Anamnesis
(ἀνάμνησις)
To remember what the soul has always known.
Nourishment is not quantifiable. It is something to embody and to live in connection with. To feed your body with intention, is to feed your soul with recognition.
Amamnesis & Nutrition with Robyn
Anamnesis is the foundation of my approach to nourishment.
Healing Doesn’t Happen From the Outside in. It’s 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, rather, we learned it how to disconnect.
We were encouraged to manage the body instead of listening to it.
We were taught to doubt and ignore hunger and fullness.
To numb what felt like too much.
To strive instead of rest.
These patterns are adaptive & intelligent, self-protective responses to the environment, internal & external stressors, trauma, 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 Mind, Body & Spirit.
We learned to override the body’s innate wisdom with strategies that once helped to create safety, but now keep us dissociated from ourselves and others.
Anamnesis is remembering what’s true so that your 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.