Episode: 56: Become the Person You Were Created Be Through Healing with Shanika Graham-White
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Episode: 56: Become the Person You Were Created Be Through Healing with Shanika Graham-White
“Healing is all about letting go, not just for the sake of it, but so that you can grab onto things + people that help to cultivate you into the person that you were created to be.” — Shanika Graham-White
In this short three minute Podcast Snack episode, I read the quote above by my friend Shanika Graham-White and I ask your apply this to your life.
Shanika is a self-taught cook and baker, food stylist, recipe developer and author. She desires to help others turn the ‘little’ that they have into something magical—great food! On her blog and in her book, Orchids + Sweet Tea, you will find everything from dairy-free to gluten-free to vegan to classic faves!
This podcast was inspired by post I saw in Shanika’s blog. It was about her healing journey. You can read the full post, My Road to Healing to Wholeness here
Journal Prompts: Spend 5-10 minutes
1. What does healing mean to you?
3. Who are the people and things that you lean on to support your healing journey?
4. Who is the person that you were created be? How do they serve the world with their gifts? What does it feel like to be them?
I am excited to hear your thoughts! Let’s continue the conversation on IG @chefcarlacontreras & @orchidsnsweettea_
Eat Well,
xo Chef Carla
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About Shanika-Graham-White
Food Stylist + Recipe Developer, Shanika, is part kitchen ‘ninja’ and connoisseur of interior decorating (hence her passion for beautifully staged food photos). She is a self-taught cook | baker, who decided to create her blog, Orchids + Sweet Tea to be the source for comfort food and sweets, with a healthy twist. She desires to help others turn the ‘little’ that they have into something magical---great food! On her blog, you will find dairy-free, gluten-free, and vegan versions of your old + new favorites!
While she doesn’t come from a line of cooks, one of the main ways that her family often came together while growing up was through food, music, and laughter which inspired her to create a space that both uplifts and feeds those who choose to visit her little corner of the web.
Later in life after having her own family, she began experimenting even more with foods (as opposed to keeping things entirely traditional with Jamaican or Southern dishes) and stumbled upon a real passion for creating foods and thus Orchids + Sweet Tea was born. Before she knew it, a small audience of friends and family began to form and taking in-process photos while creating a work of art with food became a consistent thing for her.
Find + Work With Shanika:
Website & Book: www.orchidsandsweettea.com
Instagram: @orchidsnsweettea_
FULL SHOW NOTES
00:00.00 Hey it's Chef Carla and welcome to Show Up Fully. This is a podcast where I share what it's like to show up for your real life if you don't know me I'm a food stylist, photographer and health coach. You can find me, @itscarlacontreras on Instagram and more information in today's show notes this episode is a podcast snack. It's where I share a quote that's inspired me and I invite you to apply it to your life.
This quote is by my friend Shanika Graham-White we met through Bumblebee Tuna. I did the tuna tasting and Shanika was there and we just hit it off and she is such an incredible. Content creator and recipe developer and cookbook author and blogger her book and her blog is orchids and sweet tea I'm gonna put the link in the show notes and this quote really hit me because I went to her blog expecting. Recipes I was not expecting a post on healing and it was just such a delightful surprise because it was on deep healing in 2020 when she published this and her words are so incredibly powerful.
And if you are on a healing journey I invite you to listen to this and if you're not on a healing journey today I invite you to save this podcast for another time or perhaps you send it to a friend I'm gonna read her quote twice and there will also be journal prompts in the show notes. Healing is all about letting go not just for the sake of it. But so that you can grab on to the things and people that help cultivate you into the person that you were created to be 1 more time healing is all about letting go not just for the sake of it. But so that you can grab on to the things and people that help cultivate you into the person that you were created to be I invite you to take a deep breath in the journal prompts again are going to be in the show notes.
But I'm going to read them to you. What does healing mean to you who are the people and things that you lean on to support your healing journey who is the person that you were created to be how do they serve the world with their gifts. And what does it feel like to be them if you've liked this podcast episode I would love if you could share it as a text message as an email in your stories on Instagram again I'm gonna put shanika's information in the show notes along with her book and her.
02:50.79 Blog and her Instagram which is absolutely incredible. She also has a newsletter and I really can't wait to hear what you think about this podcast again I'm it's Carla Contreras on Instagram everything is in the show notes. I'm sending you so much. Love bye.