Food Therapy Quotes

“It has also been shown to cause a decrease in melatonin levels, the hormone that helps you sleep, which is a key function in helping us recover from stress and trauma each day.5”
― Luis Mojica, Food Therapy: Conscious Eating to Navigate Anxiety, Stress, and Trauma

“Did I grow up with an empathetic witness to my pain? In how many experiences did I keep my pain hidden from those around me—even those who, looking back, may have had the capacity to hold me through it? Where did I find connection or soothing if I wasn’t getting it from the people in my life?”
― Luis Mojica, Food Therapy: Conscious Eating to Navigate Anxiety, Stress, and Trauma

“Peter Levine, the creator of Somatic Experiencing, says that trauma is “not what happens to us, but what we hold inside in the absence of an empathetic witness.”
― Luis Mojica, Food Therapy: Conscious Eating to Navigate Anxiety, Stress, and Trauma