Oh, Shnookums! Did you miss me? I sure missed you! It feels like forever since I burst forth my fiery self upon these pages. We’ve had some pretty fantastic people filling my shoes, but I’ve got my stilettos on now and I’m baaaaaack.
In light of my disappearance, I figure I owe you an explanation as to my absence. But, I admit that since I risk making my report juicier than might be considered appropriate, I thought I’d sum up with some of my realizations and avoid any soap opera-esque details. The last 5 months have been, well… hmmm…
Let’s just say I learned a lot and here’s what it looks like:
(Cupcake, if you’re not in the mood to read the whole thing, you should at least get to the bottom where I announce the special thing I’m going to do to make things feels happy, bright and bubbly around here again! Scroll dooooown!)
HOWEVER: If you DO want to continue reading, I suggest you play the soundtrack while you read! Just remember to come back and read. 
1. When faced with an inner battle between popularity and personal integrity, personal integrity should always win.
2. You can eat all the raw, healthy food you want! Avoid dairy and gluten but it STILL won’t bring you more love, peace or happiness than honest communication, compassion and a sense of your own spiritual existence.
3. Sebastian has the cutest, chubbiest lips in the whole, wide world.
4. It’s not what someone else does to you that causes you to dislike them, it’s what you do to them!
5. If I hold my shoulders back and walk leading from my pelvis, I really DO look and feel more confident.
6. I’ve been able to feel just fine in my life without a “boyfriend,” but girlfriends are essential!
7. Validate the things you want to create more of. Let the cruddy stuff go.
8. Kids get pushed around a lot at school. I should just be a soft, fluffy cloud to carry them safely home at the end of the day.
9. Universal love and romantic love are not the same thing, but they can get mixed up sometimes.
10. People do stupid things, but that doesn’t mean they are stupid. It just means there’s something they can’t see or understand that’s getting in their way.
11. It’s a good idea to squeeze your butt cheeks when you walk. Left, then right, then left, then right. Makes juuust the right wriggle.
12. I do remember how to skate!!!!
13. It’s more important to be honest and ethical than it is to eat green smoothies.
14. Money is a totally uncreative form of exchange. Whoever thought it up really missed the boat!
15. I feel like a sister to women I’ve never “met” in person. I loooove you! (You know who you are!)
16. I’d rather lose money and fame than my self-determinism.
17. I have a hankering for veggie pâté! That sucks.
18. My mom sure is amazing. I knew that already, but I just figured it out all over again, so I had to say it.
19. Being a spinster won’t be too bad, as long as there are occasional indulgences in chocolate and sappy movies and pajama parties.
20. Who you ARE is more important than WHAT you are.
21. I think “psychotherapy” would accomplish more if people just sat and LOOKED at each other for a while, rather than talking so much. Blah, blah, blah, blah… More Be. Less Do. That’s the ticket!
22. If your heart breaks, avoid this song like the plague!
23. On the other hand, THIS is still one of the best personal empowerment songs I have EVER heard. It got me through my divorce and gets me through any other unexpected bumps in my road! Listen and live it, Sister!
24. I think thinking food is bad for you is worse than the food you think is bad for you. Know what I mean? And I prefer positive motivation to fear mongering!
25. It’s a messed up world out there. Ritalin, processed foods, retirement funds and national debts make my head spin. Depression, anxiety, fibromyalgia, diabetes and those STUPID PINK RIBBONS sucking money for covert chemical warfare against women… Sometimes I hold my breath with fear about it all. But then I remember Thing I Learned #7, and I just kinda wonder if all those quotes about “Love Makes the World Go Round” and “All You Need Is Love” are true.
???
I’ve seen it again and again in consultations with people. They are stuck, trapped in their own conditions, and it’s not the food that changes their lives as much as it is the fact that there’s someone else who believes in them more than they believe in themselves.
And that’s why, this song kinda sums up where I’m at right now.
*sigh*
So that’s some of what I’ve learned. I admit it’s been a bumpy ride, but I tend to attract a few bumps in my path, and I definitely think that keeps life interesting.
Now that I’m back, I’m going to be showing my face around here a lot more often. I’m back and I’m staying back, and I’m even hosting my own welcome back party for myself.
Here’s what it’s going to look like:
The 90-Day Don’t Be So Obsessed
About What You Eat Detox
he he he…
How do you like the sound of that one, huh?
If I have to sum up all those points above, it really comes down to this yearning, burning feeling within me:
We Can Talk About Raw Food,
Yoga and Green Juice, But If We Do Not Live
Joy-Filled, Honest Lives in Community With Others
Who Share Our Goals,
We Will NEVER Be Truly Healthy.
I’m fed up with telling people everything they should be afraid of in their environments. I’m sick of talking about the dangers of cooked food or gluten or dairy. If you detox yourself from ONE THING in this 90-Day Program, detox yourself from obsession and stress about what you eat and how you live!
Get sleep!
Cuddle with loved ones!
Read a book!
There ARE solutions to your health conditions, and we’ll find them together, because we have a tremendous community supporting us here. I’d rather have a happy human “spirit” than a healthy human body.
Now, don’t get in a huff and a puff. I think BOTH are important. I even think a healthy body opens doorways to more awareness and understanding about life. But if I had to choose between donuts or dishonesty, I’d choose donuts every time! Which doesn’t mean I’m suggesting we pull out the Cheetos and burritos! In fact, I still promote and encourage a transition toward a Raw Food Diet. Buuut, do it on a gradient. Make it comfortable for you, and avoid the roller coaster of emotions that comes with trying to change a lifetime of patterns you’ve not really managed to confront yet.
Is it such a big deal if we use a bit of evil agave nectar to make incredible raw truffles?
And if I steam my broccoli when it’s -25 Celsius outside, is that reeeeally going to make a huge different to my diet?
Is it so bad to juice, even if we do waste that “precious fiber”?
I don’t think sooooo.
If you feel guilty every time you open your mouth, or think about what you’re not supposed to be eating…
If you’re constantly pointing out to your friends what’s wrong about the food on their plate…
If you spend 15 minutes reading the label on something that takes only 2 minutes to eat…
…then YOU NEED TO GET ON BOARD TODAY for:
The 90-Day Don’t Be So Obsessed
About What You Eat Detox
I’m not saying we shouldn’t make good choices about our foods, because we should. But I’ve seen enough people off the bandwagon, on the rollercoaster, off the map and upside down because they struggle in relationship to their food. All I want to do on this program, is to take you on a gentle gradient and move you toward a lasting, loving lifestyle that INCLUDES great food choices and FREEDOM from the mental torture you inflict upon yourself around food!
How does that sound, Sparkle Puff? (Okay, I know. Sparkle Puff isn’t very gender neutral, but I like it!)
This program that we’re going to do will bear much resemblance to our previous 90-Day Detox, but with the following changes:
1. You can take it for FREE.
2. It will be taught by MANY instructors, not just one.
3. It will burst forth happiness into your life, not teach you about all the things you should fear.
Now, it’s 90 days and it’s starting on Monday, February 16th, but don’t worry if you come on board late! Just follow along and go with it, baby!
Since it’s a 90 Day Program, we’re still going to be doing it in 3 Stages:
1. Avoid Gluten and Dairy for 30 Days.
This step alone will take will power, brute strength and determination for many of you! But, if there are two foods to eliminate from the diet, these are the ones.
We’ll direct you to incredibly valuable resources that help you make your own decisions about these two foods. There is an abundant resource of information on these foods and you’ll get the nitty-gritty on why you should be avoiding them.
2. Simplify Your Foods and Follow An Allergy Free Diet.
In this second stage, we’ll implement an allergy-free diet. We’ll fill you in on the most important foods to avoid and tell you WHY you should avoid them! Experience the benefit
3. Take it to the Next Level for a Deep Tissue Detox or Stabilize On Your New Healthy Living Regime
We’ll offer you the option of going on to a more intense, medically supported detox at this stage, with the use of medical foods to help assist the deeper tissue detoxification. Or, we’ll just keep chuggin’ and huffin’ and puffin’ along on the right path to good health. You’ll be able to decide when you get here, what feels best for you. After two MONTHS on the program, you’ll have a good idea of what’s working and what’s not!
*** Medical Disclaimer ***
Dear Medical Mafia,
I know I might have some great things to say, but I’m not trying to diagnose, prescribe or treat ANYONE with this program. I know the header is a bit of a tease, but the truth is, I’m not qualified to help you address your serious medical conditions. If you have serious health considerations, I encourage you to contact a qualified functional medicine practitioner in your area. CLICK HERE and you can find one in your local area. We will be contacting several of them throughout the course of this program, but if you have concerns, please consult your health care practitioner before proceeding with this or any other program.
Now, back to the fun part! Here’s how it’s going to work on our 90-Day program, Sunshine:
I’m going to post on the blog EVERY DAY! Yeah, I know, EVERY DAY! But the beauty is, it’s going to be on the BLOG! So if you want the support, it will be there. If you don’t need it, you don’t need to check it out. I will warn you, however, that I’ve often been told my daily motivational emails are the biggest reason people come back for our programs. he he he.. So at least give it a few days trial and see if reading my cheerful words of encouragement will help!
I’m making a 90-day commitment to myself and to this community, and I think you should, too. Just get through that chocolately goodness on V-day, then rev up and ready to go with us on the blog!
All the instructions you’ll need for this program will BE HERE ON THE BLOG. For free.
“What? Free?!”
Yeah! For free.
“Why?”
Because. Besides the fact that we have a lot of awfully unhealthy people out there, I’ve noticed that we’ve got a civilization that is in crisis on the subject of money. The “economic situation” is infecting our thoughts, conversations and future planning. Well, I say, PSHAW! Healthy living shouldn’t be dependent on your budget!!
One of the greatest programs I’ve ever created was a private coaching group where NO MONEY was exchanged. We just exchanged services and it was spectacular. We developed some incredible relationships and people seemed to grow so quickly. We just looooved the feeling of exchanging services, not for cash, but for the thrill of adventure and the joy of knowing each other better. It felt GREAT and these people are now some of the closest people to me.
Here’s what I’m going to offer on the blog for FREE:
1. Daily blog posts! Yours truly in black and white.
2. Weekly interviews related to the topics at hand (Let’s talk about detox, dairy, functional medicine, diabetes, modeling and beauty. Let’s discuss everything from colon health to dental health with Big Gurus and Stay-at-Home Moms! But I also want to talk about sappy movies, good songs and inspirational entrepreneurs.) I want to fill the e-waves with powerful information and inspiration to help get us all on track feeling LIFE pulsing within us in time for spring!)
3. A daily inspirational story, spotlight or testimonial from someone whose life has been changed in a powerful way by the things we do around here!
4. Contests, prizes and give-aways to keep us all entertained and participating.
You don’t have to do anything if you don’t want to. You don’t need to leave comments, or sign up. You just need to follow along and enjoy the process. That’s it!
Buuuut, I will tell you that the more you participate and get involved, the more fun we’ll have around here and the better you’ll succeed at following this program!!
WHY?
BECAUSE! Who you’re with and how you’re feeling
is even MORE important than what you put
between those luscious lips of yours!
Aaaaand, if you’re as busy as I am, then you might want to have a bit more support to keep you on track. That’s why we’re going to offer a higher support version, for those who need a bit more than a bubbling blog. Here’s what’s included in the high support version of this program:
1. All of the above PLUS…
2. FOUR monthly menu planners valued at $24.95 each! (I simply cannot wait until March 1st. I want to start
NOW! So that means we’ll need a menu planner for February, March, April AND May! I figure we should just include that in the 90 Days for 90 Dollars High Support Version)
3. Weekly teleseminar support calls. This is when we get together and talk shop. I’ll answer your questions and give you whatever support I can. If I can’t answer you’re questions, I’ll invite some special guests to join us on the calls! But it’s your chance to connect with other people a lot like you, around the world for some one-on-one.
4. Private Forum for 90-Day Detox participants. You’ll be able to write a journal and share feedback with other participants on the program, when you sign up for the full support version of the program. This is like the “heartbeat” of the community.
And remember:
As with all our programs, we do not believe that finances should restrict your access to healthy living. If you cannot afford this high support version, but feel you would like to come on board to volunteer with us as a form of work exchange, then we’ll sign you up and sort out the details.
We’ll be adapting the menus for this program only and keeping it fairly simple. We’ll be eating everything from green smoothies to green juices, from spirulina to spinach!
Join us in a knock-down, roll-over, kick-up-your heels
celebration of LIFE!
I need this.
I’m doing it for myself–to pick me up, dust me off and get me sparkling again. I just hope you’ll join me so we can make it an adventure!
I’m going to call on some of my amazing supportive community to assist me and come share their wisdom with us, too! Let’s make this an inspired, community event! Let’s do green juices and green smoothies! Let’s do dehydrator snacks and wild, foraged foods from the park, too!
If you’re looking for something a bit more high support, then you can sign up here for the 90 Days for 90 Dollars version of this program!
Challenge yourself to step up the notch on healthy living! Join us on the blog, or SIGN UP HERE to take the High Support program. I think we need each other to get through this CRAZY game of life and I do hope you’ll be joining me and others in this amazing community for a glorious adventure in health and happy living!
Sign Me Up for 90 Days of High Support
CLICK HERE to Make 1 Easy Payment of $90
GO FOR IT, Sunshine!
For $1 a day, what do you have to lose?
Love and calorie-free hugs,
Tera
p.s.
By the way, Boys!
This program IS NOT exclusively for women. But if you reeeally don’t like my high heels or pinkish charms, then well, put on blue-tinted glasses and pretend it’s PURPLE! Because I’ve got to be myself around here and these are the things that make me SPARKLE! Maybe some other humanitarian has a better program to offer for free.
But I seriously doubt it.
February 12th, 2009 at 11:05 am
Oh Tera — WELCOME BACK!!!!
Great post I’m SO excited about this Detox — you did it — ARE doing it — this is going to be spectacular!!!!
xoxo
February 12th, 2009 at 11:55 am
I’m looking this all over again before spreading the word some more and want to verify — does the higher support (90 days for 90 dollars) include access to an area of the powder room for chatting and support from each other? It’s going to be great no matter what, but if the powder room is mentioned, I’m missing it so I wanted to check.
Again I LOVE your list of 25 things (and then some)!!! xoxo
February 12th, 2009 at 12:09 pm
THAT’S OUR GIRL!!
Oh Tera! YAY! I’m grinning from ear to ear! What you said is soooo true! I was just kinda getting to a good place and then the more I was learning, the more I was becoming obsessed and afraid of not only my food, but my environment. So I look forward to some peace again! You and all your sparkly pinkness are an inspiration! A POSITIVE inspiration. You’re doing great things girl.
February 12th, 2009 at 12:31 pm
WOW! This has made my day sister! Count me in and there!
I am so excited and ready for this. Positive, powerful and real.
Thanks for sharing from your heart.
BTW..love you choice of music here.
love ya tons,
Doll
February 12th, 2009 at 1:12 pm
I knew it … nothing can STOP Tera … I am sooooo looking forward to begin the 90 days together with all the sprouting and flowering people out there and in here … I will send the page around to my raw and not so raw friends.
thanks Tera for doing this … you are the best … we all have more fun when you “take us away” on the road to “here and now” … you have an insight that always surprises me, and I think you are a very vise women.
I am so happy you are baaaaaack.
green cheers
-janne
February 12th, 2009 at 1:35 pm
I’m glad you’re back, Tera
I’m happy that you’re feeling so much better, and I’m happy for me because my life is better when you’re in it.
Thanks for all your help and encouragement. You are a wonderful and brave person.
February 12th, 2009 at 2:05 pm
WooHoo Schnooks (BIG SMILES)!
Welcome back! You have soul sister and you make this world a better place to be in. Yipeeeee for all of us and how awesome that our journey continues together…I feel so very blessed!
I agree that it all gets a bit obssessive, convulated and overwhelming so taking the opportunity to do it peacefully, gently, and joyfully is the wave I want to be on. Yahooooooo, I’m having bursts of elation…we are groovin’, yeah for us, let the healing and the living continue! Yipee!
)
Love you all,
Nicole
February 12th, 2009 at 2:29 pm
Welcome back and thank you, thank you, thank you! I loved the music; it was perfect with the blog and so empowering. You can never go wrong when you share from the heart.
I, too, was feeling overwhelmed by it all and am so glad that you are back, all sparkling and pink. The next 90 days are going to be as awesome as you are. You are one heck of a woman! Count me in!
With love and ((hugs)),
Nancy
February 12th, 2009 at 2:31 pm
OOooOOooooOooo, this is going to be fantastic!
So glad to see you back, Tera!
February 12th, 2009 at 4:30 pm
Woot!!!! So glad you are back. You are my sunshine!!! Angela
February 12th, 2009 at 4:38 pm
Yea for you TERA!
I am in on this one too !!!!
xoxox MOM
February 12th, 2009 at 7:19 pm
[...] P.S. Have you seen that Tera is back?!? [...]
Thank YOU, Everyone! I feel so supported in this, and I admit that it feels good to be back on track in Divaland.
i think this program is going to be really exciting and I’m looking forward to the adventure.
A lot can chance in 3 months!
Let’s see what happens and hope for exciting things…
Love and hugs,
Tera
February 13th, 2009 at 2:03 pm
Count me in, Sweet Thang. You know I’m glad you’re back.
February 13th, 2009 at 5:09 pm
HOORAY !!! A ray of light of hope !
I was sooo sad I did not get a reply to my reponse question number 8 in the previous “90 day deep tissue detox program” launch, I felt left out…
I want to sign up for the “High Support” version, can I pay you in cash at the Potluck dinner on February 14th?
Please advise…
Sonia
February 14th, 2009 at 1:29 am
Absolutely fabulous!!!! I agree, agree with so much that was said. We get so wound up about things we forget to enjoy this amazing, glorious life given to us. Very excited about this and glad to see your smiling thoughts on the blog.
Love and hugs and smoochies, sweetums’.
Anita Marie
February 14th, 2009 at 9:41 am
[...] Yes! There is. I’m sorry I forgot to mention that in the announcement letter the other day, but the page has been updated now, to indicate that. If you haven’t seen the announcement for the 90-Day Detox, you can see it here! [...]
February 15th, 2009 at 4:45 am
So glad to see your sparkle back!!
February 15th, 2009 at 11:31 am
Tera, I love you girl! I’m looking forward to the virtual pajama parties and sappy songs, and all the cool Girl Diva stuff!!! I think this will be the best thing yet! WooHoo!!!! Being a Diva just keeps getting better and better!
Tanya S.
February 15th, 2009 at 3:09 pm
Please sign me up for the free 90 day detox for now.
I loooove you! You’re all amazing! Thank you sooo much for your support and enthusiasm. I’m really excited about this and can’t wait to have a big blogging celebration when we’re all feeling slinky in bikinis and sassier than ever this summer!
Love and hugs!
xoxo
Tera
February 16th, 2009 at 12:33 pm
[...] sending out the higher greens with a bit more fat, but for those of you who are signed on for the full support version of the program, then you can just let me know and I’ll get you the [...]
February 16th, 2009 at 3:14 pm
Would love to do it, but can’t afford the 90 dollars. I’m glad you’re back!!
February 16th, 2009 at 3:16 pm
Tera – the Gentle but Strong Raw Warrior !
If feels like home again…………….;-)
Thank You for such a positive come back!
Never go farther again than the touch of my keyboard!
Me!
February 16th, 2009 at 3:20 pm
Welcome back tera … thanks for all your inspiration! Pse sign me up for the free 90 day detox for now …
xx
February 16th, 2009 at 3:39 pm
I definitely want to do the detox, I need the support and value it so much. I cannot afford the 90 dollars though, so I guess it is not free?
February 16th, 2009 at 3:42 pm
“Validate the things you want to create more of. Let the cruddy stuff go.”
Tera, this is really one of the simplest, most profound things I’ve read in a long time. Thank you.
Count me in for the adventure!
Noooo, my dear! It’s totally FREE like the BEES! You really just need to follow along the blog every day! It’s all going to happen HERE!! Buuuut, if you want the high support version, you just send me a message at tera@therawdivas.com and let me know and we can work out a work exchange.
Money should never, never, never keep people from accessing health and empowerment. So I ALWAYS offer work exchange to anyone who feels they cannot afford the programs. I hope that makes sense!!
xoxoxo Love and hugs and hope to hear from you, my dear!
Come on board!
xoxox
Tera
You don’t have to “sign up” for the free one! You just have to watch the blog! All the action is going to happen here!
Hope that makes sense. If not, I guess I’ll have to rethink my strategy.
Let me know!
xoxo
Tera
Thank YOU, Sunshine! You are such a glitterbug! Loooove and appreciate you sooo much!
xoxoxo
February 16th, 2009 at 4:19 pm
Hi Tera: You are nothing but a tranformation MACHINE! I love your insights (because they are so similar to mine). ps…… forgive me for being so brutal……
February 16th, 2009 at 4:21 pm
this is so funny to me! i was just about to start your 7 Day Detox but something has been telling me to just go slow and take Gluten and Dairy out first, and here i see this. woo, gooooo intuition!
so here i am! ready to go! let’s go, sistas (and… purple wearing brothers!)
February 16th, 2009 at 4:22 pm
I am so excited for this! Thanks Tera for coming back and being our bright and shiny star to lead us the way to a healthier and happier future! Thanks to you and your creative juices, once I stumbled upon this site the tail end of December my life has never been better! I have a lot of work to do, but you and the community you have built have paved a road I have been foraging to find for A LONG TIME.
February 16th, 2009 at 4:22 pm
PS – I LOVE FREE! *opens arms out wide to the Universe*
yay!
Oh my goodness, oh my GOOODNESS! What an amazing crew we have here. I’m totally excited about this! Yippeee!! Bikini season, here I come!!!
xoxoxo
Tera
February 16th, 2009 at 4:39 pm
Very exciting! Welcome back and thanks for being such an amazing Diva!
February 16th, 2009 at 4:41 pm
Thanks so much for your honesty and incredible devotion to reaching out to those who need this support. Count me in!!!
EuroKitty
February 16th, 2009 at 4:45 pm
Oh, such perfect timing! Thank you Tera and welcome back! Please sign me up for the free 90 day detox! I’m looking forward to this journey with you. You are an inspiration!
February 16th, 2009 at 4:49 pm
Oops, just went back and read more of the blog comments, I’ll be reading along!
xoxox
Suzanne
February 16th, 2009 at 5:13 pm
Hi Tera . This sounds good but I’ll be away most of April. Can we just do this for 30 days.
February 16th, 2009 at 5:26 pm
I needed this. I needed this TODAY. I needed this now. I needed this bad. I cried but it was relief and hope. I WANT to do this. I must do this and your spirit in this blog just resonates with the spirit in me causing me to think that yes, yes I can do this. I wouldn’t be able to spot you in the streets and neither could you spot me. I mean just that alone is amazing. You’ve really touched a strangers life today.
The journey starts now and if it’s already this exciting….. YIPPEEE!!!!
February 16th, 2009 at 5:46 pm
Hi Tera,
WOW…there is something just so powerful, beautiful and supportive when a group of lovely women get together with a commom purpose. Thank you Tera -your timing is always perfect. I just started a juice fast yesterday and today I’ve been crying all day — just releasing all that “stuff” you wrote about on your blog. So, count me in girlfriend. Let’s have some fun and quit taking everything so serious=)
February 16th, 2009 at 6:28 pm
Hi,
Count me in for the free 90-day detox, as well.
Peace to everyone =)
February 16th, 2009 at 6:33 pm
Hi Tera: I know you said that this was free, however, at the end the price is $90.00. Which part is free?
February 16th, 2009 at 6:35 pm
I have gotten way off track since just after the holidays and feel pretty ucky about it all. I really need this encouragement and kindness and understanding right now –
count me in.
February 16th, 2009 at 7:25 pm
I will also like to do the 90 days continuation. LOVED your song. I, too, am getting divorced after such a long, long time. Very painful and will leave ALL the super hurtful things out. Maybe this is what I need to continue on. Lost my job, husband, and,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,. Well, I think I will be super excited that I still have my HEALTH> Keep up the good word tara. Doing this on a shoe string. LOVED your easy ice cream recipe. I don’t have any of the fancy machines that make ice cream but you and your son made the best ice cream ever and I lvoe it. Thanks for all your support in this endeavor. Jann
February 16th, 2009 at 7:27 pm
Hi,
Count me in for the free 90 day detox.
Thanks,
Wendy
February 16th, 2009 at 7:28 pm
Hi Love,
This is the best thing ever.
The best 90 days ever!!!!!!!!!!!
February 16th, 2009 at 7:29 pm
Just got your email today!
Count me in for the free 90 day detox.
Wendy
February 16th, 2009 at 7:47 pm
Yay! I’m in my 5th week of the ChaLean extreme 90 day program. I’ve been trying super hard to stay on track with my eating. I don’t know what to eat from one day to the next. I’ve been drinking the master cleanse during the day and havinga natural food meal at night like salad or cucumbers. No real plan of eating basically. You’re timing is perfect Tera!
February 16th, 2009 at 7:59 pm
[...] can read what Tera was up to for the past few months HERE. Embrace it and love her [...]
February 16th, 2009 at 8:14 pm
Tera,
Welcome back.
I look forward to doing this 90 day detox. The 7 day detox worked nicely for me.
Karen
February 16th, 2009 at 8:41 pm
Tera – I’m really proud of you and all you’ve accomplished. Once again your leadership qualities are shining through and your positive attitude is drawing many of us to follow along. Many blessings! I look forward to doing this 90 Day Detox with you and all the other Divas!!!
February 16th, 2009 at 9:20 pm
WELCOME BACK!!! You sure are bubbling over with joy.
I’m signing up, and looking forward to the fun. This has come at a great time for me: I’ve been overindulging in gluten and dairy, and decided just two days ago that I need to give them up. Thank you. {{{{{ hugs }}}}}
February 16th, 2009 at 10:45 pm
THANK YOU SO VERY MUCH! Like someone else said earlier you have touched a strangers heart. I look forward to doing this wonderful journey with all of the woman here.
February 16th, 2009 at 11:39 pm
Oh, I’m so excited! Just what I need! I participated in the 7 day detox and came out of it stronger, healthier, and with a new outlook on food. I want to continue!
February 16th, 2009 at 11:59 pm
I too, want to do the d-tox, but lost my job.
Carmen
February 17th, 2009 at 12:05 am
Welcome Back! Sounds like you had an amazing revelation while you were gone. Many times in our lives that’s what it takes. I would really like to participate in this free 90 ‘journey’. I’m just opening this email. so I’m a little late….
February 17th, 2009 at 12:16 am
Am so grateful you are making this 90 day available for everyone.
You reap what you sow and what you give out always comes back
multiplied so am sure you will reap benefits from this generosity.
Diane
February 17th, 2009 at 12:20 am
What an awesome thing you’re doing. it’s a long journey toward breaking bad food habits and reprogramming ourselves. But I believe we can do it! Kudos to you!!
February 17th, 2009 at 7:17 am
tera: i have been following your blog, health in high heels…and working with tanya schroeder…
would love to be part of the 90 for free. where do i sign for that? thanks, pat
February 17th, 2009 at 3:58 pm
Can’t wait…where do i sign up? thanks, val
February 17th, 2009 at 4:18 pm
Good for you Tera,
I`m up for volunteering too. If you need anything, just let me know sister
February 17th, 2009 at 7:16 pm
hi would like to get your free 90 day info. where do i go for the blog
thankyou so much jean
February 18th, 2009 at 1:43 am
Tera, et al, Having leaped into this at the last minute without much prep, plus THREE (albeit small) pieces of gingerbread, sans whipped cream at least, last night, I feel energized and ready to begin. Also relieved that we’re “just” eliminating dairy and gluten for the first phase. The gluten will be the tough part, although all my friends have been saying for years, “now you can’t eat wheat, right?” when wheat was one of the few things I am NOT allergic to. I am really looking forward to getting into the allergen phase, as that is where I have lived for years. Nonetheless, having done the 7 day de-tox, the three day green smoothie challenge AND the 24 days to Christmas stretch, during which I got my sister into green smoothies. She’s the ‘do whatever Dr. Weil says to do as long as it’s vegetarian’ of the family, with whom I had a veggie burger on toast yesterday; she withheld their usual “rella” cheese since it did have casein, which I do not eat.
So today, in keeping with the de-tox of the environment attitude of our energetic leader, I purged all the “cookbooks” from the cupboard, leaving only the raw cuisine in place. Everything else, all my baking and cooking recipes, went into a box in the attic. I marinated the portabellas I still had in the fridge, intending to eat them grilled, and had them raw on salad greens with pine-nut lemon juice dressing.
one day down gluten free!
the bread in the freezer will go to whoever in the house cannot live without morning toast, and that WON’t be me!
February 18th, 2009 at 9:41 am
I’m glad this 90 day detox is slower, more gentle than the 7 day detox. It will give me time to know what my body needs and doesn’t need. I hoping to do raw completely for the first 30 days for the other food tends to make my body feel really out of sorts.
Giving up diary will be really easy since I’m lactose intolerant. I had to go online to find out what constitutes gluten free food. So far I’ve avoided these foods.
I’m planning to keep my meals very simple with green smoothies, mono fruit meals and salads.
Keeping a journal of what I eat and how much I exercise each day will help me keep track of my progress.
Karen
I soooooo love this feedback and am just overflowing with gratitude. I totally recommend that you all sign up to the new free version. I think it will just be a lot easier for us to keep track of each other and the posts that are coming.
We put together a moderately new and improved 90-Day Announcement page here:
Again, I’m sooooo thankful for all this feedback. I’m sooooo excited about this and this week’s lecture is going to be TOTALLY helpful. I SO need this call!
Love and love and loooooove and hugs,
Tera
February 18th, 2009 at 1:23 pm
In case anyone is reading through these comments — I think Tera forgot the link in the last comment she made — here is the direct link for signing up for the Free version http://www.therawdivas.com/90-Day-Detox-Signup.php
And here is the page dedicated to this 90 day detox with both the above link as well as the link going to the full support version — http://www.therawdivas.com/90-Day-Detox.php
I’m so excited to see so many people posting here on the blog about their experience. This way even those just reading along (now or later) can be even more inspired!!! Continue to share your tips and stories in the blog comments please so we can all see!!!
February 18th, 2009 at 3:35 pm
Dear Tera~
I’m just getting caught up on my e-mails and I found your yummy letter waiting for me! I’ve been through chaos…and I would go through it all again, if it meant that I would be here, right at this moment, writing to you and enjoying a journey of life that I would never have known existed, only in my dreams. So if I may humbly join the 90 day detox? ~ ;D
February 18th, 2009 at 8:01 pm
Well this email coud not have come at a better time, I am of course sorry for whatever has happened in your life I can certainly recoignise those feelings, But it is really odd to hear that people who eat well, also have bad days and at times relationships that are not perfect and harmonious (please excuse spelling errors). I have realised today that I am a food addict….. I do not starve myself, I do not eat and throw up…. I live a live that includes food…. I never not think about it, I worry about my figure, even though my wardrobe says I’m a UK 10. I think about food and calories like an alchoholic thinks about booze. I know you have not been happy – but it brings hope – I hope thats ok.Thank you.
February 19th, 2009 at 7:51 pm
I would like to go for the 90 days also. I miss your e-mails. I NEED the encouragement.
Thanks for all you gals do for you. We love you and appreciate you SO much!
Jann
February 21st, 2009 at 8:15 am
I, too, miss the encouraging emails and it seems my family is even more into eating that food.
Sometimes I wonder how I’m going to get through this 90 day detox successfully unless I eat most of my meals in my bedroom.
February 27th, 2009 at 4:12 am
Hi,
I just read this email (in wrong folder) and I know I’m late but would still really like to join the blog. Where do I find it?
Thank you so much,
Avigail
February 27th, 2009 at 4:16 am
Ladies, I just saw this if anyone else missed it …..
the free version
http://www.therawdivas.com/90-Day-Detox.php
Hi, Sunshine.
This IS the blog.
I hope you found it okay and made sense of all this. Let me know if you need more help. I sent you a private email, too!
xoxo