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Wholeheartedly Christina

Chef Christina Sachs offers personal chef, event catering, specialty cakes and services. Specializes in seasonal, local, and organic food and baked goods.

re she took a job with Café Gratitude. There she learned about the preparation and practice of raw, vegan, gluten-free and refined sugar free cuisine and had the pleasure of training with Tiziana Alipo Tamborra, co-author of Sweet Gratitude. Later, she was invited to join a new team at Apple, co-creating a vegan/vegetarian food and juice program that enjoyed much success. More recently, she has worked with Bar Agricole, deepening her knowledge and appreciation of local seasonal ingredients and the joy in letting each ingredient shine, The Hattery cooking for their community as they build products and technologies that will make a positive impact on the world and The Zen Hospice Project supporting residents with individually tailored meals. Chef Christina Sachs enjoys partnering with local farms, business and chefs to create beautiful, delicious and nutritious food that brings family, friends and communities together in a warm and joyful space.

09/20/2024

Offering... a weekly update in my continuing Masters in Leadership journey...(Class begins Sept 30th)...

A few weeks ago I made a synchronistic and powerful connection while cooking at California Brazil Camp. For the last 2 weeks I have been under the guidance of the radiant and wise James Stark. We are exploring the Ecology of Leadership and I am deep in the work of internal inquiry and coming to myself with curiosity and compassion as I look to compost and renew.

Part of my homework this week has been to practice my Owl Eyes, learning to shift my attention a focus point and my broader field of vision. I have been surprised and the flow of insights doing such a simple exercise has created and what power it can have when used to look at ourselves and our stories/narratives. Curious? Want to do it yourself, ask and I could share me.

I am grateful for the partnership and extra support I am experiencing in this transitional time and at the start of my formalized journey.

Thank you to all who have supported me through my GoFundMe in the last few weeks and thank you to my ever loving family whose kindness and unconditional love has held me through this challenging and illuminating last year.

To read more about my Leadership Path and to Support my Journey you can follow the link below and I invite you to share it if it feels good.

Blessings...
and happy Equinox y'all.

GoFundMe:
https://gofund.me/67d55417

09/11/2024

...a dream is a wish your heart makes...its what's most real, alive and matters to us...listen...even if its only a whisper at first...it will get louder and clearer.

I wish for everyone to live their most joyful life, to follow their dreams, to do what matters, feels most purposeful and alive. May it be so.

https://gofund.me/67d55417

08/24/2024

Perhaps this morning y'all are waking up, and similar to me, feeling some confusion, sadness, disappointment and perhaps anger at how yesterday politically unfolded with RFK and his decision to end his campaign and who he chose to endorse?....

If so, my heart is with you. For me, what mattered was having someone who represented wisdom and compassion. Someone who truly wanted to help more folks succeed, thrive and come together for the common good.

Now, I haven't started my Masters in Leadership yet (starting end of September), but I know enough to know that charismatic single leadership and binary systems do not create resilient and vibrant systems and that we are in need of a new brand of transformational leadership to match the complex needs of our 21st century reality.

So, while I feel a loss, I simultaneously feel a spark, a call to action and a bringing myself back to empowered choice...
.. what can I do for myself, my community and this world.?

I am going to school to extend my sphere of influence to match my sphere of concern...I am cultivating my inner and outer leadership skills....I am paying attention to how I am showing up...and keeping my attention on where and how I can be a benefit and SERVICE....and there is POWER in that and a lot of POWER in that if we practice it COLLECTIVELY!

I am TRUSTING MY VISION and moving forward in HOPE.

If you share in my desire for a transformative shift in our current paradigm I invite you to take a CONCRETE ACTION...

EMPOWER my Leadership journey and cast your vote for a different kind of future.... Below is a link to my GoFundMe.

https://gofund.me/c1ac7af0

Whether you check it out or not, thank you for reading, for wanting something different and perhaps thinking about what you might do to help create a more preferred and vibrant future.

07/23/2024

In these unprecedented times...What would it look like if we had Leadership that was 1) Curious 2) Accountable 3) Relationally Intelligent 4) Self-Connected and 5) Empowering Others? What if, when our leaders looked at the world around them, they saw interconnected systems and worked to create strategies that built resilience and beauty through collaboration?

This is the quality of leadership that I seek to bring forward through my MA in Leadership at Saint Mary's College and I am so excited for it.

We stand at the confluence of opportunity and choice. Join me in creating a different tomorrow one that reflects our interdependence and collective desire to choose connection, collaboration and mutuality.

Visit my GoFundMe Page to learn more about my story, and, if you are inspired help me share the journey by reposting.

Link: https://gofund.me/2b2628a7

Thank you, and thank you for your curiosity have a wonderful week and talk again soon.

P.S. I love getting to illustrate my stories with my original collages…I realize just how present and alive the desire to be an agent of transformation is for me, and how long it has been here.

07/09/2024

We tried, and we were defeated. Home made Chicago deep dish Lou Manati style.

05/11/2024

I am lit up and so inspired. Resonant YES!

04/17/2024

ISO… I would love to trade plant baby starts with you : ) we got really excited and overdid the brassicas. I have about 8-10 each of purple of Sicily cauliflower, tender sweet cabbage and burgundy broccoli. Looking for some fun and maybe unusual other starts. DM me if you are interested.

03/22/2024

To anyone who would like to hone their communication skills, create and support rich relationships and transform their experince....You are invited...I’m so excited to be attending "Navigating Power Dynamics with Nonviolent Communication with Yvette Erasmus" hosted by NVC Academy. Would you like to join me? You can learn more about the course here, and about NVC Academy. Looking forward to seeing your beautiful faces there. Link Below.

To the class:
https://nvcacademy.com/live-nvc-courses/video-conference/navigating-power-dynamics-2024

To a YouTube Video demo of class and intro to NVC Academy:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jdNeO0-jn5g

10/19/2022

Nature is amazing. Morning glories can change to all these different colors in just a single day depending on the Ph. Amazing!

07/01/2022

I was sitting up at Taylor Mountain yesterday imagining what I wanted my work and work week to look like. I decided that doing 1 weekly garden project was something that I felt was important to me and is in alignment with my inner and outer work.

What better way to grow food....
Feel connected to the earth....
Give back to my family and community...
Keep traditions and plant knowledge alive...
Build soil...
Fight global warming....
Eat well...
Cultivate gratitude...
And so much more.

Today weeding the garden looks like weeding my mind, recentering it to a place of greater peace and appreciation.

06/04/2022

Poseidon themed birthday cake! So much fun to make!! Happy a birthday Roycin.

05/27/2022

Leaving the 9-5 and getting to rediscover the garden, getting my hands and feet dirty, making myself food and bathing in the beauty, simplicity and privilege of this time.

Real life is what happens in between all the things we have to do. And sometimes I can stop the have-toos.

02/16/2019

Alittle Friday night magic at home. Shortbread cookies with chocolate and hazelnuts.

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Heyo. I have finally started to actually document my trips and adventures and the food and company along the way! My goal is to start an actual travel blog and to share more broadly, but in the mean time how about alittle preview ... This was a few weeks ago. I was restless and wanted to scoot out of town like no bodies business and go be out in the world and in the woods. I spent the first night with my sister up in Santa Rosa and in the morning without entirely knowing where I was going hit the road. I made my way to the coast and decided I would try to camp out in Gualala. I had a beautiful day and felt proud that I was someone who could just get in the car and go and could trust that even without a plan I would be okay, more than okay, great.

Muffins baked fresh by The WholeHearted Chef, they will really make you dance!

Collapsing Cake Dreams

Not every recipe is successful, and learning and tweeking can be just as valuable if not more so, though I've never made something that I thought was just weird. This collapsing chocolate, pecan, bourbon cake sounded like a dream and I was so excited to try it, but 3 test bakes in I had to give in. All in good kitchen fun. : )

What's round, delicous and full of love? Homemade Donuts!! I've never made donuts before but I came across a recipe yesterday afternoon and thought "Yes, Donuts!" it was 5 in the afternoon but when is it a bad time for donuts, who could say No. I made a few flavors: chocolate mocha (some with coconut almond strussel), maple and tangerine/chocolate mocha. Given a few more fun ingredients I might have made a different flavor for each one. More to come and thanks for checking out WholeHearted Chef.

So this last year has been pretty sweet. Check out some of this last years abundance.

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For Chef Christina Sachs, owner and operator of The WholeHearted Chef, good food has always been at the center of her life. Growing up in a Macrobiotic and environmentally conscious family she recognized early that food, health, well-being, and the health of the planet were all intimately connected. After finishing her degree at The University of California Santa Cruz she moved to the Bay Area where she took a job with Café Gratitude. There she learned about the preparation and practice of raw, vegan, gluten-free and refined sugar free cuisine and had the pleasure of training with Tiziana Alipo Tamborra, co-author of Sweet Gratitude. Later, she was invited to join a new team at Apple, co-creating a vegan/vegetarian food and juice program that enjoyed much success. More recently, she has worked with Bar Agricole, deepening her knowledge and appreciation of local seasonal ingredients and the joy in letting each ingredient shine, The Hattery cooking for their community as they build products and technologies that will make a positive impact on the world and The Zen Hospice Project supporting residents with individually tailored meals. Chef Christina Sachs enjoys partnering with local farms, business and chefs to create beautiful, delicious and nutritious food that brings family, friends and communities together in a warm and joyful space.