Breakfast might not be the most important meal of the day
I recently received an email criticizing me for a typo. This person had made a donation to the library and did not appreciate that the automatic response thanking them had a word misspelled. Now I do not know this person, and they sent it to the general mailbox. Basically, she unleashed in the email about how much it upset her to see a typo. Six minutes later, I received a long apology. She went on to explain that we are all human and one typo does not make the world fall apart. Clearly she regretted sending the email in anger. She should have kept that draft in what my friend Kristin refers to as her “angry folder.” I love this technique since it gives you the satisfaction of writing your thoughts, yet by holding the angry email in a draft folder, you can review when you are calm. Often when you pause an email into your angry draft folder, it does not seem worthy of a send.
With the holiday crazy setting in, there is a lot of power in the pause. For me that means trying to to wait before I respond, not be as reactive and letting things marinate. All big challenges for me. I read Maria Shriver’s Sunday Paper each Sunday (her book makes a great gift for when the holidays do creep in), and a few weeks ago she wrote about finding your super-power and recognizing powers within your friends. Pausing is not mine, but a girl can doodle and dream, right?
There has been a lot of hype around intermittent fasting and I there is a lot of research out there on reducing risk of cancer and Alzheimer’s. Considering it is the meal people generally eat solo, we might not miss much by eliminating it. Brunch is way more social. I have been making an effort to slow my breakfast routine down and listen to my body. For more info on fasting, listen to Ali Miller’s podcasts or Mindbodygreen’s podcast, read Jorge’s book or watch this on Amazon Prime.
Elizabeth Gilbert’s Big Magic and Eat, Pray, Love were great books and she has dazzled us again with this one. Women’s right to pleasure is a topic that not many authors have dove into, and I went from this journey into Three Women by Lisa Taddeo. Lisa follows three women and looks at their sexual desires and I forgot it was non-fiction. Please read so we can discuss!
