Calm your Chaos with Cooking?

• Kristin Tand Introduction

Kristin Tand is a mental health counselor who also loves to cook. She is passionate about helping overwhelmed adults slow down the hustle for perfection and start nourishing themselves in the kitchen. Kristin teaches tips and tricks to get out of your head and into your body, using cooking as a vehicle for living a richer life--while also taking the intimidation factor out of how to cook.

• Briefly introduce the topic of how Kristin discovered cooking as a therapeutic tool to calm anxiety and panic. (her personal experience)

Tracy is Kristin’s ideal audience

• Kristin to Tracy: “What are the reasons you don’t cook?”

• Share the video clips of Tracy cooking. Is there such a thing as mindful cooking when Tracy has ADD in the kitchen?

• Kristin comments on the clips as we go

Is there any science behind Cooking and Emotion Regulation?

• Does cooking have psychological and neurological benefits?

• Do cooking activate different senses and promote mindfulness?

• Does creativity play a part of why cooking reduces anxiety?

Cooking and Perfectionism

• Tracy shares personal stories of how cooking has been positive and negative

• Kristin inspires Tracy to learn and grow from these experiences

• Tracy shares her “microwave cooking” videos of confidence

• Kristin shares stories about how she’s helped others to manage anxiety and panic using cooking as a coping mechanism

• Tracy agrees to take a 30 day cooking challenge

Conclusion: Cooking can be creative and can reduce anxiety

Check out Kristin at her website www.inthekitchenwithkristin.com