Nicole Chryst
Wellness Educator
Chasing truth, beauty, goodness, and all things naturally wholistic.
Faith over fear.
Ephesians 2:8-10
I’ve been married to my high school sweetheart since 2003. Together, we have four amazing children, by birth and adoption. When I am not homeschooling my favorite students, I spend my days on our 7-acre property where I try my best to love my family well and experiment with hobby homesteading. My favorite things to do are cultivate my ever-expanding gardens, wrangle chickens, ferment all the things, sourdough bake with einkorn flour, and figure out new ways to use herbal remedies and essential oils. I believe God has tasked us to be good stewards of our spaces in the world, and I guide my children to do the same.
I am a board member of The Sparrow Fund and an Empowered to Connect Facilitator. I love to dig in the dirt, cook nourishing food, capture beauty through my camera lens, watch the sunrise on the beach, and spend time with good literature on my porch while sipping on a hot cup of coffee.
I recently looked back at my blog archives and noticed that I hadn’t blogged about Sunshine’s cleft journey in over a year! Although that is representative of surgeries, it surely isn’t representative of all the work she’s been doing. My sweet girl has been putting forth so much effort in speech therapy. So although the...
I realized a few days ago that I haven’t taken any bath time pictures of Dumpling, so I set out to do that yesterday. We tend to do mostly showers instead of baths for efficiency, so a bath was a fun treat! He is getting more comfortable in water and had a blast splashing around...
I can’t believe we are entering our 4th year of homeschooling! FOUR YEARS! I remember feeling so ill-equipped and overwhelmed when we started in 2012, not really sure where our journey would lead. But day by day, month by month, year by year, here we are learning and doing life together. We limped through the...
I thought 6 hours was hard. Then 6 days was tough. And then 6 weeks. But here we are at 6 months. There’s something about anniversaries that makes his loss more difficult. The sting is gone but I still miss him like crazy. I see him in everything. I feel the memories all over my...
I loved this book. It’s big but I plowed through it in a few days at the beach. It’s non-fiction, but reads like a diary or novel. It was a nice break from some of the heavier stuff I’ve been reading. Sally Donovan shares her story about infertility and the experiences that led her and...
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