A month ago, I visited my family in Germany – and gained about eight pounds – in one week!

We all know that it is impossible to argue with your mom about being full, as her love is expressed through food. It has always been expressed this way, from the moment we were born, and even before. How wonderful.

As I am working out daily to shed my new love handles, I am doing so with a new-found appreciation and understanding of that side of my mother.

Just like the great mother, mothers in all shapes and sizes, mothers of all kinds – really, all mothers – provide, and feed, and nourish. That’s what they do, that’s the definition of a mother.

Why would I love the way the Earth nourishes me, and not the way my mother does, by keep serving me food?

It seems that I have a choice to say no to the Earth Mother, but not to my mom, who gets upset when I decline the fourth serving – but I wonder if that’s really true.

Mother Earth gets just as upset when I say no to her, when I suppress her natural ability and desire to nourish, when I put my rules on her, when I ignore her expression, and when I don’t appreciate the incredible gift of having a mother in my life.

So I will still need to find a way next time I go not to gain weight, but at the same time fully embrace my mom’s expression of her love to me – even when it comes in endless servings.

Or maybe, I will just say next time after my trip, that in one week in Germany, I gained eight pounds – eight pounds of love.

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