Lindsay Valley LCSW

🪐🌿 WHY Astrology, TAROT, Fiction & Creative Writing for Intergenerational Trauma Healing & Re-Nourishing Ourselves?

Because these mediums reconnect us to mythology, folklore, and imagination... which is an intergenerational, ancestral reconnection, which is a somatic reconnection, which is a reconnection to body, which is a reconnection to land.

Mythology is ancient wisdom. Before research trials, wisdom was passed down through storytelling. Humans are storytelling, symbol processing, and meaning making animals and we are not separate from our environment but forged by it.

“Traditional folk tales and multicultural myths can be used as powerful tools in the treatment of eating disorders because they are repositories of ancient wisdom about the human condition and because they teach the language of symbolism, imagery, and metaphor. These wisdom tales can help clients gain insight into their disordered eating behavior and can function as effective catalysts for bringing about change in eating patterns.”

- Dr. Anita Johnston,
certified eating disorder specialist

Sometimes the pieces we’re missing come from non-human voices…

Mythology and folklore via the birth chart helps us reconnect to those voices, that color our internal world and inner landscapes…

Keys to the unique way in which you are wired (your emotions, how you connect, your personality) and even, what you came here to do (-Chani Nicholas, astrologer)

Creative writing or fictional media (books, shows, movies) are also powerful because they tap into the imagination for what is possible.

The body wants to heal and re-authoring our story either by picking up a pen ourselves or witnessing through representation, helps us tap into the possibility and power of our own re-authoring, claiming back power, choice, and stepping into our agency.

Books are open with a special introductory rate now ✨🪐📖DM or link in bio to schedule a reading!

Cycle Breakers tend to mourn what seemingly no longer exists... But this grief can sometimes be a defense mechanism in itself, unable to see the abundance that is actually there ✨✨ The World is vast & tapping into counter cultures can be re-empowering and that we are not alone 🤍🌎🌍🌏♻️

🧡 Cycle Breakers often hold onto old stories for far too long, believing that letting go means they would be losing a part of themselves or their source of connection & belonging

🧡 But a refusal to let go may be telling us something about a very important value...

🧡 Tapping into Counter Cultures can shed light on new ways of being, new perspectives, new people... A way to tap into values previously inaccessible.

🧡 Sometimes, we have to let go of what no longer serves us, or sometimes, it’s about holding space for all aspects of Self in a way that feels authentic & empowering ✨

A sense of equilibrium is what we are looking for- physically, mentally, emotionally, socially, spiritually. When we swing too far either way, it is the perfect grounds for restriction and/ or coping with food to occur.

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While on some level, all eating is emotional eating because humans are emotional creatures (the body communicates through “cr@vings,” physical & emotional sensations) here are 4 mental & emotional signs you’ve reached a point where your emotional eating bothers you ❤️‍🩹

1. you feel frustration, h@te, or disgust having to think about food.

2. you feel fatigued by having to think & plan for your next meal.

3. so overcome by food, you reach a point where nothing sounds appetizing, nothing sounds “good” … if you could, you’d be “done” with food. You’re burnt out.

4. negative emotional states follow afterwards like shame, regret, or vowing never again.

✨ So what’s needed in food relationship healing?

Historical, Political, & Pagan/Indigenous educations needed. Resources, mutual aid, reconnecting to Voice, Power & Agency, & Chosen family. Harm reduction in nutrition & self care. Storytelling & using voice & agency for causes & communities valued is needed for wellness….

WORLD BUILDING ✨❤️🌎🌍🌏🦌🌿

Arizona Therapist with Lived Experience in Binge Eating Disorder: Binge eating is an intergenerational broken heart. What's needed? World Building.

New Blog Post!

From Arizona Therapist: Binge Eating is a Broken Heart Arizona Therapist with Lived Experience in Binge Eating Disorder: binge eating is an intergenerational broken heart. What's needed? World Building

Context for Food Relationship Healing: ED’s, Emotional eating, Food relationships, Consumption vs Conservation...
are inextricably tied to the scales of scarcity vs abundance.

Your body, your patterns, will fluctuate in correspondence to how secure you feel in any given moment for your survival.

take a breath & take care of each other < 3


As a Phoenician, my heart is with LA & Southern California right now 🖤

Cycle breakers seek connection and the way to feeling less guarded and more connected is by seeing for yourself how your emotions are not unlike other beings in nature. You are nature. Your birth chart, mythology, & fantasy storytelling is the most healing (and fun!) way to do this ✨✨✨

Because sometimes the pieces were missing come from non-human voices.

Mythology & storytelling provide access to voices and figures we may miss in the present day…

Dieties, heroes, anti-heroes, animals, creatures, forces of nature, including plant life, & the land & weather itself…

Your inner world is an ecosystem 🌿

You feel less guarded & more connected when you reconnect to this ecosystem 🌿🌌

Accepting astrological counseling clients now ✨🌿🌌💛

Food relationship affirmations/ reminders for the holiday season 🌿🧡 if thoughts about food bother you, remember: we are wired to think about food & it is more than okay to find food delicious, to look forward to food, to love eating, etc.

There is a reason why we gather around food. 🪵🔥🌌

Food is love as much as it is also survival.

SAVE THE DATE FREE BINGE EATING WEBINAR 🌿 5/23 11AM MST 🌿 In honor of this Ta**us season 💚🐂🌿 I’m so excited to get this out there & hoping to cover what I can! 💫 Big picture themes in binge eating disorder recovery:

🌿 Binge eating as an intergenerational broken heart.

🌿 Binge eating as a multi-layered survival strategy.

🌿 Harm reduction, not sobriety or abstinence.

🌿 Processed food: Big Food, Industrialized Food Industry implications on Binge Eating

🌿 Food addiction implications

🌿 Emotion regulation, dissociation, physiological, & integrative implications

🌿 Why myth, metaphor, & fantasy are perfect for binge eating recovery (astrology & ecological perspectives)

🌿 Cultural, political & systemic implications on food, cooking, kitchens, health, & nutrition.

🌿 What’s needed: World Building & chosen family. Ecosystem Relationships.

🌿 Resources & recommendations

I’m happy to host again if there’s enough interest! Get on my mailing list for the meet up link!! ⚡️💌🫶🏼 Share with anyone you think needs to hear this! ✨

Thank you, hope to see you there! 💫🌌