Beetroot & Feta Salad

Written By hollie wildëthorn

Ingredients

1 medium beetroot

50g baby spinach

1/2 small red onion, thinly sliced

75g feta, crumbled

1/4 cup walnuts, chopped, lightly toasted

2 tbsp orange juice

1 tbsp olive oil

1/2 tsp dijon mustard

Method

Step 1

Preheat oven to 180°C/160°C fan-forced. Wash beetroot. Pat dry. Wrap in foil. Place on a baking tray. Roast for 1 hour or until tender. Cool for 15minutes.

Meanwhile prepare remaining ingredients. Wearing gloves, peel and discard skin from beetroot. Cut beetroot into 2cm pieces.

Step 2

Place spinach, onion, feta, walnuts and beetroot in a bowl. Toss to combine.

Step 3

Place orange juice, oil and mustard in a screw-top jar. Season with salt and pepper. Secure lid. Shake to combine. Add to beetroot mixture. Toss to combine. Serve

hollie wildëthorn

hollie wildëthorn is a psychotherapist, clinical counsellor, and educator working with trauma, embodiment, rhythm and relational ways of living and healing. This work sits at the intersections of depth psychology, nervous system awareness, land-based wisdom and cyclical models of change, supporting people to reconnect with inner authority, embodied knowing and meaningful rhythm in their lives.

hollie is particularly interested in work that honours complexity rather than quick solutions, and that recognises how trauma, culture, history and place shape the ways we think, feel and relate. the institute for self crafting approach is non-pathologising, non-linear and grounded in the understanding that healing and becoming are processes of relationship rather than correction.

hollie lives and works on Walbunja Yuin Country in regional NSW. Her teaching and practice are informed by land, season and the acknowledgement that the language and systems she works within are inherited rather than neutral. Attending to power, context and humility is an ongoing part of practice.

in 2026, hollie chose to write her name in lowercase as a conscious language practice, reflecting an intention to soften hierarchy, refuse monument-building and speak with greater care within an inherited, colonised tongue.

https://instituteforselfcrafting.com
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