Do you ever get that feeling when you connect with someone that you’ve known them forever?

You know when you just “click” with a person and goosebumps run across your skin when you start talking to them because it just feels right all over?

That’s how it was when Tara-jenelle of www.Soulebrate.com and I connected on the phone for the first time.

Instant friendship.

I’m super duper excited to introduce you to this Chica and one of the newest members of our Raw Diva community. Thanks to one of our darling divas who just decided the two of us would make great friends, Tara and I connected and I just know you’re going to love her as much as I do. I’ve managed to convince her to climb on board our upcoming Detox program to help address a few of her lingering health issues and I’m soooo excited that she’s agreed to play along. She’s going to be my buddy for the 6-Week Detox!

I know you’re going to enjoy connecting with this soulful gal and I for a chit-chat on Wednesday. She’s got some amazing stories and is surrounded by some incredible people. We’ve covered all kinds of topics throughout this program, I felt it was time we discuss matters of the “soul” and Tara-jenelle is the perfect person to do just that. I hope you’ll join us on Wednesday!

Click HERE to access the information for tomorrow’s teleseminar!

Here’s Tara’s Bio:

In today’s fast-paced, high-tech world it’s all too easy to lose personal connections with those we care about or to lose interest in creating new connections – and even at times – to lose touch with our own feelings.

Tara-jenelle Walsch is the founder and spirit behind Soulebrate, an organization that encourages emotional awareness and deeper, authentic connections with others. She is also an original founder and co-developer of the successful self-help and spiritual Internet company, ConsciousOne.com.

Soulebrate Greeting Cards step up to support expression, healing, growing and celebrating the all of life:  the ups and the downs, the achievements and the disappointments, the love and the pain. The company is environmentally and emotionally conscious, and prints all cards in the USA with recycled paper and soy-based ink.

Through her commitment to helping others find freedom through voicing their heart, Tara-jenelle is the writer and designer behind Soulebrate greeting cards, as well as other inspiring products that offer us an opportunity to be and express who we truly are inside.

Originally from Annapolis, Maryland, she earned a Communications degree in 1991 at Towson State University in Baltimore and has since found herself creating uniquely, untraditional ways for humanity to express and experience itself. Tara-jenelle currently lives in Southern California with her dog, Sascha.

For more information about Tara-jenelle or Soulebrate, please visit www.soulebrate.com

“None of the cards today say anything heart-felt, brave or true… and just as I thought the greeting card industry had lost its soul, I found Soulebrate.”
- Vision Magazine

I fell in love recently.

I know, I know. “Here she goes blurting her personal stuff on the blog again!” But there’s a message in here, and I think it’s a valuable one.

First of all, I don’t know FOR SURE how this is going to work out. No one ever does, really. There’s a certain amount of risk that comes with loving someone and opening up enough to be loved in return. I won’t deny that I have “fears” that pop up related to previous experiences I’ve had and while there are all kinds of things I’ve managed to build and create successfully, a marriage isn’t one of them. In spite of my habit of diving into romance with all the best intentions, until now, something goes awry and it falls apart.

I told you when I was dating “Mr. Wheatgrass” and “The Dutchman”. It was fun to include you in these adventures and share what had been going on. Lately, I’m finding it difficult to “get into” my blog posts  because I’ve been keeping a secret from you.

But there’s a mighty fine lesson here I’d like to illustrate and it’s on my mind a lot as I embark on a new commitment to try and build a significant relationship with someone new in my life.

The biggest reason relationships fall apart is because of the things that go unspoken–the secrets that remain untold. Anyone who has fallen in love once knows how amazing this can be. Then, over time, they say people “lose their spark” or that they “fall out of love”.

Maybe this is true, but I’m not convinced.

I think people as individuals are responsible for the feelings, sensations, perceptions they feel. I think WE choose how we react to others, to food, to our environment and personal circumstances. There are all manner of excuses people can come up with to justify relationships falling apart, but in my humble opinion, more often than not these are just “excuses.” The real reason people drift in relationships is because they’re not communicating honestly or fully about what’s going on.

I’m not talking about saying everything you think to your partner, but when you become aware that you are withholding something–some thought, some concern, something you’ve done that you probably shouldn’t have done… then your internal alarms should be going off like mad! These things that get withheld put sheer curtains between you and your partner. When you accumulate enough of them it gets tough to see the other person the  way you once did. We find “reasons” to justify the fact that we’ve
“fallen out of love” but the truth is that you fell out of communication FIRST! And communication can be restored.

I’ve seen this in action with my ex-husband. Even though my ex-husband and I had been divorced for over 6 years, in the interests of improving our relationship with one another and for the kids, we went to marriage counseling. It was a pretty unique form of counseling in that there were ONLY TWO QUESTIONS the counselor asked. For example, she picked one person at a time. When she asked me, she had me sit facing Jason (who was instructed not to say A WORD in spite of any temptation that may arise to do so). Then she repeated these two questions until I felt positive, experienced a relief and had a win!

1. What have you done to Jason?

2. What have you withheld from Jason?

Then she switched and it was Jason’s turn to do the same thing. These two questions took what for us had been 6 years of tension, stress and conflict and dissolved it in a few hours. Incredible.

I wrote this on the sales page of the 90-day detox:

“4. It’s not what someone else does to you that causes you to dislike them, it’s what you do to them!”

It’s not that I’ve stopped loving you, my dear, but I’ve found myself slightly disconnected emotionally from my blog posts and I bet it shows. I’ve been holding out on you about the new love in my life. But I won’t hold out for much longer. I can’t even if I want to and even if my mother says I should.

I’m an open book kinda girl that way.

It’s time to get a couple muffins ready for school, then hot yoga then I’ve got some exciting writing to finish up. I hope you’re doing well, my dear!

I’ll be back for an update and a love story soon.

*smooch*

Tera

P.S.

Heads up about the teleseminar i’m going to be doing with Patty Contenta! Check it out here:

—> http://tinyurl.com/c8y7sj

Well, it’s a Sunday morning and the kids are clicking and clacking with lego on the floor in front of me. The heat of yesterday has moved through and a cooling grey sky is here in its place reminding us it’s Spring, not Summer. Yesterday it would have been hard to convince me it wasn’t a hot day in July!

I woke up this morning smiling at the thought of “Don’t be so obsessed about what you eat.”

Last night at our post-pj party picnic, I found myself snacking on some vegan treats. And you know, I think I half expected to wake up with an extra 30 pounds of water retention having taken over my body, but after a good night’s sleep, I feel…

…AMAZING.

This really worked for me, this detox. We’ve discussed a lot of different things. Eating late, exercise, sleep and communication. Relationships, mind over matter and even sex!

I’ve been reading a lot lately on the physiological reasons not to eat cooked food. Just talking about the science of what happens when you heat your food and why it is toxic to ingest. It’s incredible when I think of the degrees and credentials people have around health and nutrition, and yet the simplest things (like the effect of heat on fat, protein and carbohydrates) seem to have been overlooked in the books on health.

So, I’ve been reading a lot about why not to eat cooked food, or at least the consequences of doing so. And it certainly makes for a legitimate arguement, but then I am so quickly reminded about how one’s attitude, emotional state and outlook on life affects every cell in the body. So the fact of the matter is, you can eat the best food in the world, but if you’re not breathing deep, cleansing breaths, if you’re not living in loving, fulfilled relationships, if you’re not happy doing what you do in life, if you don’t communicate what you feel, then you may as well be eating cardboard.

Stress is stress, it doesn’t matter how you look at it. And the body responds the same.

Listening to the teleseminar with Roe, I was inspired to take my discipline up a notch or two. But then I can only do it to the degree that I feel that extra degree of severity is worth it to me. It’s so hard to prioritize  the next degree of severity when my life feels like bliss most days.

And yet, I do believe that even bliss is relative. How good can good get? I guess that’s why I’ll find out if and when I turn up the volume on discipline.

I know I’ve been getting a few emails from some of you who resonate with the inability to carry through with a juice feast. It may be a question of time, personal organizational skills and general attachment to the sensation of chewing, but I’ve not yet managed to get through a full day of juice feasting in spite of my desires to do so. Who knows, maybe it will happen yet. I have to say I’m fascinated by the start of the process for the 6-Week Detox. I just know I’m going to learn SO much and I’m curious to see how this goes. I managed to get a sneak peek at the detox protocols and I’ll keep you posted on how I do.

***Later in the afternoon***

Just came back from the potluck and filming with Radio Canada. It was interesting. They’re doing a piece on anti-aging and wanted to have stories of raw foodists and get a look at what this diet is doing. I’ll get another mini window on camera, but I’m not sure if I’ll show you the link or not. Guess I’ll preview it first. It’s still exciting, though, because they called me up just because of a simple website that we have online.

One of the people I encouraged them to interview is a truck driver and a raw foodists. Neat guy. Great story.

It’s so great to go to these dinners and connect with other people trying to make the raw food diet work in the real world. We compare stories, network and make friends.

I’m going to spend the next few days digging my heels into some articles and transcripts and cold hard facts about food. I’ll share with you what I learn as I learn it. I want to finish this 90-Day Detox with a bang. Something that gets us powered and committed and on board for LIFE.

There’s are a couple cool telseminars coming up this weekend!

Yikes! I gotta go. I’m late for a date with my pores and have some teleseminars tonight! I do have more to say about life, love and adventures of one kind and another, but I’m being counter-intuitive and learning how to keep my mouth shut a bit more. Mom says it’s good for me to do that sometimes.

I guess we’ll see.

Sunday snuggles,

Tera

I couldn’t dream a more beautiful Saturday morning. The chatter of children, the gliding of bike chains that whip past my window. The sun doesn’t stream in, it BILLOWS this morning and if I weren’t keenly aware of this hard chair beneath my bottom, I would swear I was dreaming some far-too-good-to-be-true dream.

And it gets better.

But I can’t tell you yet.

I actually am so overcome with emotion that I don’t have many words to express what’s happening right now. But I will soon. Right now all I can say is DREAM! BELIEVE! PERSIST! LOVE! in spite of all apparent reasons not to do so.

FLOURISH!

PROSPER!

It doesn’t matter what the headlines say or who tells you the world is ending. Life is in you NOW! Live it and love without limits.

Last night I had a date with four 9 year old girls! We had a pajama party and now it’s time to soak up some sun and prepare for a picnic.

Know that my thoughts are with you and my words are forming and very soon a wave of wisdom, passion and clarity will grace these pages with more love and gratitude than I have ever known.

Until then, I’ll be popping bliss bubbles and giggling!

Love you!

Tera

Well, my lovelies.

Seems the whirlwind that is my life picked up speed and carried me away in a can of kidney beans this week.

Well, maybe not quite, but that’s how it’s felt. There’s more to the story, but unfortunately I am sworn to secrecy for right now. There are times I put my whole, wide, naked heart out on a sleeve for the world, and other times when a bit of mystery is best left unexpressed. It’s safe to assume that all things unspoken are only coming from the category of good tidings, so don’t worry about that. But I wouldn’t be honest if I didn’t say it’s been a week to remember.

Juice.

Darn juice.

The never-ending arm-wrestling match between my juicer and I continues, and it seems my juicer always wins–prefering to rest undisturbed on the counter rather than grind gears and work up a sweat in the name of my cyst-busting approach.

The teleseminar call with Roe was really interesting for me. What does it take to step things up a notch and how do we find that extra degree of motivation to make it happen–especially when we’re not threatened by illness or sicknes, etc?

Any idea, because I’m having a heck of a time.

I wish I had some wisdom bubbling from within that I could put here to grace the page and inspire. I guess this on of those juggling moments in the balancing act of my life–the window of time where I find myself glancing at all the balls in the air and wondering which I’ll grab next, hoping the others don’t fall and bounce away in the meantime.

Mika is having a pj party tonight. I’ll be picking up 4 pre-teens tonight and bringing them back home for girlie adventures and a sleepover.It’s been a great excuse to clean up the house, but I didn’t realize how much house their was to clean up. Seems Mika has developed a rather interesting cleaning technique of cramming whatever random objects, clothing and assorted widgets might be lying on the floor and shoving them under her bed. I’m sure this is just a new organizational strategy. Hopefully we’ll work through it to find something more efficient.

Her brother has developed a bit of affinity for the fact that his laundry hamper is the perfect container for swords and Hot Wheel racing ramps. “So where do the clothes go?” you ask? Good question.

We’re getting ready to move in a few weeks and observing the process of going through the things I do not need and do not necessarily want. We’re looking forward to the process of a new beginning. Marking out our own territory for a while. I’ll be starting with little more than a few books, a bed and a piano. Most of the last 2 years I’ve spent living in someone else’s home–subletting an apartment. I’m excited to fill the new place with plants and paint the walls a creamy warm color that makes it feel cozy. I guess we’ll see when the time comes.

The other day in the school yard while picking the kids up from school, destiny dealt me a full deck of cards that I was not expecting. A serendipitous encounter with some kinda wonderful hit me out of the blue and I found myself tripping over my tongue to express myself. (Imagine ME, having difficulty to express myself?) Naturally, my exhuberant self would like to blurt out all kinds of things about this, but as i mentioned earlier, some things are better left somewhat mysterious. While time weaves her wand through the fabric of my life I’ll observe the process with patience and when things get juicy, I’ll let you know more.

Mika said that when she pins up the picture of what’s happening on her heart, it feels like a big marshmallow. She’s happy. That’s a good sign.

The buds on the trees are forming and I see dandelions already. Time to graze the gardens and snack in the back alleys and soak up spring while she is here in her magnificence. The budget is tight these days, but I’m going to dig up $10 from the depths of my splurge account to grace the table with tulips today–colorful reminders that Spring is here in her glory and the World is waking up getting ready for a mega dose of Vitamin D.

I’m sorry there wasn’t more than this to inspire you today, dear, but why don’t you take a turn at the driver’s wheel and let us know what inspires YOU!

Love and spring fever,

Tera

Generally I believe in putting my attention on the things that make the world a better place to be. You won’t likely catch me engaged in a conversation about conspiracy theories, because I’d rather just get busy planting more flowers or sorting out my recycling.

Today is Earth Day. There are times and situations that call for more extreme measures.

On my Facebook account I’ve been leaving a few links to videos that I suggest people watch. And I can leave a link or two here, in case you’re curious, but don’t spend your day reeling in the negative information about how the state of things on our planet is beyond repair. Don’t spend as much time investigating the problems we have created for ourselves as you do msking choices that address these problems.
There’s no shortage of things you can do to take the next step toward a sustainable lifestyle and while it’s easy to point the finger at the bacon and egg eaters of the world, you could just as easily point it at yourself and ask,

“What more can I do to take responsibility for the health of our environment and humankind?”

Frreeeeakin’ big question, isn’t it! And I admit that not all people are up for the challenge of asking themselves, nevermind answering it.

Supreme Master TV has a pretty neat idea. They recognize that the planet is in crisis, and rather than disperse into a whole bunch of different ideas, concerns, etc., they have simply ONE mission: Convert people to a vegetarian diet because THIS ALONE would handle 80% of our toxic burden on the planet.

THIS IS WORTH WATCHING. It really lays out some statistics at the end. It gets to the point. I’m sure there are more graphic versions and some with less subtitles, but I figured this would do the trick, and on the same page are dozens of links to similar resources, too.

If you’re having trouble finding reasons not  to choke back another piece of pizza, then google some John Robbins videos.

They say that even after people have stopped trying to help themselves, they still can be motivated to help another person. Interesting idea! Let’s use it to our advantage and inspire the world to take Responsibility for our health and the sustainability of life on Earth.

I know I do A LOT to be more environmentally conscious, but there are little things I let slip here and there; a light on, the heat too high, etc.  In honor of Earth Day I wanted to point my finger at my own nose and ask what I can do…

Happy Earth Day, Everyone!

What are you going to do to make a difference? Personally, I’m going to spend the day reflecting on that question very seriously, and then I’ll get back to you.
Green is the color of my Love,

Tera

If you don’t know Dr. Roe Gallo, you’re in for a treat!

Roe is the author of  Overcoming the Myths of Aging and Perfect Body: Beyond the Illusion. She’s a role model for health and vibrant living, but she also knows her way around a tube of lipstick and high heels! Sensually speaking, Roe’s PhD in Human Sexuality means we’re dealing with a spicy Chica and I just know you’re going to looooove this interview with Roe.

She’s a stellar example of the principles she teaches. At 50 something, she’s there to show the world that wrinkles, cellulite and a saggy butt are NOT inevitable signs of aging!

I invite you to check out her resources and personal story on her website, www.RoeGallo.com, but in the meantime, here’s a peek at some of the questions I’ll be putting to the grill tomorrow afternoon!

CLICK HERE to access your IMPORTANT TELESEMINAR CALL INFORMATION!

She keeps it real, simple and fun, so I hope you’ll join us on Wednesday afternoon when I ask Roe a few questions about:

• What are the biggest myths of aging and how can we can overcome them?
• Can you talk to us about the importance of sexuality as part of our overall health formula?
• Give us a quick summary on how you inspire people to approach a natural diet and lifestyle?
• Do you ever slip up or stumble? If so, what gets you back on track?
• One of the subjects you’re passionate about is osteoporosis. Can you give us a bit of a teaser on this subject and some of the most important things you’ve learned recently?
• And, as usual, an organic, playfully stimulating conversation awaits you when you join us on Wednesday. Sometimes the moment dictates the subject best! Either way, you’re going to LOVE this chance to get up close and personal with Roe!
  

Hope to speak to you soon!

CLICK HERE to get the call information!

Love and hugs,

Tera

Well, well, well…

Look at me in the middle of the afternoon blogging. I can hardly believe it!

*grin*

That’s a refreshing change.

Things are slowing down a bit more and it feels good to get my feet on the ground. (Doubt I’ll keep  ‘em there for long, though!) I wanted to give you an idea of what I’ll be doing for myself in the weeks to come–at least as far as following the 90-day detox is concerned.

It’s incredible to think of how quickly time flies. We’re already two thirds of the way through this program. Then what? I ask myself a lot and haven’t quite answered that one yet. There are a lot of programs coming down the pipes, but my hope is that this blog can stay as somewhat of a pulse, a heartbeat for our community here. It’s felt good being on the blog every day. Sounds like many of you have drawn upon that support to help you through this process as well.

As I mentioned, it’s time to step up the volume a bit and if you’ve not been feeling very successful until now in your efforts to follow a cleaner dietary regime, then here’s what I’d like to suggest:

• Don’t focus on what you’re going to avoid. Focus on what you’re going to INCLUDE in your diet.

What we resist, persists. Remember that one.

• If you’re struggling to be disciplined when it comes to what kind of food to eat, then control some of the other variables in the equation. (Quantity, time of day, etc.)

I’ve known people to eat a standard meat and potato diet, but because they don’t overeat or eat late at night, they look and feel amazing. So it’s not just WHAT you eat that counts. Find some element that you CAN easily confront or change and start there.That’s the famous “Take it on a gradient” approach that we like to follow around here.

I’ve been at this raw food thing for about 6 years now. I need to pick what will challenge me according to where I’m at. So, I’m going to be focusing on a few things for the next 30 days of the program. Since I started today, I guess that means I’ll officially finish on the 92nd day, but that’s a lucky number, so what the heck.

• Making juices, especially GREEN juices.

Juice feasting isn’t working out very easily for me. I think it’s in large part because my juicer is the pits. I just can’t spent a couple hours messing with the whole system. I might get there eventually, but right now, I’m not there. At least a juice a day should do the trick to help me, I think.

• Increasing my discipline to go to yoga DAILY for the next 30 days.

I took up a 30 day challenge and I love that the commitment forces me to restructure a bit and get this as my priority. I can hardly believe that 6 week ago I was taking my first class. It had been over 3 years since I’d taken a yoga class! Now I’m going EVERY DAY!

*pat myself on the back*

• Getting sufficient sleep.

This is a bit one for me and seems to be creeping back in as a small problem. I started out this detox on the couch and I’m back there again. I think the key is going to find the man of my dreams and then there will be some incentive for going to bed. Otherwise, the couch serves me just fine.

• Keeping my house in order.

I’m not looking to get anything near what my mother and her mother have, but just want to feel more on top of the dust and laundry around here. Aaaaaaand, here’s a big one:

• Doing my best to focus on one thing at a time. Or, in other words, finishing what I start.

I notice that my productivity is seriously compromised by the number of distractions that fall on my plate. So this week my challenge is to be as disciplined as I can at finishing one thing before I start another. I think what that means is that I will have only specific times of the day that I open my mail account to answer messages. If I divide my day into different responsibilities and areas of focus, and design my week to have a bit of a rhythm, then I think good things could come of this.

Just like everything else, I’m taking this on a gradient. I notice I’m getting better at little things that I used to just leave. I’m not perfect, but I’m getting better. That counts for something.

One of the things that drains people immensely is UNFINISHED PROJECTS, or incomplete cycles of action. You have NO idea how much energy this takes up in people. There’s actually a science behind it–a discussion of flows of energy and exchange, etc. that can really get quite interesting. The telephone calls that distract, the emails that come in, the thoughts that wander, the fridge door that opens.

*Sheesh*

What do you know?! Looks like it’s time for this body of mine to boot it to yoga class. Only a one hour class today. But, I’ve got a few aches to iron out, so should be good.

Love and snuggles,

Tera

P.S.

Your turn! What are you going to do to step it up a few notches over the next 30 days?

Maaaaaaaan!

Another day whips by me and here I am, minutes before midnight, finally getting to my blog post. How does it happen? How do the lists of things to do and distractions all pile up high enough and fast enough that a week whips by in a wink?

Ah well…

Onward.

It’s Sunday. It’s time to prepare to renew your commitments. There’s sure a part of me that is looking forward to this final phase of detox. I want to step things up for myself. I’m actually going to physically remove any foods I don’t want to be tempted to eat OUT OF MY HOUSE. I had some great teleseminars last night. If you’re in the high support version of the 90-day detox, I strongly encourage you to check that out. We covered some very good things.

***Fast Forward***

It’s 4:00am. Seems I wasn’t able to keep my eyelids peeled long enough to get this out before midnight afterall. Yesterday was our Raw in Montreal potluck, had two teleseminars at night, yoga in the day and two muffins to love in the morning. (One who had a fever.) Anyway, not the MOST productive day foinr Divaland, but certainly busy enough to have me conked on the couch earlier than I expected.

I’ll save the commitment review for “Monday’s” post.

Given the hustle and bustle that’s been going on because of the release of the 6-Week detox, there have been A LOT of emails coming in. I’m certainly doing my best to keep up.

Here’s one that moved me. Wanted to share the exchange of thoughts because I thought you might find it moving.

Hello Tera:  My name is Charles Premoe and I just wanted to express to you and Dr. Rita
how much I appreciate people such as yourselves and the truly inspirational work that you both are doing.  I am left near speechless as I try to envision the tremendous impact that you must have on the countless lives of those whom you influence by your gentle healing touch as you progress in your tireless efforts to restore the hope that sometimes begins to fade from our grasp as we are exposed to so many toxic influences.

Somehow a simple thank you just is not sufficient.

I just ask that untold blessing be yours in accordance with the level of your desires to share the knowledge that you have with others.  For if there is one thing I do know, it is this, that the universe is very reciprocative. Meaning that, as some people have put it “what goes around, comes around.”  In other words, the more you give, the more abundantly you will be given unto.

At the risk of sounding religious “in blessing we are blessed, and in multiplying, we are multiplied.” Genesis chap.22 verses21&22 also Hebrews chap.6 verses 13-15.  While writting this letter, I must admit that tears of joy fill my eyes as I think of the two of you, and what it is that you are doing. It goes without saying how vitally important this is to people.

I listened to the call last night and was amazed at the wealth of info that was given out in such a short amount of time. Then I went to your site and listened to the call several more times, it was truly wonderful. And you, Tera, bless your heart, I know how difficult it must have been for you to do what you did at the end of the teleseminar, but I truly believe that great hidden treasures are laid up in store for the both of you, (not to mention your families) for doing this.  It may not appear so at first, but given time you will soon reap the harvest of your plantings.  I assure you that this is so!  For it is only after the trial, that the blessings (AKA, rewards) come.

I owned a bakery some 14 years ago, and being somewhat of an extremist that I am, I worked very hard especially around the holidays I sometimes would work 4 & 5 days in a row with no sleep what so ever just to make the business succeed.  I usually didn’t have time to stop for a nutritious meal, so I often ate what I was fixing at the moment, and believe me it wasn’t the best that one could place in their body.  I didn’t drink coffee but in order to stay awake I would often consume high caffine sodas.  Needles to say, things began to take their toll on me and toward the end I suffered a stroke that forced me to give up the one thing that I loved to do. I had no choice but to let go of my business and lost my ability to provide a living for my family.  Let me just say this; for a man, that hit me right square in the bulls eye of my male pride.  For the next week I lay unconscious and paralyzed on my left side.  When I finally came conscious it was sometime before I began to realize just what had happened to me.

To make a long story short, I made a very slow recovery, until now I have just begun to take a new and exciting direction in my journey upon life’s pathway, that being raw and living foods.  My ultimate goal is to eventually overcome the challenge of current health issues, to the point that others can actually begin to see what a difference this lifestyle can make in a person. i.e. Just the other day I had a friend comment on how much younger I looked.  That was a testimony to me that what I was doing was beginning to make a difference.  My main concern now is congestive heart failure along with the 9 medications that I am currently on and the mirad of side effects that are beginning to show up which means more meds to take care of the side effects which can cause other side effects.

I believe that as long as there is a spark of life left that their still is a glimmer of hope.

I eventually would like to acquire enough knowledge to some day teach others what I have learned.  I believe that nothing can bring a person more of a sense of fulfillment than to restore hope into the lives of other people and literally see the light of that hope shinning forth from their countenances. What a marvelous experiences that truly is.  And that dear Tera is my request for you; that you will begin to see the fruits of your labours.  And you will be richly blessed, both temporally and spiritually for all your efforts.  Once again thank you both from the depths of my heart.

Rawspectfully Yours;
Charles Premoe

P.S.  Please drop a line just to let me know that you received this letter.  Its important to me as I am not very computer literate, but I am learning.

As you can imagine, it’s quite something to receive messages like this. If I look back at the glory moments of what I’ve done in my life (with work) they are most certainly related to letters like this one that express such an extraordinary amount of emotion between strangers. They open their secret gardens for me to see without so much as questioning whether or not I am able, willing or interested in knowing these things. They KNOW I am because I’ve imbued a clear sense of who I am in everything I do.

Yesterday an AMAZING character, Jacques Landry, in our potluck group came up to me saying that he’d read the sales page for the 90-day detox and had never read any letter that had as much looooove in it. He said he felt like it came straight from the heart.

It did.

It all does.

You don’t always realize the impact your choices have on other people, but the world is watching. BE the change. You don’t always see the results of what you give or how you love coming back to benefit you immediately, but persist in the face of opposition and believe, in spite of all reason not to believe or persist, and you’ll see soon enough that you’re on the right path.

Watch for the karmic flags that pop up and affirm you’re doing the right thing. The bus that pulls up just as you arrive at the stop. The friend that calls you up only a moment after you had this person on your mind. These are the winks from the universe that YOU are on the right path.

*ping*

That was my laundry reminding me I’m on the right path to getting this house cleaned today.

I’m decluttering. Decluttering my thoughts, my house, my intestinal tract, my cupboards and my social life.

Out with the old!

In with the new!

I’m ready for the final stretch of this 90-day journey and in my next post I’ll tell you what I’ve got planned and what my new commitments are for this week.

Shoulders back! Chest up! Tummy tight!

Dance to the rhythm of your beautiful day–of your beautiful LIFE!

Kisses and karmic flags,
Tera

Oooooooohkaaaaay, folks!

While there are still an absurd number of unanswered messages in my inbox, I MUST BLOG! The last few days have been busy ones as signups are coming in for our 6-Week Deep Tissue Detox. Exciting stuff, I tell ya! Thank you sooooo much to everyone who supported us by coming to the call and sending in your letters of appreciation. I got an interesting one that I’ll attach below.

First, let’s chat a bit.;-)

It’s Day 60.

CONGRATULATIONS for making it this far! Tomorrow we kick off the 3rd stage of this adventure and while this message may not come to you in time, there are some things I’d like to propose we do for the final stretch of this adventure.

I’d like to follow up on the proposition that we have some cleansing days in our week. I’ll be following along the deep tissue detox myself, but want to propose that weekends, or whenever it suits you best, that we include a day of juice feasting ONCE a week. Twice a week if you can. If you don’t have a blender or juicer… then you could consider having 2 days of no fat or even one day of no fat to help give your body and system a bit of a rest.

I would start this cleansing day tomorrow if I could, but we have a potluck dinner with our Raw in Montreal friends. I’m quite excited about seeing some new faces and connecting with everyone there. This week is special because everyone will be getting an invitation to join us next Sunday for another potluck dinner, but this time, we’ll have a film crew with us doing another segment on Raw Food for Radio Canada.

Interesting to realize that in two months there have been two tv interviews with local media. That’s pretty neat and a sure sign that raw food is on the rise in Montreal! That’s why it’s important that YOU be a pioneer out there in the world.

I wrote and spoke a lot about this on the teleseminar and Spring Fever page that I put together, but we really are the trail blazers in this movement and the opportunities are RIPE for building a business inspiring and assisting other people to turn their health and their lives around.

And so how ’bout your health and your life?

Are you ready to step it up a few notches around here? How have things been going?

I want to say more, but I have a little guy running a fever (another reason this comes later than expected). I gotta run, but Sunday morning you’ll be all mine!

More juicy news from me after a good night’s sleep.

Love you,

Tera