I never thought much about cooking until I discovered the healing power of food. My journey really began with Queen Afua’s Sacred Woman program, where I committed to a 12-week vegan lifestyle. That experience changed everything for me. For the first time, I connected eating with health. It showed me how food could actually support physical, spiritual, and emotional healing. This led me to explore plant-based cooking professionally. I studied at the Natural Gourmet Institute for Health-Supportive Culinary Arts in New York and the Tree of Life Live Food Center in Arizona, where I was formally trained on the art of healing with food. The final piece was my internship at Millennium Restaurant in San Francisco, which took it even further, showing me just how delicious and sexy healthy eating could be (’cause I’m a southern girl and our food has to taste good, or nothing else matters). This trifecta of experiences kicked off my journey to cooking delicious, health-supportive food for folks and letting them know that we can both “Live to Eat” and “Eat to Live” at the same time. While I still live by this philosophy, I no longer cook professionally, but if you stop by the house, I will probably whip something up for you, right quick.