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Pasta e fagioli translates to “pasta and beans,” but that doesn’t even begin to describe all the flavorful elements of this humble, comforting dish. Tender pinto beans cook all day, resulting in a rich and creamy broth, and vibrant tomatoes, pancetta, and herbs are added to round out the sophisticated Italian meal.
Here, we use the slow cooker to pull this soup together, making it a hands-off dinner you can eat tonight and enjoy all week.
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The relative health and productivity levels of my entire week depend on the choices I make on Sundays. I’ve found that if I stock the fridge, prep a big batch of grains, and roast a bunch of vegetables on Sunday, I’ll have healthful lunches ready at hand for the rest of the week. Those good lunches mean I am more productive during the day and waste less time running around trying to find food and eat it before I have to get back to work.
But weekends seem to be the only time I have to do all that chopping, seasoning, roasting, and storing. If it doesn’t happen by Sunday night, I know the entire rest of my week will be a panicked relay race between vending machines and coffee shop muffins.
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Ice cream is never really on my shopping list, but I tell myself I should walk down the aisle “just in case,” which means I’ll inevitably fall for a sale, or a new flavor will convince me to grab a pint. A couple of weeks ago, I did exactly this at Trader Joe’s and I like to think it paid off because I spotted a Talenti lookalike (which Trader Joe’s announced this week)!
Next to TJ’s usual quarts and ice cream treats, I saw the well-loved gelato’s doppelganger in two flavors: caramel cookie crunch and pistachio. I grabbed a pint of the caramel crunch and stopped at another store on the way home for a pint of Talenti to see how they compared.
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If you’ve ever had an issue, experienced intense feelings, or otherwise felt human at some point in your life, you’ve probably wondered, “Should I go talk to someone?”
For many of us, the follow up to that initial thought is something like:
“But what would talking to someone actually do?”
“How is seeing a therapist going to help anything?”
“What’s the point of paying someone to just sit there and listen to my problems?”
If one of those latter thoughts convinced you to just let it be, and then the issues, feelings, and human-ness of your situation continued to cause you trouble, you may have escalated reasons not to go talk to someone with one of the following thoughts:
“I’m just being lazy.”
“I can handle this myself.”
I need to stop feeling sorry for myself.
“All I have to do is just cut it out. Suck it up. Get focused. Then everything will be fine.”
Here are some answers to your questions about therapy. And hopefully some reasons to change your thinking, and get yourself an appointment…
Psychotherapy is the provision of health care via talking — or, as Sigmund Freud called it, “the talking cure.” Psychotherapy is often called therapy for short.
In most basic terms, it is a conversation between two people, focused on one of those people. Therapy is also called counseling, and the two terms are interchangeable.
There is no magic involved. Our thoughts and feelings, the meaning that we assign to our experiences, and the judgments we make, all occur “up there” in our minds, authored by our brains.
These processes are internal, and when we do not share them with others, we leave it up to ourselves to evaluate the accuracy, rationality, and reliability of our thoughts and feelings. This is a set up for misinterpretation, over- and under-valuation, and worst of all, isolation.
For example, let’s say you have anxious thoughts. You think that you’ll “never amount to anything,” or that “people don’t like you.” If you keep those thoughts to yourself, they can (and often will) start to seem true.
Once accepted as true, you act on those thoughts and appraisals, withdrawing from others, avoiding social situations, and then feeling even more isolated and anxious. A nasty snowball of anxiety, avoidance, and negativity gets going, and the longer it continues, the bigger, more irrational and intractable it feels.
Psychotherapy is a collaborative process that allows you to openly name and express your thoughts and feelings, pinpoint what you want to be different, and explore how to create change.
Psychotherapy is confidential, non-judgmental, and growth-oriented. When you are an active participant in psychotherapy, you collaborate with an educated and objective healthcare professional to examine problematic thoughts, feelings and behaviors, and identify goals in a supportive environment.
Psychotherapy helps because we often get “stuck” when attempting to make internal change on our own.
You name it! Psychotherapy can help with any and all of the following:
There are mental health specialists for all kinds of issues. For example, there are counselors who specialize in working with people who have been diagnosed with genital herpes, or in working with people from a specific religious faith, or who are facing problems with infertility. Aside from seeking financial counseling or nutrition counseling, therapy can help you with just about any other “issue” you are facing.
Probably. If you’re verbal, intelligent, and growth-oriented, definitely. If you’re not any of those things (or at least you don’t think you are), it can still be right for you. It’s just a matter of finding the right person: the right “fit” for your communication style, comfort level with challenge, and willingness to step outside of that comfort zone.
For example, if you are an organized, in-your-head, Type A, list-writing, check-marking type of person, you might gravitate toward Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT). On the other hand, if you’re a contemplative, artistic, philosophical deep-thinker, you may love existential psychotherapy. But, even more important than the style of therapy is the therapist themselves.
Think of finding the right therapist the same way you might think about finding the right romantic partner, or even the right tennis partner. You need chemistry, ease, open communication, and a general tendency to like that other person.
Remember that going on one date doesn’t mean you’ve met the right person for you, and that calling one therapist doesn’t mean you have to work with that person.
Shop around online, and then talk to that therapist on the phone before meeting them in person.
Remember that your first session is an opportunity for the two of you to say hello, and to see if a productive working relationship is possible. Even though it can feel uncomfortable to talk to a stranger about your innermost thoughts and feelings, you want to find a therapist with whom you can be able to feel as comfortable as possible under the circumstances.
If it feels like you can talk about whatever you need to, and you feel free from judgment, it’s a match. But if not, keep it moving! There are plenty of therapist-fish in the counseling sea, so to speak.
Let’s unpack those reasons into two main categories: feelings, and facts.
This is typically stigma about mental health and mental health treatment. For example, feeling like going to counseling is a weakness, or means defeat, or will be embarrassing if others find out about it. Stigma can also manifest itself as believing that your symptoms “aren’t real,” or that you are just “being lazy” or “feeling sorry for yourself.”
These are concrete barriers, including:
If your reasons for not going to therapy fall under feelings, please click here for more reinforcement and education about the realness and consequences of mental health issues, and information about specific mental health concerns.
If your reasons fall under facts, there are workarounds for most of those barriers.
Research online to find community clinics, graduate schools of psychotherapy, and spiritual counseling clinics in your area. There may be practitioners in these settings that offer a “sliding scale,” which means they will adjust their fee based on what you are able to afford.
This will require some digging on your part, but there are practitioners out there who will adjust their rate to work with you. Also, some psychotherapy training programs offer free or extremely inexpensive sessions for working with students (under the supervision of at least one licensed mental health professional).
As mentioned above, there are practitioners who will adjust their fee so that you can afford their services. In addition, if your insurance doesn’t cover behavioral health care, but includes a flexible spending account (FSA), you may be able to draw from this account to pay for sessions.
If you have mental or behavioral health benefits, but cannot find a therapist who accepts your insurance, call your insurance company to find out if you have “out-of-network benefits.” If you do, your insurance company may reimburse you some or most of the cost of seeing a therapist.
If you’re struggling to find a therapist in your area, or one with availability when you can be seen, look into remote services. Tele-mental health is a new and growing field within mental health care. If the therapist is licensed in the state where you live and provides tele-mental health services, they would be able to work with you.
Although many therapists feel that seeing each other in person is best, tele-mental health treatment is far more effective than no treatment. Clients of tele-mental health like the convenience of not having to make time to travel to an office location.
If you’re busy during the day, or all week, you may have trouble finding a psychotherapist who has weekend or evening hours. But they exist! Keep searching for “off-hours availability.” There is a demand for providing psychotherapy services outside of normal business hours, and if you keep looking, you will find a practitioner who can work with you during a time you can be available.
If necessary, talk to your loved ones to identify a good day and time for you to have a weekly appointment. When you have a specific day of the week and time of day in mind, it can help both you and prospective therapists identify possible times to meet.
Yes! This is the first step: leaning into the idea of talking to someone, and then taking action steps.
You can get started by doing a little research to find a therapist in your area. If you have a trusted primary care doctor, they may have a referral they highly recommend and can put you in touch with. Sometimes doctors who work within a healthcare system or hospital can make this referral for you directly.
An added benefit of this kind of referral is that the therapist will most likely accept your healthcare insurance, if you plan to use it, because your primary care is most likely someone who already accepts your insurance.
If you’d like to search on your own and you’re located in Canada or the U.S., PsychologyToday.com has an extensive database, which is free to use. You can enter in your location, as well as your health insurance type, gender preference (if you’d prefer to work with a male or female therapist), and issues you want to address in therapy. Your search will provide profiles with photos and information regarding fees and location.
Mental health care practitioners come from a variety of educational backgrounds, and therapists listed on this site may include social workers, psychologists, licensed mental health therapists, and marriage and family therapists. In the U.S., the American Psychological Association also offers a directory for psychologists in your area. You can find this on their Psychologist Locator page at APA.org.
Good luck! Remember that behavior change is hard, and so if your motivation wanes a day or two from now, read this article again. If, once again, you start questioning whether or not you should go to therapy, re-read this article, or talk to a friend who you know goes to therapy.
If you’ve read this, or that more than once, the answer to your question is:
Definitely. You should definitely go to therapy.
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You may have been planning to bake a decadent Thanksgiving dessert all on your own this year, but you should probably abandon those plans, because Costco is now selling the ultimate addition to your holiday dinner table: a pumpkin spice cheesecake that weighs an astonishing five pounds and costs $15. I’m now picturing how much cream cheese it takes to make just one of these beauties.
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Although she’s a regular guest on Beat Bobby Flay and Iron Chef America, and is the host of multiple Food Network shows, including Food Network Star, Giada De Laurentiis wasn’t always so comfortable behind the camera. In fact, in a new interview with People magazine, she remembers feeling more anxious than excited that the world would be watching her cook.
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Confession: I detest grating cheese. I think of it as a necessary evil. The box grater is unwieldy, the little flakes of cheese it spits out always make a mess on my counter, and then, once I’m done grating the cheese, the grates proves frustrating to clean.
Of course, I’ve always positioned the cheese grater upright, which is how I have used this kitchen appliance my entire adult life. I never considered using it any other way. Turns out I, and probably many others, have been misled. There is actually a much easier way to use your cheese grater, and it’s incredibly simple: Just turn the grater on its side.
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My husband and I are not Holiday Card People. We love getting them — we just don’t send them. Not because we aren’t organized enough or on top of things, but because we don’t have much to tell people. We don’t have kids or pets (although the latter is not my decision!) and we figure people don’t need a card with our silly mugs on them. That’s not to say that people who don’t have kids shouldn’t send holiday cards — it’s just that our updates would be oh-so boring. (“We worked a lot and also watched Castle Rock!”) We’ve thought about sending generic “Happy Holidays” cards, but worried they’re just that: too generic. So instead, we’ve sent nothing.
This year, though, is the year that changes. Because Minted has come up with the perfect type of card.
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If you’re a fan of masala chai — the Indian tea filled with warming spices like cinnamon, ginger, and cardamom — then make these bars immediately. They come from Dorie Greenspan’s new cookbook, Everyday Dorie, and as you would expect from the baking queen, they are tender, fragrant, and oh-so lovely.
They’re perfect with an actual cup of tea or coffee as a mid-afternoon treat, or served after dinner as a simple dessert. Oh and they freeze well, which means you can (and should) keep them on hand for sweet-tooth emergencies.
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