Hi, my name is Sherrie, and together with my husband Steve, we want to help people, animals, and the planet through our love of food, recipes, and community pop ups.

As you see us today, we definitely are not how we have always been.

For most of my life, I carried a quiet question inside me:
How is killing something benefiting my body?

There was always an underlying whisper:
How does another living being have to suffer for me to live?

It simply never made sense to me.

That question would surface again and again. I would feel it deeply, then rationalize it. I would tell myself it was normal. Necessary. Just the way things are. Eventually, I would dismiss it, and for many years, I did.

I got married in 1996, had my son, and in 2006 went through a divorce.

In 2006, I became a single mom. It was a rough season. Survival mode was real. I was working full time in Human Resources while raising my child and rebuilding my life from the ground up. During that time, I made the decision to go back to college and earn my bachelor’s degree. I knew I had to create stability, not just for myself, but for my child.

It was a season of grit, growth, and rediscovering who I was.

During that time, I began reading. Books became a lifeline. I was searching for strength, perspective, and something steady to hold onto. Even though I did not fully understand it yet, something inside me was beginning to wake up.

In 2008, I experienced what I can only describe as an awakening or an ascension of some sort. My entire life shifted. It felt as though a veil had been lifted, and suddenly I was seeing the world, myself, and existence through a completely different lens.

Around that time, I read everything I could get my hands on: The Power of Now, The Four Agreements, Jack Canfield, Abraham Hicks, Ram Dass. I was hungry for understanding, searching for truth, presence, meaning, and connection. Something inside me had opened, and there was no going back.

Soon after, I met Steve. He lived an hour away, and after a few months of dating, we both knew we were building something real. From the beginning, our paths felt aligned, not perfect, but intentional. We are still together today, growing, learning, and evolving side by side.

By early 2011, I had returned deeply to my spiritual practices. Meditation became a daily anchor. I was reconnecting with purpose and remembering who I was.

Then in 2016, during one meditation, something happened that changed everything.

As clear and strong as anything I have ever heard internally, a voice said:

“Stop eating meat.”

It startled me. It was not frightening, it was direct. It felt like me speaking to me. Like a truth that had always been there finally refusing to be ignored.

When I came out of meditation, I told Steve I was not eating meat anymore. He asked why. I simply said, “I just do not want to.” I did not tell him about the voice at first. That came a year or two later.

Without hesitation, he said he did not want to eat meat either.

And just like that, together, we went vegan.

What followed was reinvention. You are conditioned your entire life to cook one way. Suddenly, everything changes. Steve especially began playing in the kitchen. We discovered spices we had never used, techniques we had never tried, and flavors we did not even know existed. What once felt limiting became expansive.

But our shift was not just about food.

Eating plant based is good for the planet. It is kinder to animals. But for us, it also brought peace.

There is something powerful about aligning your actions with what your heart has been whispering all along. When we stopped fighting that inner voice and started honoring it, life felt lighter. Clearer. More aligned.

Being vegan is not about perfection for us. It is about doing the best we can with the awareness we have. It is about choosing compassion when we have the option. It is about living in a way that feels honest.

Once we made that shift, it did not feel restrictive. It felt freeing.

And now, through food, recipes, and community pop ups, we simply want to show that living gently does not mean living small. It can be joyful, creative, abundant, and deeply satisfying.