There is a lot of information available on how to improve our mental health and wellbeing, but in this blog, I am going to be investigating the question “Is baking good for your mental health?”
First let’s look at some statistics:
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There is a lot of information available on how to improve our mental health and wellbeing, but in this blog, I am going to be investigating the question “Is baking good for your mental health?”
First let’s look at some statistics:
There is no denying that mental health problems are widespread in modern society, and no doubt most of us either know someone close (family or friends), or indeed are suffering ourselves.
So let’s look at out question in more detail:
My first port of call was NHS.uk, where I found an interesting article entitled 5 steps to mental wellbeing:
Step 3 suggests we should ‘Learn new skills’
“Research shows that learning new skills can also improve your mental wellbeing by:
Even if you feel like you do not have enough time, or you may not need to learn new things, there are lots of different ways to bring learning into your life.”
So where could baking fit in here?
Other than learning a new skill, how else can baking help to improve your mental health and wellbeing?
My research led me to another great read:
5 Reasons Baking is Good for Mental Health
These 5 reasons, which I have elaborated on, are as follows:
From my own experience, baking and cake decorating makes me happy! It evokes happy childhood memories of baking with my Mum, and then later baking with my own children!
Now I have my own cake business, I LOVE making cakes for special occasions – seeing the delight on my customers faces and receiving fabulous feedback makes me feel great!
Sadly, in today’s pressured society, children are not immune from struggles with mental health, so why not get them involved, and bake up a treat together?
For more information & suggestions for baking with children, you may be interested in reading my previous blog:
I feel so passionate about this, that alongside my current cake decorating classes, I am now registered as an accredited teacher for Cake Minds.
Cake Minds – the place where mindfulness and well being are as important as your practical learning.
“Creative crafts are now being recognised for their benefits on our well-being, and with sugarcrafting being an affordable, accessible and diverse past-time, hobby and very often, profession, it is not surprising how popular it become over the past few years.
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Cake Minds offers you a place to escape for a few hours on a regular basis, join like-minded people, learn to create some great little projects and above all to have fun and relax.”
Thanks for taking the time to read my blog – I hope you found it useful
1 Comment
Rhu Strand1 year ago
Absolutely agree Julie, baking is a past-time open to all of us, making not just ourselves happy but others too, and that in return offers boundless rewards.
Is Bake yourself Happy a saying because if it’s not it should be đŸ˜€
And so happy to have you as one of our Accredited Teachers – here’s to building supportive sugarcrafting communities together. x
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