From hating cacao to working with the medicine in all kinds of ways: my history with cacao

Can you believe that this time a year ago I actively hated cacao and all chocolate and avoided it at all costs? It gave me a hangover and due to my highly sensitive nervous system, its stimulatory effects were at times a bit too intense for me.

Now things are totally different. While I enjoy the uplifting effects of the theobromine, I also tap deeply into the vagus nerve stimulating properties of the plant, that opens blood vessels - ie chilling you the fuck out.

My time in Peru this year has connected me deeply with the cacao medicine: not only through consumption but also through its cultivation.

I genuinely feel that my connection with cacao is utterly unique and operates at a spiritual and shamanic level. And that my previous aversion to it was simply me not being ready for what cacao was going to crack open in me.

My story with cacao is many layered and I couldn’t do it justice in a post. Luckily I’ve got this here blog to talk all about that more in future posts.

Stay tuned.

But I want to hear about your relationship with cacao. Is it limited to a bag of Maltesers now and again? Or maybe you’re even more of a cacao head than I am.

Talk to me