Cooking as Therapy: How to Improve Mental Health Through Cooking

Author:   Debra Borden
Publisher:   Crooked Lane Books
ISBN:  

9798892422031


Pages:   320
Publication Date:   14 October 2025
Format:   Hardback
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Cooking as Therapy: How to Improve Mental Health Through Cooking


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Follow twenty recipes to find calm, improve self-esteem, and form daily habits-in your very own kitchen!-through mindfulness-based cooking therapy. Follow twenty recipes to find calm, improve self-esteem, and form daily habits-in your very own kitchen!-through mindfulness-based cooking therapy. In Cooking as Therapy, licensed clinical social worker and sous therapist Debra Borden provides you with all the tools and techniques to have therapy sessions in the comfort of your own kitchen. Cooking therapy is an experiential therapy that allows you to conduct a therapy session while you cook a meal. Using cooking processes like chopping, kneading, stirring, and more, you'll develop the skills to recognize limiting patterns and behaviors, improve self-esteem, and form healthy daily habits, and you might even have fun incorporating techniques centered around mindfulness-which develops calm, metaphor-which creates clarity, and mastery-which sparks self-esteem. Luckily, you don't have to be a great cook to try cooking therapy-or even like cooking. You only need an interest in self-exploration. Borden will teach you the processes involved in preparing a recipe or meal that trigger awareness and even ""aha"" moments. Unlike talk therapy, cooking therapy sessions incorporate tangible acts. It is less about what you prepare and more of a guided journey to self-reflection through how you prepare a dish.

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Author:   Debra Borden
Publisher:   Crooked Lane Books
Imprint:   Crooked Lane Books
Weight:   0.567kg
ISBN:  

9798892422031


Pages:   320
Publication Date:   14 October 2025
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   To order   Availability explained
Stock availability from the supplier is unknown. We will order it for you and ship this item to you once it is received by us.

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Praise for Cooking as Therapy: “Borden makes a solid case for the therapeutic framework.” —Publishers Weekly


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Debra Borden is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker in NY and NJ and a novelist. Her essays and articles have appeared in Women's Health Magazine and The New York Times. A pioneer in the field of cooking therapy, Debra is thrilled and grateful to be a part of the creative community of mental health professionals, writers, and foodies. Find her online at www.Debrabordenauthor.com, on Instagram & Facebook @debraborden and TikTok @cookyourselfhappy.

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