I used to love cooking. I'm not half bad at it either. During my time in New Zealand (one for the bingo card), we were free to spice & season dishes as we wanted, and I found enjoyment and a creative outlet in creating meals for our twenty-strong group of Christians. When we began the Alpha course at Christ Church, I spent the first year as "head chef". I enjoyed the responsibility of shopping and creating a new meal each week, in the hope it would be enough of an incentive to walk through the church doors, potentially for someone's first time. My macaroni cheese and vegan Dahl recipes were some of the favourites, which meant we cooked them at least once in a term. Recently I met up with friends that had been team leaders at Alpha, and they shared they still rave about my Dahl to this day. This year I began CBT-T, which is ten weeks of cognitive behavioural therapy, aimed at supporting me through my non-purging bulimia nervosa, or in short, bulimia. It's said ...
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