
On September 15th, we will be kicking off our 5 Days Vegan group challenge. There are already 36 awesomely enthusiastic people registered from four countries and nearly 20 cities. That is pretty cool. For the next week, I will be sharing some of the main benefits of transitioning to a more plant-based diet. Now of [...]
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When I posted photos of my shiny happy completed kitchen, I received a comment asking if my fridge is always so organized. A week later, I would have to say yes. Yes it is. I like going to the market, I like buying pretty vegetables and I like getting them all ready to eat and [...]
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Elana, who I introduced you to on Tuesday, uses only the bestest of the best essential oils for her practice. Those oils, that carry the name Living Libations, are the enchanting work of Nadine Artemis. Nadine and Ron, who makes only the most amazing raw chocolate you ever did taste, live in the sweet paradise [...]
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There are two huge benefits to the work that I do, besides helping people get on track with their health, and that is meeting really cool people, whether it be ladies like Andrea and Ashley who attended my cooking class or the people who work in this holistic healing field. Nothing beats friends with benefits. [...]
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This Thursday, August 13th, marks the launch of The Healthy Cookie: Unbaked, an inspiring journal that documents a life changing two years from a Crohn’s Disease diagnosis to naturally attained perfect health. This is not a guide on how to get you well but the very personal story of how I got well. More than [...]
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Posted in Nutrition, Video, Wellbeing on Jul 9th, 2009

Yesterday I got my promo postcards in the mail! This is very exciting. It kind of makes my retreat real. And the cards for my retreat are beee-you-tee-ful if I do say so myself (I did them so it’s a bit of a tooting my own horn sitch). Have a look for yourself! The retreat [...]
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Posted in Food, Healthy, Nutrition, Raw, Recipe, Smart Choices, Snack, Vegan, Veggie Protein, Video on Jun 18th, 2009

Do you know what would happen if you took some of the most powerful, nutrient dense, amazing foods available to us on this planet and rolled them all together? You get superhero-worthy balls. This recipe was created based on an email I received from a participant in the 3-Day Green Smoothie Cleanse, wanting to know [...]
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Posted in Holistic, Nutrition, Nutritionist on May 25th, 2009

For starters, we talk a lot about poo. We also talk a lot about colons, vegetables, enzymes, eating and cleansing- which really all has to do with poo. I spent the past weekend at the Canadian Holistic Nutrition Conference that was held in Toronto at the Ontario Science Centre and it was great fun. There [...]
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When I was 12 years old, I was at the mall with my best friend at the time, Carolyn, and we each bought two gold fish. I named mine Casey and Finnigan (a la Mr. Dressup) and Carolyn named hers Jerry and Garcia- she was clearly way cooler than me. By the time we got [...]
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First- Thank you all so much for your amazing comments on my “I’d Rather Be Chubby Post” from yesterday. I never expected such an outpouring of honesty and support. Really means so much to me and if you haven’t read it yet- here it is. Now on to the Butter Battle. If you don’t have [...]
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