Anna was a new (and extremely overwhelmed and underslept) mom deep in the throes of her Diet Coke & drive-thru addiction. Her family ate the Standard American Diet (SAD), lived on convenience food, never missed an opportunity to hit up a Dairy Queen and lived in overall chaos with 3 kids under the age of 5. While she enjoyed cooking, a well-balanced meal at this stage of life meant a to-go order in each hand.

Meanwhile, Christa was a brand new Kindergarten teacher feeling high levels of inexplicable anxiety on a regular basis. Through her years in the classroom, Christa saw the difficulties students were facing, the foods they were eating, and the lack of nutrition education they were receiving. As Christa started learning more about nutrition and the positive effects of whole food on our body, she couldn’t help but wonder if there was a deep correlation to the excessive sugar and chemicals the school children were eating daily for breakfast, lunch, snacks and the challenging physical and behavioral issues she was witnessing on a daily basis. 

The longer Christa spent in the classroom, the more her interest in food’s impact on the body grew.  She started digging into more books and podcasts and found some really inspiring people who were doing things differently. It was fascinating connecting the dots between nutrition and diseases of all kinds. She wanted to help the parents, students, and educators she was working with understand that there may be a simple solution to some of the issues they were facing! In her last year as a 5th grade teacher, she wanted to skip the lessons on fractions and teach all of her students how to read a label (which she may have done once or twice).  She also made the connection that perhaps some of her own issues with anxiety could be rooted in her diet. She found herself unable to keep this to herself and would share this information with anyone who would listen!