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Sylvie Doré, left, and Keri Sheppeard peel ginger in the kitchen of NourishMe in Ketchum. Doré and Sheppeard say that when they make nourishing food for others, they take pleasure in how good it makes their customers feel.

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or millennia, women have shown their love for others through food. Whether making sure a healthy meal is on the table for a family every night or putting painstaking effort into a culinary masterpiece for a special occasion, women have used their role as a family’s nourisher in chief to provide both emotional and physical support to their families. But Wood River Valley women have taken this image to the next level, stepping out of their family kitchens and into the business realm, making livings from providing feel-good food for all the residents of the valley. From cake that proclaims to be better than, well, anything to sauerkraut sure to cure what ails you, these women have the goods—and they love to share them.

Sylvie Doré and Keri Sheppeard, NourishMe A majority of the floor space of NourishMe, a nutrition store in Ketchum, is dedicated to food— gluten-free products, raw-food energy bars, powders and supplements alongside local produce and ethically raised meat. Hidden at the back is a little spot known as Kiki’s Café, a place where women take all that raw material and turn it into nourishing soups, salads and sauerkraut. Sylvie Doré and Keri Sheppeard are two of the women behind NourishMe’s whole-food café. Doré and Sheppeard said they both started following a “traditional diet” when they were pregnant, eating mostly plants, nuts, seeds, legumes, raw dairy and fermented food such as kimchi and sauerkraut in an attempt to make their bodies as healthy as they could for their children. OOD CAN Both have continued the habits ever since, BE HEALING and now bring their OMETIMES skills and knowledge to FEEL LIKE NourishMe’s café. Doré said store owner M MAKING Julie Johnson does not MEDICINE require her employees to follow any particular Sylvie Doré diet, but that she exposNourishMe es them to certain principles—fewer processed foods, more plants and high-quality meat at least once a week. “Raw food vegan is great if you want to cleanse, if you’ve been consuming excessive meat or an excess of sugar,” Sheppeard said. “But you have to build your body, too.” Sheppeard said she started working at

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NourishMe after spending years farming in Baja California and in Hagerman. “This is where I could share all of the knowledge I had gained [farming],” she said. “I thought, ‘If I’m going to work, I’m going to do something I’m passionate about.’” Both of the women described themselves as “practicing home herbalists,” a practice that Doré said has much in common with feeding people. For example, she said, she likes to put herbs such as oregano and burdock root, which she says have healing properties, in the soups served at the café to give patrons a health boost along with lunch. “The more I learn about herbs and how healing they can be, I realize how the line between food and herbs is blurry,” she said. “Food can be healing. Sometimes, I feel like I’m making medicine.” See more FOOD, Page S8

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tions during examinations, rather than simply the pulse rate. “Chinese medicine is about restoring balance in the body, between yin and yang (male and female) and moist and dry. It’s all about achieving balances and finding patterns. If you come in with a headache, I might end up treating your digestive issues.” Scheingraber treats numerous ailments, from sciatica and menstrual and menopausal problems, to the aftereffects of chemotherapy. She concedes that the terminology in Chinese medicine is very different than what is used in Western medical practice; a headache with a sharp pain is said to be a “dry” symptom, whereas a dull pain is described as “damp.” She also allows that a patient’s belief system could play a strong role in healing. “But acupuncture also works very well on dogs and horses, and I don’t know if they believe in it or not,” she said. Mary Wheeler says atmosphere has something to do with See HEALERS, next page

orking alongside main- “I love to see people feel better. stream Western medi- I love to see people open up to a cal practitioners in the new way of healing themselves.” After receiving a master’s deWood River Valley are a number of women who offer gree from the Oregon College of what is described as alternative, Traditional Chinese Medicine and a biology degree from or complimentary, health care. These women often work Dartmouth, she traveled to Gui beyond the boundaries of con- Lin, China, to study at a hospital ventional medical practice, ad- that specializes in the acute care dressing emotional and spiritual of stroke victims. In keeping with the evolvconcerns as well as physical ailments. Their thriving practices ing 4,000-year-old tradition of are evidence of a local predisposition LOVE TO SEE PEOPLE to leave no stone unturned in the search FEEL BETTER LOVE TO for optimal health. SEE PEOPLE OPEN UP TO Joan Scheingraber A NEW WAY OF HEALING is a licensed acupuncturist working THEMSELVES at offices in Ketchum Joan Scheingraber and Hailey. An avid Acupuncturist athlete, she had to quit the track team in eighth grade after contracting tendonitis in both Chinese medicine, Scheingraber knees. Later she underwent uses needles and herbal remethree acupuncture treatments dies to move and unlock the flow in Breckenridge, Colo., and was of Qi (pronounced “chee”) energy within the body. She relies on able to run again. “From then on I knew that this tongue inspections, and tests the is what I wanted to do,” she said. “quality” of a pulse in many loca-

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Continued from previous page the healing quality of her office in Ketchum. The suite where she practices reflexology and craniosacral therapies is warmly lit and filled with exotic scents. A small fountain trickles in the corner. Feathers, diplomas and texts and drawings from Eastern medical traditions line the walls. “People go on journeys in here,” she said. “They also release emotional traumas from their bodies.” Wheeler became a certified reflexologist many years ago, learning to apply pressure to feet, hands and ears in order to effect healing in specific areas of the body. Wheeler also studied craniosacral therapy, the treatment of flows in cerebrospinal fluid with light touch and massage. Her practice deepened quickly in 2000 after an awakening in her own body of Kundalini energies, associated in yoga with nodes of energy that run up the spine. “Cranio-sacral work just started zooming for me after that,” she said. “It works to help people unwind the healing patterns in their bodies.”

“I THINK OF IT AS CLEARING OUT THE ‘NOT SELF’ SO MORE OF THE DIVINE PLAN CAN INHABIT OUR BODIES, ESPECIALLY IN THOSE PLACES WHERE WE ARE WOUNDED, SO THE INNER CRITIC CAN DISAPPEAR.” Mary Wheeler Cranio-sacral therapist

Wheeler treats people with chronic fatigue syndrome, migraines, depression and other illnesses by focusing her mind on the “fascia” or connecting tissues around the spine and brain, as well as other soft tissues in the body. “I help unwind healing patterns of the body,” Wheeler said. “I think of it as clearing out the ‘not self’ so more of the divine plan can inhabit our bodies, especially in those places where we

are wounded, so the inner critic can disappear.” Mary Kay Foley is a physical therapist who was coordinator of the St. Luke’s Wood River Integrative Therapies Program, which included yoga, acupuncture, guided imagery and healing touch. Foley is now the hospital's healing touch coordinator.

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“I’ve always had a pretty eclectic physical therapy practice,” Foley said. “We try to support the whole being—body, mind and soul, so they are in a better position to heal. “Bringing about the relaxation response is very helpful during healing from injury and illness because if you are feeling a lot of stress, your energy goes toward the stressors, rather than toward healing.” Healing touch is defined by the National Cancer Institute as “a form of complementary and alternative medicine based on the belief that vital energy flows through the human body. This energy is said to be balanced or made stronger by practitioners who pass their hands over, or gently touch, a patient’s body.” Foley said the practice “involves increasing sensitivity to subtle energies, things we are not aware of on a daily basis ordinarily, such as grounding and centering, breathing and becoming present with the patient.” “Belief plays a huge role in healing,” she said. “Just look at the placebo effect. But on the other hand, a lot of nonbelievers have become believers at St. Luke’s because healing touch has been so effective. Based on patient surveys, we have seen a 50 percent decrease in pain and 70 percent decrease in anxiety from healing touch.”

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“I end up most runs with my University of Utah; Michael, 25, hari Kunz is the kind of person you want to share arms up in celebration half the who is working with Americorps your innermost secrets time,” she says. “Once I came in New York City; and Laura, 19, across a beautiful valley at the is a student at the University of with. Not just because she’s bubbly end of a run and I just started Utah and readying for a Mormon and seems like the type that will twirling like I was in ‘The Sound mission to Spain. Kunz works part-time titter and commiserate, but also of Music.’ I see things on my because when she fixes her gaze, runs that I would never have with Kyle at their Sun Valley she listens intently. She offers ad- witnessed otherwise. It’s pretty Appraisal business, which also vice if it’s asked for, but most im- amazing in its simplicity. One serves as ground zero for whatportantly, she will just be there, foot in front of the other is all it ever her latest undertaking is. And there always is an underno matter what you disclose, takes to be life changing.” taking. When a meeting holding your intimacy sawas arranged with her a cred. Lifting the burden. HE FINISH LINE IS JUST week earlier, it was only It’s no wonder that she was able to draw a bead THE BEGINNING T S YOUR 8:15 a.m. and she had already run, done laundry, on what young women LIFE RUN WITH IT made dinner and was needed in this valley headed to her book club nearly 11 years ago when Shari Kunz for Christian women. she introduced Girls on Though her faith runs the Run. She’s a person who doesn’t say deep, it is her personal fuel, not And it’s that intuitive sense of connection that has driven her no lightly, so she gravitates to en- her pulpit. Honoring people for dedication to enhancing the life deavors that allow her to fuel her- who they are requires that leeof girls by providing them tools self while encouraging others. way. “We’re all trying to get to the to grow with and take with them Her runs are often long and not for record breaking. The stretch- same place and we all want to wherever they go in life. “Looking back, I don’t know es are mostly silent because she be good people who follow our how I did it,” she said as the news doesn’t like to interfere with the hearts and souls to whatever speak to us,” she said. “I truly bethat she’d earned the Woman of earth’s subtle messages. Running calms her, allowing lieve that it is in giving of yourthe Year title settled, with some only slightly feigned bewilder- her to be a sometimes reluctant self that you discover yourself.” Born in Chicago and raised ment. “I knew Girls on the Run witness to some of the stories and had the power to change lives. I tribulations that young women in Minnesota, Kunz is the oldwas so invested in making sure often impart. And she wouldn’t est of six in a family blended by circumstance and remarriage. the program was everything it have it any other way. For Kunz, hers is not simply a The Brigham Young University could be and having it become an integral part of our community life of service to community, but grad has a degree in recreational for girls and their families that I an extension of what she believes management. Though Kunz admits she has are her God-given, purposeful couldn’t not do it.” Kunz speaks as rapidly and gifts. She practices them from always been a doer, she said she nimbly as a hummingbird moves, home to church to field and any- hasn’t always seen herself as an implement for change. in and out of topics with a flurry where else she is called. Running became her mode of The 54-year-old shares a home that suggests an overactive mind in the Heatherlands with hus- expression when confronted with and too many duties. To put punctuation in her band Kyle. The two met as vaca- the illness of her brother, Paul, tion guides in the Tetons and who was diagnosed with lymphothoughts, Kunz runs. It’s while running that the married in 1981. They raised ma. She joined a team running clarity and inner direction come, three children, David, 27, who the Portland Marathon to raise and it’s something she requires is married, living in Salt Lake money to fight cancer in 2001. She was in it to win it—not like some require medication for City, and working on a master’s in nutritional science at the the same effect. See KUNZ, next page

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BEGAN RUNNING ON BEHALF OF HER BROTHER real measure of effort is does it take you somewhere you weren’t the race, but the fight for his life. before? Does it show you someShe finished, money was raised, thing you never saw, inside and treatments were delivered and outside of yourself? We don’t she was feeling a little less help- need to know each other’s story to less. Still, he died. know that something brought us “It was not supposed to hap- together and that there are things pen that way. That’s not what I we share in common. We just need had planned,” she to show up and put said. “But it was ourselves out there. E DON T a lesson in carry“And my best ing on when life NEED TO KNOW advice to anyone is, doesn’t go the way finish line is EACH OTHER S ‘The you planned it.” just the beginning. STORY TO When she read It’s your life, run about Girls on the with it.’” KNOW THAT Run in a magaGoing through SOMETHING zine, she thought the process of grief about the power BROUGHT US and the challenge of the activity in TOGETHER AND of helping others, her own life. Girls Kunz said, she acTHAT THERE cidentally found on the Run is a national organizaconfidence. ARE THINGS tion that helps ele“I wanted to WE SHARE IN know mentary-age girls how to show COMMON learn self-esteem these girls how to and confidence celebrate who they Shari Kunz through running are, but I needed and other physical to know who I activity. The girls was. I hadn’t ever really slowed meet twice a week with volunteer down to think about it,” she said. coaches and do service projects, “Ultimately, this enabled me to do self-esteem exercises and, of see something I wanted to become course, run. and to become someone I always At the end of the season, the wanted to become.” girls can walk, skip or dance Believing in oneself can transtheir way through a 5k with late to a lifesaving tool when many of Kunz’s trainees and young women are confronted mentees around them providing with peer pressure and selfhigh-fives and goofiness. doubt. Kunz said being silly is essen“If they can cast back in their tial to being true to ourselves— minds and know who they are in we’re born loving ourselves and their hearts, they will have the bursting into random acts for no courage to speak up in a situareason grander than because it's tion that compromises them or fun. She believes mirth shouldn’t speak up for someone else—it be put away as we grow. It should only takes one.” be leaned on to help us cope with Kunz served as the Girls life’s challenges. branch’s executive director from “I am so against labels,” she 2002 to 2007, then on the board of said. “Labels are limiting. The directors from 2007 to 2009. She remains on the advisory council and is returning as a coach this season, an opportunity she revels in because it gets her out of the management of it and into the heart of it. She is quick to show her gratitude for, rather than take the accolade of, founding the program, giving credit to outside forces, her family and her faith. “I proved that anything is possible as long as you believe in what you’re doing and follow your heart,” she said. “The program’s success and influence continually reminds me that when something is meant to be, we can make it happen through Keeping mum: Kunz respects the trust she trust, focus, hard work and is given and is loyal to discretion. Even her great people.” Continued from previous page

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During a sunset run in 1993, after years of questioning her self-worth and being defined by others, Molly Barker found the inspiration that grew into Girls on the Run. Seeking a way to help girls recognize their extraordinary potential and thrive in a world that often sends them unhealthy and unrealistic messages, she began creating a solution. In 1996, Molly piloted the earliest version of a lesson-based curriculum with 13 brave girls in Charlotte, N.C. The girls told their friends and those friends told more friends, and in 2000, Girls on the Run became a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization. Today, the organization serves girls in over 200 cities across the United States and Canada. While Girls on the Run has evolved from a grassroots concept to an international organization, the heart of the program is the same: inspiring girls to celebrate their unique identities, recognize their inner strength, understand the power they have to make individual decisions and value their connectedness with others. Taken from www.girlsontherun.org

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Continued from Page S2 And that medicine really helps people, said Sheppeard, who added that her work is most rewarding when she sees how people physically feel better when they eat her food. Sheppeard said one of her customers had been suffering digestive ailments for decades before she came to NourishMe and started eating fermented foods. Now, Sheppeard said, the woman is no longer suffering, and she’s only one of many customers who have seen benefits. “They can feel it in their bodies,” she said. “You can see it on their faces. The No. 1 comment we get when people eat our soup is, ‘Oh, this feels so good!’”

Mary Jones, The Chocolate Moose Mary Jones of The Chocolate Moose is also dedicated to making people feel good—really good—through the cakes and baked goods that she sells wholesale around the valley, including her famous “Better-ThanSex” cake, which is so good she’s copyrighted the name. “I’ve been making that cake for 29 years,” she said with a laugh. “I tell people all the time, you can say you made it yourself, but good luck with that. It’s a really good chocolate cake.” Jones said she developed the recipe, a modified version of a standard chocolate cake, while running The Chocolate Moose restaurant at Warm Springs. “When I had my restaurant and it was slow, I would make stuff up,” she said. “I wanted a signature chocolate cake. The hardest thing for me was to come up with the name.” She came up with a name that had shock value but prompted skepticism from those who doubted that a cake could ever be better than intercourse.

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“My litany is, it’s better than bad sex,” she said with a laugh. Jones started her career in chocolate at The Saturn Café in Santa Cruz, Calif., where she perfected a dish known as “Chocolate Madness”—two large brownies, two scoops of chocolate ice cream, hot fudge and chocolate mousse with whipped cream and chocolate chips. Later, she sold baked goods to Neiman Marcus and developed a line of edible clothing, toys and puzzles. More recently, she created the entire Sun Valley Village out of gingerbread for the centerpiece of Sun Valley Co.’s Winter Wonderland Festival. “I love doing that kind of thing!” she said. “I would do it full time if there was money in it.” She said her main goal is to provide very high quality baked goods—so many readily available cakes and cookies are mediocre, she said. In contrast, Jones once caught a customer licking the plate after devouring a slice

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Mary Jones, owner of The Chocolate Moose, finishes up a batch of cookies for a store in Ketchum on Wednesday. Jones said she loves making luxurious baked goods, though she enjoys not having to manage a retail store.

of “Better-Than-Sex” cake. “If you’re going to eat a baked product, it had better be good,” she said. “I would rather spend a little bit more and have it taste fantastic.”

Heather Uptmor, private chef Heather Uptmor started her food career as a windsurferwaitress before a boyfriend convinced her to move to Sun Valley in 1995. After stints at Java on Fourth and Michel’s Christiania in Ketchum, she settled into catering and is now the personal chef and caretaker for the Baskin family ranch west of Ketchum. “I live in an apron!” she said with a laugh, explaining that she was making chili while speaking with the reporter on the phone. “I have always had a passion for food, and I can say I’m a foodaholic. I’m cooking all of the time, every day.” Uptmor said her passion for food first came to the forefront when she was about 8. Instead of grabbing a simple snack after school, she said she would cut out elaborate pieces of canned peaches and serve them with cottage cheese, presenting the carefully crafted plates to her family. “They thought I was crazy,” she said. Uptmor said she takes after her grandmother, who was from the South. Uptmor’s own cooking shows some of that influence, and she said she loves getting back to old-fashioned meals, ribs, barbecue and cornbread— “all those wonderful comfort foods.” Much of the food she cooks is local, either grown elsewhere in Idaho or in her own garden and greenhouses. “In the summer I grow all of my fresh lettuces and vegetables and flowers and everything—so long as I can keep the deer out!” she said. “I really love to cook what is local, what is regional. I have a friend who brings all of these exotic fish in from Hawaii, and you know what? I don’t even touch that. I prefer to cook what is grown and caught here.” Being a personal chef also allows her to cook to her clients’ tastes, she said, and to feel like she is almost part of the family. “Not only do you get to put a lot of love and flair into that meal, but you also get to serve it

to some wonderful people,” she said. “They get to sit down at a table and have dinner as a family. I love being a personal chef.”

Amanda Koonce, The Hunger Coalition Amanda Koonce doesn’t live in Blaine County, but she still helps feed the residents of this valley on a daily basis. Born and raised in Fairfield, where she now lives with her three children, Koonce said she joined The Hunger Coalition last April as a food bank supervisor with the thought that she could bring thinking she could bring her newfound knowledge to Camas County.

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“I have been a single mother,” she said, “I have been someone who has had to use a food bank before. Being in the position where I can turn around and help someone else…it’s hard to say how it feels.” Even though Koonce is in charge of ordering, sorting and distributing food in Hailey, Ketchum and Bellevue, she said that she feels her job is about more than food—it’s empowering people who feel hopeless and defeated. “[Food] is a stepping stone,” she said. “Food is almost a material thing compared to the mental and emotional disabilities [lack of] it can cause. If you are hungry and you’re stressed, the amount of stress can bring a personal down emotionally and mentally.” Koonce said the most rewarding part of her job is seeing how people who have come to The Hunger Coalition for help can come away feeling confident, not judged or defeated. “There’s a success story every day that walks through the door,” she said. “It’s not just about food. It’s about helping people.” Kate Wutz: kwutz@mtexpress.com

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