Christina Campion: Macrobiotic cook and counsellor with a story to tell
Born not wanting to eat, health-compromised, and struggling in her body for most of her childhood, then flirting with death both consciously and unconsciously, Christina was eventually and most fortunately guided to a whole new way of living and eating that has gifted her ever since, with an abundance of great good health, humility, and gratitude for all.
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Christina was “instructed“ to write a book recounting her life-long relationship with food and eating and how an experience of eating consciously changed her forever.
“The Art of Chewing”
(an excerpt from Time to Eat)
In the early spring of 1986 while living in a sixth-floor walk-up apart- ment in New York City, a little paperback book arrived in the post, a gift sent from some friends in England with whom I had stayed a few months earlier.
Within hours after reading the book, I was seated with a small bowl of freshly cooked brown rice and chopsticks and started to follow the author’s suggestion to begin eating, for the first time in my twenty-nine years of life, consciously. What I experienced during the next two hours of silent, purposeful, counted chewing was so extraordinary that it changed and has shaped my life ever since.
What People Are Saying About Time to Eat
“I was happy to guide Christina and be part of her journey to health. I always admired her courage and tenacity in following everything to completion. This is the spirit that always leads to lasting health.”
Denny Waxman
Senior macrobiotic counselor, and teacher, and author of The Great Life Diet, The Complete Macrobiotic Diet and The Ultimate Guide to Eating for Longevity. He is the founder of the Strengthening Health Institute.
”Christina Campion’s memoir Time to Eat is an extraordinary personal journey that takes us from an illness to health and survival. The journey begins at birth with a condition called hypoglycemia and takes us through Christina’s frightening accounts of eating disorders and near- death experiences. The memoir serves as a guideline to those who may be suffering from disorders such as bulimia, anorexia and other food addictions and depicts her strength, courage and first-hand knowledge of how to survive these diseases and leads the reader to understand and believe in the healing process.Time to Eat is a spiritual as well as a practical book on how to survive eating disorders with delicious macrobiotic recipes, food tips and general ways of overcoming stress and adversity and is a must read for anyone who is suffering from eating disorders and searching for a path to health.”
Margarita “Mourka” Meyendorff
Award-winning author of DP- Displaced Person and Flipping the Bird.
Meet Christina Campion
Christina was born and educated in North Yorkshire, England. She met and married an American who was living in London, and they moved to the United States with their baby daughter in 1979. It is probably not an accident that Christina has been so interested in food and health for much of her 64 sixty-four years on the planet.
Born not wanting to eat, health-compromised, and struggling in her body for most of her childhood, then flirting with death both consciously and unconsciously, Christina was eventually and most fortunately guided to a whole new way of living and eating that has gifted her ever since with an abundance of great good health, humility, and gratitude for all.
She has had a very diversified career as a chef, with a great variety of styles, transitioning from cordon bleu through to macrobiotics. Christina also enjoys designing clothing, is a gifted seamstress, and has assisted in a few different national and international aid programs.
Christina now resides in the lower Catskill Mountains in Upstate New York, in a beautiful recycled wood cabin that she built with the help of some very generous friends involved in the community barter system that she set up in 1996. She has a strong connection to and love of nature and all that is natural and strives to tread gently on the earth.
