NEW EPISODE: Becoming a Chocolate Expert
When we lived back in California, I worked for a while in the neuroscience department at UC San Diego studying the science of wisdom. One day the professor running the department asked me if I wanted to join him at the healthy aging event the team was putting on that night.
Man, if you want to study wisdom hanging out at events with a couple hundred seniors is your jam, so I was all in. The topic that night was chocolate and its scientific link to laughter and happiness. Hummmm . . . I'm listening! The best part of the event was when the lead speaker, a psychologist specializing in laughter, and his son, who ran an artisan chocolate shop, made us taste test chocolate in an entirely different way.
That young man was Ryan Berk, own of Parliament Chocolate. The stories he told of trekking through the Honduran cacao plantains, meeting with the families who had specialized in chocolate for generations - as well as the delicious samples they were sharing with us - changed forever how I see, enjoy and appreciate the art and science behind one of all of our favourite indulgences.
In this week's episode of Your Wellness Journey, I got together with Ryan as he walked us through becoming a chocolate expert.
I hope you enjoy this delicious episode. The more that we can connect to our passions and understanding in a deeper way why we love what we love, the better we become at discovering more our our passions and unlocking layers of our creativity we didn't even know existed.
Sending you sweet chocolate wishes. - Marla
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