I Am Back to Blogging About Food Again
Hi, I'm back!
I missed you!
For the past month, I took a pace dorsum from blogging (and a one-half step dorsum from social media…).
And it was probably the hardest/all-time thing I have ever done.
Taking a 31-day pause from the blog was super hard because I have been blogging weekly since graduate school… AKA for the past FIVE YEARS. Information technology'southward kinda something I like to practise. I love the crazy, messy process of coming upward with new recipes, buying the ingredients (and having people stare at my shopping cart weirdly – marshmallow fluff and kale??), and really cooking the food. The whole photography function is also pretty great, likewise! I dear this blog, I love you (and your feedback), and I love this procedure. It is the perfect creativity I demand to balance out my clinical nutrition career.
Simply, to be honest, blogging is exhausting.
Like I-need-extra-slumber-why-don't-I-drink-coffee exhausting.
Between balancing work + commuting + errands + working out + being with family/friends, recipe creation/photography got pushed to the side and I felt my bulldoze to create diminish.
Which is the absolute opposite of what this weblog is supposed to be.
I started this whole journey because I CRAVED a way to be creative in a world full of blackness-and-white guidelines and practices. I was seeking a way of using my nutrition cognition in a different way. I wanted to share my experiences of graduate school + internship + work and how the whole work-life balance is Hard… and ways to create meals that fit into that residual.
Only sometimes we need requite ourselves a break.
I knew that I needed to accept a pace dorsum and focus on my family and my obligations to piece of work/volunteer projects. I was so hesitant to take this break, but it ended upwardly being the best decision I could have made for myself.
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What I learned by taking a month off:
ane. I was able to refocus and become my balance dorsum.
The stop of July was a doozy emotionally/mentally, which meant that the blog got pushed to the side. Taking the month off immune me to have a footstep dorsum, get in some cocky-intendance, and refocus back on what is important (family, friends, work, web log). By taking the fourth dimension to take care of myself, I was able to get my mojo back.
two. The blog didn't autumn apart.
My biggest fright with taking a month off was that the blog was going to endure. I thought that not updating the web log would cause people to stop reading/commenting/sharing. But, you guys are AH-mazing. Y'all kept reading, kept commenting, and kept sharing – I felt so love with all the love for the blog 🙂
3. The fourth dimension off actually inspired me to create more than!
With the pressure to button blog posts out, the process became fun again! Getting in the kitchen and messing around was so much more enjoyable without take the pressure to get the recipe correct ASAP, snapping the perfect photo, and having everything typed up and fix to go in a couple days. No blog posts meant that I wasn't super stressed nearly getting everything done perfectly. So the chewy granola bars that didn't keep to a bar form was not a big deal (and turned out to be a perfect crumbled granola breakfast).
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I learned so much after taking this by calendar month off. How to prioritize. How to trust that the things you built will continue to abound (even if you aren't micromanaging them daily). How to refocus, recharge, and become reenergize about this whole process. And how to remind myself that this is a fun, creative outlet and I need to cut myself some slack.
Simply now I'm dorsum and accept a bunch of fun things to share!! Tin't wait to get back into the kitchen with you!
oxox,
Catherine
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