It's me, Shell Norris, and I'd like to let listeners know that today's episode includes

discussions about eating disorders and addiction.

Please take care while listening.

Thanks so much.

The kitchen has been the holy place, the boxing ring, the place where we have worked out

and struggled with our shit the most.

Because food symbolizes everything.

It's nourishment, it's punishment, it's whether you trust your body and the world

in each other, enough it all gets played out right at the counter in the sink.

Welcome to Your Mama's Kitchen, the podcast that explores how we're shaped as adults

by the kitchens we grew up in as kids.

I'm Michele Norris.

The kitchen is the emotional heartbeat of our homes, so many important things happen

there.

Meals, memories, laughter, and sometimes tough stuff.

All of it simmers inside us forever and shapes who we become in interesting and sometimes

surprising ways.

Today's episode is about finding common ground in that sacred space called the kitchen.

When people come together under one roof, they have to learn how to share space in the

bedroom, in the bathroom, in the closet, and yes in the kitchen, where we learn quite

a lot about our partners in life, their habits, their power dynamics, even their attitudes

around food that were carried over from childhood.

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