BREAD THERAPY

For many of us, time can feel like a scarce commodity. Like Lewis Carroll’s white rabbit, we charge around, fearing we will be late and worrying about fitting everything in. Why, you might ask, would we want to add baking bread to our already lengthy to do list?

Making time to bake your own bread will help you reap many rewards. The more frenetic our lives, the more we need the balance that comes from activities that force us to slow down and reconnect us to our physicality.

Making our own bread gives us these soothing and grounding experiences in spades. ‘Making time’ is a fascinating and helpful concept. While, of course, we can’t create more time than the 24 hours each day offers us, we can choose to pause and build into our days precious periods of focus and mindfulness that serve as an antidote to the pressures of our otherwise fast-paced lives. I have found that making bread provides me with just such a regular dose of unhurried, creative activity that is joyful,