The Higher Self with Danny Morel

#214 - How To Create A Sacred Relationship With Food

Oct 30, 2025
Daniel Ríos Romero, a community director and facilitator, dives deep into the sacred relationship we can foster with food. He shares his personal journey from using food to mask pain to discovering nourishment that honors life. Topics include the impact of ancestral scarcity on modern food relationships and the transformative power of fasting. Daniel also guides a mindfulness exercise involving tasting various foods, encouraging a profound connection to their origins. This journey emphasizes slowing down and deeply savoring food, turning every meal into a moment of gratitude and connection.
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INSIGHT

Food Mirrors Your Life

  • Food reflects our life: how we treat nourishment reveals how we treat existence and relationships.
  • Seeing food as sacred shifts energy from guilt to reverence and transforms eating into healing.
ANECDOTE

Transformation Through Fasting And Ceremony

  • Daniel Ríos Romero describes using fasting, cleansing, and ceremony to hear truth and lose over 100 pounds.
  • He framed those practices as shedding past lives and turning shame into sovereignty.
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From Matriarchy To Masked Overeating

  • Daniel shares growing up in a loving matriarchy, then migrating to the U.S. where food became a comfort amid fear and belonging issues.
  • Football identity and high-calorie eating masked pain until community and fitness began his healing.
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