Sexuality can be many things. It can be a daily practice, a ritual, a way of connecting with ourselves. It can be embodiment, a break from the monotony and labor of thinking, feeling, and dissociating. It can be play, a return to our child self, perhaps lost to adulthood or exiled from our psyches.

Many of us carry shame, trauma, and a variety of other feelings about food and nourishing our bodies. Even if we are able to deconstruct all the “shoulds” of the powers that be, how do we reconstruct a healthy relationship between our bodies and what we consume?