Meet Susan
There is a beauty and grace in simplicity.
Whether it’s how you live, how you eat, or how you move through this world, simplicity creates peace, joy, and health.
After years of complicating my life with the endless search to be “filled”, I have come to a place of grace and have a true joy for life. I move with an open heart and a desire to share what I have learned — and am still learning — along the way.
It is my truest desire to help you to be inspired. To bring health, joy, peace, and beauty into your life.
Seven years ago, when I started Rawmazing, I had found a way of eating that helped heal my past digressions with food. At that time, all I knew was that I loved raw food and the way it made me feel. I read everything I could, bought every book I could find (they were few and far between at that time) and started on a journey that not only brought me better health, but also started a love affair with the creation of recipes made from whole, plant-based, raw food.
Driven to Learn
As my life evolved, I was driven to learn more about the food I was preparing and how it affects our bodies and our health. I enrolled in T. Collin Campbell’s Plant Based Nutrition Course through Cornell’s E-school. What I learned not only supported the daily experience I was having from eating plant based food, but also gave me knowledge to support a whole food, plant-based way of life.
It also helped relieve some of the “raw food guilt” that I had when eating cooked food as I learned that, properly prepared, some cooked food can have great health benefits. It helped me to strengthen my desire to have a diet including both the raw food I love and healthy cooked food. Learn more about why I’ve chosen to embrace cooked food as well as raw.
It wasn’t a big departure as I have never promoted a 100% raw diet long term. And I have found a wonderful balance by eating raw and whole food, plant-based cooked food.
The Beginning of My Journey
Changing my diet wasn’t the end of the journey, it was the beginning of a journey into a whole food, plant-based life! I completed my Rouxbe Plant Based Professional Cooking Certification and developed a deep desire to start incorporating more cooked recipes into the site.
But it didn’t stop there. I have learned so much in my many trips around the sun. So much about living with grace, about simplifying but not depriving. About the beauty and grace you can create in your life not by constantly adding, but by finding out what brings you joy. I want to share what I have learned and also introduce you to people who have great gifts and wonderful ideas to offer to you.
It is with deep gratitude that I invite you to my site. I am so glad you are on this journey with me. I can’t wait to see where it takes us.
A Few Fun Facts
- I recently married the love of my life, Peter, on September 24, 2015. Never think that love has passed you by! Meeting an amazing life partner can happen at any age and I am so grateful for my husband, who, by the way, became vegan while I was studying the T. Collin Campbell course.
- I was born and raised in Minnesota but now live in the San Francisco East Bay Area. I love it here but miss fall and winter and the snow! And especially my mother, Cora. Frequent trips are necessary.
- I have two grown daughters, Mia and Kaia, who now live in California and Utah. If you were to ask me what my greatest life achievement has been, I would say giving birth to these two beautiful human beings and being lucky enough to be on their journey with them. They are beyond amazing and I love seeing the incredible women they have become.
- I have also recently been blessed with two outstanding stepsons, Alex and Chris. They bring such a fun and interesting dimension to all of our lives. They are intelligent, caring human beings and I love that we are all a family.
- We have two wonderful dogs, Atlas, our Kuvasz, and Sadie, our little Pug. Animals are a huge part of my life and I adore all four-legged friends. They bring such peace and unconditional love into our lives, daily.
- I am an award winning professional food photographer. You can see my work here: www.ShootingtheKitchen.com and www.Susanpowersphotography.com. I plan on expanding this part of my life into the blog!
- I am vegan and strive to have a vegan lifestyle but I am not perfect. I will not judge people for where they are in their journey. I would prefer to extend my hand and help you learn about this lifestyle rather than condemn you. I believe in love and acceptance for wherever you are in your journey.
>As far as the rest of it? I recharge in nature, love to learn, love sewing, knitting, painting, playing the harp and piano, and just about any type of creating that I can do.
I have successfully grown my first limes and lemons and have an amazing herb garden growing in pots. For a Minnesota girl, this is a big deal.
I love that you are here.
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Briana Christine wrote on July 15, 2016
Honestly, I am not sure how I stumbled into your blog, but I am very thankful. Such awesome sounding recipes and your photography is amazing. I was thinking about some canvases to hang in my kitchen. I have another artist’s food photography up now.
I too found my best friend and partner later in life. I am 42, and we just moved in our first home. It’s never too late…and never settle I say. Neither of us married or had children before meeting 10 years ago. We were friends for a long time and decided about 2 years ago to separate the distance between us and buy a home.
I also wanted to say kudos to you for your furry family members too. Everyone needs a pug, don’t they? Mine is a boy named Yogi Bear. Two years ago a starving and sick stray beagle came cowering in the street near my driveway and needless to say, Stella Moon has won my heart too. It’s a nice balance having a pug and a beagle. They are so different, yet complement each other well.
Just wanted to introduce myself, as when I used to have a blog years ago, I always looked forward to a new visitor stopping in and taking a moment to comment, if only to say hi. It helped me know what I was doing was worth the effort and was making an impact (for the longest time I felt like I was journaling rather than blogging, since I rarely had a visitor, much less a comment! 🙂
You are obviously a beautiful woman inside and out. Thank you for opening up a whole new perspective on food, health and life! HUGS
Yvonne wrote on July 8, 2016
The ease with which I can move through your new website is fantastic.
I do agree with Carla regarding the gray font on white background for reading it is not very easy on my eyes either. However, at “70” I wear only reading glasses and eat raw M-F, Cooked S-S and occasionally eat fish. I started my health journey in my 50’s.
Now, I’ve added hot yoga, modern dance and tribal fusion as part of my movement program. Doing what you love, shows, because you glow.
I found your original site by surfing the web. Keep up the good work.
You Glow, Susan
Susan wrote on July 11, 2016
Hi, Yvonne, We actually changed the grey font a while back. Sorry you are still having trouble! Thanks you for your kind words. Cheers!
Lorna wrote on December 12, 2015
Wondering . . . Is this the same Susan Powers who produced some exercise videos a few decades ago? Those videos were quite helpful and encouraged me to get moving.
Susan wrote on December 12, 2015
No, that is Susan Powter. You can find her on Twitter but I will warn you. She is a tad bit profane and angry these days. 🙂
Carla Jones wrote on November 27, 2015
Dear Susan; I was so excited to find your site. It is just what I need. The recipes sound delicious, the photos are lovely and your writing is so very interesting.
I am 59 years old and I only started a vegan/heading-toward-raw life in June of 2015. I have already seen the following results: my blood pressure dropped from 139/84 to 122/72, I have lost 41 pounds, I no longer require oxygen or a CPAP machine to sleep at night and my blood sugar has dropped from the 200-425 range (yes, that is with insulin shots, too!) to normal range (80-150), WITHOUT insulin or any other medication.
I have one observation about your site: the small, grayish type font against the stark white background is VERY difficult for my (*ahem*) older eyes to see, let alone read. But, even if that cannot be changed, your awesomeness makes it worth my while to strain my eyes. ;D
I am still navigating around your site, trying to find where I can sign up for your newsletter/email list/whatever they are called these days. Please continue to be wonderful. Love, Carla Jones
Susan wrote on November 30, 2015
Hi, Carla,
We are talking with the site designer about the font. You can sign up on the home page right under the main article. Also, there is a sign up box in the side bar on the posts. Cheers!
Cathy wrote on November 3, 2015
Awesome new site. I enjoy your words and recipes and pictures immensely! Congratulations on your marriage!
Susan wrote on November 7, 2015
Thank you so much, Cathy! I am so glad you are enjoying everything! Cheers!
Susan wrote on November 2, 2015
You are awesome. I lived in Minnesota my whole life until 8 years ago, about the time I got serious about raw food. I’ve been vegetarian for 25 years. I now live in Scottsdale and can relate to having pots of herbs, gardens I don’t do so well with here. The ground is definitely not like Minnesota. Thank you for your beautiful recipes and photographs. I appreciate you immensely. 🙂
Susan wrote on November 2, 2015
Thank you so much, Susan! And you are right. The ground just isn’t the same, is it? I am so glad you like the site.
Janice strickland-rice wrote on November 2, 2015
Beautiful! I absolutely love your new site! The recipe section has definitely improved and so much easier to navigate.
Thank you!
Susan wrote on November 2, 2015
So glad you like it, Janice! I love the recipe section, too. I am so glad you find it easier to navigate. Cheers!
Staci Perry wrote on November 2, 2015
That’s neat that you play the harp! Your new site is gorgeous – your photography makes everything you do rawmazingly beautiful. I love the peace and happiness you have experienced in your life. xoxo from Minnesota ~ Staci @RandomSweets
Susan wrote on November 2, 2015
Thank you so much, Staci! I think of you often. I am surely missing Minnesota fall. Hope all is well with you! xo
Catherine Purple wrote on November 2, 2015
LOVE the makeover Susan. Very user friendly, informative, and pleasing to the eye. Congrats.
Susan wrote on November 2, 2015
Thank you, Catherine! So glad you like it! 🙂