Haile Thomas is 19 years old and has accomplished more in her years than most twice her age. At the age of 12, she founded the non-profit HAPPY (Healthy, Active, Positive, Purposeful, Youth) to redefine youth empowerment through holistic education and address the need for free/affordable plant-based nutrition and wellness education in underserved/at-risk communities. At age 16, she was the youngest to graduate from the Institute for Integrative Nutrition as a Certified Integrative Nutrition Health Coach. She is an international speaker, wellness and compassion activist, and vegan food and lifestyle content creator.
Her latest achievement is an inspirational cookbook/guide entitled Living Lively: 80 Plant-Based Recipes to Activate Your Power and Feed Your Potential. Technically, it is a cookbook with eighty recipes but it is far more. Part I of the book is dedicated to points of power: wellness, mindset, relationships, social media, education, world perspective, and more.
Part II shares the recipes from Carrot-chickpea-quinoa bowl with maple harissa dressing to AB&J swirl brownies (almond butter and raspberry ginger jam) to Gluten-free Sunday morning herb biscuits.
Haile is a breath of fresh air and her book is what 2020 needs to whip our minds, souls, and bodies into fighting shape. It has been a particularly rough week. As some know, I have a special needs son and things go up and down, with more declining than the former. Today, I was particularly feeling sorry for myself - exhausted, sad, hopeless. This afternoon, I picked up Haile's book again and it provided a much-needed boost of feel goodness (yes, that is how I am going to phrase that, #feelgoodness). Find your boost and pick up a copy of this fantastic guide to wellness.
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