Soul in the Raw is a whole food plant based recipe & education blog. Marina Yanay-Triner creates quick, easy, and delicious vegan recipes and blogs about the health benefits of a plant-based diet rich in fresh foods. The blog focuses on providing evidence-based nutrition information, which is then incorporated into delicious and totally irresistible meals for the whole family! While she coaches people all over the world, she is located in San Diego.
As we grow up there are a litany of skills we are taught in school, and, depending on our home life, another set of skills we are taught at home. Unlike banking or paying taxes or organizing bills, nothing in our lives as young adults forces us to learn this skill as a natural part of adulthood. In fact, we are generally unaware that it is important at all, even though our inability to do it disrupts our lives on a daily basis. This skill is the conscious processing of emotion. I grew up with a notion, maybe you did too, that people with emotional problems or addictions can't cope with life. When I was buried in panic and alcohol, my "inability to cope with life" was not an actionable thing to improve. I would ask "How can I cope with life better?" The answers were vague and unhelpful, "suck it up." From inside a broken brain and life, I had to figure out what it was that I couldn't cope with. It turned out that it was "feelings." Fe...
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