Show notes:

• Our online vegan cooking school
• Connect with Gabi on Instagram @the.intuitive.vegan
• Gabi's website
• Connect with Gabi's work at The Playing Space @theplayingspace on instagram, and through their website
• The book Intuitive Eating by Evelyn Tribole and Elyse Resch

I'm so excited to introduce you to a very special guest in today's show. As an ethical vegan of many years who found peace with food thanks to intuitive eating, I was desperate to find other people on the same journey as me when I got started. 

I kept thinking that it couldn't be just me that was in that weird intersection of practicing intuitive eating as a vegan. It was thanks to doing a quick search with the hashtag vegan intuitive eating on Instagram that I first found and connected with Gabi.

Gabi started her instagram account when she became vegan four years ago to keep a record of her own recipes. Over the next year her followers grew and grew - maybe because of her accessible cooking style and her method of quickly snapping the results without any staging. 

Gabi joins us today to talk about her own journey into veganism, her journey and philosophy of eating, thinking and cooking intuitively, she shares some of her experiences with her diagnosis of Crohn’s disease and managing it through a vegan diet (understanding that medication is also a part of the journey), and she discusses how her veganism has evolved through time.

She’s also great at talking about imperfection within veganism, navigating having a mixed eating household with kids, and what I loved the most about our conversation, how thinking for yourself within a movement that often wants to speak for you, can heal your relationship with food, connect you with others, and make you even more compassionate and inspirational. If you've ever asked yourself "can you be a vegan intuitive eater?", today's episode will shed some light as to how to navigate being an intuitive eating vegan when your motivation for being vegan is based on animal welfare and being an ethical vegan.

Gabi is the perfect example of how authenticity is the new black, how you can inspire and plant seeds without being perfect, without only showing the highlight reel or a perfectly edited feed or life, but showing up in your truest most informal self. I have to tell you, her excitement and joy are beyond contagious, and I’m pretty sure you will love her as much as I did.

Gabi is also a Speech and Drama teacher, having set up her own company in North London called The Playing Space, and I loved hearing about how much joy her job has given her, and how it intersects with everything she does.

You can find Gabi on instagram through the handle @the.intuitive.vegan and through her website, as well as her company The Playing Space @theplayingspace on instagram, and through their website.

Thank you Gabi for joining us in this conversation today, and for sharing your joy of vegan food and cooking with the world.