If you’ve been here before, you know this page used to look a little different. It used to be filled with recipe features, podcast interviews, and all the places Beyond the Bite had been featured. But so many things have changed since those years, and honestly, I’ve changed. For a long time, Beyond the Bite sat quietly on a shelf. I’d look back on it with nostalgia, wondering if, or how, it still could fit into the life I was living.
Years ago, chronic Lyme disease sent me searching for answers. Like so many others living with chronic illness, I was desperate to understand why my body wasn’t functioning the way it was designed to. What began as a search for healing led me to become a traditionally trained chef, earn a bachelors in science, and spend years believing that food was the foundation of health. But then something changed.
Part of that shift came naturally. I’ve always loved learning. I’ve always been the person asking one more question, reading one more book, and wondering if there was something I was missing. But if I’m being honest, food just wasn’t moving the needle in anymore.
The deeper I dug, the more I realized that health wasn’t just about what we eat. I discovered an entirely different way of looking at the human body, one that I certainly was not taught in school. A way of seeing health through the lens of light.
Not just in the sun that rises every morning. But the light stored in our food. The invisible light our cells respond to. The light our bodies produce. The light woven into the physics of life itself. The deeper I studied, the more I realized that health wasn’t simply biology. It was biology shaped by physics. Light, water, and magnetism. These were three fundamental pieces of a story I had never been taught, until now.
Somewhere along the way, I realized I couldn’t unknow what I had learned.Once I began seeing health through this different lens, I couldn’t go back. It changed how I cared for myself. It changed how I raised my children. It changed the questions I asked. It changed what I valued. It changed the way I lived. And it was not because I had all the answers (nor will I ever). It is because once something becomes true to you, living any other way no longer makes sense.
Today, my greatest classroom isn’t a laboratory. It’s motherhood. I’m a wife, mama to five, bonus mom to two, and together my husband and I are raising seven incredible kids, including one with special needs, in the Tennessee countryside.
Everything I learn is first live at home. Motherhood has become the place where science meets real life, where ideas are tested, where convictions become habits, and where healing is pursued one ordinary day at a time.
Beyond the Bite has grown alongside me. This site is no longer simply a place to share recipes or health tips. It’s where I’ve decided I will continue documenting the journey of learning to live differently. I’ll share the ideas that have transformed the way I understand health. The books and people who have challenged my thinking. The questions I’m still wrestling with. The joys and struggles of raising a family, the beauty of slowing down, and the hope I’ve found along the way.
I don’t expect everyone to agree with me. I don’t even expect everyone to be interested. But if you’ve ever felt like there’s more to health than you’ve been told…If you’ve ever sensed there’s a bigger story waiting to be discovered…
Come with me.
This changed my life.