I help women around the world live healthier and happier by giving them the tools to organize their life (and especially their kitchen) around clean, fresh, simple food that their whole family will love. Life is too short to spend it stressed out and overwhelmed, stuck in a vortex of chaos and junk food!
My mission is to help give you the tools to get your life in order, thrive on a plant-based diet, and have a healthy home, whether you are a family of one or of many. In a nutshell, I teach women how they can easily live healthy every day, whether it is turning their households into a people- and planet-friendly nest of well-being or showing them how to travel the world and live as an expat while effortlessly staying organized and eating nourishing foods on the road instead of travel junk food. I have a passion for all things raw and vegan, gluten-free and superfood, but I am not a stickler for labels or absolute rigidity in eating. I can show you how to feed your family the best food available to you, without complication and no matter where in the world you call home. I’m passionate about the environment and sustainability, and only want the best for my family’s home environment and health, so if you feel the same way, step on into my digital HQ and make yourself at home!
NOTES ON HEALTHY LIVING
You can count on me to ‘walk the talk’ of healthy living. Although I have been known to indulge at events and parties outside the home, inside, it’s a different story. I prepare the freshest and best quality food I can source (depending on where we are in the world, of course) and we don’t live on junk food. I’m not the type who posts photos of a healthy one-off meal on social media to pass it off for our daily lifestyle – it’s really what happening here for us, every day. I invite you to ambush my kitchen fridge and cabinets if you don’t believe me!
Of course, things weren’t always this way. Back when I was younger, I ate much more than my fair share of junk. For example, breakfast was often chocolate chip cookies! However, a complete life change in my early 30s saw me dabbling in raw veganism as a better way of life for my mind, body and spirit. Internet recipes, un-cooking books and lots of practice resulted in a dramatic transformation of my diet, leading me back to the US to learn more advanced skills in the kitchen.
I’m now a trained raw food chef, certified in the Fundamentals of Raw Cuisine (120-hour course) at Matthew Kenney Academy (formerly 105 degrees Academy) in the US, which was the world’s first classically structured raw and living foods education center. I’ve also successfully completed the Academy’s Plant-Based Desserts program (25-hour online course). I taught raw food preparation classes monthly in Bangkok for five years, and used to produce raw food and fermented drinks for resale and home delivery. I’ve also been a recipe tester for numerous published raw food books, including celebrity raw chef Ani Phyo’s Raw Food Asia and 15-Day Fat Blast. I have been featured in the Huffington Post, Time Out Dubai, Bangkok Airways Fah Thai magazine, Cyprus Mail, The Hindustan Times, KrisCarr.com, among other places.
NOTES ON FAMILY LIFE AND BEING AN EXPAT
My Scottish husband Kevin and I have lived in 6 countries in 12 years of marriage – the U.S., India, Thailand, the U.A.E., Saudi Arabia and now Cyprus, in addition to my previous university stints in Scotland (I completed two graduate degrees there). And I’m not talking about backpacking, traveling or being a ‘digital nomad’ doing visa runs while snagging free internet in hip cafes. I mean we actually were legal residents in those locations – resident visas, multiple year leases on dwellings, government ids, child born and enrolled in school, and registered with the ‘feds’, so-to-speak. I know what it’s like to have to pick up and move in a flash (with a house full of furniture and possessions), buy and sell cars, navigate finding housing with zero help from relocation agents and the like, all with a little one in tow.
I’ve learned how to run an eco-friendly household on my own without staff (we didn’t employ a maid or nanny like many expats in the places where we have lived), and I have successfully navigated healthy living in an unfamiliar place, time and time again. In addition, I’ve transformed myself from a junk-binging single woman to a raw food-prepping wife and mother, and I can help you to do the same, all while having fun and continuing to enjoy life! Having a dual-nationality marriage and raising a third culture kid does present its fair share of challenges, but I believe the rewards are great, and there shouldn’t be many obstacles which a little bit of planning, preparation and organization can’t help you overcome!
WANT TO CONNECT?
Did you have success with a raw recipe? Have something to ask or share? I’d love to hear from you via the comments section on my recipe or blog posts! Why not come on over to my Facebook page? I’m also getting more and more into Instagram lately, and love to share food photos as well as travel and expat living moments.
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