food for the soul™
food for the soul™ is a unique online experience, a portal of inspiration that supports and empowers you to take 100% responsibility for your life. How? By serving up ideas to inspire personal responsibility and nurture your soul.
Whether it’s some daily #SoulFood, seasonal #WellnessTonic, occasional #NourishingNibbles, or how freedom can be experienced in #TheFreedomZone, simply fill out the form to become a member and get your fill of ideas to chew on by joining our FFTS community. It’s free!
Inspiration
Today’s #SoulFood | Roy T. Bennett
“Attitude is a choice. Happiness is a choice. Optimism is a choice. Kindness is a choice. Giving is a choice. Respect is a choice. Whatever choice you make makes you. Choose wisely.” ~ Roy T. Bennett
Today’s #SoulFood | Jon Kabat-Zinn
“Note that this journey is uniquely yours, no one else’s. So the path has to be your own. You cannot imitate somebody else’s journey and still be true to yourself.” ~ Jon Kabat-Zinn
Today’s #SoulFood | Carl Sandburg
“Nearly all the best things that came to me in life have been unexpected, unplanned by me.” ~ Carl Sandburg
Wellness Tonic
Welcome the Change
“The Change” is an inevitable part of life. For decades, menopause was clouded in shameful secrecy. Now, we are able to speak about it openly, but it is still clouded in mystery.
Sit Up Straight!
Contributed by Natalie S. Does that phrase sound familiar to you? If you’re like me you probably heard this refrain time and time again when you were growing up. As much as I hated it then, I came to realize the benefits of this habit, benefits that last a lifetime....
How to Avoid Comfort Eating
Contributed by Sylvia R. Food is often used for comfort. When we are sad, we may look to a pint of ice cream for comfort. When we are stressed, that bag of chips suddenly seems necessary. But all comfort eating does is make us feel worse afterwards. We knock...
Nourishing Nibbles
Benjamin Spock
"Trust yourself. You know more than you think you do."
Anonymous
"For almost all of us, the systems that educate us to be adults stifle our natural joy and curiosity. We lose touch with our innate appreciation of life. We forget how to dream. The blessing is that with attention, patience and love, we can reawaken our sense of...
The Gifts of Imperfection | Brené Brown
“Authenticity is a collection of choices that we have to make every day. It's about the choice to show up and be real. The choice to be honest. The choice to let our true selves be seen.”
About Us
I am Donna Marie, Vision Chef of Food For The Soul. I was born and raised in Jamaica (the Caribbean–not the neighborhood in Queens, New York) and have lived in the United States for over 30 years.
In the early 2000’s, I came across Zig Ziglar’s quote, “People often say motivation doesn’t last. Neither does bathing–that’s why we recommend it daily” and I had an epiphany; being inspired is a practice, a habit that needs consistent nurturing.
So I began my daily practice that included reviewing an inspirational saying each morning and setting an intention for the day. I got so much out of this that I started sharing these quotes with my friends; this took off and I was inspired to officially launch food for the soul™ at a neighborhood spot, The Broken Cup, in 2007.