I’m the Hédonista.

Life has led me to where I am through wonder.. curiosity.. trauma.. stress.. art.. and the continual desire to learn more, feel better, and share with others.  

My story led to a handful of health issues that expressed themselves by my mid thirties.  Inflammation, migraines, autoimmune, and thyroid issues to name a few.  Learning already along the way that lifestyle and mindset make all the difference in healing the source of my problems.  I was led down a path that taught me about the importance of clean whole foods, regulating my nervous system, becoming less inflamed, detoxing….

And along the way felt like I was drowning in this rigid new way of life…

A way of life that was supposed to heal me and help me feel good.  So why wasn’t I healing? Why wasn’t I feeling better?  Because I was isolated, stressed, and run ragged.  I had stopped having fun, taking any real pleasure in life, everything became very serious.  Which is the opposite of what I learned about how to reset and heal my nervous system.  The seriousness and the stress was causing more inflammation than the “healthy” changes I was making.  

That's when everything changed for me.  

I just knew there was a different way.  

Could the answer be to embody more pleasure? Take more pauses?  Breathe deeper? Laugh more?  Have more time with friends? Make community? Worry less? Live an abundant confident life? Feel amazing?  Yes, all that was the answer!

By changing my mindset on what was important.  By adopting practices that gave me the ability to pause and live abundantly.  Balancing what I do with my time.. And really pursuing creativity and joy in all that I do.  I feel vibrant and amazing.  I am confident that adding pleasure with a mix of beautiful whole foods and friends, walks outside, a good book, and living creatively can lead us all to an abundant optimal way of life.  

The Hedonista is born from a lifetime of food.  Food for work, food for practical learning, food for passion, food for creativity.  & in the last decade food as medicine and how food can be part of a life of pleasure. From a lens of knowledge in integrative nutrition, epigenetics, & mindfulness.  The Hedonista is a way to share my passion & purpose to guide us to a new optimal.  A new definition of health is necessary in our modern times, showing it doesn’t have to feel rigid.   To share my knowledge through beautiful whole foods, how to have more fulfillment in our lives, modern science, & the pleasure we can all experience.  Join me in a life where pleasure is health. With food as medicine. Where making time for a meal with friends is health.  Where laughter is health.  It’s time we experienced truly feeling amazing!