Kelly Dearie has a masters degree in education and has decades of experience teaching young children as well as adults in both traditional and alternative settings. She is known for making lessons fun, interactive, and engaging. About two decades ago, Kelly Dearie took a break from school teaching, and became a therapeutic chef to help her husband heal from two diseases that doctors deemed incurable. Her passion for cooking nourishing, healing foods was unbreakable. Inspired by this experience and her husband's radical healing, she started teaching cooking and nutrition education classes for both kids and adults. She also founded Creative Cultures, crafting and supplying probiotic health drinks to stores throughout Northern CA, then went on to found Gut Healing Wisdom, offering nutrition coaching for disease prevention and reversal. Kelly has hundreds of recipes and several cookbooks which she provides to her coaching clients and students alike. Kelly designs emergent-curriculum based on the needs, skill levels, and passions of each individual.