A story of a mother and her pre-school age daughter working through the challenges of Celiac Disease. Learn how intuition and a mother’s love brought healing to a baby girl.

There is something inherently special about a bond between a mother and a child. There is a connection between the two that goes beyond understanding, beyond anything of this Earth—a spiritual connection. Because of this connection, mothers instinctively sense changes in their children that even a doctor can’t detect.

Meet Kelly Johnson, a loving mother to two beautiful children, Elliana 4 and Luca 2. Kelly is living proof that mother always knows best.

Kelly has always felt a special connection with her daughter, Elliana, from the moment she was born. Kelly believes that the two of them were meant to find each other and journey through this life together. “A long time ago, our souls agreed that she would be my daughter and I would be her mother,” she said. Looking at her daughter, she sees the inherent wisdom she held as a child and feels the tug of her heartstrings as her old soul resonates with her daughter’s.

“A long time ago, our souls agreed that she would be my daughter and I would be her mother.”

As a mother-daughter duo, the two share more than just similar sensibilities; their connection to one another was affirmed by genetics after a diagnosis of Celiac Disease; first in Kelly and then in Elliana.

After Kelly gave birth to her second child, Luca, she really started to notice an increase in her  symptoms. She had suffered for years from migraines, from gastrointestinal issues, frequent ear infections, sinus issues, and countless other ailments. Yet this time was worse. Her acid reflux became so bad that she found herself buying antacids in bulk, trying desperately to get rid of it. She also had issues with her bowel movements, leading the doctor to suspect Irritable Bowel Syndrome. All effort to remedy the issues, through medication and cutting out certain foods like meats, offered her no relief.

At a family gathering Kelly’s relatives began questioning the condition of her health. She had given birth recently and her weight loss had been rapid. The change was dramatic enough that her mother approached her, saying the family was worried she had an eating disorder. Kelly was devastated to hear these words come from her mother’s mouth. She knew she’d been eating and hadn’t realized her significant weight loss had become an issue, not realizing at the time that this was a symptom of Celiac Disease.

She consulted her doctor who ran further tests and discovered that her liver enzymes were high. Still, her doctor was short on answers as to what was wrong, leaving Kelly to search out answers on her own. A friend suggested that Kelly try cutting out gluten and willing to try anything to help ease the gastrointestinal issues, she gave it a shot. After just a week, her symptoms subsided.

A friend suggested that Kelly try cutting out gluten and willing to try anything to help ease the gastrointestinal issues, she gave it a shot. After just a week, her symptoms subsided.

This relief turned out to be the missing puzzle piece she’d been looking for. Armed with her new information, she consulted her doctor about Celiac, but wasn’t immediately presented with a diagnosis. The doctors still thought it was an IBS flare and were hesitant to test for Celiac disease. “It’s often the doctors and the people around you telling you it’s all in your head because you look okay,” Kelly said.  She was frustrated that they weren’t listening to her. She knew her body and, trusting herself, she kept pushing, kept researching, and kept seeing out doctors until she was finally tested for Celiac and diagnosed.

“It’s often the doctors and the people around you telling you it’s all in your head because you look okay.” 

Due to her own experience with Celiac Disease, Kelly was able to recognize an echo of her symptoms in her young daughter.  Because Celiac is a genetic condition, Kelly realized she needed to be on the lookout for symptoms in her children. “I honestly wouldn’t have asked to get my daughter tested if I hadn’t felt some of the symptoms myself,” Kelly said.

Like Kelly, her daughter, as a baby, suffered from what they assumed was acid reflux. She was experiencing frequent loose stools and would spend most of the day screaming. As a first-time mom, Kelly had a lot of self-doubt on how she was taking care of her baby, and having her constantly crying made her question her ability to parent. Her husband was a big help, but sleep deprivation and the constant crying pushed her to her limits. Her doctor recommended adding oatmeal to her milk, still unaware that gluten was the problem.

When she noticed that her daughter wasn’t gaining weight, she knew that something was wrong. Once again, doing her own research, she had to be an advocate. This time for her tiny daughter who couldn’t communicate for herself. The doctors, like with Kelly,  were again hesitant to test for Celiac, but her mother’s intuition detected what the doctors couldn’t see. Kelly insisted her daughter get tested for Celiac. When the doctor called with the results of her daughter’s tests, Kelly cried. She cried because she had known, and there was a sense of relief in confirming that her mommy instincts had been right and she was able to help her daughter. “Because of me, we caught it early and she is less likely to develop another auto-immune deficiency.”

Once again, doing her own research, she had to be an advocate. This time for her tiny daughter who couldn’t communicate for herself.

Elliana is now in pre-school and having a child that young with Celiac has been challenging. Kelly is teaching her daughter all about gluten and what foods she can and cannot have. She feels guilty at times because she thinks she’s denying her daughter Elliana a normal childhood. When other families are eating fast food, she has to explain about cross-contamination and why she can’t eat french fries.

Kelly often reminds herself that she’s giving her child the opportunity to nourish her body with healthier options. And Elliana has been a trooper throughout the whole process. She has learned to enjoy the foods that she’s allowed to eat and even reminding adults that she has to eat gluten-free when they offer her something she can’t have. “A classmate brought cupcakes for their birthday, and my daughter told them ‘I can’t have that’ and happily ate her grapes,” Kelly described, beaming with pride at her the wisdom of her four-year-old.

“In being a mom, I found the opportunity to love me and have a voice. Because through my love for me I can love them even more.”

As a parent, trusting yourself and your instincts can be hard. You’re going to make mistakes and challenging things are inevitably going to happen, whether that be discipline issues, arguments, or health scares. “But you can’t know the good without the bad,” Kelly says. You have to trust yourself, as she has learned to do, and love yourself for just being human and keep trying your best, no matter what. That is where the healing starts. Trust your mommy instincts—they’re never wrong.

You have to trust yourself, love yourself for just being human, and keep trying your best, no matter what.

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Changing Hospital Food to Healing Food!

Learn how a hospital dietician defied convention to create an organic vegetable garden for her patients.

I have a vision. A vision of a healthy world with happy people. A vision of a colorful healed earth full of abundant life. In this beautiful dream, people walk on mama earth’s soil and have so much gratitude for her gifts. I imagine bright orange carrots, plump fruit, and little grinning healthy kids with berry juice running down their face.

Some people tell me this is a fantasy. They talk about all the things wrong with the world. I am not naïve to the world we live in yet I choose to tell the stories of inspiration. The stories of brilliant kind people taking steps to make a difference.

Joetta Redlin, Director of Nutrition Services and her team at  Winneshiek Medical Center in Decorah, Iowa are choosing to make such a difference.

Whoa, whaaaat you are thinking. A hospital?? Am I reading a counterfeit LoveSelf article? Nope this is the real thing and you will be offering hugs to Joetta and the team at Winneshiek Medical Center by the time you wrap up the last words of this story.

What comes to mind when you think of hospital food? If you are like me, it is something like “yuck” and Jell-O. I will confess. Healthy and tasty are not descriptors that occur to me. In other words, will someone run to the organic grocery store and bring this poor patient some good food?!

Guess what? Joetta and her team are working really hard to prove me wrong.  A food is medicine inspiration for all healthcare centers!

What was once a barren courtyard has now become a beautiful edible landscape. Complete with bright flowers and stunning vegetables. In August of 2009, collaboration between the hospital leadership, with support from the Kellogg Foundation, sparked the idea of creating a healthy garden. The garden was designed to feed the patients and their families healthy naturally grown produce.

Joetta spoke to me about “not needing all those pills if we eat healthy food”. The team truly believes that health is not just “absence of illness… it is about well being”.

Imagine swiss chard, fresh herbs, bright green broccoli, gorgeous cabbage, asparagus to launch a beautiful spring, tomatoes, peppers, and kale. I could go on and on yet you get the idea. Hungry yet?

Like all things that are worth having, the garden is hard work. Planting, tending, maintaining, harvesting, cooking, and serving are a labor of love for the Winneshiek staff. Joetta will tell you she is not your average dietician. As a matter of fact, she laughed stating, “I think I may be weird”. At LoveSelf we think weird is awesome. Especially when it means following your own path to empower healing. Joetta spoke to me about “not needing all those pills if we eat healthy food”. The team truly believes that health is not just “absence of illness… it is about well being”. Oh my goodness!!! Are you feeling that hug yet?!

As a matter of fact, she laughed stating, “I think I may be weird”. At LoveSelf we think weird is awesome. Especially when it means following your own path to empower healing.

Remember the vision that launched this story? Well, I have a vision for Winneshiek Medical Center and it is quite a lofty goal. Keep up the great work. Feed all your patients natural healthy yummy vegetables. Heal their bodies and spirit with earth inspired decadence. Continue to be the light for all medical centers.

Joetta and all those who support your great work, thank you for being a shining example of what happens when you take the steps into the colorful healed earth dream.

For a quick and easy dinner try Joetta’s Baked Penne with Roasted Vegetables. Inspired by the Winneshiek garden, of course! We included a dairy free, vegan option too!

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Just because you are dealing with autoimmune disease or leaky gut symptoms does not mean you have to sacrifice yummy dessert. Our Paleo Chocolate Fudge takes only five minutes and will have your heart and belly singing happy songs.

Check out our super easy chocolate fudge recipe. Our Paleo Chocolate Fudge is also refined sugar free, gluten free, dairy free, and grain free. Our recipe uses a coconut base your belly will love. Enjoy!

Paleo| Gluten Free | Dairy Free | Refined Sugar Free | Soy Free | Non GMO | Organic

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How pain and health crisis can become a catalyst for self-love and embracing your greatest passion.

At LoveSelf, we write about people healing with the power of real food and self-love. I am often asked why I started LoveSelf. Below is part of my journey. As the universe intends, I will continue to share. I hope you find LoveSelf’s articles full of inspiring love. 

Share YOUR story with us!

XO, Rachel 

Dearest LoveSelf’ers,

LoveSelf was born out of my very personal story of overcoming health challenges. My physical pain brought me face to face with what I call a “crisis of the heart”. As you will often hear me say it is our darkest hour that often brings forth our greatest joy.

LoveSelf is that joy. Over the years, I have been diagnosed with Lymes, Celiac disease, dealt with extreme autoimmune disease symptoms, inflammatory bowel, multiple surgeries, and damage to the nerves around my spine. There were many days that it took everything I had just to get out of bed.

One particularly eventful afternoon a leading MD reviewed my symptoms and the only thing he knew to say was “I am sorry. This is a disaster.” He gave me a referral to another specialist who could only offer options that felt more like death than life.

I recall those moments as the beginning of everything changing for me. I remember vividly, leaving the appointment alone, getting in my car, and beginning to cry. Not small tears. Weeping, bawling emotions from my core. My reaction was especially surprising because up to that point, I had lived from a place of positive bravado and thought wellness meant toughing it out. My tears subsided and an inner peaceful knowing spoke clearly.

The voice said, “I am doing it my way”. In the moment, I had no idea what “my way” meant, only that I was going to stop listening to the words of fear.

In the following months and years, I learned that our bodies have the ability to heal themselves, emotion and physical dis-ease are intertwined, food is medicine, and that self-love must always be our first love. 

After years of antibiotics, the core of my physical well-being needed attention. I was already gluten free due to the Celiac. As a huge food lover, I didn’t want to live from a place of sacrifice. Ultimately, I discovered the Paleo diet. In combination with a raw food diet and lactofermented foods, I began to feel so much better. I learned to create amazing refined sugar free, gluten free, grain free desserts, and still smile when I recall the countless requests I received for my yummy creations.

My health challenges became life awakening and life changing. I knew real food was the core yet I also understood that I couldn’t stop there. My quest became about empowerment and healing. I took steps to authentic self-love.

I understood that all life is interconnected energy, that living from a loving heart is the highest truth, and that the food we eat can inspire and heal us.

LoveSelf began with my own healing and became the catalyst to share the inspiration with others. On this journey of love and health, I have learned to listen to my inner wisdom. I followed my heart when it told me to leave all that I know and begin traveling to share the inspiring stories of others. I (quite literally!) put everything I owned into storage, packed two suitcases, and left on a journey to write about the light I see in others. LoveSelf was born! I had no backup plan. My only foundation was air and faith. People would often ask me why? I would say, “my heart is pulling and all I can do is follow”.

Today LoveSelf is a global community.

My dream is that we all live an inspired life with a happy belly and a loving heart. Our choices can heal us. Abundance is infinite and healthy is our right.

I am so incredibly honored to be part of your journey.

XO!
Rachel

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Real life wisdom from a woman who overcame depression and is living well with Celiac disease.

Figuring out that Celiac disease was at the root of many of my challenges was only half of the journey. Now that I am off of prescription medication, I am constantly balancing what it looks like to take care of myself and continue to heal. I have discovered there are a handful of tricks that help keep me on board when I feel the waves rocking me.

Below are eleven simple healing steps you can start doing today to improve your life mind, body, and spirit.

1. Eat Real Food

Eating clean, unprocessed and whole foods is key to self-love. There is something sacred and powerful in buying, cooking and knowing all of the food you eat.

The process of discovering the foods that are nourishing for your body can seem daunting but there is a ton of healing and grace that goes along with it. I like to view it as a game! For fun steps check out Rachel’s 8 Things I Learned that Changed the Way I Eat Food. 

2. Drink Water

Did you know that your body is 80% water? Something as simple as making sure I am hydrated is key in my energy and mood levels. Nourishing yourself in this way makes it easier to do all of the other self-care routines. Truly.

3. Exercise

Produce that serotonin and get moving! As a survivor of sexual trauma, I always found exercise difficult and triggering. Once I changed my diet, I found that exercise became easier and brought me tremendous release! I try to move my body for 30 minutes a day at least be it walking, yoga, running, hiking or stretching. 

4. Don’t Skimp on Sleep

It’s amazing what you are capable of when you are fully rested! Getting enough sleep is vital in making sure you have a clear mind and can take optimal care of yourself.

5. Get Outside

My favorite way to get my Vitamin D is to GO OUTSIDE. Vitamin D helps with inflammation and has shown to lower depression. Being in the sunshine helps you with sleep, gives you energy and boosts your mood. Not to mention being in nature is healing in and of itself.

6. Choose Spirituality

Making space in your life to nurture your relationship with spirituality will help you to remember what all of this is for in the moments when you don’t want to run, don’t want to cook another meal, or can’t handle the brain fog. There is something out there that is always able to fill you back up; something so deeply hopeful that you will be enriched and sustained through your journey. Finding spirituality that suits you can look many different ways and is entirely personal to YOU. 

7. Get Creative

Try drawing, writing, coloring, cooking, knitting, or anything that lights you up! Find ways to be creative in your life even if it’s in moments where things feel dull and lifeless. It’s a beautiful tool to help bring magic into the ordinary.

8. Choose Gratitude

Dealing with health issues can sometimes be a drag. In those moments when you want to have a cocktail with friends, would like to exercise but don’t feel well, or would dig having one of those double chocolate brownies. Practicing gratitude can be so inspiring and grounding. Try writing in a gratitude journal!

What are you grateful for right now?

9. Socialize

Being around people can be super uplifting. When I am feeling blue, I reach out to friends. There is something special and energizing about laughter and community. They can mirror back your progress to you, help you remember what you’re doing all of this or can simply get your mind off of things.

10. Honor your Aloneness

Healing at this level can bring up many different emotions and experiences. Taking time to be alone and to check in with yourself is key. I like to journal, meditate, hike, read, or get crafty

11. Forgive Yourself

When I shifted to an anti-inflammatory autoimmune disease diet, I also started working a spiritual self-study program that is all about changing your thoughts to ones of forgiveness. When you forgive yourself, you forgive the world.

Forgive yourself for everything in the past. It has created a beautiful you.

Forgive yourself for the judgement about your body, forgive yourself when you break and eat something you felt you shouldn’t, forgive yourself when you don’t exercise as hard (or as easy) as you feel would be best. Always remember to forgive! You’re doing the best you can.

I am currently still practicing my dance of balancing self-care and self-love by listening to my body and allowing clarity and peace to move through me. There are still days where I struggle and then there are days when I am so darn hopeful I feel like I am going to burst. This is what it means to be alive! I am so grateful to have gotten to this place I have always fervently hoped for.

I believe in the magic of self-love.

When we love ourselves we can more easily love others. I am so grateful to share my story and hopefully inspire others on their wellness journey. There is hope! You can absolutely do this!

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The connection between celiac disease and depression. Beth’s story of depression, celiac disease, and finding hope in the midst of despair.

Treating my autoimmune disorder and Celiac disease at its roots has given me the space to create deep energetic healing in my life that I never thought was possible. It has brought me to a level of wellness I wasn’t always sure could be mine.

My name is Beth and I hope you find my story inspires you to greater healing.

I was diagnosed with Celiac disease when I was 16. Every time I ate my stomach would get upset. After the diagnosis, I was given pills and told to stop eating gluten. Naturally, I continued to eat gluten because who would be WILLING to give up waffles? I lived in an average town in Texas where nutrition wasn’t valued so had little motivation to believe that what I ate could have any sort of impact on my life. I justified that I could handle an upset stomach. Not knowing the ramifications of what was actually happening to my health.

There was a lot more than an upset stomach going on in my life. When I was a child I often felt sick and struggled with depression and anxiety. By the age of 8, I was experiencing full-blown panic and anxiety attacks. When I was in junior high and high school I was taking anti-depressants, self-mutilating and toying with the idea of ending my own life. I was hospitalized at 15 for severe depression and suicidal thoughts.

When I was 21, I was sexually assaulted and was hospitalized once again for more of the same. The continued trauma, self-hatred, and hospitalization, kept my mind and body feeling broken. Despite being in therapy all my life, I was constantly struggling with self-love and self-worth. I kept trying to have a self-care practice. I always desired to be off medication and to treat my depression, trauma, and anxiety naturally with exercise and diet but it felt too big. Being in my body felt awful. I used substances like alcohol and nicotine to assuage the pain. My life often felt unmanageable.

Throughout all of this, I desired to fight for my well-being but I didn’t always know where to start. The cloud that covered my life kept me rooted to the spot. But I knew without a shadow of a doubt that I wanted to live and live well. What then was my next step toward happiness?

By the time I was 22, I moved to Colorado and that was where I started to get an education about different ways to take care of your body and soul. At the time a nutritionist explained to me the effects that gluten can have on your body and also on your mind.

After years of Celiac denial, I finally decided to give up gluten and see what would happen.

I felt better than I ever had in my life. I experienced a layer of clarity and happiness I never thought was possible for me. I could move and be present in my body in a way I had never imagined before. Deeper energetic healing was starting to occur.

When I was 25, I got Mono and I desperately needed an additional layer of healing. While giving up gluten felt amazing, I knew more could be done because I was still always getting sick. I started to consider hidden sources of gluten and cross-contamination. I decided to give up dairy and coffee since they were potential “cross-reactors” to gluten. I experienced an additional layer of healing in my body and mind but still knew more could be done. I now had proof that nutrition directly affected how I felt.

By 27, I was researching the relationship between mental health and Celiac and decided to follow a Paleo anti-inflammatory auto-immune diet and get off of medication for depression and anxiety.

Because your immune system and mental health are directly linked to your gut, I learned that Celiac is often considered a neurological disorder instead of solely a gastrointestinal disorder.

I started to dabble by taking out a few ingredients here and there such as grains, nightshades, legumes, corn and soy. I discovered that the medicine I was taking had ingredients like lactose, potato starch and corn in it. I was at a crossroads, I had to give up Western meds to be fully compliant with my Paleo healing program. By April of that year, I was off of medication. I am still medication free to this day.

My mental health is better than it has ever been. I have so much clarity and the ability to really explore self-love in a way that didn’t seem possible before. 

It doesn’t mean everything is always rose petals. I can still struggle with mental health, have days when I don’t want to move my body and get pretty foggy. The difference is I now know I can have that peace and that there is nothing wrong with my spirit.

I now have the fuel to seek and experience what I want and deserve in this life. 

“I am not afraid of storms, for I am learning how to sail my ship,” Louisa May Alcott

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At LoveSelf, we write about inspiring people healing with the power of real food and self-love. We believe that together we create a beautiful future for each other and ourselves.

It is time to tell the happy stories!

Do you know an incredible person with a healing story? Let us know! They may just be featured in our Inspiring Stories!

A Little Girl and Her Mother Navigate the Challenges of Celiac Disease
A Story of Celiac. A Little Girl. And Her Mother’s Love. Learn the Symptoms of Childhood Celiac Disease.

Celiac Disease and Depression
A journey to find healing and self love with the power of spirit and real food.

Healing from Rape, Injury, and Obesity. A Self Love Story
A woman’s journey of forgiveness, healing, and wellness. Her five wisdom tips to self love may change your life.

Bees, Healing Chocolate, and the Power of Spirit
A story of (quite literally) falling down, getting back up, and following your dreams on even the hardest days.

Cancer Survivor Becomes Healing Chef
A man’s journey of surviving cancer to become a healing chef and passionate inspiration for wellness.

Adoption and the Spirit of Food
An unbelievable story of two families, an adoption of a teenage boy, and the healing spirit of food.

A Woman’s Story of Healing an Eating Disorder by Growing Her Own Food
Wisdom Tips for Overcoming Eating Disorders and the Healing Power of Growing Your Own Food

The True Faces of the Hungry. They Look Like You.
The man the feeds the hungry and teaches us about forgiveness.

A Mom’s Journey to Healing Her Body Image
For the Love of a Mom and Her Baby. Healing the Pain of Body Image Issues

Ritz Carlton Chef Partners with Organic Farming Grandpa!
Learn how to create a perfect gluten free wellness feast from a Ritz Carlton chef and his sidekick Farmer Starkey.

Healthy Fast Food and the Mom Who Makes it Happen.
Find gluten free, paleo, non-GMO, dairy free, organic TO GO at Snap Kitchen!

Mongolia. Meditation. And the Heart of an Explorer.
How meditation and organic food inspired a young woman’s life in Mongolia.

The Beach. Self Love. And Healing Your Inflammation with Juice.
A story of healing from inflammation and leaky gut symptoms. How self-love can inspire you to follow your dreams. Wisdom tips and the restaurant designed for love and healing.

The Love of A Mother and the Joy of a Salad
The love of gardening and a salad. A young woman honors her mother and the mom is all of us.

A Tiny Organic Farmer, Fairies, and the Art of Saving a Seed.
How our food system has depleted over the last fifty years and the organic seed you can save. Steps you can take to save our produce and how a fairy may be the love that finds you.

Goddess of the Soil
Faith is a soil scientist and plant research goddess. Did you know healthy soil has the same microbiome as your gut. How healing the soil can heal your leaky gut and autoimmune symptoms.

Cook Like a Ritz Carlton Chef with Farmer’s Market Ingredients
A Ritz Carlton chef’s story about organic food and caring for his mother with autoimmune disease. Get inspired to create a stunning gluten free meal from farmer’s market ingredients and learn in loving others we love ourselves.

The Joy Bus of Tragedy to Triumph
Creating a Joy Bus. One woman’s journey to support cancer patients with love and organic meals.

Clean Your Liver. Change Your Life.
A healers story. Learn how cleansing your liver is an amazing step to healing physically and emotionally.

Raw Food Passion
Introducing Elaina Love – A raw food story of decadence, beauty, and health. She lost her child to cancer. The story of how her son became her angel and the raw food she creates to heal others.

A Vietnam Vet, Agent Orange, and Non-GMO
The story of a Vietnam era couple whose exposure to Agent Orange changed the way they look at GMO and chemical farming practices today.

Healing a Gluten Sensitivity with Wheat!
The story of gluten sensitive man and the organic heirloom wheat that healed his leaky gut symptoms and inspired a new dream.

Traveling to Malaysia for Organic Recipes
An expectant mother’s story of travel, honoring Malaysian heritage, recipes passed through generations, and the art of cooking organic food.

One Dietician’s Work to Change Hospital Food From Unhealthy to Organic
Winneshiek Medical Center introduces an organic vegetable garden. How to bring an organic garden to your hospital. Tips from the dietician that made it happen!

Bees Have Feelings Too! A Bee Education
Saving the bees! Learning from Liesa Helfen of Worker-B, bee keeper, and raw honey extraordinaire. Did you know bees have feelings? Learn about the amazing role of bees in keeping us healthy.

Afghan War Vet Grows Food For The Hungry
Meet Sonia Kendrick! Sonia is a mother, war vet, organic farmer and a true inspiration. She has turned her pain of food insecurity into a triumph of feeding the hungry.

Boston Ritz Carlton Partners with Foley Fish
Introducing Frank Kassner, executive chef at the Ritz Carlton and Laura Foley Ramsden, owner of Foley Fish. Together they bring you sustainable seafood and a happy belly.

Global Volunteer Returns Home: Providing healthy food to rural communities
In Fairfield, Iowa resides a lady with the heart of a caregiver and a mind of an electrical engineer. Introducing Jan Swinton, area celebrity, local food advocate, and natural farming networker extraordinaire.

94 Year Old Man and a Grass Sandwich
I have fallen in love with a man named Harry. Harry is 94. Witty, brilliant, kind, and endearingly cranky. Learn how Harry shares his love of raw food and how to make a grass sandwich.

The Colors of LoveSelf
Welcome to LoveSelf Magazine! We are on a mission to inspire loving choices for your body and the earth.

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