Saved by Sourdough

Sourdough is simple & slow. These two foundations of sourdough have been incredibly helpful & healing for me. There is a certain relationship/bond I have developed with my “little chef” Remy(sourdough starter) and each and every loaf of bread I bake. Loneliness and self contentment are two states of being that we are challenged with in our emotional/etheral human experience of living. The foundations of sourdough , simple & slow, force me to find harmony in these two states of being. Learning to balance as one moves through the stages of: levain, bulk fermentation, stretching and folding dough to baking a bread. The bond has formed and hours later what loneliness was once feels lost and self contentment climbs with the discovery of each bread’s crust & crumb.

Each sourdough gets my undivided attention and care for an entire course of 28 -32 hours. Cold and overnight fridge fermentation is a requirement before each loaf is baked to be bread. This is a crucial time in which the sourdough magic occurs. Magic?

Magic, indeed. Before I could even explain it my body showed me as sourdough bread became a shelve staple for me in my eating routine and eating disorder recovery. After many years of disordered eating my gut biome and landscape became incredibly damaged and I experienced extended periods of gastroperisis in which my digestion became so delayed i could barely intake food orally. Finally, it found me. Freshly baked sourdough bread weekly (2 loaves please) from Polestar Hearth bakery. This was something I could eat and would move through my body happily. For over 4 years I have successfully been able to eat and feed myself sourdough bread with out any authentic upset or physical reaction. The magic at the beginning was a mystery to me but as with most mystery’s there inlied an opportunity for knowledge and mastery.