Charlotte Hastings: Addiction, attachment & cooking as therapy
Women & ADHD
Katy Weber
4.9 • 685 Ratings
🗓️ 4 November 2024
⏱️ 68 minutes
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Summary
Episode 192 with Charlotte Hastings.
“I used to pray as a girl: ‘Please, let me sit in my seat. Please, don’t let me shoot my mouth off. Please, just let me be a good girl. I just want to be like everybody else.’”
Charlotte is a trained psychodynamic counselor, a nutrition and cookery instructor, and a former head of drama at a boarding school for dyslexic, autistic spectrum, and ADHD students in the UK.
Her recipe of personal and professional experience, skills and passions have all fed into the creation of Therapy Kitchen. Charlotte integrates therapy with cooking to enhance personal and social well-being in individuals and groups. Her new book, Kitchen Therapy: How to Become a Conscious Cook, was published this past summer and is a cookbook and psychotherapeutic adventure in one, exploring the psychological, social, and spiritual dimensions food holds for us.
Charlotte and I talk about how she uses cooking and kitchen therapy to support neurodivergent clients and students, as well as her own journey of unraveling the ties between addiction, attachment, and ADHD. We also talk about the role of trauma and childhood development in ADHD, and the importance of connection and nourishing our brains in the kitchen and everywhere else.
Website: www.therapykitchen.co.uk
Instagram: @therapy.kitchen
Links:
Charlotte’s book: Kitchen Therapy: How to Become a Conscious Cook
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| 1:02.6 | It's not these great big efforts. It's not that it's the simple things. You know, and giving kids |
| 1:08.6 | something where they can break it up and feel tactile with it and feel |
| 1:12.8 | alongside you. This is the key thing of, which is what you've just said actually in that |
| 1:18.3 | cooking scenario. What humans need is to feel alongside one another. They don't want to be told |
| 1:25.0 | what to do. None of us do really. We want to be helped and enabled, but we want to be told what to do. None of us do, really. We want to be helped and enabled, |
| 1:31.2 | but we want to be alongside each other as equals. Hello and welcome to the women and ADHD |
| 1:41.6 | podcast. I'm your host, Katie Weber. I was diagnosed with ADHD at the |
| 1:46.1 | age of 45, and it completely turned my world upside down. I've been looking back at so much of my life, |
| 1:53.7 | school, jobs, my relationships, all of it with this new lens, and it has been nothing short of |
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| 2:01.2 | I quickly discovered I was not the only woman to have this experience, |
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