This framing around competing rhythms is brilliantly observed. Your point about Oprah building one obsessive rhythm around work while food became the counter-rhythm resonates with what we see in high-performance environments across domains. The insight that really stands out is how suppression of expression creates this systemic indigestion, not just metabolic but energetic. It reminds me of the polyvagal theory work showing how unmetabolized stress has to land somewhere in thebody. What's interesting is that most productivity frameworks ignore this completly, treating rhythm as a scheduling problem rather than a nervous system one.
That’s exactly what I’m trying to name: when expression gets suppressed, the body has to “hold” it somewhere, and food becomes both buffer and signal. Polyvagal is such a useful lens here; systemic indigestion is the protest.
This framing around competing rhythms is brilliantly observed. Your point about Oprah building one obsessive rhythm around work while food became the counter-rhythm resonates with what we see in high-performance environments across domains. The insight that really stands out is how suppression of expression creates this systemic indigestion, not just metabolic but energetic. It reminds me of the polyvagal theory work showing how unmetabolized stress has to land somewhere in thebody. What's interesting is that most productivity frameworks ignore this completly, treating rhythm as a scheduling problem rather than a nervous system one.
That’s exactly what I’m trying to name: when expression gets suppressed, the body has to “hold” it somewhere, and food becomes both buffer and signal. Polyvagal is such a useful lens here; systemic indigestion is the protest.