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And that’s it, what a relief... I will stick to doing new things, nice things, things that make me happy. But now that I think about it... isn’t this a resolution as well as all the ones that I’ve just decided to quit? Keeping myself from making resolutions turns out to be a resolution as well. Funny, I did it again! There’s a significant difference this time tho: the deadline won’t be the end of the year but NOW. Want to run a half-marathon for once in my life? Right, let’s start training and I will make it one day. Want to go on a holiday with the old Vespa that needs restoring? Right, let’s start seeing someone who can help me have it ready for next spring. I might not achieve my goals immediately, I might have to work on them for a while, but starting is an achievement itself... what’s important is not to give up on them along the way. Setting goals, if that’s not essential, then I don’t know what is. While reflecting on this I realized that this new attitude is a turning point itself, and that’s not a small thing! Where did it come from?

BREATHE DEEPLY - let the air in slowly and let it out just as slowly: it is an incredibly therapeutic practice!

Also, try a dessert which requires a lot of air...

I suspect that it has something to do with the mental coach that I’ve been seeing for a while: although I’m a harsh critic of myself and everything I do seems to be never enough to me, he says that I represent one of his biggest successes and the growth that I expect long-term is already evident to him. I keep complaining about not doing my “homework” but then I come out with things I say or do that I’d never have expected myself to do before his treatment. It all began out of curiosity: he is friend of a friend and he’s specializing in the field of mental training, looking for “guinea pigs”. I thought why not? Questioning myself doesn’t scare me, even better if someone’s guiding me through the process. And that’s how it happened - between an “emotional snack” and another - that I started turning into someone I barely recognize, someone who looks a lot like the one I want to be. It’s not easy and sometimes it feels like I have two or three different beings inside, arguing with one another all the time. Quitting old habits isn’t easy either, venturing outside my comfort zone scared me at first. After all, a famous line attributed to a certain Einstein defined insanity as doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results. That’s why this new attitude makes me think that I might eventually be on the right track. And that rebellious surge against those lists of goals to achieve, where does it end up? Oh well, let’s say that new year’s resolutions made room for a new life’s resolutions instead!

What is an “emotional snack”? Nothing to do with food, it’s a challenge with yourself, something you would never do without feeling some sort of positive embarrassment, something stupid you do which makes you smile awkwardly. Its purpose is to put you in contact with your inner child, providing him with that pathos, that emotional nourishment he needs to reward you with a sense of well-being, making you feel that you can master your emotions instead of being at their mercy. In conclusion, emotional snacks are all those situations that - in small doses - lead you to face and overcome

THE RECIPE ingredients - serves 4 • 100 g raspberries • 100 g blueberries • 100 g strawberries • 4 g gelatine • the juice from 1 lemon • 80 g sugar Mixed berries mousse

Soak the gelatine in cold water for at least 1 hour, until soft. Blend all the other ingredients with a mixer then seep through a strainer. Take a small part of the mixture and heat it slowly in a saucepan; once hot, add the squeezed gelatine and mix until it melts in completely. Add the mixture to the rest of the blended fruits, mix well

your complexes, flaws and blocks.

and pour into the whipped cream dispenser. Close the dispenser, insert the charger keeping it upside down, shake briefly and let it cool down for a while. Serve the mousse in cups with fresh fruits, or use it to garnish cakes or desserts. Whipped cream dispenser Delícia - art. 630544 capacity: 500 ml

What’s this all got to do with food and kitchen? Here are four rules, four little secrets to how changing habits can be a turning point, making all the people who live inside us coexist in harmony with one another: breathe deeply, chew more, stop running away, do the things that scare us the most. Along with them, four recipes, each inspired to one of these rules!