We all need nourishment of one sort or another to thrive. With that in mind, check out this month’s recommended ways to feed the mind, body, and soul.
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The book titled Do Nothing: How To Break Away From Overworking, Overdoing, and Underliving is written by award-winning journalist Celeste Headlee and illuminates the path to help us start living instead of doing. Headlee argues that despite our constant search for new ways to “hack” our bodies and minds for peak performance, human beings are working more instead of less, living harder not smarter, and becoming more lonely and anxious. We are striving for perfection in every aspect of our lives and reaching for a bar that keeps rising higher and higher. Headlee provides strategies that allow the reader to regain control over their lives and break their addiction to false efficiency; they are encouraged to start focusing on the end goals instead of the mean goals.
This recipe for Korean Fire Chicken from Better Homes & Gardens is an easy one-pan dish with ingredients you can find in the Asian section of your supermarket. The Korean chilli fire sauce adds flavour and heat to the dish, while the mozzarella lessens the spice to bring out the flavours. It’s an easy dish with very little clean-up and you can adjust your level of spice based on your preferences. This is also a great way to introduce new dishes and ingredients to your family without being overly complicated or difficult.
The “90-Day Dinner” idea was coined by Becca Havian, a Masters student in mental health counselling, where she explains the practice of calling your close friends for a “90 day dinner” whenever you’re feeling in a rut or when something like a break-up or job loss has occurred. If someone initiates the plan, the friends will go through their calendars, pick a date, and set it in stone. Then when the day arrives three months later, they use it as a check-in to catch-up, provide comfort and support and to see how their perspectives have shifted over the past few months. It feels good to connect and vent, and they have found that usually the reason as to why the friend initially called for the dinner has shifted and things are now better than they had expected.
Hack Your Health: The Secrets of Your Gut is a lighthearted and informative documentary on Netflix that dives into the digestive system and demystifies the role gut health plays in our overall health and well-being. Research has shown that the digestive system is much more than just a processing centre for food, and that it has a much bigger effect on our overall health. Here, doctor Giulia Enders, partners with colleagues to explain how the gut works, and how to make it work for you.
