Paula Deen is famously known today as “the Queen of Cooking” (Moskin, 2007). She has had many successful shows, cook books, and restaurants. The way she came to be such a celebrity will make one empathetic. Paula Ann Deen was born on January 19th, 1947 (Darby, 2010). Her childhood was rather quiet. She was raised Baptist (Whinfrey, 2012). He mother and grandmother ran the restaurant of a hotel her grandparents owned (Darby, 2010). She was raised in Dougherty County, Georgia (Darby, 2010). Deen wished to cook alongside her mother and grandmother; however, her mother would rarely let her because she found her to be a distraction because of Deen’s need to have control in the kitchen (Darby, 2010). Socially, Deen was popular in school and enjoyed
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Cooking certainly will not be the only activity necessary to allow her to live a fulfilling life and overcome her fears that hold her back from everyday life. Exposure therapy would be the best way for her to get over her fear of having a panic episode out in public. Agoraphobia is a tough phobia to dismantle, but exposure therapy has shown the best results. Breathing and relaxation methods would also assist Deen in maintaining her calm when situations seem to get out of her control. Motivation is also an important factor in getting any treatment to work effectively. Deen shows the motivation to concur her disorders because she wants control in her life for the sake of her children’s’ wellbeing (Darby, 2010). Her desire to pursue her passion, cooking, can help drive her to stick to this treatment plan. Once her agoraphobia becomes more manageable, she will have hit two birds with one stone. Her feeling of overall hopelessness and depression will hopefully subside because she will have gained the ability to do as she pleases and regain control over her life. As traumatizing as her experiences were, she has made it to the final stage of grief, acceptance, in stating, “I understood what I was supposed to be asking God for--it was the serenity to accept the things I couldn't change and the courage to change the things that I could…” (Setoodeh,
Cooking certainly will not be the only activity necessary to allow her to live a fulfilling life and overcome her fears that hold her back from everyday life. Exposure therapy would be the best way for her to get over her fear of having a panic episode out in public. Agoraphobia is a tough phobia to dismantle, but exposure therapy has shown the best results. Breathing and relaxation methods would also assist Deen in maintaining her calm when situations seem to get out of her control. Motivation is also an important factor in getting any treatment to work effectively. Deen shows the motivation to concur her disorders because she wants control in her life for the sake of her children’s’ wellbeing (Darby, 2010). Her desire to pursue her passion, cooking, can help drive her to stick to this treatment plan. Once her agoraphobia becomes more manageable, she will have hit two birds with one stone. Her feeling of overall hopelessness and depression will hopefully subside because she will have gained the ability to do as she pleases and regain control over her life. As traumatizing as her experiences were, she has made it to the final stage of grief, acceptance, in stating, “I understood what I was supposed to be asking God for--it was the serenity to accept the things I couldn't change and the courage to change the things that I could…” (Setoodeh,