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Everyone who knows Chelsea and Annemieke will tell you that this mother and daughter are very similar. Photo \/ Gina Fabish<\/p>\n
Her own children can be fussy, but Chelsea\u2019s found they do love lots of punchy flavour, so there\u2019s a high \u201cyum factor\u201d with reinvented classics like spaghetti and meatballs, protein-boost brownies and even her famous chicken pie, which has been given a healthy twist.<\/p>\n
\u201cIf you\u2019re going to open a cookbook, you want something that\u2019s comforting, nourishing and going to make you feel happy,\u201d she reflects.<\/p>\n
Nourish is the first time Chelsea has collaborated with someone else. Her close friend Heliena, whom she describes as her \u201csoul sister\u201d, co-created the collection with her.<\/p>\n
\u201cI wouldn\u2019t have done this book if it wasn\u2019t for her,\u201d she admits. \u201cAfter Tasty, I felt like I was done for a while, but working together was this incredibly joyful process from start to finish. It didn\u2019t feel like just me slogging it out alone.<\/p>\n
\u201cFor my first five books, I could put all my energy in, but with Supergood and Tasty, I had young kids. I don\u2019t know how I did it. It came at a big cost. So having Heliena there was just incredible.<\/p>\n
\u201cShe\u2019s like another me, but with her own unique skills. There was someone else developing recipes with me and pouring that powerful, creative energy in. There was never any tension \u2013 it was beautiful.<\/p>\n
\u201cAnd with this book, there was a purpose behind it \u2013 to help parents solve the problem of how to nourish their kids better with good, easy, accessible food they\u2019re going to eat. Heliena and I have children the same age, so it\u2019s something we both face every day.\u201d<\/p>\n
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Nourish is the first time Chelsea has collaborated with her close friend Heliena. Photo \/ Woman’s Day<\/p>\n
One of the things Chelsea has learned from leading her double life is the importance of self-care. As well as warming her heart with a morning cup of cacao, she tries to make time for a walk on the beach most days, and when the boys are with their father, she focuses on looking after herself.<\/p>\n
\u201cI don\u2019t drink and rarely go out because that\u2019s really just not what I feel like doing in this passage of my life,\u201d she says. \u201cSo every single minute in those days, I\u2019m prioritising things that nourish my body and soul, whether it\u2019s a sauna, doing some work that feels really good, meditating or making myself a delicious meal and taking time to unwind.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhen I do that, I find I have so much more capacity for my kids, my work and life in general. You can\u2019t fill from an empty cup, although most of us are always trying to.\u201d<\/p>\n
Self-care is such a priority that Chelsea has decided to host a women\u2019s retreat next winter at the luxury Flockhill Lodge in Canterbury. There will be a range of \u201chealing modalities\u201d, such as breath work, sound healing, body awareness movement and \u201cnourishing ancestral food\u201d. It\u2019s a rare opportunity for women to turn the focus on themselves.<\/p>\n
Chelsea says that just as Nourish came from her desire to feed families better, the retreat was born from her longing to \u201cfeed women at a deeper level \u2013 body, soul and spirit\u201d.<\/p>\n
She explains, \u201cOne day, I had an inspiration. I just knew this was what I needed to do because I\u2019ve gone through a massive healing journey myself in the past five or six years. I\u2019ve never been so excited about anything.\u201d<\/p>\n
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There are other new enterprises on the way. Chelsea has a food product line coming out and is working on her first beauty product, a body butter. She\u2019s also hosting one of her hugely popular foodie group tours to Sri Lanka with Trafalgar in March 2026, with spaces already filling fast.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019m going with what feels good,\u201d she says. \u201cI\u2019m living in a place of such flow and clarity now that even though there\u2019s a lot going on, it rarely feels overwhelming. I try to show up being the best mother I possibly can be in any given moment and also have my own stuff going on as well. It\u2019s not perfect and I\u2019m not perfect \u2013 far from it \u2013 but every day gets a little easier.\u201d<\/p>\n
Happier than ever in her own company, single Chelsea is enjoying doing whatever she pleases once the kids are in bed and cooking for one when they\u2019re away.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019m pouring all my time and energy into my children, myself and my creations. It feels more than enough \u2013 a season of creativity and joy.\u201d<\/p>\n
Chelsea will be promoting her book in Inglewood on October 19, at the Nelson Arts Festival on October 27 and the Tauranga Arts Festival on November 1. For more info on Chelsea\u2019s retreat, visit nourishandbloomretreat.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"And now, much to Chelsea\u2019s joy, her mum Annemieke is moving from the Waikato to be close by,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":71687,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[13851,56767,1558,29805,3595,3623,6028,169,39307,3756,18478,156,2109,1444,22397,2740,56768,19689,13458,1739,424,1073,117,111,139,40327,425,69,56769,1136,3109,6045,1072,544,1361,684,2044,23644,17450],"class_list":["post-71686","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-author","tag-balancing","tag-been","tag-bestselling","tag-by","tag-celebrity","tag-champion","tag-chef","tag-chelsea","tag-cookbook","tag-course","tag-entertainment","tag-family","tag-famous","tag-favourite","tag-former","tag-glamorous","tag-incredible","tag-inspired","tag-launches","tag-life","tag-media","tag-new","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nourish","tag-now","tag-nz","tag-pretty","tag-private","tag-public","tag-reality","tag-social","tag-some","tag-that","tag-there","tag-time","tag-winter","tag-worlds"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71686","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=71686"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71686\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/71687"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=71686"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=71686"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=71686"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}