Hi, I’m Kristi!
I am a Physician Assistant, online wellness coach, and cookbook author. I am the co-founder of Nothing Is Wasted Ministries with my husband Davey and a mom to Natalia, Weston, and Cohen.
My passion is empowering people to take back their health using food as medicine and addressing how we interact with the eight dimensions of wellness.
I realized the healing power of food when I was a health coach at a local hospital. I participated in an intensive training with the Center for Mind-Body Medicine where we learned how to treat chronic disease by addressing what we eat, how we move, and how mindful we are. In this training, they brought in some of the leading doctors all over the nation, who taught us how to help heal our patients with food first, before prescribing medication.
My daughter was diagnosed with an auto-immune disorder. There was no pharmaceutical cure for this disease. And the medicine they were prescribing had horrible side effects that would suppress her immune system, causing more harm than good. During that training I learned that food could help heal her. So I implemented their healing practices and immediately noticed a difference in her. This ignited a passion in me for holistic wellness. I knew I had to share this simple, yet profound truth with others.
As I began to dive more into this topic of treating illness with food, I discovered that God created us to have a connection with creation to bring us closer to Him. Our bodies are designed to heal themselves, to detox from the harmful things we put in them, and to fight off disease. The more we align ourselves with God and His rhythms for holistic living, the more whole and healthy we are. On the flip side, the more disconnected we are from our food and its source, the more disjointed and unhealthy we become.
I truly believe that each of us has a unique calling and purpose in life, but many of us have been overtaken by our illnesses and we are not able to fully step into that calling the way God intends for us.
This is why I create these resources, to help people learn how to live whole and healthy lives, and to empower them to take back their health.