Updates - December 2025

  Can you imagine? 5 years ago this December, I published my Fueled by Pants cookbook both through my website and Amazon! Since then, many of you have shared how much you enjoy these recipes, and some have become your go-to favorites. This warms my heart so much! Helping people add more plants to their day to day is one of my core missions – to infuse vitality and energy into showing up as your best self.

My Treasured Health Manifesto

My Treasured Health is a commitment to taking care of t he most precious treasure we have on earth… our health. By being Fueled by Plants, Fueled by Perspective and Fueled by Prayer, the 3 facets to guide your journey to health help you find your daily flow for body, mind and spirit. By considering these three facets, and incorporating wellness habits to your day to day, you CAN show up as your best self at home, at work and in your community.

    What would be plant and perspective fuel without the facet that weaves it all together? Prayer!!

I am so pleased to also announce that my "Fueled by Prayer guide and journal” is now available for purchase on Amazon! This came together so beautifully, as I’ve been helping people learn how to pray the Word and return to a meditative practice based on the Holy Bible.

In my difficult seasons, being fueled by plants, fueled by perspective and fueled by prayer have helped me nourish my body, mind and spirit, and tune into what is good. I suppose in a big way, I’ve created the resources not just for you, but for myself too.

  When I visited Japan through a Lean Study Tour with Katie Anderson in May 2023, she gifted participants with these large red Daruma dolls. A Daruma is a Japanese weighted paper doll that represents persistence through achieving your goals. The idea is that you color in the left eye as you set your goal, and once you’ve successfully achieved your goal, you color in the right eye. The dolls are weighted to remind you to bounce back up when adversity strikes and obstacles get in the way of reaching your goals – if you were to push it, it would come right back up to its standing position!

The Japanese use the proverb “fall seven times, get back eight”, which reminds me of Proverbs 24:16 “For a just person falls seven times, and rises up again”. 

This is a reminder to keep rising, and with God’s strength, anything is possible!

The Darumas are a visual reminder of the intentions set, as well as the persistence and resilience required to achieve a goal. When I got this large Daruma in May 2023, I knew exactly what goal it was perfect to represent, but I wasn’t ready to share it broadly. This goal had been kept in my heart for so many years, and part of me may have been afraid of the changes it would bring in my life, or perhaps I wanted to cherish the vision that God had given me back in 2015, when I was on maternity leave with my daughter. 

Now, I have finally drawn in the left eye of my large Daruma doll! I’ve also drawn in the left eye of the medium blue Daruma doll that I purchased on that same trip to Japan. Two goals, two visual reminders of what is to come.

You’re still wondering what the goals are? Sorry to keep you waiting!

The large red Daruma represents a vision that God planted in my heart in moments of deep overwhelm. You see, I was already a step-mom when my daughter was born, but nothing prepared me for the challenges of babyhood, and the changes it brings! I’ve struggled, as I know many other moms (and dads!) also do, to create rhythms of rest and refueling. I longed for a quiet place where I could go rest, even for a few hours, and come back to my home and family refreshed, ready to take on the demands of motherhood. 

If you're still reading, thank you! It means a lot to me.

The second goal is also something that I’m very passionate about: leadership!

My two passions of leadership and wellness continue to co-exist and weave into each other. I’ve been holding a goal to write a leadership book for quite some time as well, ever since becoming a leadership and continuous improvement coach in 2019! As I continue to coach, learn and explore, I realize that most people are not taught how to be a great leader. Especially in a government/public service environment in which I work, most get promoted because they are great at their job and just do the best they can with what they’ve experienced – adopting the good leadership practices and staying away from the bad ones that have made them feel not so great. Sometimes, the “bad” leadership practices still trickle in however, through a strong culture of command and control, rush and lack of clarity. 

I’ve discovered that I have a passion – and ability to make things practical – to help managers shift from doing the work to taking care of the people who do the work. My book will inspire, equip and develop new leaders to create a LeaderShift and become intentional, people-centered leaders, leading and living with intention in all areas of their lives.

I'm thrilled to walk in the footsteps of so many of my inspiring leadership, learning and continuous improvement mentors such as Karyn Ross, Katie Anderson, and my latest read by my fellow Japan-tripper, Julie Savage-Fournier!

You can hold me to it: God willing, I plan to accomplish these two BIG goals by the end of 2027!