I Hired a Cooking Therapist to Deal With My Anxiety

Nancy Tran 5/19/2211:22 AM

I went in as a skeptic and emerged with a new perspective on food (and myself).

By ZAN ROMANOFF

June 16, 2021

Cooking therapy has me stressed before it even begins. After a calendar year of completely uneventful curbside pickups from my local grocery store, I get home on a spring Monday morning to discover that Vons packed only half of my order—which means that 30 minutes before I’m supposed to be in a virtual session with Debra Borden, LCSW, I have to make a last-minute grocery run. Even in normal times this would set me off—I hate being late so much that I am, instead, usually embarrassingly early—but of course I’m also worried that this trip inside my local Whole Foods will be The One That Gives Me COVID.

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