Episode Details

To the outside world, Divina Balazo was the picture of health: a successful vegan food blogger living in a high-rise apartment. But on the inside, she was spiritually starving. Her journey hit a breaking point when she found herself lying on her floor at 10 a.m., hungry but refusing to eat, realizing that her pursuit of the perfect diet had become a cage.

In this episode, Divina joins Corissa to discuss the controversial and deeply personal transition from strict veganism back to omnivorism. She deconstructs the ego death required to let go of her identity as The Plant-Based Palette and explains why listening to her biology over her ideology was the ultimate act of spiritual surrender.

Corissa and Divina dive deep into the Energetics of Food. Divina shares why she refuses to cook when she is emotional, the profound experience of eating a "breathing" steak that reconnected her to her deceased father, and how to source food with enough reverence to honor the karmic exchange of life and death.

In this episode, we cover:

• The Perfection Cage: How Divina’s eating disorder and perfectionism masked themselves as a healthy lifestyle, and the rock bottom moment that changed everything.
• Ideology vs. Biology: The spiritual danger of attaching your identity to a diet (or to anything), and the courage it takes to pivot when your body asks for something different.
• The Microdose of Meat: A visceral story about breaking her vegan diet with a tiny piece of steak, and the ancestral connection it unlocked.
• Cooking as Alchemy: Why Divina sets intentions and prayers with her kitchen team before every event, and why she won't touch food if her energy is "off."
• Itadakimasu: The Japanese practice of giving thanks to everything involved in the meal, from the sun and soil to the farmer and the animal.

Notable Quotes:

• "Don't let your ideology get in the way of your biology." — Divina Balazo
• "I was starving, but I didn't want to eat... if this is what life is about, then it's not fit for me." — Divina Balazo
• "I have to process this [emotion] right now before I start prepping... because I don't want that energy going into this food." — Divina Balazo

Resources & Links:

• Connect with Divina Balazo: https://divinabalazo.com 
• Divina on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/divinabalazo

Connect with Corissa:

• Explore the Advisory. https://corissasaintlaurent.com/advisory
• Inquire for Keynotes. https://corissasaintlaurent.com/speaking

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