FulFILL Yourself Today & Everyday

So, this being my very first entry, I am using this as the perfect opp to explain what I call Primary Food. I consider primary food to be everything you allow into your life to fulfill and satiate you in body, mind, and spirit. Parts of my primary food daily diet include: fetch with my Sienna every morning (first thing!), cuddle time with Mango (my cat) on my lap mid morning around nap:30, a show, blog, or youtube video that makes me laugh out loud, and something that makes me go "hmmm" and expands my mind and way of looking at the world. Things I wish could be part of my everyday, but tend to only make it in my monthly diet are things like: creating on canvas, finding a great place to enjoy a cuppa under lush trees, and being around children and their heart-lifting laughter.
My Secondary Food practice is everything that passes my lips, what we would all know as "food". It seems, to many, much easier to be diligent about one type of food than the other. We all know that eating a fatty, sugar-coma-inducing, high sodium dish is not good for our bodies.To be healthy we have to eliminate or moderate these in our daily diet. But, what about a volatile relationship? Staying in an unfulfilling career? Not taking steps to help alleviate stress in your daily life, or conversely, not taking steps to add JOY to your daily life? These can all be just as, if not more, harming to your body by allowing them to be part of your life, too! The trick is finding balance!
There are studies and books that all acknowledge facts that when people are unhappy or unfulFILLed in their primary foods, they tend to substitute that emptiness and dissatisfaction with secondary foods. You know, the drown-your-sorrows-in-a-pint-of-ice-cream scenario. No one has ever been on record for doing that when they are super-duper happy or around people that they love and enjoy! It's always the alone, depressed, sad, not-feeling-loved moments. Sarah McLauchlin's "Ice Cream" song comes to mind. "Your love is better than ice cream, better than anything else that I've tried."
I know that I've eaten everything is sight and not felt satiated, and then I get a phone call, or email from someone I love that finally fills me to the point of satisfaction. It's one of those things that brings me back to the point of reflection and accountability. All I had to do was reach out for some love and I wouldn't have downed that entire thing of ice cream! I've learned to utilize some of the people and things I keep in my "life pantry" more often. It's not always easy taking that initial step of contact, even to my sister, but it's always exactly what I needed and I'm healthier for it.
I've learned to embrace a lot of "colorful" things in my primary foods, just like I do in my secondary foods, too! Adding more color and variation to your secondary food platter is proved to be healthful and covers many nutrition requirements. I think the same goes for our primary food platters. Variety is the spice of life, and all that. Do something new, out of the ordinary, make conversation with someone you don't know, try a new trade, take an art class! Whatever new food you've been wanting to try, why not throw caution to the wind and just do it? It will make you happier = healthier!
So, what's on your 'plate' today? Whatever it is, make it satisfying and satiating.