What is My Value Under Capitalism?

Learning to tell the difference between intuition and impulse

August 25th, 2022
Strathcona, Vancouver, Canada

I had a session with an intuitive yesterday and I asked her about my health. In prepping questions for our session, asking about caffeine or sugar or weed never crossed my mind. Work. Love. Money. Travel. All the usual suspects. But my own embodied health? What a concept.

It took her suggestion, and after we’d crossed the work and travel bridges, for me to ask —

“About my health… I’ve tried out cutting out caffeine and sugar. I want to know what’s best for my body and I’m just not sure…”

She looked at me and laughed. “Why would you do that?”

“I don’t know.” I laughed. “Because I like to push the edges of things?”

She nodded.

“Or because I like to punish myself?” I suggested. “I don’t know. It’s a journey.”

“Hm.” She paused, before blowing my mind. “It’s not about the food, it’s about the stress.”

My mouth dropped as this truth ran down my ear canals and into my brain.

It’s not the food. It’s the stress. Ugh. Yep.