FEELING FRUSTRATED IN YOUR KITCHEN?

A Nurture Kitchen Blessing deliciously combines creativity, practicality (and a dash of magic) to bring agency and inspiration into your relationship with your own kitchen and the meals you make there.

Learn inspired ways to make food prep a source of love, connection and delight for day-to-day living.

I COME BY IT HONESTLY.

The potential for personal alchemy in the kitchen is abundant, and I have dedicated my life to exploring how food heals, bonds, tells stories and offers a way in to my own heart and the hearts of others.

I’m inspired by all manner of creative processes and enjoy experimenting with inviting unconventional prompts and approaches to everyday kitchen tasks, food prep and the dining experience. Intentionality and intuition are the main ingredients that help me engage with my cooking life with a sense of play, meaning, and magic.

It is my belief that the spaces we create in and the creations we make there (in this case our kitchens that serve to feed our bodies) can equally feed our souls, nurture our ideas and nourish our relationships.

MORE ABOUT ME

“Sonja started by just talking with me — about my experiences, my hopes, what was going on. Then we got to work. She came in and fully overhauled my kitchen, working with me to see what was and wasn’t working, some ways to optimize. And then she showed me her own food philosophy and how it might work for me. It really did help me reconnect with my own desires when it comes to food — there was zero judgment or shame in our work, just a way to reconnect and get inspired and really own my own desires and tastes — and find a way to make that all work for me. I ended the day feeling inspired and reconnected, and with some great, practical, actionable ideas.”

HOW NURTURE KITCHEN BLESSINGS WORK

GETTING TO THE HEART OF IT

Getting to the heart of something is often more effective (and more fun!) when accessed in an unconventional way. When you sign up for a Nurture Kitchen Blessing, you fill out a questionnaire that is a nourishing journey unto itself and asks you all manner of questions both logistical and whimsical.

KITCHEN CURRICULUM

With your responses as my guide, I create a ‘kitchen curriculum’. Your curriculum is tailored specifically to support your lifestyle, your personal or household dietary requirements and the particular areas of your relationship to food and cooking that feel sticky or uninspiring. Inspired by your personal story around food, I create a custom menu that acts as a nourishing entry point into the lessons we’ll be covering together.

NURTURE BLESSING

Once a date is confirmed, I come to your kitchen! Whether it’s in person or virtual via Zoom, together, we discuss your responses and prepare your custom menu from scratch, integrating skills, aesthetics, and a dash of magic. You’ll be prepared in advance for the groceries we need, via a PDF grocery list and creative prompts to use as you shop. As we cook together, we also assess the practical flow of how your kitchen is set up. Together, we collaborate to streamline your daily meal prep and infuse your kitchen space and cooking mindset with a creative, nourishing spark.

“Sonja’s Nurture Kitchen Blessing was like the spark of a fairy godmother’s wand sending magic to my kitchen cupboards (and, by proxy, my soul).”

FEEL DELICIOUSLY CONNECTED

BLESS YOUR KITCHEN

‘Getting to the Heart of It’ questionnaire
Bespoke Nurture Kitchen Curriculum
3-hour in-person Kitchen Blessing
A digital copy of The Nurture Kitchen Notebook

$250

Groceries purchased separately

BOOK A BLESSING

BLESS A LOVED ONE’S KITCHEN

‘Getting to the Heart of It’ questionnaire
Bespoke Nurture Kitchen Curriculum
3-hour in-person Kitchen Blessing
Two digital copies of The Nurture Kitchen Notebook

Starting at $325

Price includes a grocery voucher for your loved one to shop with

GIFT A BLESSING

FAQ

How many people can participate in a NKB?

You know what they say about ‘too many cooks’ lol. Nurture Kitchen Blessings are best suited for 1-3 people however, for bigger families or households I make sure everyone who wants to participate is creatively involved!

I want to gift a NKB to a friend – how does that work?

When you give the gift of a Nurture Kitchen Blessing, you receive a downloadable PDF gift voucher that you can print out or send electronically to whomever’s life you’d like to make more delicious! At checkout, you’ll be able to choose from a few ‘grocery voucher’ options, alongside the date you’d like me to get in touch with your loved one!

What do you mean when you say ‘a dash of magic’?

To me, anything that has been ‘magical’ in my life has come about thanks to the presence and power of love. I don’t feel qualified or particularly resonate with the title of ‘chef’, so perhaps ‘kitchen witch’ is a more apt term. In my eyes, a kitchen witch is someone who knows how to intentionally make room for love in interactions with food, and, with an accompanying eye twinkle, understands that acts of love have a tendency to resonate synchronistically in areas of our lives beyond the act itself.

Here’s some proof, from NKB participant Ange: So! Sonja forced me to turn my desk into a kitchen table (to be honest, I never used it as a desk). One of the things that came up in our conversations was that I’d had a much harder time cooking for myself since I had started living on my own, instead of with roommates. I was also incredibly single, and longing for a partner to cook and eat with. Sonja encouraged me to create a space where I could connect with someone — romantic or not. I went along with it, uncertain but willing. I think she even said something along the lines of, “Who knows? Sometimes when you move energy around and make space for something, magical things can happen.” Cut to a month later, when I met my now-girlfriend, who I love cooking and eating with. Now, I’m not saying that Sonja’s Kitchen Blessings will for sure help you find love, but they very well might.

I live outside the TTC accessible zone. Does this mean I can’t book a blessing?

You’ve got options! For now, in person Nurture Kitchen Blessings are available in both Kitchener, Toronto and the surrounding GTA. If you live in a beautiful place and want to fly me out to bless your, say, chateau kitchen in the south of France, I am totally open to that! For those of you living outside the current travel parameters, virtual Nurture Kitchen Blessings are available, and just as effective. For those of you with somewhat smaller pocketbooks but big appetites for this kind of offering, stay tuned for my soon-to-be-published virtual cooking companion, The Nurture Kitchen Notebook.

What if I (or people in my household) have food allergies or sensitivities?

Working with food allergies and sensitivities is a Nurture value I hold dear. I like to reframe any restrictions as creative restrictions – this is part of the fun!

Do you offer more support after the NKB?

Indeed! You can fill out the question form on my website and I will answer it via Instagram stories so that more people can benefit from the answer! Not on Instagram? Make sure to let me know and I will reply directly to your query.

Why the word ‘blessing’?

For the very first offering of this nature, my friend Laura and her husband, Mike, moved into their new home. Laura sought me out to design some kind of activity to ‘bless’ her new kitchen as a Christmas gift for Mike, and Nurture Kitchen Blessings was born! I also believe it’s the right term for what takes place: while a Nurture Kitchen Blessing could be considered part workshop, coaching session and cooking class, it is, at its core, about bringing deeper meaning and sanctity to the daily act of cooking and how a mindful approach can support the lives we want to be living.

TESTIMONIALS

Two and a half years later, I still tell people about the day Sonja came into our home and made magic in our kitchen. From start to finish, this process with Sonja was a delight. Not only did she create the perfect menu for us, but she showed us that we (with minimal cooking skills) in our kitchen (with minimal counter space) could turn out a truly spectacular brunch (our favourite meal)! Sonja’s love for food shines through in everything she does. She left us with full bellies, amazing leftovers, a better organized kitchen, and big smiles.

Laura Fraser & Mike Hibberd, new home owners

I loved working with Sonja. Working with her is like having a wonderful kitchen witch/domestic goddess come into your house and bring this infusion of clarity and brilliance and nurturing and just pure, beautiful energy into everything. I felt safe with her, and I wanted some of what she has. I wanted that energy in my own life and kitchen. It feels kind of like having my own personal Nigella Lawson/kitchen goddess, someone who is both so relaxed and down-to-earth, but who understands the importance of delicious flavours and comfort. It’s about all of the things food is — not just sustenance, not just flavour, but all of it combined. A complex layering of things, that’s so personal and can also be so fraught with our own stories and ideas about food and body. Sonja felt safe, and wise, and kind. It’s like wiping out the cobwebs (possibly literally, but definitely figuratively) and shining light onto everything about your food life — what’s working, what’s not, and how to make everything work just a little bit (or maybe a lot) better. It was an incredible experience bringing her into my kitchen — just the way I wanted it to be. Sonja can teach you how to cook and eat and use your kitchen in a completely new way — one that’s simple, beautiful and completely nourishing.

I was feeling completely disconnected from the idea of truly nourishing myself with food, and all of the pieces of that — my kitchen, my body, my habits. I left our session feeling so much more connected to both my inner and outer worlds, with insights into how to bring them into alignment through my attitude and practices around food. My kitchen felt renewed, and so did I. It was a totally beautiful experience.

Ange, entrepreneur living in her own apartment

Sonja’s Nurture Kitchen Blessing was like the spark of a fairy godmother’s wand sending magic to my kitchen cupboards (and, by proxy, my soul).

Monika, new home owner

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