WHY SOUP & SEX? Better Nutrition, Better Communication
Two Important Ingredients That Shouldn’t be Missing in Our Lives-Today
Better nutrition and better communication, that’s the main idea behind Soup & Sex . I grew up believing in the value of proper nutrition and communicating properly with others. I know that both are very essential ingredients in our lives. Today more than ever before. I also understand that everyone, mostly couples, can develop a better competence in overall nutrition and communication with a simple hands-on approach.
I designed this web-site as a platform with the intention of sharing my two passions with others. The first, soups that are fabulously delicious yet simple to make. second, a simple set of communication skills and activities that I believe will help couples become more engaged with each other. Ultimately building a more happy and harmonious life.
It came together simply by accident, yet very naturally. I began to put nutritious vegetables as well as my education to good use. I constructed a list of 52 soups that contain a generous variety of healthy vegetables. I also constructed 52 activities that contain healthy communication skills. These set of skills I found, continue to contribute to and draw from several disciplines. They shed light on the dynamics of human interaction, which is an ingredient for all healthy relationships-if they are to survive.
After several months of tending my first garden in many years and finishing what seemed like a long list of interdisciplinary studies to reach my goal, graduation, I was convinced that nutrition, communication, soup, and sex have a number of similarities. All of them seem to be the center of a happy harmonious life.
That particular garden yielded a bounty of luscious vegetables that I hadn’t grown in many years. I was motivated not to let anything that I had grown go to waste unnecessarily. That’s when the soups, quite literally, came barreling into the picture. Of course, after eating such an array of healthy vegetables day in and day out I got healthy, I felt fabulous, I felt inspired and I wanted to share it with others.
As I tended that little garden day after day it had me thinking. I thought about how important tending really is. Tending to our health. Tending to our relationships. Tending to our happiness. I thought about how tending itself leads to abundance and that abundance is what many of us are looking for and often times not finding. I thought about how it affects every corner of our lives and how essential that knowledge would be if I shared those thoughts with others, especially couples. Because that knowledge just might produce a thriving more harmonious relationship for the many who might listen. Just as my garden had done with the right tending.
So, this is where the story of SOUP & SEX really began. I sat down day after day and turned my list of soups into actual recipes. After I had finished I gave them sexy names and started right in on making them. I had been making most of them my whole life, dating back some 30 years. My mother was a fabulous cook and her mother as well. My grandmother Stenna for whom I am named after. I am proud of that.
I added ingredients here and there, but mostly a variety of fresh vegetables and herbs from my garden. Surprisingly the soups turned out great. I know because I loved them, so I shared my soups with others. They loved them too and they were healthy. Often to my dismay, I realized that most people just don’t eat a variety of vegetables unless they are in soups, chilies, or stews.
Then I started on my list of activities. That’s the sex part, which isn’t anything more than learning to communicate better as couples in some very fun ways, which I think we all can use more of in our relationships-today. I added activities here and there just as I had done with my soups and gave them sexy names too.
Yes, I started doing the activities as well as making soup with my husband. I found that we communicated better on every level of our relationship. I also noticed we had more fun when we were together, laughed more, and seemed to understand each others needs better. The best part about soup & sex is that physically as well as emotionally, I as a person feel healthier and happier on every plane of existence and so does my husband.
I finished the book and submitted it for a copyright. That is a long process and much of your energy lies on hold. So, I began thinking of where I wanted to go if and when I got my Certificate of Registration. I got it-I am proud of that. You will find some great soup recipes and even better research about communicating better with your significant other or partner, whichever term you prefer best. I have also include quotes, fun facts, and memorable suggestions.
My mind is constantly working. As for Soup it can be hot, warm or cold, most of us prefer it hot just like our sex.