About

Welcome! Thanks for being here. I'm Christa!

ArtisticVegan.com started in back in 2012 when I had a desire to share my plant-based lifestyle with others.

I’m originally from Vancouver, WA born and raised. I come from a great family, loving parents with one sister. We ate the standard American diet. I don’t even think I new what a vegan was. It wasn’t until much later in my own path that I gained too much weight and was at risk for health issues that I knew a lifestyle change was needed. I tried going vegetarian one day a week, it grew to weekly and soon became a lifestyle. When Gerald and I met we soon went vegan together and haven’t looked back. We’ve now been vegan for 10 years and vegetarian for some time before that.

When I first went vegan, I didn’t know what to make or what to eat, I started cooking for the first time and found a passion for it. My husband encouraged me to capture my recipes and pictures. I felt funny at first, until I watched Julie & Julia was inspired to start a blog, ran into a gal at a health food store who had a blog and started my own. Years later I am still here blogging, now shooting recipe videos (YouTube), have a cookbook (The Artistic Vegan Cookbook), have wonderful opportunities and am excited for the future.

ArtisticVegan.com has been awarded the Top 100 Vegan Blogs in 2017 and 2018, Top 60 Vegan Blogs in 2017, 2017 Must-Follow Vegan Blog, has been featured in One Green Planet, Thermie Living, Perfectly Plant-Based Cookbook & Website and Raw Food Magazine.

I want to help you and others figure out how to make this lifestyle attainable, how to stick with it and most of all to be a friend and guide in the kitchen. I hope to help you make some seriously delicious food. I love food and flavor a lot, I bet you’ll find recipes that will make your mouth water and stomach satisfied.

I hope to enable you and others to make delightful plant-based foods. To encourage gathering around the table, enjoying community, friendship, family, laughter and sensational food.

As more people go plant based, we create less of a harmful impact on Mother Earth and the world we inhabit. If I can do it, you can do it! May you thrive, eat well and feel good. It doesn’t have to be restrictive it can be delicious and appetizing.

I also teach structural integration with my husband on our online school with GravityBodyAcademy.com, check it out to see if you can find better posture, a new career, renewed health and energy. I also love to teach yoga - Yoga with Christa / HeartsFlameYoga.com and offer a lot of online classes. Yoga helps me and others to find inner peace, let go of stress, worries, anxiety, to feel empowered, to merge their smaller ego self with their higher self so they can change the world too! As I follow my dreams, I encourage you to follow your dreams. As we embrace Ahimsa, non-violence, and a peaceful way of being the more compassion spreads.

It’s a pleasure to meet you. Thanks for being here and apart of this beautiful growing community! Over 200K strong!

My love,
Christa

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