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Product review of all my Trader Joe&#;s staples.. and an extra bonus review of their new shelf items! I started shopping at Trader Joes more often this year and I&#;m not sure if that&#;s a good or bad thing. I don&#;t go there for produce or meats, but their packaged items are so good.. which is also why it is so bad. I try to keep to a whole-foods diet but sometimes you gotta indulge. Below you&#;ll find a list of all my favorite items, reviews of their most recent items, and things I&#;d never pick up again. Looking forward to hearing what some of your favorites are in the comments as well.

Household Staples:

• Green Dragon Sauce
  • This is the No. 1 reason why I started frequenting TJs more often. This was the first thing I was addicted to and from then on, every time I am nearing the end of this sauce, I make damn sure I hit up the store before we&#;re bone dry. This goes good on everything, especially Mexican food. It mildly spicy, garlicky, tangy, and just has so much flavor! There&#;s no lingering spice so you can just pour this all over your food. I add this to eggs, tacos, quesadilla, salads &#; basically replacing anything I used to put sriracha on I would use this green dragon sauce on. You NEED this, trust me.
    
• Ghost Pepper Chili Flakes
  • This is one of the newer items for me and I LOVE IT. A little goes a long way but this here is FIRE. So deadly delicious &#; it goes great on everything. I love sprinkling it on avocado toast, burgers/chicken sandwiches, pasta, eggs, curry &#; like I said, everything! My favorite avocado toast recipe includes the Everything but the Bagel Seasoning, these Chili Flakes, and some good ol honey. Try it out!
    
• Ghost Pepper Chips
  • Absolute favorite Trader Joes junk food item. These lattice cut chips are perfectly crunchy and although it&#;s called Ghost Pepper it&#;s not that spicy IMO. You&#;ll get a couple pieces with some heat but for the most part you can eat the whole thing in one sitting. Sad side note though, the bag is mostly air.
    
• Just Dried Mango
  • The best dried mango out there that isn&#;t filled with added sugar. The texture of these are nice and soft, unlike those giant bags you can get at Costco (which I love but they&#;re a hit/miss). I love the big chewy pieces that are a little tart &#; the only down size is that they go so quick! My boyfriend can finish the bag in one sitting.. which means no more for me.
    
• Frozen Roasted Corn or Super Sweet Cut White Corn
  • Freezer staple! I always grab a couple bags when I&#;m at the store and make sure I always have them on deck. The super sweet corn really is as advertised &#; super sweet and not soggy! I add it to everything: salads, bread, or even alone as a side. I can&#;t decide which one I favor more: the roasted or regular.
• Orange Chicken
  • Put these in the air fryer &#; it takes only 12 minutes to be fully cooked and is perfectly crispy. No oil needed. Although they&#;re not perfect like Panda Express&#;, they hit most of the marks. They don&#;t taste artificial and is perfectly balanced of tangy and sweet. Its an easy option for lunch or dinner &#; I like to have a bag in the fridge just in case.
    
• Everything but the Bagel Seasoning
  • Perfect for eggs and avocado toast! It&#;s garlicky, slightly salty, and sesame-y. It also adds a pretty aesthetic in contrast to the green sliced avocado.
    
• Cauliflower Thins
  • Originally I swore these off because I thought they were expensive ($ for 4 slices! I still think they&#;re expensive) and 2 of them molded in the fridge before I got to eat it. But honestly, they&#;re so good I picked it up the next time I came back to TJs. I toast a slice and then use it as a base for avocado toast! They are the size of a street corn taco tortilla and have a texture similar to cauliflower pizza crust. Makes for a perfect mid-day snack when you&#;re trying to cut back on carbs.
• Cauliflower Gnocchi
  • I think this was a hit or miss with some, but I&#;ve always liked them. I never cooked it according to the package directions and have always pan fried them. The outcome is a crispy outer shell with a chewy pillow-y center. If you have an airfryer &#; this makes it 10x easier to get it to taste right! Just throw them in your AF, spray a little oil and cook for mins and they&#;ll be perfect. Easy AF.
• All Purpose Flour
  • During the pandemic when flour is a sacred item, TJs was the real MVP for having their flour shelves stocked. The all purpose flour has a high protein percentage which could be used as bread flour! I&#;ve used this for all my creations and now I make sure to always have this in my pantry.
    
    

New/Seasonal Items:

• Mango Jalapeno Fruit Snack
  • If you&#;re feeling sweet but want a little oomph, these fruit snacks will spice up your life! They&#;re SO good, after the first bite I was hooked &#; the spice level is there and that tingle on your tongue feels so good. The overall smell of the bag isn&#;t my favorite lol but it taste so good I can&#;t put it down! These are for sure going into my household staples category. 10/
    
• Jalapeno Seasoned Corn and Rice Puffs
  • I wasn&#;t a fan of the hatch chili popcorn that TJ came out a while back so I was a little wary of these; however these turned out to be a major HIT for my taste buds. They were much more flavored than the popcorn and I am looking forward to my next bag. They&#;re bigger puffs than pirates booty which I prefer and each piece was perfectly crunchy. They&#;re a savory snack and although it says jalapeno &#; they&#;re on the mild side. Hoping these stay on the shelf for a while! 9/10
    
• Autumnal Harvest Creamy Pasta Sauce
  • This is a tomato based sauce but the pumpkin and butternut squash adds a sweet balance. I usually add a drizzle of honey to all my store bought pasta sauce but it&#;s not needed here! Perfectly balanced &#; all I needed to add was a hint of garlic salt and chili flakes (ghost pepper flakes). I would easily pick this pasta sauce over others. 8/10
    
• Heart of Palm Pasta
  • I was surprised these didn&#;t have to be refrigerated! I used it with the autumnal pasta sauce and I liked it. But when I used it with a tomato wine sauce mixed with a little bit of cauliflower spaghetti noodles, I loved it! Because of the extra noodles you almost can&#;t even tell 2/3 of the dish was heart of palm. Price is $ for the package, three serving size, and each serving is only 20 calories. It&#;s a little small TBH, but I can see myself buying it again. I do think they&#;re a more noodle-y substitute than zucchini noodles. 7/10
    
• Pumpkin Ravioli
  • These were alright. The ravioli shells were on the thicker side and the pumpkin filling was not as cheesy as I was anticipating. I made a browned-butter rosemary garlic sauce to go with these and although they were a treat &#; they&#;re not worth the calories. I added some salami to the mix for a salty/crispy balance. The pumpkin filling was mildly sweet and wasn&#;t too spice&#;d which I appreciated. However I would skip this, it&#;s nothing special. 5/10
    
• Grainless Cassava & Coconut Tortilla Chips
  • I saw these posted on IG and typically I don&#;t ever buy tortilla chips, nor am I tempted to. But I wanted to make ceviche so I thought it&#;d be a perfect opportunity to give these a try. I&#;m SO glad I did because these are delicious! They&#;re thick and crunchy, have a slight sesame taste with a little natural sweetness to them. They&#;re lightly salted and they make for a great dipping chip. But I found myself eating the chips as is &#; which is rare for me when it comes to tortilla chips. 9/10 &#; would definitely get it again, and I encourage you to as well!
    
• Garlic Naan Crackers
  • I was really excited for this because &#; duh, NAN! I love garlic nan in bread form so I was quick to get my hand on these guys. Unfortunately high expectations lead to disappointment &#; they were nothing extraordinary. I wanted to like them more but they just taste like crackers. I was hoping for a little more crunch like the pita crackers and a lot more garlic taste. Would not get again, there&#;s better things out there for dipping. 5/10
    
• Mini Spicy Pumpkin Samosas
  • I brought these over to a friends house to try and we agreed they were yummy! Less pumpkin taste compared to Indian-Curryish. I loved that it was a different take on pumpkin than the standard pumpkin spice. I wish there were more filling to breading ratio though, otherwise I would be stocking up. 7/10
    
• Butternut Squash Mac and Cheese
  • I was most excited about this, I heard only good reviews online and at the time of purchase, the cashier at the store also raved about these. I brought this along with the samosas over to my friends house and this was a crowd pleaser! Everyone was pleasantly surprised and thought it was really good. We tried to use the oven at first but it took too long so we zapped it in the microwave for 3 mins and it came out perfect. Flavor was good and I love the texture of the noodles as well &#; they were a little bouncy and did not get soggy/fall apart. /10
    
• Patio Potato Chips
  • I don&#;t have a picture of these but I love them! I was horrified when I came back and realized that it was a seasonal item.. This is a mix bag of flavors: dill, salt and vinegar, and bbq on crunchy shallow ridged chips. They&#;re on the saltier end, but I live to find the pieces that are the perfect hint of salty, sweet, and sour. It can definitely get a bit too salty (I think the dill flavor is the saltiest) so this is an 8/10 for me.

Notable Mentions:

Mistakes that won&#;t happen again:

• Truffle Ketchup
  • The flavor is so-so however it left something to be desired. I still prefer good-ol Heinz Ketchup! The TJs one does offer a nice truffle touch but it is thinner compared to traditional ketchup which doesn&#;t give me the same satisfaction. Texture is sort of like blended up tomatoes. If you don&#;t have ketchup at home and want to try then grab this; but I don&#;t think it&#;ll be picking it up next time.
• Honey Mustard and Onion Pretzels
  • Compared to their Snyder&#;s counter-part these were not up to par. At first taste they were ok but after a couple more bites, it was too sweet for me. Not balanced enough and after eating them for a while my throat got a little scratchy (idk why). Also &#; they stain your fingers. I prefer the Snyder&#;s brand which are more widely accessible.
• Hot & Sweet Jalapenos
  • These were not good &#; too sweet and not spicy at all. No other comment except.. don&#;t get it.
• Romesco Dip
  • Looked promising but tasted lackluster. Very bell-peppery, bland and a little watery. The color reminds me of a sun-dried tomato dip that I love, but unfortunately the taste was disappointing.
• Spicy Cheese Crunchies:
  • Nice try, but nothing will come close to Hot Cheetos &#; but especially not this. I was not a fan of the flavor at all. Did not taste the heat and was not a fan of the sour-ish flavor.
• Chili Lime Seasoning:
  • I love adding chili salt to all my fruits, the brand that I religiously buy was called &#;Klass&#; but I can no longer find this in stores/amazon so I branched out. The Trader Joes version has a funky smell that I&#;m just not into &#; therefore I will not be buying this again. I&#;m not big on the regular tajin either &#; but I do like Tajin Habanero so I shall stick to that until I can find a better alternative.
• Nori Komi Furikake:
  • This was a fairly new seasoning item that came out this year and although I wanted to love it &#; I didn&#;t. I felt that it lacked basically all flavor &#; it just tasted like seaweed strips with sesame seeds. The Nori Komi Furikake you find in the glass bottles are MUCH better and they&#;re my go-to. Depending on where you buy them it could be cheaper or more expensive than the $ price at TJs.

Let me know if there&#;s other must-haves I&#;ve missed or have got to try!

Levi Brackman (born ) is a Judaic scholar, rabbi, teacher, writer and religious leader who has been active in both England and the United States and whose writings are featured regularly in Jewish publications internationally and on the Internet.

Upbringing and Education

A native of London, Brackman studied at Yeshivot in Israel, America and Canada and has taught classes in Halacha, Talmud, prayer and Jewish mysticism at Yeshivat Hadar Hatorah in New York and at the Mayanot Institute of Jewish Studies in Jerusalem. He received rabbinical ordination from Rabbi Zalman Nechemia Goldberg and Rabbi Mordechai Ashkenazi of the Tzemach Tzedek rabbinical college in the Old City of Jerusalem and has a graduate degree from University College London.

Levi Brackman comes from a family of seven boys and two girls, including brothers Rabbi Yossi Brackman the director of the Chabad Jewish Center at the University of Chicago and Rabbi Eli Brackman director of Chabad Society and The David Slager Jewish Student Centre both at Oxford University, UK.

Career

In January , Brackman was appointed to the position of senior rabbi at the Enfield & Winchmore Hill Synagogue where he become known for his inspiring sermons, thought-provoking articles, lively and insightful lectures, and effective life and marriage counseling. He no longer holds that position.

Brackman is founding member and executive director of The Movement for a Tolerant World, an organization that offers young people in Asia, the Middle East and other parts of the globe, a positive and tolerant ideology that provides them with the opportunity to make real and positive changes in their community and the world.

In August , Brackman started a Jewish outreach and cultural organization entitled Judaism in the Foothills, which serves the Foothill communities in the western part of the Denver, Colorado metropolitan area. Brackman is the executive director of Judaism in the Foothills.

Publications and Works

Brackman's weekly column, which is distributed over the Internet to thousands globally, is also published on Israeli daily Yedioth Achronoth's English-language website "eunic-brussels.eu". His writings, which cover pertinent social and political issues of the day, have been published on many other popular websites such as "eunic-brussels.eu", "eunic-brussels.eu", "eunic-brussels.eu", "eunic-brussels.eu", "eunic-brussels.eu" and "eunic-brussels.eu", among others. They can also be found on his website.

Brackman’s writings have been published in, among others, The Denver Post, The Intermountain Jewish News (Colorado), Torah Studies (New York), Etehaad (California), and The Canyon Courier. They have also appeared in the Australian Jewish News and in the UK, in The Jewish Chronicle and Hamodia. He has also appeared on TV and his work has been featured in newspapers both in the USA and in the UK. In addition Brackman is often quoted as an expert in major Jewish publications such as The Jewish Post, The Jewish Chronicle, The Jewish Journalamongst others.

Books

Brackman is co-author of Jewish Wisdom for Business Success: Lesson from the Torah and Other Ancient Texts (AMACOM/American Management Association, ). The book uses some of the world's greatest writings-the Torah and other Jewish sacred texts-to achieve incredible business results

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The end of brought about a big change for me, my husband and our pup.  Days before heading off for the holidays with our families, we moved into our new home, the first that we own together.  I’ve lived in Los Angeles since I was 18 and chose to hop from rental to rental because I never truly accepted Los Angeles as my long-term home. I think in a way, knowing my living situation was temporary and continuing to think of Canada as my home for all the years away gave me a sense of comfort.  If the big, bad world of LA ever got to be too much, I could always flee to the safety and comforts of “home” to accept me, cuddle me up and tell me it was all going to be okay.  Since getting married and sharing a life with my person out in LA, my feelings towards the big, bad city have changed.  Thanks to my husband and now, the dog we adopted almost two years ago, my home in LA gives me a sense of belonging, purpose and security that I never knew I could have in this land of crushed hopes and unattainable dreams.

The family I have out here makes all of those hopes and dreams seem possible and exciting and less significant to my identity any which way because I am a wife, dog-mom and now a homeowner not just one of a million lone-wolf actors trying to make it in Hollywood.

Of course, being a new homeowner means my domestication has been taken to the next level and my priorities have instantly changed.  I now want to earn and save money to plant trees in the backyard or get a new rug for the bedroom instead of spending it on that pair of designer boots or loafers I’ve had my eye on for months.  Shoes have always been my sweet spot for spending so my collection of boots and shoes is plentiful to say the least, but I have always been pretty careless about taking care of my things.  Now, with this new major financial responsibility on my hands, I’m going to have to take much better care of that collection to keep them looking good and lasting long!  My husband has always been very precious about his things and the shoes he’s had for years look nearly new thanks to KIWI Protect-All.  He has always encouraged me to do the same and I’ll admit, I turned a blind eye until now, but as the new owner of a beautiful home (and major responsibility!), I figure I better keep the shoes I do have looking the part!  With KIWI’s easy-to-use Protect-All spray, I can guard my shoe collection from the elements and extend their life in any weather.  This is a resolution that can be made a reality super simply with KIWI and thank goodness for that!

My house is beautiful.  It is truly more than I would’ve ever expected my first house to be and I love every inch of its style and construction but what gives me the most pride about it is everything it represents.  To me, this house represents the milestones I’ve surpassed in this city, the woman that’s evolved from that lonely and scared year-old-girl, the sense of self I was able to maintain against all obstacles and influences, the hours of tireless work I’ve put into my job to be able to afford to do this at an age at which some of my icons lost their lives to fast living.  These bricks and mortar represent the love that gave me new life just when I was starting to feel depleted and the odds my husband and I have overcome to turn our love at first sight story into a strong and lasting one.  Each support beam of this house represents the support of my husband and my family back home who let me leave on my own at a young age to pursue my dreams and encouraged me to stay and fight for them every time I got scared and wanted to run away.  This house is so much more than a house.  This house is my home and while I may not have put the manual labor into its construction or architectural flair into its design, I created it.  I created this home with perseverance, resilience, humility, love, gratitude,  self-awareness and drive and I now live in it and walk through it with pride.

I wanted to share this story with you to inspire you to keep striving towards your personal goals in   I hope that this year, you continue to fight hard for those personal goals and keep your chin held as high as you can muster while you do.  The universe pays it forward with personal and material rewards, I promise so just do you the best way you know how, learn and grow constantly and have faith that the rest will happen exactly how it’s meant to.  You are special and unique and you should #WalkWithPride every day for being who you are!

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With a belly full of oysters I strolled toward the car.  My friend Joe asked if I wanted to check out Treva&#;s Pastries and Fine Foods.  I agreed and we rolled one parking lot over towards the shop.   Treva&#;s sits in the plaza behind Calico Jack&#;s between a hair salon and an antique store. Two small wrought iron cafe  tables with umbrellas flanked the door.  A green awning spanned the length of the red brick exterior.  A tasteful sign in simple black and white was anchored above the awning.  Finding a parking spot was easy.   As we made our way towards the glass door adorned with bakery&#;s logo both of us noted we had no idea what to expect inside.

Opening the door we were greeted by the clerk behind the counter.  To the right was a cooler with soups, and a long shelf containing various decorative items.  Several round tables with a small vase on each ran towards the back.  The chairs were low slung aluminum tubing with wicker seats.  The walls were painted in two shades of peach.  Large tiles were laid diagonally on the floor.  To the left was a second cooler with drinks, the register, shelves holding various sizes of white boxes, and a large white refrigerated case.

I made a bee-line toward the case and took in the colorful pastries that lined its shelves.  Rum babas, cups of chocolate mousse and slices of key lime pie sat nicely arranged behind the glass.  On top was a large basket of some fine looking croissants, chocolate croissants, and individual quiches.  Choosing just one item proved to be difficult so we decided to get three.  The clerk put a Strawberry and Cream Napoleon, a Chocolate Truffle and Strawberry Napoleon,  and a slice of carrot cake into the box.  She folded the top down and applied a sticker featuring Treva&#;s logo to the top.

Treva&#;s serves various lunch items including soups, sandwiches and quiches. Before paying the clerk asked if we wanted any soup to go with the desserts.  I politely declined and following a swipe of a credit card we were out the door.  After a short ride back to the office Joe ran to the kitchen while I unboxed the pastries. Our friend Meesh saw what we were up to and we invited her to join us as I sliced each dessert into thirds.

I immediately went for the Chocolate Truffle and Strawberry Napoleon.  Three layers of flaky pastry were filled with two layers of chocolate truffle cream and a layer of strawberries.  The top was dusted with powdered sugar.  The chocolate was thick and creamy.  The fruit complimented the chocolate, and I wished there was more to give the dessert greater balance.  The pastry, however, was delicate and flaky.   The Strawberry and Cream Napoleon was even better. Layers of sweetened whipped cream and strawberries were held together by Treva&#;s delicious puff pastry.  Last was the carrot cake.  The cake was moist and pieces of carrots, walnuts and raisins could be seen. The cream cheese frosting was rich and Joe scrapped the excess off the box before I could scoop it onto my fork. Soon all three desserts were gone. I wished we grabbed a rum baba.

Treva&#;s pastries were delicious.  They were carefully prepared and looked just as good as they tasted.  I will definitely be back to Treva&#;s and cannot wait to grab a sandwich and sample their other pastries.  Treva&#;s Pastries and Fine Foods is located at Capital Cir. NE.  Their phone number is () and they can be found on the web at eunic-brussels.eu

Sweet Tea & Bourbon’s Rating:
Atmosphere: B
Taste: A
Presentation: A
Service: A
Cleanliness: A
Price: $

Introduction

Hello everyone, if you’ve visited my blog in the past, you probably know that I like to write about topics such as spirituality, mental struggles, and growth. And if you haven’t I greet you wholeheartedly.

In the few posts that I’ve written, I talked a lot about my spiritual growth and how this came about, so if you’re interested in reading those stories or want to enjoy a little refresher feel free to check them out here. Usually, these posts were very long, and I would work on them for about a week or two. I intend to change this from now on and instead want to focus on writing more posts regularly.

There are a couple of reasons for that and all of them have to do with being paralyzed by insecurity. Insecurity has been a general theme in my life which I recently decided to take head-on. It was also the primary reason I stopped writing at the time. I was feeling overwhelmed and was very insecure about myself. This is furthermore why my posts were so long because I was being too perfectionistic about it. 

“Insecurity kills all that is beautiful.”

~Demi Lovato

Relapse

At the time that I was posting on my blog, I was sober and talked about my previous relationship with weed. Regrettably, after that summer I completely relapsed into my old habits. Three months after I smoked my first joint that year I was back to smoking daily. Alongside it enforced even deeper feelings of regret, shame, and insecurity. But why was I feeling so insecure in the first place? 

Looking back at it now, I remember being extremely ambitious at the time. My girlfriend (now fiancee) and I just got together, and I was ready to start my dream life. At least I thought I was. 

I never really addressed the problem of insecurity. I was just trying to fake it ‘til I made it, which can be an effective strategy from time to time. But it can get difficult if insecurity is so deeply rooted in your survival strategy.

You might be wondering what I was so insecure about. At the time it was many things. First of all, I had no idea where my career was going. I never completed a study and was worried that if my newly found girlfriend were to see my inability to become successful the relationship wouldn’t last. As a result, I tried extra hard to become a person of significance. And over the past 2 years, I’ve started and quit multiple entrepreneurial endeavors.

So as you can see the problem I was trying to avoid led me to my failures. Fortunately for me though, my girlfriend was very understanding of the situation. She loves me no matter what person I become. 

“Only the insecure strive for security.”

~Wayne Dyer

The Root Of The Problem

Not long ago, I quit weed again and this time I made it a very conscious undertaking. I made sure to have people to talk to and aid me through the entire process. I wrote daily in my diary to make sure I never forget why I quit and which things triggered me to smoke weed. I’ll write about this more in-depth in the upcoming posts.

As I’ve been focussing on my insecurity issues it occurred to me that I’ve had troubles dealing with this my entire life. This is also presumably the main reason I never finished a study, and in more recent times didn’t manage to succeed as an entrepreneur. Every time the going got tough I felt overwhelmed and instead of breaking through this resistance I just grabbed the first thing that distracted me from this uneasy feeling. Most of the time, this was weed, but another one of my favorite distraction tools was gaming. 

Over the years it has come to grow on me that this is indeed the case. I am distracting myself whenever I feel overwhelmed and need to stop doing it and start working on the things that I see myself doing in the future. The problem has been that all of this primarily happens unconsciously. And so without even thinking about it, I would already be smoking a joint or have started up a video game. 

One of my favorite things to tell myself was that I just genuinely liked doing these things. The underlying frustration that came from that I simply redirected onto other things or people.

For example:

‘Why are my teammates so bad at this game?’

‘Why aren’t people just nice to each other?’

There was always a way to redirect my frustrations in some way, while in reality I was frustrated with myself for not pushing through the resistance I felt. It’s been this way for a very long time. When I was a teenager I would do the same thing. 

“Sometimes our thoughts are backed by so much insecurity that they create lies we believe.”

The Solution

There are probably hundreds of approaches to fixing this problem. Chances are likely that I’ve read or have known about all of them for a while now. Which in a way further developed the issues I was dealing with. I call this Paralysis By Overanalysis. Simply put, I’d rather engage in learning about how to deal with the problem than deal with the actual problem.

This, in turn, would result in feeling even more insecure, because every time I learned a new solution another thing was added to the List Of Things I Need To Do, But Can’t For Some Reason.

This is also why being addicted to something is so incredibly dangerous because whatever reasoning I had to engage in the addiction stemmed from some kind of negative emotion. The interaction is always cyclical. In the very same way, the solutions I might find can be cyclical. 

Anyone outside of the same addiction pattern would simply tell me to quit. And this is the only real solution to any addiction. The result of quitting brought up that negative emotion I had been avoiding for years now, insecurity.

Aside from writing about it and putting my insecurities on paper for everyone to read, I meditate on it every morning. I sit down and let myself get into a deep trance state. After I reach the state of being completely relaxed, I bring up this feeling of insecurity and observe it as if it wasn’t me. Then I acknowledge to myself that this is the feeling I want to overcome and that I desire to be free from it.

So far it felt like I’ve made huge progress in this. My insecurities do still arise, and I certainly have a long way to go, but working on it actively has unleashed a bunch of energy within me. I can now work on my career without feeling like a failure. I started working on art with a passion I’ve never felt before and have rekindled with the beauty of writing. These are just the first steps and I’m excited to keep working towards the life that I dream about.

“It’s only when you get beyond the emotion of fear and move into the unknown -despite the fear- that you turn your fear into passion and courage.”

~Dr. Joe Dispenza

Last Words

Thank you for reading this post, and I hope that you enjoyed reading it. If there’s anything you recognized about yourself or want to share with me, feel free to leave a comment. As I said earlier I’m making it a goal to post regularly. Some of the upcoming topics I want to write about are motivation, quitting weed, and meditation. On top, I am going to make an extra section on the blog to share my art. 

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My husband is the youngest among all his cousins and as a ritual, all the daughters-in-law first entered our house in native place. Even my ‘Grih-Pravesh’ was done in the same house.  We got married on 3^rdMay and 5^th of May was the Satyanarayan puja, after this puja the newlywed bride is welcomed in the kitchen and is expected to make something for everyone. After the puja day, I took a shower and got ready in a saree with all the new jewellery and entered the kitchen. There was a hustle in the kitchen and the ladies had already begun cooking, I approached my cousin mother-in-law for what I could do to help. I thought, she will ask me to cut some vegetables or arrange the plates or something that had no cooking involved. She took a good look at me and asked, “Did you sleep well?” I answered with a smile, “Yes” (I hadn’t but, this was not the time to complain about my sleep) “OK, make tea for everyone,” she ordered. I looked around in the kitchen, there were 10 ladies in the kitchen and I had never made tea for more than 2 people. I quietly went to one my sister-in-law (husband’s Bhabhi) and whispered, “I don’t think I will be able to make tea for 10 people.” She laughed, “You don’t have to make tea for 10 people in this kitchen, you have to make tea for everyone in the house, which is approximately 25 people.” My head started spinning, these people are going to judge me now and laugh at me. But my sister-in-law quickly grabbed my hand and whispered the recipe in my ears. My smile was back and I was confident one more time. In 15 minutes, the tea was ready and I poured it the cups and took a big tray to serve everyone. My husband along with his cousins was sitting in the porch, I smiled and handed the teacup. Most of his cousins knew that I am a novice in the kitchen, so, as soon as they took a sip, they hailed me with praises. My happiness had no limits, I ran in the kitchen and offered tea to all the ladies too. I asked my cousin mother-in-law if she liked the tea, she replied, “It is fine. But I know you will improve.” She smiled at me. I was content, I took one teacup for myself and as soon as I took a sip, I wanted to throw out, it was too sweet like a sugar syrup.

I have definitely come a long way now, Every time, I make tea for more than 4 people, I taste it before serving just to be sure.