Journeys? Food evangelist? It was such a clever title and I have thought about starting this blog for a long time, years really, but the journey has expanded so much from those more humble beginning thoughts. It all started with my health and a desire to be better, to be off the pills everyone said I would never get off. To be able to leave my house, to not need to sleep 18 hours a day. To be able to think whole thoughts. It started with some food changes, but good health comes from so much more than that, doesn’t it?

My current good health (while not completely where I want it to be yet) can be attributed as much to food as other factors in my life. Living more true to myself, building a community of people who understand and know me, who I can understand and know back, who I can love in all the different and wonderful ways there are to love and who can love me back in the same wonderful variety. These things all lead to spiritual and emotional health I knew, logically, that I needed but I did not realize the extent of their importance.

When I think about this blog, where I would like to take it, what I would like to achieve with it, I realize that it will go far beyond the humble initial thoughts I first entrained about 2 years ago. I want to talk about food, yes, it is still a passion for me (just ask anyone who has ever made the mistake of bringing it up around me.. lol) but I also want to talk about connection, friendships, relationships and the large variety of them available to us. I want to talk about personal growth and the importance of being truly transparent, vulnerable, honest and compassionate with ourselves. I want to talk about the importance of living for who you are and not what people want you to be. And I want to talk about the value of knowing and accepting the darker, less desirable parts of yourself and others. These parts are just as important as the good. I want to talk about consensual non monogamy, intimacy, asexuality, kink, minimalism, mental health, financial health and probably more topics that just are not coming to mind right now.

My journey started with the complete collapse of my health, mental, physical, spiritual and emotional, and has evolved into one of personal growth, understanding, compassion and acceptance. I want to share my story in hopes that I can help someone else through difficult times the way other’s stories helped mt through mine, to give someone else support the way I leaned on other’s stories to gain strength in difficult times.

I can’t promise it will be the most proper, pristine work of literature, but I can promise I will improve over time. And I can promise that I will endeavor to keep this blog raw, honest and truthful, to show the good and the bad. To be transparent and genuine and honest.