Joyce Calayag-Allan is a recipe developer, qualified pastry chef and vocational trainer and assessor by trade with over 10 years in experience. In 2023, following a recurring hand injury, she transitioned into a role as a House mum in an all-boys’ boarding school in Sydney’s North Shore. PTSD, depression, anxiety, and grief blanketed most of her life from childhood. Baking Resilience is a compilation of recipes, a walk through with the concept of grief and trauma recovery, curating resilience through baking as a shadow work, and what it’s like to hold space for others.