Sugar Therapy!

Last month, my lovely friend Melissa and I started a small baking business called Sugar Therapy. We joined our love for baking and decorating to create delicious and good looking cakes, cupcakes and cookies. More details about this new passion can be found here. 
The name comes from our practice as a psychotherapists and because cooking itself is very therapeutic!
Today I had the opportunity to test our concept with the kids I am seeing in counseling. I brought already made carrot mini-cakes for the children to decorate and they loved it!


Activity: 
I gave them two mini cupcakes and asked them to focus on two feelings. Then, I had them decorate the cupcakes according to the feelings they thought. One of the kids chose sad and happy. When she was done decorating, I asked her when was the last time she was sad or excited. Lastly, I told her to pick the cupcake with the feeling she wanted to keep. She chose the happy one and ate it. 
This activity, which I am going to call "Sugar Therapy" from now on, came out to be very helpful if you want children talk about their feelings and do not mention that kids love cupcakes and can do anything for them!

Some of the cupcakes they decorated!

Sad and Happy ones!

A "loved" one!

(Espanol; el mes pasado mi amiga y yo abrimos un pequeno negocio de pasteles llamdo Sugar Therapy, que significa Therapy del Azucar. El nombre viene de la passion de Melissa por cocinar y mi passion por la decoration y nuestras profesiones como psicologas. Hoy puse en practica nuestro concepto en una de mis sessiones con lo ninos. Traje mini pasteles para que ellos lo decoren y les gusto mucho. Asi pudimos hablar de sus emociones por que es muy dificil hacer que un nino hable de eso, pero con un poco de azucar uno consigue mucho de un pequenin.)