressful for me?
Jules Blaine Davis: The book offers this invitation over and over again inside the heart, work inside, you know, gathering a team, you know, finding a coach, you know, a kitchen healer, therapy, traveling.
Jules Blaine Davis: Rewriting a story is it's quiet. It's quiet work, you know, to get up from the desk and take 20 minutes to go take a walk.
Jules Blaine Davis: As you have your gatherings right, collective healing when there's a group or even some friends get together and I hold these private retreats or private sessions, it's like, oh, you can hold each other accountable.
Jules Blaine Davis: Making sure that you have a timer on your phone in those heightened times when everyone's coming over and it's going to be a four-hour dinner. You know that. Every 10 minutes on the hour. You're getting outside to just take a breath.
Jules Blaine Davis: I was self-righteous. I really thought, like if you met me on an airplane, this was meant to be and we're going to work together.
Jules Blaine Davis: When people do that, they don't have power, they're afraid. They're trying to make it safe.
Jules Blaine Davis: Wood board love is essentially it's a legacy piece. It's a rewritten story around running on fumes, waiting for dinner, watching obligation just turn into a disaster and really, you know, kind of killing the whole idea of what food and nourishment can be.
Jules Blaine Davis: Take out the silver, uncover that couch. I have no idea how long I'm going to be here. I want to see the beauty. I don't want to just do it on one holiday a year.
Jules Blaine Davis: The sink, I talk about having an altar. If you have a space right there where we're doing the dishes all the time, whether we like it or not. And no matter how much help we have, I mean, we're there, we're there at the sink. And so what do I want to see? Who do I want to be?
Jules Blaine Davis: The thing that I'm inviting us to is when you go home, when you're in your living room, when you're in your kitchen, like, does it feel like you?
Jules Blaine Davis: I'm going to reflect to you with the headlamp I'm wearing because I've been doing this headlamp work my whole life with myself, along with thousands of women being with them in their stories and rewriting them. And so let's do this together. It really is collective.
Keywords:
TriciaReillyKoch, DoroBushKoch, HealthGig, Longevity, Wellness, PhysicalHealth, MentalHealth, Health, HealthCare, Healing, WoodBoardLove, JulesBlaineDavis, KitchenHealer