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248: Defying Gravity - The Invisible Forces Shaping Your Vegan Practice

Jun 3, 2025

Explore how your surroundings shape your choices, particularly in veganism. Discover the invisible forces that guide everyday habits and cultural norms. Reflect on inherited beliefs and how they impact your journey toward a plant-based lifestyle. Learn the weight of both decisions and inactions, and how intentional changes can shift your trajectory. Engage with powerful journal prompts to evaluate what’s keeping you stuck and how to make empowering choices that align with your values.

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Invisible Life Gravity

Our daily life patterns and routines create an invisible architecture or "life gravity" that shapes our behavior and choices.
These structures either keep us grounded or trapped in existing habits, influencing our ability to change.

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Environment Shapes Behavior

The environments and structures we create shape our behavior and reinforce our values over time.
Once established, such structures don't just reflect beliefs; they deeply influence how we act daily.

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The Weight of Non-Decisions

Not making decisions also has weight and creates a gravitational pull, keeping us stuck in past patterns.
Silence and indecision are powerful forces that influence our life orbit.

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What if the biggest thing holding you back… isn’t resistance or lack of willpower, but gravity?

In this episode, Michele returns from adventures in Granada, Seville, Paris, Strasbourg, and Dublin with fresh eyes on the habits, routines, and unconscious choices that shape our lives. From mealtimes and walking paths to how we relate to food, family, and culture—there’s an invisible architecture guiding your day-to-day life.

“We shape our buildings; thereafter, they shape us.” - Winston Churchill

Our choices—especially the repeated ones—build a kind of gravitational pull that either keeps us grounded… or keeps us stuck.

Whether you’re looking to start, re-start, or re-energize your plant-based practice, this episode is your invitation to notice what’s shaping you—and how to gently, intentionally shift your orbit.
What You'll Learn:

Why your life may be “pulling” you away from the change you want
How both choices and non-choices carry weight
What habits and cultural norms you’ve inherited—and how to evaluate them with love
One powerful journal exercise to start changing your gravity today

Journal Prompts from This Episode:

What choices have I made in the last 10 years that shaped who I am today?
What decisions am I not making that are still pulling me away from the future I want?
What choices did I inherit from family, friends, or culture that I absolutely love?
Which inherited choices might be keeping me a little stuck?
What is one small, intentional, plant-based choice I can make today to shift my orbit?

If you’ve been feeling pulled off-course, this episode will help you recognize your own inner gravity—and start defying it, one intentional decision at a time.

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