Soulfood is a creative writing project rooted in storytelling, reflection, meditation, poetry and the belief that our experiences can hold meaning far beyond the moments in which they occur. Writing has always been a personal companion on my journey shaping my inner world, helping me to understand myself, others and the world around me at a deeper level. Even those painful experiences that seem to be coated in complete and utter chaos or hopelessness. The stories underneath the experience, the things we survive, the transformations across our lifetimes, the questions we carry that sometimes go unanswered and the many truths/realities revealed as we continue within our choice to stay. 

Much of what you will find here has come from my own alchemy. I share my creative work under my literary name B.E.L. Bloom. It might begin with my lived experience, an ordinary moment, a conversation, something I noticed in nature, a spiritual reflection, or a question I cannot seem to put down. From there, I might explore other sources of wisdom when they can help illuminate something larger. 

When I share something some one else created it is because it inspired or supported me on my journey or an "I thought you should know" type of thing. I will specify if this is the case. 

SoulFood is not about having all the answers. It is about paying attention--to ourselves, to one another, to the world around us, and to the meaning that can emerge when we are willing to look a little closer. SoulFood is about allowing our lives to be the meditaiton and using the reflection to feed the soul--the medicine. Sharing the food and maybe even offering it up to the divine ancestors. Allowing our inner Buddah & inner Jesus to shine, not through religion but through activating our own divine essence inherited by birthright. 

SoulFood is a contribution to the collective hope that another way of seeing, living, healing or becoming may be possible.

This is a space for storytelling, curiousity, reflection, truth, and hope. 

If something you read here makes you sit quietly journal, pray, take a walk, have a meaningful conversation, reconsider an old belief, share something with someone you love, or simply feel more understood, I hope you follow wherever that reflection leads you.