Where Healing Simmered Before the Science Made Sense
I’m not someone who labels rooms or objects in my home. If you need the spices, I’ll point you straight to the cupboard, probably mid-stir.
But this room? It earned its title.
This Old Kitchen has held the rhythms of my real life: raising kids, working midnight nursing shifts, navigating chronic illness, and slowly realizing that food isn’t just something we eat, it’s information our bodies use to rebuild, repair, and recalibrate.
After major surgery in 2001, food stopped feeling intuitive and started feeling intimidating. I reached for control the only way I knew how at the time: tracking bites, labels, symptoms, and patterns, trying to solve a puzzle without the key.
That trial-and-mostly-error season became the seed for Wit & Wellness™ years later. A desire to understand bodies and choices more completely, and to translate the power of whole, functional food into something clear, compassionate, and approachable for anyone.
Read more about My Story.
As a nurse, I eventually learned the why behind the symptoms. But this kitchen taught me the lessons first, quietly, steadily, and sometimes while the soup simmered:
Nourishment matters.
Small steps stick.
Curiosity counts.
Control is an illusion.
Grace is greater.
So welcome to the room where it all began. Not the glossy wishlist version, but the real one: humble cabinets, over-loved pots, a drippy faucet, and one determined human figuring it out one meal at a time.
Pull up a chair. Grab a cup. Let’s rethink what “healthy” can look like together, in the very place where healing started long before it had a name.
Visit the About page to learn more about the philosophy of Wit & Wellness.
The truth is: You don’t need a photogenic kitchen to make life-changing food.
With wit & wellness,
Trina 
Where the Cooking Begins
Browse by meal type below, or explore the latest recipes in the sidebar.
Gentle, grounding starts. Simple breakfasts that support energy, blood sugar, and real mornings, even the rushed, coffee-first ones.
Midday meals that steady you instead of slowing you down. Meals built for focus, balance, and afternoons that don’t end in a snack spiral.
Comfort-forward, plant-centered dinners that nourish without overcomplicating, because the last meal of the day should feel like relief, not another decision.
