Hi, I'm so glad we found each other
I'm Christine
I’ve had a passion for natural food and holistic health since childhood. It was after my diagnosis with Multiple Sclerosis and Celiac in 2006, that I became a holistic natural food chef. My specialty was teaching whole food and whole body wellness strategies to overcome health obstacles both in the classroom, the kitchen, and privately, working with local alternative health practitioners and their patients. That sounds fancy, but really, most people know me as a flavor freak. I’m obsessed with high flavor food complemented by proper quality, local, organic, seasonal, and nourishing ingredients.
After being a natural chef instructor for many years, I became further obsessed with helping people see healthy food as simple, delicious and accessible. I decided to disrupt the mainstream restaurant paradigm and opened Fresh Thymes in 2013. An award-winning restaurant, marketplace and bodega dedicated to helping people with chronic conditions and extreme dietary restrictions, while also winning the hearts of our “I eat everything” customers. After 18 years of successfully treating my dis-ease with food and lifestyle, and decades as a restaurant industry veteran, my solution is one that embraces ease and simplicity while not compromising flavor and authenticity, regardless of your food preferences.
I want to expand on my known passion, let’s be real… my enduring obsession with reshaping our relationship with health and food, here, on this Substack. I want to come out from behind the kitchen and begin educating again and expand my opportunity to help people heal in a way far deeper than a meal at a restaurant. I want to infuse authentic lasting change in your wellbeing.
WHY SUBSCRIBE?
I want to be your bridge to a better self. I want to inspire you to trust your body, educate yourself and empower you on a whole health quest. Armed with recipes, stories and ideas, I want to empower you to leave the old paradigm behind. The Fresh Life will show you how.
By subscribing, you’ve got skin in the game. It’s a positive signal to your psyche actually - committing to learn and grow and not be afraid of change. That’s good for the mind and body. See, you can’t dip your toes into the pool of health, hoping to reap the benefits.
This matters. Really, there is a sea-change happening. You feel within yourself this is true. The evidence is all around us. Our health is struggling.
In my experience, the most powerful solution is expansive and a shift in how you see the world. Join me in committing to a world of real health.
By supporting me, I am able to continue serving you - creating damn tasty recipes to support your health, classes, workshops, retreats, content and community to inspire positive and lasting change in your whole health quest. Let’s open the door together.
PAID SUBSCRIBERS RECEIVE:
For the cost of $5/month - far less than an excellent glass of wine - or for $60.00/year - less than a mediocre dinner for two, you will be part of a new type of healing community.
Bi-weekly essays on a wide range of topics from health and healing to food, economics and politics to help dismantle your relationship with the mainstream medical narrative. It’s encouraged to be outraged.
Seasonal recipes of the moment, workshops, and videos with techniques and healing wisdom to help you embrace your inner healer.
Access to the archives baby! Access to a range of recipes from Fresh Thymes Eatery’s vault of yumminess.
Community engagement with classes, workshops, retreats, Q&A sessions and who knows where else we’ll go?
Still on the fence? That’s okay I get it. We can start slow. You will be able to read my newsletter and get a preview of the recipes. If you’d like a paid subscription but struggle financially, send me an email - Christine@freshthymes.com and we’ll figure it out.
FOR ALL READERS:
What this looks like:
I hope to inspire lasting change in how you view healing. A paradigm shift is a challenge and learning to trust the natural world is elusive. That’s okay, it’s part of the process. You’ll be FINE. In fact, better than fine. You will begin to deeply feel the current paradigm no longer serves you. You will thrive and over time you’ll be a Whole. New. You.
We are going to dismantle old ways of thinking, outdated modes of being. You will begin to understand why you are doing all the right things wrong.
This new knowing will allow courageous and perhaps disruptive and rule breaking behaviors as you buck the system and forge your unique pathway to health.
I will help you cultivate a mindset of non-negotiable - authentic healing as our bodies are elegantly designed to do.
I’m here to inspire Whole Health Empowerment.
THIS NEWSLETTER IS FOR YOU IF:
You have an open mind. You are an explorer. You are a curious seeker.
You’re willing to accept that old ways of thinking might actually suck and keep you sick.
Note: This is not an intellectual barrier, this is a psychological one.
Embrace the scary. Cultivate the bravery to trust your intuition more than your physician.
See you on the other side.