Derval O'Rourke: My healthy chocolate orange brownies have a surprise ingredient

Ask yourself 'what would I say to my best friend right now?' Give yourself the advice you so kindly share with your friends and more importantly, take your own advice!
Derval O'Rourke: My healthy chocolate orange brownies have a surprise ingredient

Dark Chocolate and Orange Zest Brownies.

We all have friends that help us in different ways: the friends we turn to for parenting tips, the friends we turn to for relationship advice and the friends who make us laugh until our sides hurt! Women, in particular, pride themselves on dishing out great advice to our friends, but what about when it comes to ourselves? Let’s have a chat about being in your own corner for a change — and I have a yummy snack for you to make with your weekend coffee.

We all want to be a good friend: solid, loyal and there for each other. I’m lucky to have some incredible people in my life and they in turn can call on me. But it is how we talk to ourselves that is the most important conversation we have every day. Can you imagine if you spoke to a friend in the negative terms you sometimes use to speak to yourself?

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