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Something is going on with me! I start every day feeling AMAZING, but as it progresses I lose my strength and by the evening I feel slightly feverish, weak and yes…angry! I’m not really sure what to do. Am looking in to visiting a naturopath and getting a live blood sample done so I can ascertain where my body is at, and add anything I’m lacking. Maybe it’s part of the detox going raw process, maybe maybe maybe…

For fun, I took some photo’s, which shall be my ‘before-raw’ photo’s! I’m posting them up here with some trepidation so please please be gentle;). i look forward with excitement to some ‘after-raw’ photo’s in a few months/a year’s time!

After a lovely skype chat with my beautiful friend Robyn, I’m going to do a seven days no fruit trial and see how that feels…I do eat LOADS of fruit, so perhaps getting off it will help me to move through whatever it is I’m experiencing right now. Lots of lovely green food here I come! Oh, and I’m laying of the copious amounts of cacao cake i’ve been eating, hehe *grinning sheepishly*

Life is filled with challenges and I remain SO aware of all the infinite miracles, even when I am deep in the trials of the moment!

My love to you all
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the sun fades from the sky earlier and arrives later; with these changes comes the cold!

There’s me thinking I’ve got cold coming in London! these guys have it REAL cold:)

when eating a rawfood diet our bodies are working at top efficiency, so they can self-regulate heat much better than if we were eating cooked and processed food, which takes lots of energy to break down, therefore leaving less to keep us warm.

On a rawfood diet we actually have to worry LESS about cold or hot weather, which is something I have experienced myself in the past, when living in South Africa and not being phased by the hottest days of summer, when it can get up to 35ºC.

It is true that we are often very tied in by our psychological attachments to food and the THOUGHT of warming food can be very appealing. If we change our thoughts and realize, believe and understand that we will be WARMER and happier if we eat wonderful fresh fruits, fats (like avo’s, durian, seeds, etc) and green leaves, then it’s much easier to stay raw in the winter (or at least I bloody well hope it is!)

Bearing that in mind, there are some tips for staying raw in the winter which I’ve found while browsing the web:

• exercise is KEY, don’t get lethargic, stay active and keep the blood flowing and you’ll stay WARM, even when not doing the exercise! (i’ve just started kung fu and it ROCKS…the video is me in a weeks time, hehe)
• cayenne in your shoes….how about you try that one and let me know how it goes;)
• eat warm food, remember guys, anything below 45ºC is still raw and the happy enzymes are still alive, so make raw soups and dehydrated goodies!
• hot then cold: as in hot bath/shower, then cold shower. this increases circulation and so helps heat regulation. I do this every day all year round and it’s so so worth it!

Ok, I don’t think i’m going to say anything else, but rather direct you to this blog, which quotes an article by karen knowler and has everything we all could hope for as far as what to eat to help us keep the internal fires burning!

Come on WINTER!

Hello angels!

I am feeling decidedly hungry! Not sure how many days I’m going to stay on only juice for, the urge to eat is HUGE! Been having delicious celery, cucumber, lime juices all day with some variations…

Got so angry earlier! Angry at myself, angry at people, angry at a lot of things. I was at work and people kept asking me for things, the cheek! The fact that I am in a cafe and meant to serve didn’t help;).

I think that part of my urge to eat is to do with my defences. Trying to numb the sensations with food, although with raw food that doesn’t really work!
my friend coming to visit me after work and the satisfaction of leaving a clean and tidy cafe helped me to let go of the anger. I feel pretty darn amazing now, I tell ya! Going to have a hot hot bath and relax into bed asap! Oh yeah!

Have you ever felt like life is meaningless, that no matter what any of us does, it’s totally pointless and we all die in the end anyway? I used to have those moments fairly often…I would look around at all the people working, playing, getting married, studying, drinking, doing whatever and I’d get this ’so what’ feeling.

Raw food changed that for me. Once my mind began to clear and my spirit began to sing and my heart began to tell me secrets again, well, life became so much more interesting and fun!

Here’s a video of me having a rant about symptoms and roots…

Big love to the beautiful people commenting on this blog on GITMR, Fbook and here on wordpress. Much love and light to you all!

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I’m in tune, I’m tuned in, I’m all fired up in a red fire truck.
This bandwidth is wide open baby and we’re flying

yeah man, you dig!

So, last monday (or tuesday) I handed in my resignation at inSpiral Lounge, which was a little scary as I didn’t have anything else lined up. I still have work at Alchemy The Centre, which I love so so much, but it’s only two days a week (or so I though at the time). I resigned because I could feel that it wasn’t for me, I could feel in my heart and my gut (two communicators which are well worth listening to!) that I needed to let go of my work at inSpiral. But it’s scary you know! Thinking how I hardly have any money anyway and the safe thing to do would be to wait until I’ve found another job and then quit…I’ve never really been in to playing it safe, or by any rules other than the ones the universe has taught me: be authentic; do what you’re passionate about; have faith; trust; laugh a lot; love yourself enough to do what you enjoy…there are more but those are a few of the big ones:).

Yesterday, after work at inSpiral (I have another two weeks left there), I was sitting at a table filling out a form to apply for work at Wholefoods, a store in Camden where I shop whenever I can afford it. I figure if I can work somewhere where I get discounts on fresh produce, I can afford to buy myself awesome organic food to make meals with at home! Oh yeah, my cunning plan;)! So anyway, I’m filling out this form and Enzo, the head chef at inSpiral sits down at the table next to me and we start chatting. I tell him I’ve handed in my resignation and he’s surprised and a little sad and then says, “Well, I manage a cafe in Soho and they’re looking to start up a juice bar, which would need someone to create a menu of juices, train the staff and basically get things going…you want to do that for maybe 3 days a week?”
Ummmmm…..HELL YEAH!

Let just look at this briefly: I quite my job, which allowed me to tell Enzo I had done so, which allowed him to offer me a new job doing what I LOVE!!!!
This is synchronicity, this is the perfection of the universal language which is translated by our hearts, which speak to us always, if we only listen.

After work I went to Alchemy to listen to a talk by a man named Nick Good, who is good friends with David Wolfe, Gabriel Cousins and that whole crew. His website looks pretty interesting and his talk was great. What was more than great, what was fantastically and outrageously incredible was the energy build-up he generated before he began. he opened us all up to the most incredibly powerful energy I’ve yet felt. He asked if anyone had anything which they needed healing from, and when a woman stepped in to the centre and said she has RSI (repetitive strain injury) I realized that I could step in too for my wrist issues! I did, and a few others too, and we sat and then lay in the middle of this humming circle of energized people. I have never felt anything like that which was channelled through me. My whole body buzzed and tingled and sparkled with light and energy and intense sensations. It’s actually completely indescribable and I’m going to stop trying, because I was there and it felt like nothing know how to compare it to. My wrist is still a little sore, but i don’t even care if it got healed or not, the experience itself was worth everything!

Nick has some amazing stories to tell and one of them was about him living in the jungle in Hawaii, surfing and eating coconuts and mangoes…it got me thinking;). Soon enough I may vanish into the trees of bali and get really acquainted with some delicious waves!

For now though, I’m loving London, I’m excited about the new things coming and I’m SO EXCITED to be going to Kilimanjaro in January, which has now been confirmed! I’ll need to find a way to stay high raw while doing it, and I think that’s going to be a challenge worth rising to:).

Love to you all