Holiday/school/parenting overwhelm is is FULL EFFECT, and December cold-weather-hibernation-mode is activated. Needing more recipes ASAP.  Hydration strategies, and how diet culture can make us even more dehydrated.

Getting it together with your snack game is a serious skill...and we didn't have good models. Scarcity (money, sleep, eating) complicates ALL THINGS. Attempting to undo unfortunate habit chains. Also hahaha we forgot about anchor points again.

Accepting our weird brains in new radical ways. School closures for reasons you didn't know existed.

Lots and lots of Uber Eats, Courtney's love letter to a face massager, new (uncomfortable) ways our bodies are communicating with us, putting the idea of "adding instead of subtracting" into practice, and delicious "crusty" foods.

Needing time to let things settle instead of "figuring it all out." Facing THE MALL and other unfortunate wardrobe realities. Declaring hobbies before you actually start, and the not-so-scary truth about fermentation.

When it comes to the nervous system, sometimes "expensive" things don't cost money.  Needing to DO and not THINK your way into better sleep. Underwhelming yet wildly successful meal prep. Egg in the hole (a.k.a. Toad in the hole)

Faking it till you make it with hunger signals (SHE MADE IT!), hyper-fixation meals, maybe needing adult braces, and why has October has felt like a dumpster fire??

Needing alone time and SO MUCH OF IT. Needing everything actually, and super irritated about it. The sneaky numb-out and consequences that come with compassion fatigue. And finally, would YOU eat 5 bananas at once?

Somehow we did NOT reference the movie Everything Everywhere All At Once, even though we spent pretty much the whole episode talking about everything bagels. We are a little tired of the deep stuff this week ;) and needed some focused recipe and food talk!

More more more deep thoughts about caffeine and how we use it, heartburn mysteries, and WHAT THE WHAT? CHILI WITHOUT BEANS? Isn't that just... meat sauce?