List of expressions we like to use:
- Agency: Sense of control of one’s life and capacity to influence own thoughts and behavior.
- Clutter: Disordered things that get on our way.
- Cognitive-socio-emotional capacity: The sum total of mental effort and energy we can apply for interactions, creation, decision-making, self-reflection, and learning.
- Decluttering: Removing unnecessary items and organizing the rest.
- Enough: The amount of quantity and quality that meets your demand and needs.
- Excess: Amount that is more than necessary or desirable.
- Fermentation: Chemical process where e.g. salt and microbes turn into lactic acid bacteria, which enriches gut microbiota leading to various health benefits.
- Insight: Immediate, deep, and clear understanding of a complicated problem or situation.
- Meal prepping: Preparing larger meals ahead. It saves time to cook multiple portions at once. It makes it easier over time to make more nutritious meal choices when there are heating-ready meals in the fridge / freezer.
- Neuroplasticity: Brain’s ability to reorganize and rewire its neural connections, enabling it to function in ways that differ from its prior state.
- Overthinking: Thinking or analyzing something to the point that is more harmful than helpful.
- Processed food: Any food that has been altered from its natural state. Done for convenience, preservation, safety, or taste.
- Willpower: Cognitive effort to go against your impulses, thoughts, and feelings. This is a renewable but limited resource and a critical component of our cognitive-socio-emotional capacity.