Boost your self-confidence, take a step back from a complicated situation, improve relational difficulties, cure toxic perfectionism … Discover kitchen therapy, a fun personal development tool, accessible to all, which allows you to reconnect with yourself and your emotions.
This personal development tool, which has existed since 2015, is to be differentiated from culino-therapy (culinary art therapy), and does not consist either of a “classic” culinary workshop, because it is actually about “making cooking without a recipe”, without a goal of success.
This support tool can also be used by a naturopath, a dietitian, or by therapists.
Kitchen therapy aims to let the creativity that lies dormant in us express itself, and allows us to refocus on ourselves, on our emotions.
During a cooking therapy session the goal is to let go totally, to let go of the mind, to trust your creativity, to be only in the “pleasure of doing”, without any judgment of what the we are doing.
Kitchen therapy: a session to reconnect with yourself!
No cooking therapy session is alike since the original idea is culinary improvisation. We have no recipe, in front of ingredients, we let go of the mind and we awaken our senses to carry out the culinary preparation that comes to us.
To allow feelings and emotions to come out, the therapist will help you explore, decipher everything that is happening, during the improvisation, but once you feel you have finished your culinary creation.
By asking questions about this achievement, by helping you wonder about the choice of foods, shapes, colors, meanings of such or such choice on your plate …
Self-confidence, perfectionism … The benefits of cooking therapy!
Cooking is an easy mediator: we’ve all seen someone cook, it’s something familiar, almost harmless in the end … It’s a fun method, which has no connotation of personal development, we can go there without asking too many questions, however, something can really happen on an emotional level!
Kitchen therapy is in a way an alternative to verbalization, it is another way of expressing oneself, of putting down a message, an emotion, of highlighting a problem that we have in us, consciously or unconscious …
We are here in a holistic approach: we appeal to the body as well (we are in the 5 senses), as to the emotional and cognitive fields (to decipher any messages that arise thanks to creativity).
Quickly during a cooking therapy session, we reconnect with ourselves, we are far from the race for performance, far from cooking shows where the obsession with results is very present, and we are not either in dietary injunctions… Freedom of expression is (and must be) total, and that’s what matters!
Who is this method of personal development for?
This personal development tool is for everyone. It is not necessary to have “a reason” to launch out in this experiment, even if this type of method can be indicated in accompaniment during the management of eating disorders, or of a follow-up in psychotherapy, etc.
We can also turn to this fun method to improve a problem of self-confidence, fear of the gaze of others, or perfectionism. A questioning of his life, relationship difficulties at home or elsewhere, can also be accompanied by this type of therapy inspired by art therapy.
Learn about cooking therapy at home!
Even if having a companion, who observes and helps formulate the things that emerge from the creation, it is possible to learn the method at home.
Without thinking too much, head to your kitchen and get started! The key word: no judgment. There is no plate, “successful” or “failed” preparation.
What do I want to invent as a marriage of colors? Flavors? Of forms? Textures? What am I going to let out here, here and now?
Then ask yourself what happened: How did I go about it? What attracted me directly? How do I feel ? And what could these choices, these ideas indicate about my current state of mind? Who, what does that remind me of? what do I want to say about it? If my creation had a message to tell me, what would it be?
Reference: https://hereshelpinc.com/cooking-as-therapy/#
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