{"id":22155,"date":"2023-05-12T10:07:18","date_gmt":"2023-05-12T14:07:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.chezcora.com\/?p=22155"},"modified":"2026-06-24T10:27:54","modified_gmt":"2026-06-24T14:27:54","slug":"isabel-p-is-back","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chezcora.com\/en\/dame-isabel-p-recidive\/","title":{"rendered":"Isabel P. is back"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Surely you remember Isabel P., the young lady who interviewed me a few weeks ago as part of a project to feature a well-known figure from the restaurant industry. Well, she appreciated the sincerity of my answers and was curious to dig a little deeper into my life. I agreed, dear readers, out of affection for you. I\u2019m curious to see what these new questions are, so let\u2019s go.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2014 \u201cWhich three words best define you?\u201d
\u2014 \u201cVitality, creativity and courage. It sounds like I am tooting my own horn, but these qualities literally saved my life.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2014 \u201cWhat do you do to relax?\u201d
\u2014 \u201cI listen to classical music, mostly baroque, I string beads to create bracelets, I draw faces, I knit, I write haikus and I practice making a variety of jams. I am rarely immobile, except at night, when I\u2019m glued to the couch watching addictive TV series.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2014 \u201cName a flaw you have finally mastered.\u201d
\u2014 \u201cWith time, and especially once I let go of my work-related responsibilities, I am not as headstrong as I used to be. I do miss having power though. I am just an advisor at the company, which is now in the hands of the children. Often I simply sit there, chomping at the bit.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2014 \u201cWhat was the most beautiful day of your life?\u201d
\u2014 \u201cIt will happen when a grandiose bird will deliver my remains at heaven\u2019s door. My eyes will open, my heart will start beating again and a new life will open its door to me.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2014 \u201cWill you write your biography?\u201d
\u2014 \u201cNo, not as such. I am dispensing a little of my life each Sunday, as memories resurface or by acting on an unexpected inspiration. Writing every day makes my heart lighter and keeps me in love with life.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2014 \u201cDo you have a spiritual guide?\u201d
\u2014 \u201cI like to believe that all of Heaven\u2019s saints keep a close eye on me and protect and guide me when necessary. I do believe in the infinite kindness of a force greater than us.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2014 \u201cYou have written close to 200 Sunday letters. Aren\u2019t you tired of it yet? Do you look forward to moving onto something else?\u201d
\u2014 \u201cI love writing these letters! I consider them to be my \u201cmorning pages,\u201d something writer Julia Cameron popularized in her book THE ARTIST\u2019S WAY<\/em>, published in 1992.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Julia Cameron recommends writing three pages each morning in order to release your inner artist. These pages help to build strong writing habits. They amplify your creativity and writing skills. They help you focus each morning and teach you how to draw from your subconscious. These morning pages strengthen your self-confidence and allow you to free each day the emotions you often keep pushed down.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I wrote these \u201cmorning pages\u201d for a long time and, by some miracle, they became the Sunday letters. I am very happy about that, and I have no intention of stopping.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2014 \u201cNot many women of your generation took the reins of their destiny like you did. How did you do it?\u201d
\u2014 \u201cIt\u2019s a long story, but the short version is, I had the courage to leave the family home with my three young kids in tow. I was shattered, but with the love of my kids, I rebuilt myself. It would take a few Sunday letters to explain all of it in detail, but it will come, I am certain of it.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hope is the biggest gift we can receive on this Mother\u2019s Day Sunday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Go out, turn your face towards the sky, a bird will bring you hope and an angel will place it in your heart. With bright eyes, you\u2019ll speak words filled with optimism.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

HAPPY MOTHER\u2019S DAY TO ALL OF YOU!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Cora
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Surely you remember Isabel P., the young lady who interviewed me a few weeks ago as part of a project to feature a well-known figure from the restaurant industry. Well, she appreciated the sincerity of my answers and was curious to dig a little deeper into my life. I agreed, dear readers, out of affection for you. I\u2019m curious to see what these new questions are, so let\u2019s go. \u2014 \u201cWhich three words best define you?\u201d\u2014 \u201cVitality, creativity and courage. It sounds like I am tooting my own horn, but these qualities literally saved my life.\u201d \u2014 \u201cWhat do you do to relax?\u201d\u2014 \u201cI listen to classical music, mostly baroque, I string beads to create bracelets, I draw faces, I knit, I write haikus and I practice making a variety of jams. I am rarely immobile, except at night, when I\u2019m glued to the couch watching addictive TV series. \u2014 \u201cName a flaw you have finally mastered.\u201d\u2014 \u201cWith time, and especially once I let go of my work-related responsibilities, I am not as headstrong as I used to be. I do miss having power though. I am just an advisor at the company, which is now in the hands of the children. Often I simply sit there, chomping at the bit.\u201d \u2014 \u201cWhat was the most beautiful day of your life?\u201d\u2014 \u201cIt will happen when a grandiose bird will deliver my remains at heaven\u2019s door. My eyes will open, my heart will start beating again and a new life will open its door to me.\u201d \u2014 \u201cWill you write your biography?\u201d\u2014 \u201cNo, not as such. I am dispensing a little of my life each Sunday, as memories resurface or by acting on an unexpected inspiration. Writing every day makes my heart lighter and keeps me in love with life.\u201d \u2014\u2026<\/p>","protected":false},"author":414,"featured_media":22156,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"Dame Isabel P. revient avec de nouvelles questions pour Mme Cora, qui raconte d'autres pans de son parcours de restauratrice.","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_seopress_news_disabled":"","_seopress_video_disabled":"","_seopress_video":[],"_seopress_pro_schemas_manual":[],"_seopress_pro_rich_snippets_disable_all":"","_seopress_pro_rich_snippets_disable":[],"_seopress_pro_schemas":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[42],"class_list":["post-22155","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-lettre-mme-cora"],"blocksy_meta":{"styles_descriptor":{"styles":{"desktop":"","tablet":"","mobile":""},"google_fonts":[],"version":8}},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chezcora.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22155","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chezcora.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chezcora.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chezcora.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/414"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chezcora.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22155"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.chezcora.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22155\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chezcora.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22156"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chezcora.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22155"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chezcora.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22155"}],"curies":[{"name":"WP","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}