Baking is Mindful: De-stressing in the Kitchen
Looking for ways to de-compress at home after what some say has been one of the most stressful years they can remember? Wishing your children could gain hands-on science and math that’s essential in life?
Baking is just such a science and life skill. The beauty of building your baking skills is that it’s good for de-stressing and mental health.
“Baking is mindful,” says Philip Muskin, a Columbia University psychiatry professor and the secretary of the American Psychiatry Association. Muskin says it can have an emotional impact akin to practices that are intended to more directly affect mood, such as meditation or breathing exercises, reports Amanda Mull in her article The Rise of Anxiety Baking, a December 18, 2018 HEALTH feature in The Atlantic magazine.
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