Cooking Own Food as Radical Self-Care
Today’s hectic times have turned cooking your own food into a radical self-care habit.
Because almost nobody’s actually doing it.
Most of my friends — owners of the fanciest possible kitchens — rarely cook their own food. The claim being there is no time.
And indeed, why bother do it yourself when you get your ready-made food at a click of a button?
However, cooking own food may be an integral part of self-care. For when you simmer your chicken broth and chop and grind the veggies for your soup, you actually feed in your thought, energy and belief straight into yourself. You are taking care of yourself.
The two things that are making us up in our adult lives are food and self-love. Those two are interrelated and there is no way around it. Unless you feed yourself lovingly, you can’t get well-fed and stay healthy (by extension) —and it’s as simple as that.
Another way to view is that energy flows in spirals. Whatever you invest your strength and time in, will come back to you later on. Put your love into cooking your own food and voila! — you get warm self-love + a nourishing meal as a result.
We, human species are great at exporting own responsibilities onto anybody and anything external — family, friends, God, businesses, institutions. Some people even get married so that their partner can take care of them, cooking oftentimes factored in by default.
For better or for worse however, there is no person on earth who can act as a surrogate for your own self-care. And cooking your own food is a fundamental part of that.
Your partner can’t think for you, they can’t move or jog for you… neither can they give your body the message that it is truly cared for. And the latter is what we actually do when we cook our own food — we convey the information that we do care for ourselves, to all cells of our body.
And while the blessing of family, friends and their love is a prerequisite for all human wellbeing, a little (or more) self-care on our part is always a must. Cooking some warm chicken soup being a nice start — especially now in cool autumn days:)
Bon appetit out there!
It surely is self-care!