Sherra Aguirre
Sherra Aguirre is the author of Joyful, Delicious, Vegan: Life Without Heart Disease. She founded and led a successful business for three decades, winning national awards for entrepreneurship, innovation, and service excellence. She sold the company in 2016 to focus on her passion for healthy diet and lifestyle. Now in her seventies, Aguirre describes herself as high energy, in better overall health, and in many ways more fit than in her thirties or forties. She has practiced meditation and yoga daily for more than twenty-five years, and for many years has researched and read extensively about diet and lifestyle as the most important factors for achieving and maintaining good health. By adopting a whole plant-based diet, she improved overall heart health and eliminated symptoms of hypertension despite a significant family history of heart attack, stroke, and high blood pressure. She is passionate about empowering others to maintain vibrancy and good health throughout their lifetimes.
As a health enthusiast, environmentalist, and food justice advocate, Aguirre writes about the healing qualities of compassion, simplicity and gratitude. She draws attention to the ripple effect vegan eating can have on individuals, families, and communities. Sherra is married with two daughters―Tembi Locke, actor, speaker, screenwriter, and New York Times best-selling author; and Attica Locke, multiple award-winning novelist, New York Times best-selling author and screen writer/producer.
In today’s episode, Sherra shares the inspiration behind her new book, and how her personal struggle with Heart Disease and Hypertension, also known as the silent killer, and how through adopting a whole plant-based diet, she improved her overall health. Her family experienced tremendous loss, and Sherra knew she couldn’t live in denial of her own symptoms any longer. Sherra mourned the day she first filled the prescription, but after taking the medication for a week she started to feel lightheaded. She realized she needed to work with her body to make improvements to her health and wellness, and she turned to a plant-based diet. Listening to her body has guided Sherra along her journey, and it’s allowed her to step into greater gratitude, joy, and wellness. Her joy is magnified by the knowledge that something so loving for her body is also healing for all plant and animal life on Earth.
“I’m so grateful now to love food that actually loves me back. Listening to my body has guided me along the journey from the ups and downs of prescription drugs and their negative side effects, to feeding myself healing foods and seeing positive side effects.”
Tune in on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/7bZHrtjAzbksbLWNaak1NM
Tune in on Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/stories-of-inspiring-joy/id1510488632
To learn more and connect with Sherra visit her website https://sherraaguirre.com and on Facebook @AuthorSherraAguirre Twitter @SherraAguirre Instagram @SherraAguirre and you can find her new book here
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