Deborah Borden

Once you know how to do it, you could do it all day long.

If you so desire, it's right there.

You can do it in your own kitchen.

Uh, the book that just came out cooking as therapy is kind of like a guide and a Sherpa for doing it.

And basically,

Well, I should tell you how it began because it wasn't that I was brilliant or a genius.

I was working as an in-home therapist.

And the state of New Jersey at the time had this great program bringing therapy to people who could only access it if it came to them.

But that meant sometimes I was working with like 16-year-old boys for two hours in the afternoon after they'd been in school all day.

And these were kids that were not doing so well, which is why therapy was brought in.

I wouldn't work with an insightful adult for two hours, to tell you the truth.

Sure, that's a lot, especially after school.

And they're hungry, and they want to play video games, and they want to do their homework, but not really because that was part of the problem.

So I got very creative with them, played a lot of games, and one day it occurred to me I love to cook.

you know, maybe it could be an activity.

And the minute we started doing it, first of all, we were working side by side.

So you just take away that kind of what I call, you know, Stalag 17 eyes in your, you know, traditional diet.

Tell me how you feel, right?

Well, that's how it feels to them.

And, um, I hate the word people will say, Oh, they were resistant.