About The Alchemical Kitchen

The Alchemical Kitchen

Fundamental transformation of thinking and authentic living

 begins in the gut.

The Alchemical Kitchen IS the gut.  Whether I am cooking in the kitchen, painting a canvas, having a conversation, parenting, fulfilling a career or .....you can fill in the blank, the gut and the brain come along for the ride. This blog is a journey of transformation starting in the gut...weaving in the heart and balancing out the thinking.  It's about forgiveness and food; about letting go; about balance between the positive and the negative....some like it raw, some like it cooked...this is about being in the middle of the two.

In my family, we experience periodontal disease, chronic fatigue, allergies, skin rashes, attention deficit, mood swings and low rumblings of anxiety.  In my extended family including my husband's  family we have a smorgasbord of illness including fybromyalgia, Hashimoto's disease, many cases of diabetes, more periodontal disease, knee and hip replacements along with heart disease, leukemia and a case of schizophrenia and suicide from PTSD.  

I don't believe my family stands alone in symptoms of distress and dis-ease.  With children of my own, the rising diabetes and suicide rate among teenagers is disconcerting and troubling.  In a nation of freedom where we have the choice to be creative and innovative, our thinking capacity is growing mushy and lukewarm with the mounting multitude of entertaining distractions from food choices to technological gaming.   This blog is a documented effort to do something by starting in my kitchen with foods that nourish the gut and feed the brain.  My certification of authority is derived from my experience as mother, wife,  friend, and a  U.S. citizen in the land of the free and the home of the brave.  My braveness is endeavoring to publish an authentic blog and my leadership comes solely from my transparency to give change a chance and transform dross into gold. I hold it to be true that by changing the chemistry of my gut, I can change the quality of my life into thoughts,  actions and deeds of higher merit.