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Where Do I Start?
If you’re a regular reader of this blog, or are a subscriber to my ezine, it’s quite likely that you’re an advancing person. That is, you’re always moving towards ‘more life’ in everything you do.
You want to live the richest, fullest, happiest, most deeply satisfying life you can imagine.
You have beautiful, life-expanding dreams for yourself, and you want those dreams to come true.
But it’s also possible that you’re feeling SO overwhelmed by everything that you want to do. In fact, you’re not even sure where to start… so you don’t. (Start, that is.)
So, would you like a little coaching advice about where to start?
Well, my first piece of advice is to listen to your intuition. Give yourself a good half-hour to clear your mind, and then sit and think, and FEEL. Consider your preferences and then listen to what your ‘gut’ tells you. Having a pencil and large notepad with you is a very good idea.
But if you’re overworked, stressed, tired and foggy headed (or feel as though you’re going around the bend from ‘overthinking’), it could be that even doing the above seems too difficult.
In which case, I’d recommend carving out some PROPER time in your diary – like a whole day, at the least – to devote fully to getting crystal clear on what you want, to brainstorm ideas, to prioritise, and to create an action plan.
You can do this yourself, but doing it with the help of a trusted friend or a coach can give you much-needed perspective and encouragement. I’ll soon be making myself available for VIP Days, where I’ll help you get clear on what it is that you really want, start eliminating limiting beliefs, and create a very do-able, exciting action plan to start bringing those dreams of yours into the real world.
(To be one of the first to know about these amazing VIP Days, head here and leave your details. And, listen – I know goal-setting can be a big turn-off for some people because the process can feel forced and very ‘masculine’, but in our day together it’s all about YOU and what YOU want out of life, not what society or your peers or family say you should want. You’ll have time to think, and breeeaaathe, and dream, and create a plan that’s perfect for you…)
Then, you can start going through a conscious creation process, starting with visualisation – if you’d love help with this, check out the beautiful Your House of Abundance process.
However, if you’re feeling too exhausted (and perhaps even sick) to contemplate lofty or even not-so-lofty dreams, then I advise that your first focus be your health.
Fabulous health is at the core of a great life. It underpins everything. And we often don’t realise how valuable our health is until we become unwell or injured.
So if that’s you – make your health an absolute priority. You’ll then be able to think clearly, and will have the energy to take action on your other dreams.
By the way, sometimes people get ‘put off’ the idea of becoming healthier, because they think it takes a lot of money to do so. If you’re switching from eating cheap processed food to buying organic fruits and veggies, and supplements, then, yes, it can cost a bit more than you’re now paying for food. And if you join a gym then there are fees, and personal health coaching can be a substantial investment.
But if money is tight for you right now, and you know getting healthy is a top priority so that you can start heading for your dreams, you can make free or low-cost health changes now.
These include:
- going for walks (even if just around your back garden, or briskly around your house);
- planting a few organic vegetable seeds;
- purchasing (and using!) a book such as Raw Foods on a Budget;
- generally cutting back on unhealthy foods (even if they’re cheap); and
- asking an ‘advancing’ friend to be your ‘accountability buddy’ when it comes to simple health goals you set for yourself.
Once your health starts to improve, you’ll have more energy to create the money you want, which means you can then invest more in organics and superfoods, personal trainers or coaches, if that feels right for you.
So you now have some guidance as to ‘where to start’. But you know deep in your soul what’s needed. I just hope my advice has helped clear some of the fog, and has helped put you on the road towards creating and living a life you truly, truly love.
10 Easy Ways to Make Green Foods Part of Your Everyday Diet – and Love Them!
Eating living (raw) foods and having supreme health is a sure-fire way of raising your vibration, so I’m all for it! But I know it ain’t always easy to find ideas for healthy eating that are interesting – and that taste good.
Now, every week, I receive an inspirational ezine from the UK”s Karen Knowler, who’s known as The Raw Food Coach. In last week’s edition of her ezine, Karen featured a superb article that reveals just how easy it is to add more life-giving leafy greens to your everyday eating. I asked Karen if I could share this article with you, because I just know you’re going to find it so helpful.
So, you don’t have any more excuses for not including more greens in what you eat. Go forth and be healthy!
Here’s the article (and be sure to sign up for Karen’s fabulous ezine!):
‘It’s rare that you come across someone who LOVES eating green foods, but that doesn’t have to be the case for any of us. Not only can green foods be delicious, they can make us feel fantastic, helping to cleanse and rebuild even the most jaded of bodies and spirits.
When I first got into raw foods I admit I was one of those raw fooders who relied heavily on fresh juicy fruits, dried fruits and nuts, and most days I’d eat a salad, but it wasn’t what I’d now call a ‘decent’ salad. And that’s because I’ve since learned that it’s nowhere near enough to have some green on your plate and think that’s sufficient, because it’s not! We need dark greens, ideally wild greens, and plenty of them. A plate of iceberg lettuce simply won’t make the grade.
So in this article I’m sharing with you 10 different ideas to get greens into your daily diet and love them, because not only is it possible, it’s vital!
1: The Green Smoothie
Through various mediums I’ve shared what I consider to be the easiest/most yummy green smoothie recipe – Mango & Spinach, so hopefully you’re up to speed with what they are? (Brief explanation: A large amount of leafy green vegetables blended with some great-tasting ripe fruit of your choice to a soup or smoothie consistency.) So how do we incorporate them into our diet? Good times of the day for drinking a green smoothie are: first thing for breakfast (start as you mean to go on – if you start your day with this you’ll feel set up for the day ahead and plenty full enough until lunch time); as a brunch if you get hungry between breakfast and lunch time; as a liquid lunch if you are pressed for time; as a pre-dinner course, perfect served as a drink or even a soup; as a supper if you’re not hungry enough to eat a ‘proper’ dinner, or if you’ve come in late from work or a night out and don’t want to eat before bed.
2: Variety is the Spice of Life
We are all guilty of falling into ruts with our eating habits, eating the same things over and over again, but it’s important in all diets to eat a wide variety of foods for pleasure and nutrition. So too is it important to choose a wide variety of greens from the vast range of green leafy vegetables (and herbs) and not just finding one and sticking with it. Here’s a starter list of green leafies that you can use as a checklist. Whichever ones you haven’t eaten for a while (or ever!) make it your personal project to hunt them down and try them out – starting this week!
Beet greens * Chicory * Chard * Endive * Kale, flat green * Kale, curly * Lamb’s lettuce * Lettuce, Batavia * Lettuce, Cos * Lettuce, flat * Lettuce, iceberg * Mizuna * Rocket (arugula) * Spinach * Turnip greens * Basil * Chervil * Chickweed * Chive * Comfrey leaves * Coriander * Dandelion * Dillweed * Garlic mustard * Lovage * Mallow * Marjoram * Mint * Nettle * Oregano * Parsley * Peppermint * Purslane * Raspberry leaf * Rosemary * Sage * Salad burnet * Shepherd’s purse * Sorrel * Spearmint * Watercress * Wild celery * Wild garlic * Yarrow
3: Green Soups
Green Soups are similar to green smoothies but are thicker, and obviously are looked on as meals rather than drinks. There are some great green soup recipes around. One of my personal favourites is Green Ginger Soup which goes like this… Simply take the following ingredients and blend in your food processor, blender or Vita-Mix until smooth: 1 cup diced tomatoes, ½ cup water, 2 cups spinach, ½ avocado, ½-inch fresh ginger, juice of ½ lemon, 1Tbsp olive oil. Serves 1. It’s truly delicious.
4: Take a Walk on the Wild Side
It’s rarely mentioned but I need to here – it’s vital for all of us to eat wild greens. These greens are (for the most part) as natural and potent as you’re going to get because they’re (typically) untouched by man and have not been treated in any way. So arm yourself with a guide book such as Food for Free and a carrier bag (and gloves if you’re going to pick nettles) and take yourself off for a walk to your nearest wood, farm or leafy park and see what you can find. Of course the great thing about this route is that the food is free, abundant and it’s going to be fresh, fresh, fresh! AND you really feel the difference when you eat wild foods – they’re electric! Great in juices, smoothies, various savoury recipes and of course any salads too.
5: Green Juices
Green juices are of course another great way to get the greens in. The difference between smoothies and juices is fibre – juices have no fibre, whereas smoothies have ALL of the fibre, however, if you find smoothies too bulky or you just don’t like them, then juicing is a great alternative. The secret of a good green juice is to work with 1–3 strong green leaves such as kale, spinach, watercress, parley, wheatgrass etc, then add cucumber and/or celery for more liquid and extra vitamins and minerals, and if you feel your juice needs sweetening, add a little apple, pear, carrot, red bell pepper, lemon or lime. There’s nothing like a green juice for lifting your energy and mind, especially first thing in the morning. Don’t forget, to juice greens you need a juicer that is capable of handling them, such as a Green Star – most centrifugals won’t be able to handle them.
6: Herbs
Herbs are nature’s medicine and also one of the chef’s best allies. Herbs are so delicious and so fresh tasting that I encourage you to eat fresh herbs at least once per day. Add them to your smoothies, juices, to your salads and your savoury recipes. Line your window sills with them, they look stunning! Fresh herbs really do make all the difference.
7: Wheatgrass
Wheatgrass is the mother of all greens, really. There are many ways you can take wheatgrass, but obviously freshly juiced is best. For more information about wheatgrass, including the many ways to take it and its benefits, click here.
8: The Kale & Avocado Salad!
I’ve published this recipe a number of times but for those who missed it, you can watch me demo it in person right here. This salad is something that I rave about constantly. Everyone who tries it seems to adore it AND then goes on to incorporate it into their everyday life, not just now and again but daily! Why? Because it’s quick, easy and delicious and very versatile AND it enables you to happily eat tons of dark leafy greens! This is what you do:
Finely chop as much kale as you think you can eat plus a little more (it shrinks). Make the pieces fairly small, say 1–2cm square, and set aside in a bowl. Then pour on some olive oil (flax oil is good too, as are others) and sprinkle on a little good quality salt such as Celtic sea salt or Himalayan Crystal Salt, or Herbamare. Next, massage the oil and salt into the leaves until the kale becomes ‘wilted’ and glistens. At this point the kale suddenly appears extremely appetizing and you can start to see the potential! Next add half to one avocado and massage that in to the leaves as well. Now you have coated kale. Next, give a good squeeze of lemon juice and mix it all in by hand. Taste test. Add more lemon if you want/need to. Finally, add in your favourite ingredients. For me this means sundried tomatoes, fresh tomatoes, occasionally spring onions (scallions), and sometimes I’ll sprinkle on some garlic or onion powder, or even curry powder! Whatever takes your fancy. And sometimes I dress it with a cup of macadamias blended with ½ cup water and onion powder added. When you have all your ingredients well mixed in, sample a little and add anything that you think might be missing (highly unlikely!) and then sit down, exhale and enjoy!
9: The Superfood Smoothie
Superfood smoothies are never going to be as good as real live fresh green smoothies, but when your fridge is bare then turn to your cupboards and pull out your Nature’s Living Superfood (Vita Mineral Greens in USA) or other favourite green superfood powder and whip up a smoothie with it and other chosen ingredients.
10: Your Own Special Way
Each of us develops favourite ways of doing things over time. Periodically, for example, I will take E3 Live or wheatgrass juice, and then ‘let go of it’ when my body no longer asks for it. Similarly, green superfoods work the same way, as do herbs and all manner of other raw foods in my dietary vocabulary. Follow your own way with greens, whatever that way is, adding more into your daily regime can only be a very good thing!’
© 2012 Karen Knowler
Karen Knowler, The Raw Food Coach publishes “Successfully Raw” – a free weekly ezine for raw food lovers everywhere. If you’re ready to look good, feel great and create a raw life you love get your FREE tips, tools and recipes now at The Raw Food Coach.
Something to Love – Raw Buckinis!
I used to love eating cereal out of a cup.
There, I said it. I confess.
But since pretty much moving away from consuming grains and cow’s milk, I don’t often get the chance to re-live that naughty little snack, unless I purchase a raw muesli (a ‘grawnola’) and have it with nut-milk.
When I was at the health-food store this week I noticed this new product from one of my favourite companies (Loving Earth).
It’s a bag of ’organic activated buckinis’, and I nabbed myself the ‘deluxe’ version.
Let me just reveal the ingredient rundown:
- caramelised buckwheat (agave syrup, mesquite powder, cinnamon, maca powder, Himalayan crystal salt)
- sour cherries
- goji berries
- white mulberries
- cacao nibs
- caramelised pecans
- coconut chips
- Incan berries
Is your mouth watering? Oh, and by the way, buckwheat isn’t actually a type of wheat, and it’s not a grain, either. It’s a type of fruit, and it’s super good for you.
Just before I had my first taste of this, I listened to a WISH Summit call with the beautiful, wise Shakaya Leone of Earth Empress, who reminded us of how wonderful it is to SLOW DOWN and absolutely savour, treasure, each mouthful of food we take.
So I tipped the buckini mix into a small bowl, and doused it with fresh almond milk. And you really don’t need much of a decadent little treat like this – the bowl in the earlier pic is very small (that’s a teaspoon resting in it).
From the very first mouthful, I made sure I savoured the sublime flavours (including the dense, rich flavour of the tiny cacao nibs) and textures (crunchy and chewy), and appreciated just what a luxury it is. Oh my goodness, it was good. Very, very good.
And we all know what feeling very, very good does for one’s vibration, don’t we?!
Do you have ‘something to love’? A little treat that you look forward to every day? (And hey, if it’s a healthy treat, all the better!)
I’d love to hear what it is that you love to treat yourself with. Just leave a comment below.
PS If you live in Australia, I’d recommend trying a Loving Earth product as one of your treats – they’re mostly organic, and taste fabulous.
From Earth & Water
In case you don’t know me by now, I love eating (and drinking) raw food. Doing so is a SUPERB way to feel great and keep your vibration high. Oh, and it tastes fantastic.
So any time I find an opportunity to visit a raw-food restaurant – meaning that I don’t have to prepare the food! – I take it.
While on vacation on Queensland’s Gold Coast recently, I visited a fantastic raw-food restaurant called From Earth & Water.
It was recommended to me by my super tech dude, Jimmy Gilker. Last year, Jimmy had been living in northern New South Wales and had driven up to this Queensland restaurant a few times. He raved about it. He was right to rave.
I headed there one hot, sunshiney day with my dear friend Tracey. That’s Tracey in the pic above, enjoying the refreshing green juice that featured pineapple juice and a dash of spirulina. SO good. We also ordered a mango, banana and coconut-water smoothie… so thick and creamy, and full of smooth flavour.
We then shared this gorgeous main meal – it’s a Summer Vegetable stack with ‘almond herb crisps layered between sundried tomato cheese, caramelised shallots, broad beans and zucchini wedges served with salsa puttanesca, basil aioli and organic leaves’. My goodness. My mouth is watering just looking at this photo, remembering the intense, rich flavours and satisfying textures.
I have a heap of almond meal in the freezer (left over from batches of nut milk), so I plan on having a go at making dehydrated ‘almond herb crisps’ myself! If they work out, I’ll feature them in an upcoming edition of my ezine (if you’re not already a subscriber, just leave your deets in the box on the top right of this page).
And, my friends, for the magnificent ending to our meal – a generous slice of Chocolate Mousse Cheesecake. I mean, look at it! Chocolatey, silky, rich… heavenly. And without all the dairy, wheat and refined sugar that features in traditional cooked cheesecakes.
I think people sometimes don’t realise that raw food can be just as rich and flavoursome as cooked foods – and it’s usually a LOT healthier. I wouldn’t go crazy overindulging in raw cheesecakes, but trying nut-based cheeses and sumptuous juice combinations is something we can all add to our everyday menus. Along with plenty of green leaves, of course!
If you’re ever on Queensland’s Gold Coast, I would HIGHLY recommend taking yourself to From Earth & Water. Its opening hours are limited, so check out the website for details.
PS I was also very impressed with how the chef worked in the very limited space he had available. Everything was so neat and clean and orderly – it inspired me to get my raw kitchen working more smoothly!
An Abundant Garden
My parents-in-law are pretty amazing gardeners. Everything they grow seems to flourish.
On our recent stay with them in my old hometown in Queensland, I got to see how ‘my lime tree’ was doing – when my husband and I moved down to Victoria about 15 years ago, I left my potted lime tree with my parents-in-law to look after. They planted it in the ground, and it now produces so many limes that they end up giving away bags full to friends.
Although lime season was nearly over, they’d left one ripe lime on the tree for me to pick. That’s it in the photo above. Isn’t it a beauty? I enjoyed the juice from that in my morning glasses of water.
I also admire how resourceful and thrifty my in-laws are in the garden. My father-in-law created the below lettuce planter out of an old upturned refrigerator, painting it green and adding bits of flexible plastic across the top to serve as holders for protective mesh (for when those snails and birds come a-hunting!). Clever, huh?
Behind the lettuce planter are tomato, beetroot and butter bean plants. As usual, they end up with huge gluts of vegies, and give many of those away, too! And of course, they use home-made compost as fertiliser.
One of their neighbours recently found an unopened packet of Yates tomato seeds in his old garden shed, and the date on the packet was from 1940! He decided to try planting the seeds, and they germinated, creating masses of tomatoes with a slightly different flavour to those you buy in the stores these days.
While we were there, my father-in-law planted eight seeds from one of those heirloom tomatoes, and they all germinated. They’ve since given us some seeds, so we’re going to try them in our garden next summer. I can’t wait.
I just love how abundant nature is – and how we can have bucketloads of fresh, organic fruits and vegies for only a few dollars when we take the time to grow them ourselves.
If I’ve inspired you to get growing in your garden, you might like my fantastic (if I do say so) organic gardening-recipe book called I’m Hungry, Let’s Grow It!. It’s a kid’s book, but, really, it’s great how-to guide for beginner adults, too. With two recipes for each of the 14 featured fruits, vegetables and herbs.
I’m now putting thought into what winter vegies we’ll grow this year – more kale and spinach, no doubt, for all those vitamin- and mineral-packed green smoothies!
I wonder what my father-in-law is planning on growing…
How to Win ‘Raw Food Made Simple’!
The power of raw foods is incredible.
They’ve been known to help people lose weight, to cure or reduce symptoms of disease, and to make skin glow and give your energy a huge boost. They bring out your inner ‘gorgeous’ – just look at the picture of raw food coach Karen Knowler, above!
You’ll know from my 7 Ways to Recharge Your Vibration & Attract the Riches of Life ebooklet that raw foods contain life force and are chock-full of vitamins and minerals. Eating more raw helps you live life to the full.
(If you don’t have the 7 Ways ebooklet, you can downloaded for free by popping your details in the box on this page.)
Are you new to the concept of raw foods? Would you like to know more?
Then I have a beautiful gift for you.
I’m giving away a copy of Karen Knowler’s funky little book called Raw Food Made Simple.
It’s a beginner’s guide to raw food – its beautiful, full-colour pages explain everything you’ll need to know, in a very accessible way. You’ll be shown how to transition to a way of eating that includes more raw foods, and about the low-cost equipment you could use to help makes your food even more delicious!
You can find out more about this book here.
If you’d like to go into the draw to win a copy of this amazing book, simply leave a comment below by the end of this weekend, letting me know your biggest concern about your health, and a ranking out of 10 for how good you feel most of the time (0 being ‘feeling awful’, and 10 being ‘leaping of my skin with energy and a sense of supreme wellbeing’).
Remember, you need to let me know both your health concern and your ranking in order to go in the draw.
I’ll announce the winner on Monday! (You might even receive the book in time for Christmas.)
10 Ways to Create a Sparkly Christmas
If you’ve found yourself feeling a bit ‘over’ Christmas in recent years, going through the motions with no real joy, then it’s time to ‘sparkle’ things up a bit!
How do I define ‘sparkly’? Well, for me, it means seeing Christmas as the embodiment of all that it is good in the world. Connecting with people you love, and really celebrating life and beauty. A time when all that glitters really is gold!
Here are a few ideas for adding celebration and sparkle to your Christmas. I’ve either ‘done’ these myself, or plan to. Please don’t feel overwhelmed by this list – if you spot a couple of ideas that really resonate with you, why not just give those ones a try this Christmas?
1. Create a beautiful, welcoming wreath for your front door or the inside of your home.
2. Create personalised Christmas cards. We’ve done this every year since our girls were one year old, because I thought it would be easier to have one card that included a photo update of our children, rather than printing and sending photos with conventional cards.
Until last year, I had our DL-sized cards designed and printed at Snap, but last year I created my own and will have fun doing that again this year! I love taking the photos of our girls for these cards – they have a lot of fun!
Here’s a scan of our family Christmas card from a few years ago:
If you live in the US, Pinhole Press has a fantastic range of beautifully designed templates that can be personalised with your photos.
3. Help out at a food shelter – bring your family on board. If you can’t help out in person, perhaps donate some food, or consider donating to Oxfam via its Unwrapped Christmas-gift project.
4. Remember the power of intention, and create an affirmation that helps you attract the type of Christmas you’d love to have (for help with creating affirmations, check out the Affirmations: Your How-to Guide PDF bonus when you invest in Dream Life Affirmations audios.
5. Make a set of special, long-lasting decorations that can become family heirlooms (perhaps some Santa tree ornaments or napkin holders?!).
6. Take healthy sweet treats around to your neighbours on Christmas Eve, beautifully packaged – you could make the White Christmas recipe in this month’s ezine, or check out the recipe for decadent Orange-Choc Bliss Balls in Monkey Mike’s Raw Food Kitchen: An Un-Cookbook for Kids.
7. Watch a suitably Christmassy movie such as the original Miracle on 34th Street, or the Christmas scene from Mr Bean’s Christmas! (And then there’s always Love, Actually.)
8. Add a bitta ‘bling’ to your life with sparkly decorations in your home and office. There’s something so special about glitteriness. Just remember that ‘sparkly’ can be tastefully done (tinsel doesn’t have to feature, if that ain’t your thing). Candlelight makes everything shimmer – and what about adding sparkle to your clothing? Check this out for inspiration!
9. Pretend you’re a child again, and put out a stocking at the end of your bed.
10. Create your own Christmas crackers. We did this for the first time last year, and it was so much fun.
We (my children and I) bought the inner tubes and cracker snaps from Riot, and we filled the crackers with a cracker snap, a wrapped Lindor chocolate ball, a handwritten Christmas joke, and a handmade paper crown. We then wrapped them in tissue paper, tied ribbons on the end, and put a small photo of the recipient on the front of the cracker!
Note: don’t make the tissue paper wrapping too thick. We did, and it was a little difficult to rip the crackers open…
Oh, a bonus tip – if you’re a ‘planner’, like me, you’ll love Alison May’s Brocante Home Christmas Planner, which features heaps of inspiration and dozens of checklists.
I hope this list has inspired you – and if you were feeling a bit jaded about the whole thing, I do hope that it’s reignited your Christmas spirit!
PS I’d love to hear what you love about Christmas – what traditions do you love to repeat every year? What new tradition/s would you like to start? Leave a comment and let me know!
Have Your Cake!
Now, it’s right about this time of year that we tend to indulge in creamy, decadent desserts. It is the Christmas season, after all!
Well, there’s a way that you can thoroughly indulge in sensational tastes without ingesting sugar, animal products, and a heap of chemicals and processed ingredients. Yes way!
Monique Bastien was a writer with me over at the Raw Mom blog a few years ago, and that’s how I found out about her amazing book.
Have Your Cake, and Eat It Too! is packed with over 150 sensational recipes (I took the Chocolate Cream Pie to a raw-food potluck and it was polished off very quickly!), and Monique also offers substitutions for traditional ingredients in your favourite recipes – for example, when a recipe calls for 1 cup heavy cream, simply use 1 cup raw cashew, macadamia or almond cream instead.
If you’d like to sample some truly decadent but health-giving indulgence foods over the Christmas break, you will absolutely love the Have Your Cake, and Eat It Too! ebook. (It also features heaps of great photos that will make your mouth water.)
By indulging in a ‘Have Your Cake’ guilt-free dessert, you’ll be doing your vibration a ‘double favour’ – feeling radiant by eating healthy food, and feeling thoroughly cossetted and pampered with food that thrills your senses. Now that’s yummy…
Healing Cancer Summit
When it comes to the law of attraction, we tend to advise NOT focusing on that which you do not want.
That’s because, if you have a strong, fearful reaction to that which you do not want, the very strength of that emotion will start to draw ‘the unwanted’ to you.
And that’s how it can be with serious illnesses. If you worry and fret and feel absolute terror about one day potentially contracting a serious illness, then not only are you compromising your current happiness, but you may well be magnetising the very illness you’re hoping to avoid.
But what if your family has a history of serious illness? What if cancer has plagued your family over the years? That’s what has happened to Kevin Gianni (pictured above), of Renegade Health. Kevin’s dad died of cancer when Kevin was only two years of age, and his mum contracted cancer years later but was able to overcome it. And with cancer (along with diabetes) being at epidemic levels around the world today, it’s likely we all know someone who has been, or is currently, affected by this illness.
So, what to do? Ignore it and hope it will go away?
Well, that’s an option, but there are many environmental and emotional factors at the heart of illnesses, and part of our life’s journey may well be to work through those issues, so that we can free ourselves of the ‘symptom’ (the illness) and live the happy, healthy life we all want to live. Ignoring the issue is therefore not the answer. I believe illness comes into the life of a person for a reason, and if or when it does, we need to pay attention!
Kevin is a health advocate, and has passionately searched for natural ways of healing people from cancer. He’s gathered doctors, natural health experts and cancer conquerors (I prefer this term to survivors!) and has brought them together in an online event called the Healing Cancer Summit. Kevin interviews these amazing people over the course of 5 nights, providing information on effective alternatives to traditional treatments for cancer.
Kevin is generously making these interviews available to listen to for free for 24 hours after each call, but you can also upgrade and purchase the audios and other bonuses outright.
And for a (very) limited time, when you purchase you gain permission to share the recordings with three other people for free. Perhaps a beautiful gift for family members or friends who have been affected by, or are currently suffering with, cancer?
For more information about this life-changing, life-enhancing summit, head here:
http://www.healingcancersummit.com/
So in terms of the law of attraction, know that listening to positive, empowering advice will not draw cancer to you. Instead, it will help you focus on whole health (of body, mind and spirit), and get you excited about living in a state of vibrant health and joy.
Please spread the word, won’t you?
Send friends and family here:
http://www.healingcancersummit.com/
See you soon! Mwuh!
PS The interviews started about an hour ago, so hurry!
Un-Cooking Up a Storm
Part of living the life of my dreams is spending time hanging out with my daughters on school holidays. My girls love being showered with attention, and I love taking time out to enjoy their company and to marvel at how fast they’re growing up!
Today, with Ballarat being cold, wet and blustery, we decided to stay in and do some ‘un-cooking’. The girls love reading through Ani Phyo’s Ani’s Raw Food Desserts: 85 Easy, Delectable Sweets and Treats
We’re having neighbours of ours over for lunch on Saturday (they’re a lovely retired couple, originally from Melbourne), and we thought we’d try this recipe to see if it would be worthy of presenting as dessert for our guests. Presenting a healthy yet delicious home-made dessert is such a lovely way to look after people who are visiting our home.
The verdict: yes, it’s fabulous! Even my raw-shy hubby Darren couldn’t get over how good this fudge cake really is!
Evie and Bella did most of the preparation, with a little help. Yup, they really are growing up.
Here’s the end result:
The fudge ’frosting’ is a little like my Cat’s Meow Chocolate Pudding recipe (from Monkey Mike’s Raw Food Kitchen: An Un-Cookbook for Kids!), given that it contains avocado, cacao powder and agave nectar. Simply scrumptious.
At Easter we tried the strawberry ‘cheese’-cake recipe from Ani’s book, and it was fantastic, too! No doubt the girls will soon find another recipe they want to try from this book…
All in all, I totally recommend this book. And I totally recommend connecting with your loved ones in the kitchen, and sharing that love with friends.
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