Welcome! I’m Christina Marche

I’m really glad you found your way here.

Salt & Well grew out of a lifetime in the kitchen and a long, complicated relationship with my own wellness. I’ve always believed food matters deeply, not just as nourishment, but as ritual, comfort, creativity, and connection. I’m someone who still gets excited about dinner, even after years of navigating elimination protocols like AIP, Paleo, and Whole30.

What you’ll find at Salt & Well

For a long time, I believed that if I could just eat “right,” everything else would fall into place. After decades of living with autoimmune conditions, I realized our bodies carry more than what we eat. They carry what we suppress, what we adapt to, and what we move through without ever fully acknowledging.

For me, meaningful change began when I stopped treating food as the sole answer to my wellness and started listening more closely to the emotional and energetic signals my body was offering.

Salt & Well lives at the intersection of nourishment and awareness. I’ve created this space for people who are ready to honor the power of ingredients, while also tending to what beneath the surface has shaped how they feel and function. This is about reclaiming space for yourself — your clarity, your voice, and your life.

A place for anti-inflammatory recipes alongside intuitive, grounded practices meant to support food clarity and energetic balance together.

A New way TO listen

Find your inner compass

Even when you’re following a food framework or elimination protocol carefully, questions still come up. This food is allowed, but does it actually work for me? Or maybe it’s recipe fatigue, reintroduction curiosity, or simply trying to sense whether something feels supportive today.

Your body already knows. This free three-part series introduces a simple way to decode those answers into clear, observable physical signals you can lean on when making everyday decisions, starting with food.

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A few questions, answered

I was first diagnosed with psoriasis in my twenties, followed by psoriatic arthritis, thyroid concerns, and later inflammatory eye conditions that threatened my vision. Over time, my comfort and mobility became dependent on layered therapies and biologics, and I found myself constantly paying attention to how my body was responding, not just to medication, but to food, stress, and daily life.

Living with chronic inflammation taught me early that wellness is not abstract. It’s something you negotiate in real time, day by day, and it’s deeply personal. It’s also rarely linear.

Like many people navigating autoimmune illness, I explored allergy tests, food sensitivity tests, and a wide range of elimination approaches: dairy-free, gluten-free, egg-free and beyond. Each revealed something, but none offered the whole picture on its own.

Eventually, I began the Autoimmune Protocol, knowing that for me, there might not be another way to clearly sort out what was happening in my body. And I was surprised by how much better I felt in a relatively short time. My most stubborn inflammation symptoms eased and my energy returned.

That experience is why I respect structured protocols deeply. They are powerful tools. But they are not the end of my story.

As I began to release physical inflammation, I also felt called to look inward. I had long sensed that my body was expressing more than just food reactions, and that it was also carrying unprocessed experiences, dissatisfaction, and suppressed frustration.

I began focusing more intentionally on inner practices, including meditation and intuitive listening, as a way of hearing what my body was trying to communicate beyond symptoms. Over time, I confronted unresolved situations in my life and needs that had gone unmet for years.

Through practices like the Emotion Code, Reiki, Pranic Healing, hypnosis and Akashic work, I began to gently unearth and release layers of suppressed emotion and experience, and slowly, to find my voice again. This is work I believe is deeply important and quietly universal, which is why Salt & Well includes tools for both nourishment and inner clarity.

I’ve considered myself a creator-of-many-things for as long as I can remember. I’m a writer, photographer, and recipe developer. These are things I do for work, and also simply because I love them.

Creative expression has been a guiding throughline in my life. When someone asks me what I do, these are the things that leap from my heart. Channeling all of those loves into Salt & Well to create a place for beautiful photography, stories, mouth-watering recipes — and most of all, community and fellowship — feels like the natural culmination of a lifetime of making.

I’m an East Coast girl through and through. Born and raised along the Connecticut shoreline, I have salt water in my veins and a deep love for the coast. There’s something about the rhythm of the tides and the pull of the ocean that feels necessary and grounding to me.

I’ve since migrated south to Florida — Northeast Florida specifically — where I now live with my husband. I’m continually in awe of the natural beauty of this barrier island, the year-round farmers markets bursting with fresh produce, and the quiet charm of downtown streets lined with grand Live Oaks and Spanish moss.

I’m grateful for the subtle magic I feel here, and for the Southern hospitality that has welcomed us home.

I’m not a doctor or a nutritionist, and Salt & Well is not a medical or mental health platform. I’m a long-time recipe developer, food writer, and intuitive explorer who has spent decades working with food, elimination diets, and the lived experience of autoimmune illness. What I share here comes from years in the kitchen, years of listening to my body, and learning what no set of rules alone could teach me. My work is grounded in real practice, real experimentation, and deep respect for both structure and intuition. I share what has supported me in the hope that others might find something here that goes beyond what’s offered everywhere else.