Author of The Alaska from Scratch Cookbook (2018, Rodale/Penguin Random House) and co-author of Forty Years of Fish with ASMI. Chef. Food Photographer. 🏳️🌈
Reject urgency culture. You don’t need to get back to them immediately. You can take time to think about it. You don’t need to be on call 24/7. Find peace and ease. Find the rhythm of your intuition.
The more ashamed of your own life you feel, the more you project judgement onto others. Judgment is a rigid coping mechanism to avoid ourselves. Secure people have curiosity and a flexible way of existing in the world.
The right person will let you be you. They won't try to control you, force you to change, or tell you what decision to make. Instead, they'll hold up a mirror. They'll reveal the parts of yourself that need healing. They'll gift you with the truth.
Tell people you admire them.
Thank people when you learn from them.
Appreciate the people who make you feel comfortable in their presence.
Say it regularly and watch your relationships improve.
Emotionally healthy people are quitters.
They quit things all the time.
They keep moving, trying, and doing until they find things they don’t want to quit.
Quitting comes from self awareness.
Went to Target today and got some new clothes to attend a work event in a warmer climate. My well-intentioned 15-year-old said I got “cute old people clothes.” From Target… and this was supposed to be a compliment?