30 Nourishing Recipes
A journey of rebuilding health, resilience, and balance through food
I spent years cooking in professional kitchens before being diagnosed with lupus nephritis. Becoming autoimmune changed everything. What I thought I knew about food had to be completely rebuilt. I wasn’t cooking for a menu anymore, but for my own body.
Still Standing brings together 30 anti-inflammatory recipes rooted in elimination diet principles, paired with the personal reflections behind them. Each one came out of learning what my body actually needed, what to remove, what to restore, and how to make that process sustainable.
This book holds space for the emotional side of that journey because healing isn’t just physical. The frustration, the grief, the weight of a demanding career that your body eventually refuses to carry. The small wins that start to add up when you finally listen.
If you're navigating an autoimmune condition and looking for food that actually meets you where you are, this book was written from that exact place.
This Book Is For You IF
You're managing an autoimmune condition and tired of recipes that don't account for how you actually feel.
You've started an elimination diet and don't know how to make it sustainable long term.
Your work and your stress have taken a toll your body is no longer willing to ignore.
You want real food with real context.
Whats Inside
Essays and my personal reflections on healing, food, and what it actually looks like to rebuild your relationship with both.
A pantry guide and mindset framework to set you up before you ever turn on the stove. Including an elimination diet foundation that takes the guesswork out of what to keep and what to let go.
30 anti-inflammatory recipes organized by season, energy, and the natural rhythm of eating well. Each one built for real days, with a personal note on where it came from and why it earned its place here.
A spoon theory framework that sorts every recipe by effort level so on the days you have an hour you can go further. And on the days you only have fifteen minutes you still eat well.
A closing reflection that brings the journey full circle.