I have been doing this challenge for 8 days now. I definitely have felt a lot healthier. I am trying to cook vegetarian meals for my family. My dad is very skeptical when it comes to me being vegetarian. I think there is just a generational difference. He doesn’t understand why people who are vegetarian want to eat ‘meat type foods’ such as burgers and fake mince/chicken products. I try to explain to him that people who don’t eat meat still like to enjoy conventional foods, just without the killing animals part!. I am hoping to get my family to eat 2 veggie meals a week, but this might take some time.
Hi Alison, Thanks for sharing. What a great idea to cook vegetarian for your family. Hopefully they taste some good meals by you and forget about whether it is vegetarian or not and just enjoy the delicious food. It's good to see you and your Dad are having conversations around this. This is a real opportunity. You mention generational differences might be behind his opinion. It could also be cultural norms (as we covered in today's post) What other things might it also be? What does your Dad really care about? I have found that really listening deeply to someone with compassion can often help open up spaces for new shared understandings and new conversations to emerge. The conversations we have in our families are often the conversations we are having in the collective, so I find it interesing to play with whether it is possible to change the patterns of conversations close to us through listening, enquiring, curiousity, and awareness. Enjoy the weekend! Best, Leonie at cCHANGE Respond
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