Who’s for you?

I was at an amazing personal development seminar recently where the coach asked us: “Who’s for you”? He made us list all the people in our lives that were 100% behind us and what matters to us. Now, this exercise

Patience

Maybe it’s the pace of the kitchen or our constant chase for perfection, but do you struggle with patience, chef? Patience with yourself or with others and their abilities? Chefs often struggle to disengage from their kitchen personas outside of work. More often than not,

Love

Love Letters to Chefs won’t distract you today as you celebrate the love of your life, dream of your future Valentine, or simply focus intensely on the busy service ahead. But today is a good day for a reminder that love is also:

You are cared for

Chefs, brief message to remind you that you are being cared for, being helped, being supported. Today there is more than one organisation (I’ll be doing a few shoutouts over the next few weeks) that is committed to helping you

Receiving

One of the easiest means of self-care is also the hardest to practice: the simple act of receiving. How comfortable are you with receiving, chef? How gracefully can you accept a compliment for your work, or help on a task? How easily do you welcome suggestions on solving a