Eat Dessert Without Guilt

Before y'all consume a slice of cake, scream back well-nigh this...
By Brigid Morrissey


Christen hangs out inward her storey alongside Molly, i of her ii dogs. Photos past times Melissa Donald 


While gazing into a bakery window on a street inward Amsterdam, Christen Malone realized she wanted to live a baker. She was 17 then, a fourth dimension when most adolescents are thinking well-nigh what to written report inward college. Back inward U.S.A. approximately fourth dimension later, her dream hadn’t wavered. “My parents said I could become to pastry school, but I too had to acquire a job organisation degree,” she says.

Midway through her studies inward baking together with pastry arts together with inward hotel together with eating seat administration at Western Kentucky University, U of L, together with endure Sullivan University, Christen was introduced to the spiritual regulation of a universal residual inward which everything contains energy. Arising from this newfound awareness were questions nearly every 20-something eventually asks: How produce I desire to brand my fourth dimension on basis hateful something? What is my purpose?


While she was inward school, Christen had worked at Rainbow Blossom together with Adrienne together with Company. She was a bakery director at Earthfare when she realized that the sugary desserts together with gluten-heavy breads she was producing for her customers were non matching upwards to her ideas together with beliefs well-nigh living a healthy, happy lifestyle.

“I felt similar I was living parallel lives,” Christen says. “Making these desserts together with my spirituality didn’t cross. It killed my soul. As a baker, I felt similar I was feeding into people’s unhealthy habits well-nigh food. I was discovering that those ingredients were making me sick. I’ve ever known I had a passion for helping people, together with I accept a passion for food. I only couldn’t figure out how to blend them.”

In search of answers, Christen journeyed to Central America upon graduation from Sullivan. Along her journeying through Nicaragua together with Costa Rica, she reflected on a agency to channel her position out energy together with alive the life she was meant to lead. And instantly all of us acquire to produce goodness from her conclusion: Enlightened Delights.


Mostly establish past times give-and-take of mouth, Enlightened Delights is Christen’s catering job organisation that has the destination of changing the agency people scream back well-nigh eating dessert. The card consists of gluten- together with dairy-free concoctions, leaving customers aware together with guilt-free well-nigh what they’re putting inward their bodies. “It’s hence of import to know what’s going inward your body,” Christen says. “Instead of feeling guilty, when I consume my desserts, I scream back ‘I beloved myself, hence I’m going to give myself this treat.’”

Christen prepares her flourless chocolate cake which contains only iii ingredients.


She’ll proceed to trust that the universe volition illuminate her path from here. “For equally long equally I’ve felt stuck together with stagnant, the universe ever provides,” she says. “Having organized faith is everything. It has together with volition comport me for a long time.”

Left: Christen sit down inward i of her hammock chairs from her travels inward Nicaragua. Right: She enjoys her Peruvian wool blanket, which she too picked upwards from her travels.


Have y'all learned something piece traveling that changed your perspective? Make yourself a healthy, refreshing smoothie together with part your story alongside us inward the comments.
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