Anamnesis
(ἀνάμνησις)
To remember what the soul has always known.
Nourishment is not something we do. It is something we remember. To feed the body with presence is to feed the soul with recognition.
Amamnesis & Nutrition with Robyn
Anamnesis is the foundation of my approach to nourishment. Healing is not achieved from the outside in — but remembered from the inside out.
We are born with an innate orientation toward balance, harmony, and wholeness. This wisdom lives in the body — in sensation, instinct, appetite, breath, emotion, and desire.
This is what I call soulular memory — the memory stored not only in cells and tissues, but in psyche, lineage, intuition, and deep knowing.
We weren’t born disconnected; we learned it. We were taught to doubt hunger and fullness, to manage the body instead of listen to it, to strive instead of rest, and to numb what felt like too much. These patterns are adaptations—intelligent responses to culture, stress, and attachment history. Anamnesis is the remembering beneath what was learned: the inner truth that lets us gently unlearn what no longer serves, and return to a trustworthy relationship with the body.
We learned to override the body to feel safe. We learned strategies that helped once — and now keep us apart. Anamnesis is remembering what’s true so unlearning can begin.
Foundations of Amamnesis
The Return
Your body is not a problem to fix, and it is not asking to be corrected. It is not broken, and it is not an obstacle.
Your body is the vessel that carries your becoming— here to guide you, not resist you. It has never stopped trying to bring you back to yourself.
To listen to the body is not to regress. It is to return.
This is the essence of Anamnesis— the remembering of what the soul has always known.
The Reunion
To nourish yourself is to re-enter relationship with your own life. It is how we participate in the living field that holds us.
Through nourishment, we learn to move with the body's own wisdom:
Being with your body is safe. Your nervous system is your guide. Sensation is intelligence.
Feeding ourselves is a return — to presence, to meaning, to connection with the world within and around us.