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Shazzie is the UK's most prolific and popular raw food writer, speaker and chef. She's written three books, published over 300 raw food recipes and is the Managing Director of Rawcreation Ltd. As well as being full-time mother to her raw toddler Evie, she regularly hosts raw food events. "I'm holding the vision of The Heart Centre strongly inside me, manifesting it into physical reality more each day. With this much love projected towards it, I know it will become a magical place that will inspire and elevate everyone who visits it." -- Shazzie, founder of The Heart Centre

Shazzie's vision in her own words

You know when you grow up thinking you're so different that you'll never fit in? You try and try, but a *normal* life doesn't suit you. No matter how many times you try, you can't hold down that job, that house, that partner, those friends, that normalness.

Well, that was me. I really really wanted to be normal, because I didn't know I could be anything other than that. My experience in that department was limited to a few books I'd read and the odd TV documentary. When seeing these people who weren't normal, I got such a pang in my heart for that kind of life.

Yet, I didn't know where these people were. They were somewhere else, and I was stuck in a whirling sea of repetition as I missed the point of my life lessons over and over.

I longed to live in a community since I was 16, yet I also wanted to be normal, and I was so creative I couldn't imagine living in a place that had been created under someone else's direction! There was an internal fight inside me. Over the years, I dreamed about creating something amazing, something that would change the lives of everyone that passes through. I had a glimpse of it when I lived in Spain, where a bunch of us were going to buy land next to each other and create farms abundant with fruit and vegetables. Yet it wasn't the right time for me.

I had to have another attempt at being normal, just to repeat my patterns one last time. After that, I finally got it. I just had to attract it, and it would come. And I didn't have to be specific because I didn't know exactly what I wanted then. I just had to ask for the perfect life for me -- and it was done.

This is where I'm at now. I'm setting up the charity, working with my accountant, working out who I want to live and work at The Heart Centre, and feeling my way into the biggest, most thrilling part of my life ever. This is the next expression of my life, and I'm embracing it fully.

I hope you'll come along for the ride, to visit, to take part, to inspire and to be inspired, and to feel the love of The Heart Centre.

With love

Shazzie