Lemon Sole en Papillote

This recipe is inpired by the Intellectual dimension of wellness.

Intellectual wellness is about learning and maximizing your cognitive abilities. The learning process includes five basic steps: readiness, stimulus, discovery, response, and application. Intellectual wellness depends on a daily habit of feeding your brain with material that expands your knowledge and world view in addition to challenging and engaging your higher level thinking skills.

“Everybody is a genius. But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing that its stupid.” - Albert Einstein

As a small child, I struggled in school, and these feelings of struggling through life carried into adulthood. No matter how hard I tried, it seemed that organization was a constant problem. However, when I felt hopeless at times, it seemed cooking was a constant practice for self care. As I got older, I discovered (although never diagnosed) that I may have been suffering with ADHD.

I berated myself for my lack of organization but just recently discovered that cooking brings me extreme joy. It gives me the opportunity to recognize something I am good at while stretching my creativity. Choosing the ingredients and the process of organizing and chopping vegetables has brought a great sense of calm into my life. It’s given me the opportunity to focus while following directions in a recipe and has helped nurture me like an encouraging parent. As I’ve learned to better understand myself, I now know I can walk into any kitchen, take a look in the fridge and think, I’ve got this!

This recipe grabbed my attention. Attached is a video from Gordon Ramsay where I got the recipe.