We’ve hit that point in the United States where the days are short, not much daylight and it’s rather cold outside, this is a difficult time for me. I know I’m not alone in saying that it’s a tough time of year emotionally for many of us. This year I’ve decided to create my own Winter Emotional Wellness Plan. If you’re feeling malaise like I am, if this time of year is difficult for you, I hope you’ll create and implement your own winter emotional wellness plan too.

In August, the Wise Women Podcast turns two years old and in September we will hit our 100th Episode.

This podcast was born out of my desire to amplify the voices of women as well as a Kickstarter campaign to raise the funds to buy the recording equipment. This community (which continues to grow every day) rallied together to get the podcast started by voting with their dollars to say “Yes! The Wise Women Podcast is important, and I want to invest in it!”

Maybe if I could bake the perfect loaf of sourdough bread I could recognize myself again. I could recognize the person who is eating too much, sleeping too much, binging Netflix too much, resisting walks, resisting being outside. Who is this stranger in my house? I bake sourdough in hopes that I’ll revive the inner part of me that’s MIA. I want to look in the mirror and recognize the person who’s looking back at me, but I don’t.

My love of Sourdough didn’t start here in the time of quarantine and sheltering in place, no, my journey into bread baking started 16 years ago, fresh out of college and feeling the most lost I’ve ever felt.