Mental Health Check-In: Food, Feelings, & Connections

Join us for Mental Health Check-In: Food, Feelings & Connection, a preventative wellness conversation centered on how food impacts our overall well-being beyond diet culture and restriction.Globally, food is recognized as medicine, culture, and a cornerstone of community. This check-in invites us to begin approaching it in the same way, examining how our relationship with food shapes our well-being across multiple dimensions:

Mental | Emotional | Social | Physical | Sexual

From hormones and mood to energy, body confidence, libido, and interpersonal connection, food profoundly influences how we feel — and how we show up for ourselves and for one another.Guided by an interdisciplinary panel of professionals and community leaders, this conversation will explore:

• Food as Information, Not Morality
  Releasing shame, diet culture, and “good vs. bad” food thinking
• Food as Comfort — Without Guilt
  Understanding emotional nourishment and compassion
• From Our Plate to the Bedroom
  How nourishment supports energy, hormones, confidence, and intimacy
• Food as Preventative Care
  Using nourishment to reduce stress, burnout, and long-term imbalance
• Nourishment vs. Restriction
  Shifting from control and deprivation to balance, sustainability, and care
• Food, Culture & Connection
  How ancestry, shared meals, and cultural traditions support belonging and social wellness
• Organic: Marketing or Meaningful?
  Understanding labels, access, and how to make informed choices without pressure or shame

This experience reflects a grassroots approach to wellness—neighbors, professionals, and organizers working side by side to ensure our community has access to holistic, non-clinical support. Trust is built not only through systems, but through shared spaces, honest conversation, and showing up for one another.Food and drinks will be available for purchase.

💜 Community support helps sustain this work.
Donations are welcome and directly support preventative, community-based wellness programming. 501(c)(3) status pending.

Come curious.
Come open.
Come as you are. 🧡