25 Reasons I Do SoulFood

B”H

There’s a therapeutic journaling tool I love called the List of 100.

It’s simple. You take one question, or a sentence stem, and come up with 100 answers. In one sitting. Rapid-fire. No stopping to think too much, no editing, no trying to come up with something profound. Just write.

And here’s where it gets interesting.

The first answers are usually the obvious ones. The things you already know. But as you keep writing, you start running out of things to say. You repeat yourself. You get stuck. You might even write “I don’t know” ten times.

Keep going!

Because that’s often where the good stuff starts coming out.

The idea is to get past the obvious, past the inner editor, and uncover what’s beneath the surface. Thoughts, feelings, patterns, resistance, desires, things you didn’t even realize were there.

And repetition? That’s gold. When something keeps showing up on the page, pay attention.

Now, you don’t always have to write 100. You can make a List of 3, 5, 10, or 25. It depends on what you’re looking to uncover and how deep you want to go.

The trick is to write fast, not smart. Don’t think. Just spill.

Recently, I decided to do a List of 25.

25 reasons I do SoulFood.

Not why I teach it. Not why I created it. Why I do it.

Because yes, I teach SoulFood. But I’m also very much on this journey myself.

And as I started writing, I was reminded, once again, that while food may be where this whole journey begins, it is certainly not where it ends.

So here goes.

25 Reasons I Do SoulFood

1. Freedom.
2. Freedom from the binges.
3. The chatter.
4. Oh, the chatter!
5. The lack of control.
6. The self-sabotage.
7. The unquiet mind.
8. The craziness.
9. The eating that is all over the place.
10. The feeding that feeds the yetzer hara.
11. Is בהמיש.
12. I do SoulFood to teach.
13. Avodah.
14. With the food.
15. Through the food.
16. Sure, to lose weight.
17. But to peel off the layers of oneself,
18. That gets covered up with the food.
19. To teach seder.
20. Tikkun.
21. Structure.
22. Ayeka.
23. Hashem in everything.
24. That’s why I do SoulFood.
25. To share Hashem.