Tonia’s Reviews > Good Enough: A Cookbook: Embracing the Joys of Imperfection and Practicing Self-Care in the Kitchen > Status Update

“The myth of effortlessness is pure self-sabotage because it’s all about avoiding vulnerability (that despicably embarrassing moment) that leads tot he intimate, warm, connected together time that you are craving and that you are trying to create with your efforts.”

“Sometimes I wish I could pause time and take a break from all the caring that being alive requires. But we can’t. And it’s okay to feel any kind of way about that.”

Such wisdom is rarely found in a cookbook

“… the concept of gratitude mostly came in the form of the phrase ‘you should be grateful.’ Adults use this phrase as a weapon to cut away children’s emotions that they find inconvenient… As an adult I had to notice that I misunderstood gratitude.”