This is about becoming conscious of the people in your life and whether or not they, like food, are nourishing you or weighing you down.

Detoxing allows us to build the foundational strength of self-regulation and feel beyond the immediate itch or craving, to see down the road so that we can live with planning and purpose and not simply reactively.

Nilofer Merchant, a leadership visionary and inventor, has even declared that sitting is “the new smoking” because it is two times more likely to cause death than smoking.

That’s because this question is bursting with such deep meaning that it often bypasses the head and goes right to the heart.

Interestingly, oxytocin is a hormone that also inhibits cravings, and this may explain why we forget to eat when we fall in love.

I say amen to that, because at the end of the day, at the end of this life, not one of us will ponder whether we were thin enough, quiet enough, meek enough, or “beautiful” enough, whatever that means. What we will take stock of is whether we really took a bite out of life, whether we loved enough, enjoyed enough, and gave and received as much plea

Since then, every time I’ve left a job, a city, or even a partner, when I step into that vast unknown, wide-open space, I can count on something magical happening.

He calls sleep “the food of the brain,” and it is! When we feed our brain the rest it craves, only then can it best support us, in both body and soul. When we’re rested we are able to stay relaxed—especially regarding food. Then we can make wise food choices that will best support us. This is why sleep is so very delicious,

The ritual, the habit, has been broken, or at least put on pause, and what rushes in to fill its place is possibility and choice. This is when the magic can happen.