I use my super powers as a Holistic Nutritionist, whole food chef, health educator, and yoga teacher to help people see how easy and delicious being healthy can be.
I regularly write a food and wellness blog, which has been featured across the interwebs and in magazines - Dare magazine, Earth Mother in the Raw, and Raw Guru to list a few places. I am also a featured chef on Raw Food Recipes and have spoken as a nutrition expert at two highly anticipated talks at the 2013 Toronto Vegetarian Food Festival.
With almost a decade in marketing and copywriting, my writing experience is quite broad. I've written every for every type of medium, including articles, web copy, and marketing materials with subject matter ranging from nutrition to finances to sustainable transportation.
Personal blog
A health and wellness blog that combines my experience as a holistic nutritionist, yoga teacher, whole food chef and health educator with industry research and deliciously simple recipes. This blog aims to make it easy for readers to make healthy choices for themselves and their families.
The time I almost died in the Andes
“That was really unsafe. I think we almost died last night,” was Caleb’s morning greeting to me at our happenstance camp site in the Andes. I had just been thinking the same thing as I was surveying my tent, which I had unknowingly in the dark of night pitched precariously close to the edge of a cliff. A travel article I wrote about a hiking trip in South Ecuador that went so wrong, that it could only go right.
The gypsy traveller finds a passenger...in all its parasitic glory
Beginning with an amusing anecdote of discovering that I had a parasite while travelling in Peru, this post then explores a holistic approach to ridding one's self of this issue and restoring health and balance
Looking for the best night (of sleep) of your life? This article written for Elephant Journal offers five natural and holistic ways to help readers fall - and stay - asleep.
Cinnamon: Your blood sugar superstar
This article written for the Engage Africa Foundation's blog looks at the benefits of cinnamon for balancing blood sugar and preventing the onset and complications of diabetes. It takes the large body of scientific research out there and translates it into an understandable and enjoyable read for the everyday person.
Vegging out in Cusco, Peru
An article written for Eat Drink Travel Magazine highlighting the best places for vegetarian food in the south of Peru.
A health and wellness blog that combines my experience as a holistic nutritionist, yoga teacher, whole food chef and health educator with industry research and deliciously simple recipes. This blog aims to make it easy for readers to make healthy choices for themselves and their families.
The time I almost died in the Andes
“That was really unsafe. I think we almost died last night,” was Caleb’s morning greeting to me at our happenstance camp site in the Andes. I had just been thinking the same thing as I was surveying my tent, which I had unknowingly in the dark of night pitched precariously close to the edge of a cliff. A travel article I wrote about a hiking trip in South Ecuador that went so wrong, that it could only go right.
The gypsy traveller finds a passenger...in all its parasitic glory
Beginning with an amusing anecdote of discovering that I had a parasite while travelling in Peru, this post then explores a holistic approach to ridding one's self of this issue and restoring health and balance
Recent reports have raised concern that cinnamon, a spice with a long history of healing, could cause liver toxicity and damage. This post reviews the current literature and offers an easy-to-digest summary and recommendations for the everyday reader.
This short article offers five easy things readers can start doing to help prevent cardiovascular disease.
Bylines
Five tips to help you sleepLooking for the best night (of sleep) of your life? This article written for Elephant Journal offers five natural and holistic ways to help readers fall - and stay - asleep.
Cinnamon: Your blood sugar superstar
This article written for the Engage Africa Foundation's blog looks at the benefits of cinnamon for balancing blood sugar and preventing the onset and complications of diabetes. It takes the large body of scientific research out there and translates it into an understandable and enjoyable read for the everyday person.
Vegging out in Cusco, Peru
An article written for Eat Drink Travel Magazine highlighting the best places for vegetarian food in the south of Peru.
Lifelines
I am a regular contributor for the Toronto Vegetarian Association's quarterly publication. I write about healthy and delicious living in a vegetarian world.
I am a regular contributor for the Toronto Vegetarian Association's quarterly publication. I write about healthy and delicious living in a vegetarian world.