My Story and Mission

My Story and Mission

          Mamas Healthy Healing Kitchen is my blog I created to share my healing journey and spread knowledge to others about healthy living and ways to promote healing in the body. I am a mother of four beautiful children. One of my children has a life threatening allergy to peanuts and allergies to almonds, hazelnuts and soy. I have been on my own healing journey for four years since I had an emergency c-section with my last child.  My son was born healthy and I had a safe delivery, but the c-section left me with intestinal issues to continually deal with.  I came down with small intestinal bacterial overgrowth which led to non-celiac gluten sensitivity. I have also developed many food sensitivities and recently discovered gluten associated cross-reactive foods.  Currently my diet is free of gluten, grains, dairy, peanuts, tree nuts, seeds, eggs, soy and refined sugar. Through the years I have worked with many doctors and nutritionists to figure out all the puzzle pieces to what is the root cause of my symptoms and illness. I have continued to read and do my own research to help educate myself on how to heal my body.  I am convinced that I will heal myself through food.  I strongly believe in a quote from the Hippocrates. "Let food be thy medicine and medicine be thy food".

          Because of these health challenges, the kinds of food my family eats on a daily basis had to drastically change. I had to educate myself about all the allergen free foods available to help feed myself and my family.  I also had to learn how to cook all over again to meet the dietary needs of myself and my children.  Along the way I learned how important clean eating and relying mostly on whole foods impacts the health and wellness of people and accelerates the healing process in a compromised body. I also have redefined what treats can be, make them with healthier ingredients and safely incorporate them into our life, so we will feel satisfied and not deprived.

         My mission is to spread the word about ways to promote healing withing the body through healthy living, simplicity, allergen free food, eating real food and using better ingredients for cooking.  I want to educate people about healthy clean real food eating and cooking and how it impacts their overall health and well being.  I would love to be a health coach to educate people on a healthy way to live their life through food and cooking.  This new nutrition knowledge will promote healing and a healthy well balanced body to live in and enjoy life.  I would focus on using food as medicine to nourish and heal their bodies in order for them to live feeling their best.

         I would like all people and families to have access to allergen free food, healthy organic produce, an occasional treats without chemicals and artificial ingredients and the knowledge to live a healthy well balanced life.  Eating this way can get expensive and it saddens me to think some people do not have the means to eat right to heal and nourish their body. I would like to get people to come together to donate high quality organic produce and allergen free foods.  It would give me great pleasure to collect these resources for families and then deliver it to people who need it in the community.  It would be wonderful to see more people have access to these great healthy foods to positively impact their health and the health of the world.  All donations will go directly to people and families in need.  Please join Mamas Healthy Healing Kitchen in making allergen free food and organic produce accessible to families in need because everyone deserves to eat healthy.

          I am very excited to see so many farmers markets being created to support local farmers.  It is a blessing to have access to local foods.  I would like to start cooking and baking allergen free foods for families that have so many allergies.  It is very hard to buy anything that is made at stores because they usually have ingredients that are not allowed on our specific diets for healing and wellness.   I make all of the food for myself and my family from scratch.  However, it would be nice once in a while to have the option to get one prepared meal for convenience.  I would like to start making allergen free soups because I believe soup is so healing and sell them at farmer's markets.  I am a believer in surrounding yourself with positive people and energy, so I aspire to be at farmer's markets each week with other people who are committed to providing local quality food to their community.

         Through my illness and suffering, I have developed a passion for nutrition and wellness.  I look forward to health coaching others, so they can have the knowledge to live well and feel well again.  I also am excited to do community service by collecting and donating allergen free food and organic produce to families in need.  It gives me great joy to educate and help others live healthy.  I want to help God's people live the best life they can because when people feel good they do good.  Imagine a world where more people felt well, created healthy supportive communities to support each other and chose to live in a way that supported their overall health and wellness.  Healthy food and living brings people together and creates an environment of happiness, peace, joy, love and overall optimum health and well being.