Grape Fasting for 60 Days Pep Talk - unintended episode

About this episode

Sheri shares an unexpected heart-to-heart pep talk about her decision to undertake a grape fast and confronts themes of addiction and transparency.

Join me for my strangest episode yet, because it was not intended to be on a podcast. I was giving myself a serious heart-to-heart pep talk while getting ready to take Jebby to the vet for a growth on her eyelid. Call it a come to Jesus moment, an epiphany... an I don't know what. It was intense. When I reached the part about addiction, it shifted unexpectedly from a pep talk for myself to me defending my decision to do another grape fast so soon and the whole addiction vein within my family, like I was on trial. The decision to share this as a podcast episode consciously hit me several hours later. Maybe I just slipped in and out of podcast mode, because I was recording on the same app. I don't really know, and it doesn't really matter. When I listened to it, because I've needed the pep talk a lot today, three things were clear to me. The first was that I should share it for the sake of full transparency. The second was that it could help someone who thinks or feels that they're all alone in their food addiction. The third was that it was going to take an enormous amount of courage for me to actually share it in the podcast. It's hard for me to listen to it, let alone share it…

People in this episode

Host: Sheri Meshal

Topics covered

• grape fasting
• addiction
• self-reflection
• transparency
• food addiction

Keywords

• grape fast
• addiction
• self-improvement
• food addiction
• transparency
• pep talk

Mentioned in this episode

Places: Ireland