Nourishing Connection
Weekly Online Gathering- Exploring Your Relationship to Food
What is Nourishing Connection?
A weekly space to slow down, and notice how food connects to feelings, needs, patterns, and belonging.
For 6 weeks (January 20- Feb 26 ), this call will be offered twice each week on different days/times to learn what bests supports community participation. After this pilot period, the call will continue once weekly.
Schedule (Jan 20-Feb 26)- bring a meal/snack
Tuesdays, 6-7pm PST, via ZOOM
Thursdays, 12-1pm PST, via ZOOM
You’re welcome to attend either option, or both!
Each call weaves together:
Guided self- reflection and eating meditation
Optional group sharing and connection
Short teachings connecting to NVC
What We’ll Explore:
Using NVC for self-empathy
Deepening connection to body, food, and shared humanity
Bringing curiosity around food choices
Reciprocity
This is a donation-based offering. Suggested contribution: $15-$45 per call.
-Please choose an amount that reflects your resources and appreciation.
This offering is also part of my process as an NVC trainer on the path to certification through the Center for Nonvoilent Communication. If you are curious about my facilitation, you are warmly invited to attend and invite your friends! Your participation and feedback are deeply appreciated as it supports my ongoing learning and growing as a facilitator.
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Shawn Flowers is a private chef, somatic practitioner and educator in compassionate communication with a deep commitment to embodied healing and authentic connection.
Shawn’s relationship with food has shifted from obsession and fear to freedom and curiosity. She once found herself constantly thinking about her next meal, influenced by early fears about “bad” ingredients and diet culture. In adolescence, she questioned what healthy really was, as she witnessed the silent pain of friends navigating eating disorders, in and out of treatment facilities.
Working in restaurants, she saw how those serving beautiful meals often barely ate themselves, or shoved a bite in during the middle of dinner service. Determined to find a new way, she took a deep dive into healing relationship with food. She slowed down and got curious, really curious.
Through years of practice and study, she learned to listen to her body rather than control it, releasing rigid tracking and external rules in favor of self-trust. This shift—central to NVC consciousness—opened space for food to become information rather than judgment, and nourishment rather than punishment.