People in my therapy groups often talk about food. When they do, I sometimes invite them to expand their thoughts to different kinds of nourishment. We also do an exercise when we practice mindful eating and think about food in a more in-the-moment way.
Yesterday, when somebody was eating food in one of the two online groups I facilitate on Thursdays, I talked about how I had once been a member of a group where the leader did not allow people to eat or drink. When I had tried to drink from my water bottle in her group, she stopped me and invited me to put my feelings into words. When I tried to put into words why I thought that was food for thought, I could tell that people were grateful that I didn’t have that rule.
Do you see food for thought in my images for today?
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Happy National Sachertorte Day!
Here’s what I find when I search YouTube for “food for thought.”
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Thanks to all who provide food for thought, including YOU!
I would not be in a group that would not let me eat or drink. just the control thing, I think.
I found it temporarily useful but would never facilitate a group like that, beth.
The cookie theme reminds me of the recipe from my grandmother’s cookbook for mincemeat cookies, that I used to make every year. My daughter, the chef, had never heard of mincemeat and refused to eat one, calling them “hamburger cookies.” Soon everyone in our little Christmas meetup at my house every year was calling them “hamburger cookies” too, and more than one of them were demanding a few! And that is my food for thought for the day. 🙂
Delicious, Barbara!
Joseph Brodsky said somewhere that reading is like eating for the mind—and it goes well with Brillat-Savarin’s “Tell me what you eat and I’ll tell you who you are.”
The funny thing is I’m reading your thoughts in a small town restaurant where I’m picking up a to-go order. It’s the same place where my wife and I got dinner just after we moved almost exactly six months ago. “Eleanor Rigby” is playing and there’s a Cirque du Soleil special on the TV. Everywhere I look there’s food for thought.
You always provide delicious and nutritious food for thought, Chris.