Night Fasting

I have not dared go to bed on an empty stomach for several years.

First, most toothpastes one can find to brush teeth before bed with have mint, which burns into my gut from after remnants in saliva – so no food after has not worked.

Second, I wonder if I have been subconsciously guarding against having an ulcer from the longterm stress that I have been under.

These items to tally have not changed for me, but as I have begun receiving bodywork, where tissues were once bound up and twisted, they are now evening out and filling with a distributed swell of lymphatic fluid.

Also beginning this last week, I have begun questioning if I still need my Starbuck’s, and the last two nights, I have absentmindedly not finished them – and not regretted it.

There is a shift occurring,