February 02, 2010
2010 is off to a great start for the Whole Body Detox Diet! In January, we had the pleasure and honor of interviewing raw food ‘guru’ David Wolfe. We also had fun guiding the Holiday Recovery group detox. If you missed it, see below for a special bonus deal!
We’re both back on track after travels, vacation and holidays. We’re making personal healthy choices for this New Year and new decade. Read on for inspiration and tips on how you can join us in making 2010 a healthy and happy year!
Healthy Blessings, Cindy and Jo
Volume II, Issue 1, February 2010
In this Edition
- Making 2010 a Healthy, Happy Year
- David Wolfe's Tips for Experiencing the Best Health Ever!
- Vegan Cream of Broccoli Soup
- Missed the Holiday Recovery Detox? We have a FREE bonus for you!
- Holiday Recovery Testimonials
Making 2010 a Healthy, Happy New Year
It is the beginning of a whole new year and even a whole new decade. Now that the holidays are over and we’re left with the relative quiet of winter we’re given a great opportunity to create the kind of year we want. This time of year is perfect for personal reflection, re-prioritizing and starting fresh.
For most people in our culture this is the quietest time of year and the time of year with the most regularity. The erratic schedules and extra indulgences of summers and holidays make it more difficult to make healthy choices. If you seize this precious moment at the beginning of the year to establish healthy habits they will support a healthy, happy year and be firmly in place for when life gets busy.
So what are your New Year’s resolutions? This time honored tradition can actually be a very powerful tool when used well. Your mind is much more powerful than you think. When you take the time to truly consider what you value and what you would like to bring forth into your life this year, you set yourself up for big changes.
Think about the past year- the successes and joys, the struggles and challenges. Think about how much life you lived in 2009. Then think about the coming year and the changes you would like to see occur. What do you need more of? What do you need less of? What are you ready to let go of? What are you ready to learn? It’s up to you where you put your precious attention and how you spend your energy in this coming year.
Remember to consider your dreams and plans for 2010 in a holistic way. That means think about the whole story. And remember that your health is the foundation of your life. If you would like to go back to school this year or have a child you’re going to need your health. If you want to travel and enjoy time with your friends you’ll need to be healthy. If you intend to pay off your debt or move to another town your health will be crucial. When you are sick or in pain it’s nearly impossible to focus on anything else. This is how so many of us get stuck in the same old rut year after year.
Make this year different right from the start by prioritizing your health so you can go after your dreams and plans. Consider how you can bring deeper strength and vitality to your body. How do you want to feel in your body? How do you want to relate to your food? How do you want to exercise? These things are up to you. It’s your choice to continue old habits or start new ones.
A good cleanse will lighten your load and free you of old, unhealthy habits. If you missed out on the Holiday Recovery Group Detox, we have a special deal for you! Order our 7 Day Detox Diet Plan, complete with menu plan and shopping list, and you'll receive a free bonus copy of our Holiday Recovery teleseminars! Read on for more details.
Wishing you a Happy and Healthy 2010!
Special Detox Tip: David Wolfe's Tips for the Best Health Ever!
David Wolfe shared tons of fascinating information and valuable perspectives during our interview. And now we’re excited to share them with you. We picked out a couple of his key points to get you excited about improving your vitality this winter.
Make sure to read the full interview for creating the best health ever! Here are some highlights:
Use your intuition...
"In the dietary chaos of our Western world, there are so many competing ideas that we are really left with only one possible way of sorting it out. And that is trusting our instincts and our intuition."
Be gentle on yourself...
"I don’t really advocate 100% raw food diet for most people because it’s just irrational from where we are coming from… we are literally survivors of a dietary holocaust. I’m talking about Pez, I’m talking about Cheetos, fast food, Nerds candy – I mean we have eaten stuff that is so toxic that it is literally almost radioactive… Coming from that perspective, we have got to be gentle on ourselves."
Spend your money on your health...
"First of all, I have to dispel the whole “expensive myth”. Because here’s what’s expensive - your rent, your mortgage, your car payment…your health is where you need to put your money. We have this phrase in our language which is, “Put your money where your mouth is.” What a powerful phrase! Because our values are all disturbed – we think that having a new car is more important than the food we are buying."
Add Superfoods to your diet...
"Superfoods - maca, goji berries,
marine phytoplankton
, spirulina
, blue-green algae, bee pollen, hemp seed
- can actually nourish us with real bio-available complete protein which we’ve probably never had before…because most meat doesn’t have enough protein in it. Most meat is cooked and we lose 50 % of the protein, the tryptophan is lost, the phenylalanine is broken down and it’s not even really useable. So when we are looking at these high meat diets what we see often is protein deficiency which manifests itself as neurological disorders."
If you have to start with just one, he says, "choose organic goji berries."
Use Medicinal Mushrooms and Wild Herbs for a healthy winter...
"I would definitely recommend that herbal tea become a part of somebody’s diet, especially wild herbs. Horsetail and Nettles are the most important ones to start with...
"Tree mushrooms also have a very powerful detoxification effect. Very powerful. Other than just straight up green juices and their flushing capacity, I would put mushrooms second in their ability to detoxify us."
Chaga, Reishi, Maitake and Shiitake are David's top mushroom recommendations.
Visit our full David Wolfe Interview for more inspirational tips and information on how to have the best health ever!
Featured Recipe: Vegan Cream of Broccoli Soup
Your mother always told you to eat your broccoli. But did she really know how powerful and disease-fighting that little green tree could be? Broccoli is packed with cancer-fighting vitamins and minerals that detoxify at a cellular level.
Your kids won't eat their "trees"? Ours love this cream of broccoli soup! It's creamy and rich from coconut milk and spiced just right. Check out our Cream of Broccoli Soup recipe for a deeply nourishing and warming mid-winter meal.
It's Not Too Late! Get our Holiday Recovery Classes for FREE!
Did you miss out on the Holiday Recovery Group Detox? It's not too late! Mid-winter is a great time to support your immune system and deeply nourish your body with a gentle, nutritious detox.
For a limited time, when you order your 7-Day Detox Plan, we'll give you access to the recordings of our Holiday Recovery Teleseminars! Full of personal details and in-depth information on how to get the most out of your detox, these two 60+ minute teleclasses answer many of the top questions we get about detoxing.
So don't miss out on this limited time offer - now through February 14th - order your 7 Day Detox Package and receive our special bonus. Plan now to spend a week giving yourself the support and nourishment you need to recover and set yourself up for a healthy 2010.
Do you need extra support for your detox and healthy lifestyle? Jo delAmor, Holistic Health Counselor, provides professional detox guidance and health counseling. She'll help you create and follow through with a plan that's just right for your specific needs, concerns and conditions.
Click here for details on guided detox programs with Jo.
"Your living is determined not so much by what life brings you as by the attitude you bring to life: not so much by what happens to you as by the way your mind looks at what happens."
~John Homer Miller
Holiday Recovery Detox Stories
"My husband and I planned meals, shopped and encouraged one another throughout our first detox experience during the Holiday Recovery Group Detox. We had fun trying new foods and new recipes, and we've decided to make all of the ones we tried staples of our ongoing diet. During the detox, we both experienced detox symptoms, but by the time we hit day 5....we were feeling powerful!! New and clean are words that accurately describe how we felt. The effort that went into planning and executing the detox was well worth it. We've proven to ourselves that good, whole food tastes great and makes us feel great." ~Tamara, New Jersey"After trying to lose weight for several years in my 50’s, I decided it was an impossibility. Now, despite being very well educated on natural foods since the 1970’s, I finally learned the critical pieces for my health success during Holistic Health Counseling from Jo and the guidance of both Cindy and Jo, through the Holiday Recovery Detox. I have begun losing weight and I am confident I will return to my most healthy body weight. More importantly I am restoring my health, building my immune system, and feeling more alert and energetically young!" ~Pamela, Colorado
"I have wanted to email you how much I appreciate you both and sharing the detox challenge and diet for us.... and especially all the time you took on the calls to go into detail with my questions... I want to be able to send a great note explaining how I have been blessed by the process... I am just gonna send you a simple "thank you" for now because it's important to me to let you know it has made a great mental and physical difference for me personally. Thank you so much for all you have done!" ~Alisha, Idaho
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