the Weekly path
FOR LIVING IN ALIGNMENT
Mama’s,
It’s time to redefine strength and play with a new train of thought.
Aches, pains, excessive tension and bodily dysfunction need not be the norm!
And complete postpartum healing is possible, no matter where you’re at.
Vitality, comfort, strength and regeneration is our bodies norm, so long as we stay attuned to Her - so long as we work with Her, instead of place egoic demands on Her.
Now here’s a couple videos for you to digest and play with this week! Enjoy!
xo Z
What is Functional Strength + 3 Things to Focus On When Building Functional Strength
Daily Core Integration Exercise for You
FOOD AS MEDICINE
Easy Lentil Potato Soup
Oh my goodness! This is by far my favourite dish of the season so far! I’ve been craving the earthiness of these combined ingredients along with a soft tang and sweet robust mix of flavours…I’m curious to hear of you like it!
INGREDIENTS
1 tbsp coconut oil (or just saute veg in water)
6 cloves garlic — minced (I went heavy on the garlic this time)
1 cup diced yellow onion
1 carrot, large — 3 - 4 oz
2 cup freshly roasted tomatoes
1 1/4 cups lentils — I used a mix of green, red split and black lentils, but green only work great.
1 cup chick peas
12 oz potatoes — cut into bite sized pieces
2 tsp salt
2 tsp cinnamon
1 tsp turmeric
1 tsp cumin
1/4 tsp black pepper
4-8 cups of broth (I used homemade so we get the robust flavour
4-5 cups water (depending on your consistency desire)
Maple syrup to taste (if you want) - Jude added a tiny bit to his!
Squeeze lots of lemon on top just before serving
Garnish with fresh basil or cilantro
DIRECTIONS
1. Heat oil (or just use water) in a large pot or Dutch oven. Add onion and cook for 1 minute. Add garlic and carrots. Cook for 2-3 minutes, stirring frequently, to prevent burning.
2. Add in the roasted tomatoes, and lentils. Cook for 1 minute. Add potatoes. Pour 4-8 cups of water on top. Add all spices. Cover and bring to a boil. Reduce heat to medium-low and simmer for 25-35 minutes, until the lentils are cooked and potatoes are tender.
3. Taste the soup and add more salt and pepper if needed. Squeeze fresh lemon and garnish with greens of choice (I Iove basil with this). Serve warm.
Instead for water, you can use vegetable or chicken stock (broth) for more flavor.
You can add 1 bay leaf if you are a fan of the flavour.
What’s Next?
ZOEY’S OFFERINGS TO TAKE YOU DEEPER
A New Way
Zoey’s immersive 6 month 1-1 offering where we lean on somatic healing, transpersonal coaching and holistic wellness to uncover the steady bliss of your true nature.
Beyond your thinking mind, survival strategies and unconscious default responses and habits, there is a well of authentic joy, brilliance and confidence that’s waiting for your arrival.
Inside the heart of your true nature lies the light that shines a genuine enchantment for life - I would love to help you reconnect to, and express it.
Mama’s I believe that this work is an absolute necessity for mothers these days, given how much we carry, alchemize and influence on so many levels. Send me a message if you're interested and we’ll plan a time to connect - I would love to work with you!
THE DESIRE ALTAR
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let us know what you need and desire, so we can show up for you in a timely way!
WHAT TO EXPECT
Inside the Weekly Path
Stepping stones:
Stepping Stones are our weekly offerings to help keep you on a path that feels good. They are delivered in a way that harmoniously reflects and activates the constant dance between the divine feminine and masculine and the mind-body- spirit-nature connection. You can think of these as life-serving skills, insights and resources to invite into your life.
The Stepping Stones are placed along a spiral path, so they can be metabolized and integrated at any point in your journey as a nurtured mother.
Food As Medicine:
We’re living in a time where our physical, mental and spiritual health is being tested by our modern food and the systems that try to control it.
So much of what we’re sold as food isn’t actually food (even all that ‘health food’ stuff), so the more that we can view food as vessels for high vibe life force energy, the more we can enjoy a deeper relationship with the food that fuels ours and our families bodies.
Each week I will be including some of my fave Food As Medicine recipes for you, and the bodies that you cherish.
Wild Card:
It is here that you'll get to keep tending to the flames of that WILD WOMAN WITHIN through radical acts of self love. In The Nurtured Mother we revere non-sense, play and de-conditioning as some of our greatest medicine! But we have to remember that the bliss that we experience is always relative to how much we’ve experienced the other side, so we will touch down in so many ways here.
Desire Altar:
This is where you get to share what you need and crave, so that I can shape shift alongside you and pour my efforts in a timely way. This is such a great opportunity to stay attentive to your needs and desires and then communicate them.
Everything that you share in this altar is between you and I.
What’s next:
Here you’ll find opportunities to dive deeper and satiate the calls that come up for you as you courageously forge A New Way with The Weekly Path.