ENGLISH CORNER, CON LINDA JIMÉNEZ – This week’s trivia question: What is “challah diplomacy”?
Dr. Beth Ricanati has built her career around bringing wellness and well-being into everyday life through traditional medical clinics, wellness programs, and now as an author and speaker. She obtained her undergraduate degree in art history at the University of Pennsylvania, and her medical degree from the Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine.
Her goal is to help people explore how we all can manage our stress and live healthier and more meaningful lives, using the ancient ritual of making challah as the vehicle for achieving this.
She says that she strives to remind others—and herself—to slow down, be present, and bake challah. Her dream is to give people the foundation and tools, the perfect prescription, for a happy, healthy, fulfilled life of wellness and well-being.
Beth’s award-winning first book, Braided: A Journey of a Thousand Challahs, was published in 2018, and today she speaks throughout the US and abroad, and hosts virtual and in-person challah-making workshops for private groups and institutions such as schools, museums, and religious organizations. Last year she spoke with us about that book and her workshops, and you can listen to that program here.
In her latest book, The Braided Prescription, Seven Practices for Living Well from the Ancient Ritual of Making Challah, she uses the making of challah as a basis for describing seven science-grounded practices that steady the body, deepen connection, and help to combat stress. This week we are speaking with her about the new book, which will be published on September 1st and can be pre-ordered now.
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