More Than What You Cook: Food Guilt, Gender Roles & Women’s Worth | Mindsattva

What if your value as a woman had nothing to do with what you cook—or how many recipes you juggle each night?

In this “In the Flow” episode, Dr. Mitika Kanabar tackles the “food police” that live in our cultures, communities, and families. Why do women say no to themselves ten times before asking permission to go to the gym? Why does making a lifestyle change feel like failing your family? Drawing on personal observations, cultural dynamics, and a dash of humor, Mitika explores how women’s self-worth gets tangled up with cooking, caregiving, and keeping everyone fed—and what it costs us.

She examines why perimenopause often becomes a turning point—when the hormonal capacity to overdo for everyone finally runs out, and the cracks we’ve been covering with “new paintings” start to show. Inspired by @justbeingmelani’s viral menopause content, Mitika closes with her own Mindsattva spin on Melanie’s “We Do Not Care Club” format—a comedic manifesto for releasing guilt around food, cooking, and impossible domestic expectations.

In this episode:
• The “food police” in your culture: how self-worth becomes transactional
• Why women seek permission before making lifestyle changes—even at 50, 60, or 70
• Gender roles, cooking expectations, and the “Excel sheet of everybody’s tiffins”
• The cognitive dissonance between rajasic/dopaminergic foods and sattvic eating
• Perimenopause and the hormonal shift that stops the people-pleasing engine
• Breaking free from the myth of the “ideal wife, ideal daughter, ideal mother”
• A Mindsattva edition of the “We Do Not Care Club” (inspired by @justbeingmelani)

Featured in this episode:
• @justbeingmelani (Mama Melanie) - Perimenopause and menopause content creator - https://www.instagram.com/justbeingmelani/?hl=en

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