WTF is the Sundaze Club?!

Inside: the London moment that clarified it, "sorry what happened!?", when do we start - I want in.

The London moment that clarified it.

WTF is the Sundaze club with me, Arianne. Great question. I’d love to tell you. Pull up a seat at my table will you. It’s Feb 2026. I am in London — alone — for my cookbook photoshoot. Why is that the biggest deal ever? Well, it’s exactly one year after I nearly died. A year ago I was in a coma. Jeff (my hubby) was supposed to come to London with me with River (my son) but got kidney stones the night before. WTF Universe. So off to London, excitedly & nervously, alone I went. For a girl who couldn’t walk 6 months ago, or pee or breathe on my own, this was a *very* big deal. So there I am, solo, in London, shooting a cookbook I started writing before I got pregnant and somehow finished on the other side of the unsurvivable. The fact that I was standing in that studio at all was genuinely insane.

And then that Sunday, I went to lunch with one of my childhood bestie I’ve had for 30 years — her local go-to spot, the kind of place that feels like it belongs to the neighbourhood. Flavour packed Sri Lankan food, the best chutney I have ever tasted in my life (I did of course convince them to give me the recipe card). A rainy afternoon that felt like the universe had just pressed pause.

Somewhere between the second round of appis and the kind of conversation that only happens when you’re both a little cracked open by life (She’d been through cancer the last two years. I’d just survived something I shouldn’t have. We’ve changed, to say the least) she asked: so what’s next?

And I outwardly processed this thing I’d been quietly thinking about for months and said it out loud for the first time.

Have you heard of Substack? I have this idea. What if I just gave people ONE thing each Sunday?

Not ten things. Not a program. Not a challenge you abandon by Tuesday.
One recipe. One ritual. One reflection. One real conversation on rebuilding and living your best life.

Like FaceTiming your healthy bestie (hi, that’s me, I’m officially naming myself to the position in your life) and I say:
“Hey. This week we’re doing THIS. We’re making this green smoothie. Here’s why. Here is what is in it. Here’s the grocery list.”

Or “Hey this week were talking about whimsy, and the neurological benefits it has to move through trauma and here’s the journal prompt. We’re doing it together. Can’t wait to hear about what you do this week”

And then next week we do one more thing.
And the week after that, one more.
And a year from now you look back and go — oh. Oh wow. Everything actually shifted.

She looked at me and said: yeah. That’s really good. I’d join. I feel overwhelmed by where to start and what actually matters and who to trust.

So. Here we are. ☀️

Why you should actually trust me — and why I’m still figuring it out too

Fair question. Genuinely. Here’s the honest version.

I’m a certified holistic nutritionist, trained chef, Olympian, and cookbook author (coming soon — hi London photoshoot). I’ve spent a decade obsessively learning what actually moves the needle on wellness and how you feel. Read every book. Tried every thing. Overhauled my hydration, my kitchen, my home, my habits — I do mean everything. I know what works and what is a complete waste of your time and money. I will always, always tell you which is which.

But here’s what matters more than any credential: I am also rebuilding my life in real time, right alongside you.

I’ve done it before. Thrice.

After breaking my back in 2016 as an Olympic athlete and being told I’d never compete again — I won a World Cup gold medal the following season.

After four years of undiagnosed chronic Lyme disease in 2018, dismissed by doctor after doctor — the nutrition foundation I’d built is what kept my body fighting and eventually in remission.

After spinal fusion surgery in 2021. Every single time, it wasn’t a dramatic protocol that carried me through. It was the small, intentional, one-good-thing-at-a-time approach. Layered. Consistent. Nourishing. Real.

And then last year happened.

Four days after giving birth to River, I was in a coma. 125 days in hospital. One of only three people in documented history to survive what I had. I learned to walk again at day 111.

Everything I had spent years building — every habit, every ritual, every recipe — is what carried my body through the unsurvivable.

It saved my actual life.

So when I tell you this stuff works — I am the living, dancing-in-my-kitchen, 25-pound-baby-on-my-hip proof.

The full wild story is here → Hey Im Arianne, It’s Been A Wild Ride

And here’s the part I love most: I’m not standing above you handing down wisdom from a perfectly healed, completely together life. I’m in it. Right now. Rebuilding again, in real time, figuring it out alongside you. The expert AND the student. Both at once.

What the heck is a Sundaze ☀️

Well, obviously the newsletter and the LIVEs with me, and the the fun things will be dropping on Sundays. But, sundaze is a feeling.

You know that moment of sitting in a sunbeam?
When the light is warm and exactly the right temperature and something in your whole body just... exhales?

When you feel nourished and calm and capable and like everything is actually going to be okay?

When the week behind you is done and the week ahead hasn’t started yet and there’s just this golden, unhurried pocket of time that belongs entirely to you?

That’s Sundaze. That’s the feeling I want to live in this place.

Cozy and motivated at the same time. Inspired but not overwhelmed. Like you just got off a FaceTime with someone who genuinely wants you to feel your best — gave you something delicious to make, something to think about, something to try — and somehow also made you laugh and feel less alone.

That’s what this is. Your Sunday home.
Also clubs are fun. Not the tequila kind (although those have their season of life too ;) The kind of club with all your best friends. Filled with the kindest corner of the internet and belonging to a club with like minded people feels FUN. And honestly? The community that’s already gathering here is so warm and so good and I think you’re going to love them.

What’s actually here right now — and it’s all free, come on in

I’ll be honest with you because I’m always honest with you. It’s not fully built yet.

I’m spending this summer on the mat leave I never got because I was in a hospital bed for the first seven months of River’s life. So we are doing lake days and making ice cream and going on whimsical side quests while I build this thing slowly and intentionally from a very good sunbeam (where else could I possibly?)

But I am NOT waiting until it’s perfect to open the doors.

Because the right people are already finding this place and I want you in.

Here’s what’s here right now and it is genuinely so good:

Every recipe I have ever made will live here. Free. For you. I’m slowly moving them all over and adding new ones all the time.

My most personal writing will live here too. The longer stuff, the real stuff, the musings and hard-won lessons that don’t fit anywhere else on the internet.

And once a month-ish this summer (maybe if I feel like it) I’ll send a Sunday email — favourite recipes, things I’m obsessed with, things I think you’d genuinely love to know about.

About the recipes

Here’s how to read the recipes when you land on them.
Every one is tagged so you know exactly what you’re getting:

NS — Naturally sweetened (refined sugar-free)

GF — Gluten-free

DF — Dairy-free

V — Vegan

*next to any icon means it has the option to be that in the recipe

Each one comes with wellness highlights — what it’s quietly doing for your body beyond just tasting incredible:

Fibre Forward — meaningful fibre from real whole foods

Protein Boost — added protein from nuts, seeds, legumes, collagen

Gut Loving — ingredients that actively support your gut health

Sneaky Veggies — yes, there are vegetables in there. No, you won’t taste them

Plant Power — fuelled by a diverse range of plants

What’s coming this fall — and why you want to be on this list

This fall I’m launching the full Sundaze Club experience and I genuinely cannot stop thinking about it. The London idea.

Every Sunday, showing up for you with one nourishing thing.

A recipe, a ritual, or a reflection. LIVE with moi. My most personal and real life and access to me thing Ive ever offered. Like a FaceTime with your healthy bestie — hey, this week we’re doing THIS. We try it together. You love it, you keep it. You’re not feeling it, you toss it. No guilt. No all-or-nothing. No 247 saved Instagram posts you never go back to. Just one good thing, every Sunday, layering up.

52 Sundays from now? You’re a genuinely different person.

I’m proof of that.

More details when I’m ready — but if you’re here now, you’ll be the first to know.
And you’ll get in at the founding rate. And I’ll know you were one of the ones who showed up before it was loud.

So. WTF IS the Sundaze Club?

It’s your Sunday home. I hope.

I hope it can be your weekly sanctuary for nourishing recipes, mindful reflections, real life rituals, and the really cool things I'm loving lately. Created for those seeking a moment of sunlit calm and inspiration and possibly in your own rebuild era.

It’s the place where food and rituals and rebuilding in real time all happen together.

Where the expert and the student are the same person — me — showing up honestly every single week.

Where the community is genuinely the kindest on the internet and we all cheer each other on because kindness is cool here.

Where you try one new thing a week, keep what feels good, toss what doesn’t, and a year from now look back at 52 small shifts that quietly changed everything.

This club has the best snacks, the realest conversations, and a healthy bestie who has literally rebuilt her life from scratch and wants to share every single thing she knows with you.

It’s free right now. It’s going to be really, really good this fall.

And honestly? I just think you’re going to like it here.

Writing this from a sunbeam. River is asleep. The coffee is exactly the right temperature. Everything feels possible for a moment. ☀️

See you on a Sunday soon.
— Arianne

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