Newly diagnosed
What to clear out, what to keep, and what nobody tells you in the first month. The practical, unpanicked version.
Read the basics →Real food · Real faith · Real life
Faith over fear.
Joy over restriction.
I'm Steffi England — a nutritional herbalist and wellness educator who has spent eighteen years helping people eat the way they were made to eat. When you do, something quietly wonderful happens. The fog lifts. The energy comes back. You can think clearly again, and you have something left over to give to the people you love.
Clean House — free guide
A gentle, eleven-part walk through internal cleansing with real food. Yours free when you join the letter.
One letter, most weeks. Recipes, what I'm learning, and a little encouragement. Unsubscribe any time.
18 years teaching
1,000+ classes
Six countries
English & Español
Celiac myself
Mother of five
Start here
Eighteen years of writing is a lot to
walk into. Begin with these.
The Shack started as a place to figure out gluten-free cooking. It grew into something bigger — a whole-person approach to feeling well in your mind, your heart, your body, and your spirit. Here are four doors in.
The real food kitchen
Broths, butter, soaked grains, and the traditional foods our great-grandmothers never had to think twice about.
Into the kitchen →Fermented & cultured
Kraut, kefir, kombucha, sourdough. Living foods, explained plainly enough that you'll actually make them.
Start a ferment →Faith & wellbeing
Health as stewardship rather than fear. The pieces I've written about caring for a body you were given on purpose.
Read on →Coaching
For the person handed a diagnosis
and a pamphlet.
I've been where you are, and so have four of the five people at my dinner table. Coaching with me is not a meal plan emailed to you — it's someone walking through your actual kitchen, your actual budget, and your actual week until eating well stops feeling like a second job.
Single session
The Reset
Ninety minutes to untangle one thing — a new diagnosis, a stalled routine, a pantry you don't know what to do with. You leave with a written plan.
Twelve weeks
Whole-Person Coaching
The full arc. Food, rest, movement, supplements where they earn their place, and the mental and spiritual side nobody else asks about.
For families
The Family Kitchen
When more than one person reacts and everyone eats at the same table. Systems, shopping, and keeping the peace at dinner.
Speaking & teaching
A thousand classes. Six countries.
Two languages.
I've taught in living rooms in Mexico, retreat centers in New Zealand, church buildings in Utah, and conference halls in Israel. The room changes; the work doesn't. I come in, I make a complicated subject feel manageable, and people leave believing they can actually do something on Monday.
Signature talks
- Gluten-Free Without FearThe honest first thirty days — what to do, what to ignore, and how to stop reading every label in terror.
- The Nourished KitchenTraditional foods your great-grandmother took for granted, and why they still work.
- Ferment ThisA hands-on introduction to living foods. Everyone goes home with something in a jar.
- Herbs, Oils, and Common SenseWhere botanicals genuinely help, where they don't, and how to tell the difference.
- A Body on PurposeA faith-forward look at health as stewardship rather than anxiety.
- La Cocina Sin GlutenThe full gluten-free foundation, taught in Spanish.
Formats: single keynote, half-day workshop, hands-on cooking class, or a multi-week series. In person or online.
Coming soon
Two books, and a place
to be first in line.
Eighteen years of writing, teaching, and research is being gathered into two volumes — one for the kitchen, and one for the people in the hardest part of it.
The Celiac Shack Book
Everything the blog has been circling since 2008, finally in order. The recipes that earned their place at my own table, the kitchen systems that hold up on a hard week, and the whole-person approach that grew up alongside them — real food, herbs, rest, and faith, in one volume instead of a thousand scattered posts.
In progress
Stay On The Planet
This one is for the people who need it most. It condenses what I have taught and studied across eighteen years into the clearest, most usable form I know how to make — written for someone who is exhausted, foggy, frightened, and running low on answers. Not a promise of a cure. A hand held out, a place to begin, and every honest thing I have learned about caring for a body while you keep going.
In progress
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The shop
Wear it on purpose.
A small collection of things I actually wanted to own. Every order helps keep this site growing and everything on it free — more recipes, more guides, and more of it for everyone who needs it.
The Shack
The little house with the gold heart in the gable. Tees, mugs, and totes.
Light & Free
The plum and gold butterfly. If you've read the blog, you know what it means.
Faith over Lyme
Lime-green ribbon, plum lettering. For the families in the middle of it.
My story
I didn't set out to do this.
I set out to feed my family. I was a dancer, then a missionary, then a mother of five with a diagnosis that reorganized every meal in the house. What began as notes to myself in 2008 became eighteen years of writing, more than a thousand classes taught on five continents, and a practice built on a few stubborn convictions: that real food is not complicated, that fear is a poor motivator, and that a body is worth caring for because of who gave it to you.
Along the way I trained as a nutritional herbalist, learned from the traditions Weston A. Price documented and Sally Fallon carried forward, and spent more than a decade being coached by Ron Williams — who has taught me more about discipline and grace than any textbook did.
What I actually use
My essentials.
Short list, honestly held. If something isn't here, it's because I don't reach for it.
doTERRA essential oils
The oils I've used and taught with for years. I'm a Wellness Advocate, so I earn a commission — and I'd tell you the same things if I didn't.
Zinzino balance oils
Omega balance testing and supplementation. I'm an independent partner.
Books I keep coming back to
Nourishing Traditions by Sally Fallon, the work of Weston A. Price, and the School of Natural Healing curriculum. These shaped how I think about food more than anything else I've read.
En español
Comida real, sin miedo.
Soy Steffi England — herbolaria nutricional y educadora de bienestar. Llevo dieciocho años enseñando a vivir sin gluten con alegría, no con miedo. Doy clases, talleres y charlas en español, en persona y en línea.
Say hello
The door's open.
Questions, speaking inquiries, or just to tell me a recipe worked — I read everything that comes in.