I think a big piece of baking by feel and sort of how I think about emotions generally

is that it's really easy to categorize them as either you're being good or bad, positive

or negative, productive or unproductive.

But something that was really important to me when I was writing baking by feel is that we

don't need to judge ourselves for those emotions that we experience. There are no good or bad emotions. There are just emotions.

I like to say that the book is emotionally agnostic. Welcome to didn't I just feed you. A podcast

about feeding kids. Hi, I'm Stacy and I'm Megan.

Today we're talking about one of my favorite forms of therapy, baking and eating your

feelings.

We really only talk about baking feelings, but I like how you threw eating in there, too.

Maybe we need to talk about eating our feelings a little bit.

You know, maybe we do because it actually did come up for me in the interview where I was like, you ask me a question about do I cook my feelings and I answer.

So you guys listen and get to that.

But I was like, but do I eat my feelings?

And that, to me, they are actually separate for me because sometimes when I'm emotional, I eat and I don't feel like cooking.

Yes. So same.

Yeah.

Sometimes I'm baking so that I can eat the thing and sometimes I'm just eating for the emotions.

Remember for a while on Instagram?

I was like, oh, we're having cheese

covered feelings for dinner tonight, which usually just meant. I was like stressed out and overwhelmed

and so we were having like cheesy pasta. Yes, I do remember that. Let's bring it back.

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