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 unsuspectingly walked into the bathroom on Tuesday and found a collection of brownish-black hair, about 6 inches long, on the top of the trashcan. The strands had clearly been cut off of someone’s beautiful head with scissors. It didn’t take me long to put together where they came from. Sigh. I guess it was...
I read Attaching Through Love, Hugs, and Play by Deborah Gray last summer while preparing for Dumpling’s arrival. I really enjoyed the book and took away some terrific nuggets of information. It’s an attachment book that would be beneficial to be on all adoptive parents’ bookshelves. The author offers a lot of information and encouragement...
Homeschooling these days looks quite different than it did at the beginning of the school year, and I’m good with that. We ultimately took several months of a break between prepping for Dumpling’s arrival, our trip to China, adjusting at home, and my Daddy’s passing. We didn’t really start back to school until the very...
On Saturday, we took a day trip to the beautiful place I used to camp as a kid in the Appalachian Mountains. I really meant to bring my real camera, but I didn’t remember I had left it at home until we were about 30 minutes into the trip. Oh well, iPhone to the rescue!...
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