Cookies! My all-time favorite is probably freshly baked shortbread (I loooove the vanilla bean shortbread recipe in Sally's Baking 101 by Sally McKenney). A related offshoot of this cookie type is linzer tart cookies, which I've never actually baked myself but sure do love to eat! For purchased cookies, my forever favorite is to go to a really great Italian bakery and get rainbow cookies. Extreme childhood nostalgia for me!
Enoughness, ooh, this is a lovely question. Earlier on it was a lot of list-making in my journal, with prompts like: What am I grateful to have enough (or more than enough!) of right now? When have I felt satisfied and content in the past few months? What do I have access to that can be shared?
For those moments of felt anxiety around lack or scarcity (which of course I still experience, and I think most everyone does too!) one thing that helps me is to get very specific about what's underneath that feeling. It's never that I want more money for the sake of having more money, but because of what money can give me (or what I think it can give me). So, using that anxiety as an invitation into more specificity around my wants or needs, and then creatively brainstorming a) how to increase the inflow of money to meet those needs and/or b) how to meet those needs outside of the formal money economy is soothing to my nervous system because it returns me to a place of agency.
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Cookies! My all-time favorite is probably freshly baked shortbread (I loooove the vanilla bean shortbread recipe in Sally's Baking 101 by Sally McKenney). A related offshoot of this cookie type is linzer tart cookies, which I've never actually baked myself but sure do love to eat! For purchased cookies, my forever favorite is to go to a really great Italian bakery and get rainbow cookies. Extreme childhood nostalgia for me!
Enoughness, ooh, this is a lovely question. Earlier on it was a lot of list-making in my journal, with prompts like: What am I grateful to have enough (or more than enough!) of right now? When have I felt satisfied and content in the past few months? What do I have access to that can be shared?
For those moments of felt anxiety around lack or scarcity (which of course I still experience, and I think most everyone does too!) one thing that helps me is to get very specific about what's underneath that feeling. It's never that I want more money for the sake of having more money, but because of what money can give me (or what I think it can give me). So, using that anxiety as an invitation into more specificity around my wants or needs, and then creatively brainstorming a) how to increase the inflow of money to meet those needs and/or b) how to meet those needs outside of the formal money economy is soothing to my nervous system because it returns me to a place of agency.