Being a human is hard and we all need as many tools in our coping toolbox as possible. We chat with baker, author, and activist, Becca Rea-Tucker (aka @thesweetfeminist), about how baking has become one of her most powerful coping and processing mechanisms — and how she thinks it can become one for you and maybe even your kids too.

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Links From This Episode

• More about Becca on her site The Sweet Feminist
• Becca on Instagram, @thesweetfeminist
• Becca’s Substack, The Sweet Feminist
• Becca’s book, Baking by Feel: Recipes to Sort Out Your Emotions (Whatever They Are Today!)  
• The Mental Health Implications of Abortion Restrictions
• Ineedana.com 
• Wetestify.com

About Our Guest: Becca Rea-Tucker

Becca Rea-Tucker is a baker and author with a passion for mixing sugar and strong opinions. She likes using baked goods as an artistic medium, talking about feelings, destigmatizing abortion, and all butter pie crust. Her first cookbook, Baking by Feel, is out now. She lives in Austin, TX with her husband Rhys and pup Otis.

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