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Ditch the Recipe: Trust Your Gut in the Kitchen & in Life

Writer: Melanie
Melanie
Feb 25, 2025
1 min read

Updated: Oct 1

FEATURED ON THE NEXT CHAPTHER PODCAST


February 25, 2025


Melanie Underwood joined The Next ChaptHER podcast for a conversation about intuition, perfectionism and what happens when cooking becomes a place to practice self-trust rather than rigid rule-following.


Perfectionism gets in the way of intuition


“Perfectionism kills intuition. And as a former pastry chef who was a perfectionist, I always call myself a recovering perfectionist.”

The stories we repeat matter


“If you tell yourself that story, your body hears you, your mind hears you, and it's like a little chip away every day. ‘I'm not good at this. I can't do it.’”

Intuition needs space


“Your intuition isn’t about thinking harder. It's about creating space for the answers that are already there to emerge.”


Taste instead of trying to be right


“If you taste something and don’t like it, ask yourself why. Cooking isn’t about getting it ‘right’—it’s about making it taste good to YOU.”

The larger conversation connects kitchen flexibility with everyday confidence: learning to notice, adjust and make a decision without needing perfect certainty.



THE NEXT CHAPTHER PODCAST • Intuition, perfectionism, confidence and cooking

 
 
 

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