An introduction…
In January this year, I started to read up more about raw food. Following on from dabbling with juicing, I signed up to a raw food newsletter and when an email invitation plonked itself in my inbox from Karen Knowler, The Raw Food Coach, hotly followed by a Skype conversation (read ‘verbal challenge’) with my friend Paul Fuggle I parted with some cash, left the kids and the husband and dashed off up to Ely for a weekend’s raw experience…
There were 9 of us on the course and to say it was an amazing weekend would be an understatement. Karen took us through the why’s, what and how. She howed us how to make stuff and fed us to within an inch of bursting with the most amazing, tasty, colourful foods – including raw chocolate ‘icecream’ – yummy! We laughed and talked and shared on every level – physical, emotional and spiritual and went on the most amazing self awareness trip – this raw food stuff really brings stuff to the surface (in more ways than one *grin*)…
So by the end of the weekend, despite feeling like I’ve eaten wayyyyy too much, I came home to find…
… myself 7lbs lighter and did the biggest poo I’ve done in years! Yep, I warn you, I’m going to share LOTS on this blog.
Inspired by my progress and how I hadn’t felt deprived at all, I spent the next week continuing my new raw lifestyle. With this internal cleansing, however, old emotions started bubbling to the surface as I
wasn’t stuffing my feelings back down with chocolate and vino and a multitude of other crap.
Feeling ‘weird’ I spoke to my sister who promptly gave me a number for a ‘therapist’, as to go and chat to a complete stranger to let it all out and let it go is a great thing to do apparently. Unable to deny
the logic of this and wanting to free myself from my baggage (and unhelpful lardy ways) forever, I gave Suzanne a ring – ignoring the voice in my head that kept telling me it was a waste of time and money
and what’s the point of dragging stuff up from the past, after all I’ve read enough books about living in the ‘now’, haven’t I?
So off I went and thankfully Suzanne is not one of those people who make you lie on a couch and go, “hmmm”, a lot and not much else. She is brilliant at reflecting stuff back and asking key challenging questions to help you see stuff clearly and I’ve found that with understanding can come acceptance of what is or was, so I can then stop fighting things and just let it go… Amazing lady and I highly recommend her – let me know if you want her number.
Anyway, I digressed!
So I’ve found, that after a session with Suzanne, I immediately use food to try and stuff things back down again. But I know now that I need to feel the pain to move through it and stuff ain’t going to go
away until I do. And nor is my gut.
I continued eating raw about 60% of the time and kept in touch with the people who came on the raw food weekend. Feeling the need for some extra motivation (I’ve discovered this has to be a regular thing in my life!), I agreed with Ann to stop messing about and up my raw food consumption to 90% plus….
