Attitude is everything so you might as well have a good one!
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Kathy can you
share with our readers what you have been doing to improve your
health while Pariah, A Healing Journal has been on hiatus?
On August 31st i completed 92 days of a 92 day juice feast.
According to David Rainoshek, MA, juice feasting "isn’t about
abstinence of solids. It’s about an abundance of enzymes, vitamins,
minerals and protein in liquid form." Juice feasting is a way to
allow the body "to cleanse, rebuild, rehydrate and alkalize by
drinking 1 gallon or more of freshly made juices each day of the
feast". It was an incredible, life altering, health
promoting experience, really the ultimate urban vision quest.
Everyday my body was flooded with an abundance of raw living enzymes
and all the vitamins, minerals and proteins it had been missing.
I never once felt hungry because i was juicing between 10-15 pounds
of raw organic vegetables and edible weeds on a daily basis. My
energy increased exponentially after the 4th day, gone were the days
of coming home from my part time job and crashing, there was life
after work! Along with the daily juices i also drank a daily
quart of a drink called "the master cleanse", took liquid
B-12, MSM, chlorella, hemp oil and when the urge to chew came munched
on bee pollen. I also did coffee enemas [not daily], ion cleanse foot
baths, a parasite cleanse, body brushing, daily detox showers and
used a zapper. To some this may seem over the top, extreme even,
but i've always been one to push just beyond the edge of my limits in
order to open myself up for the next thing. In truth, without
even knowing it, i had been working toward this feast for a very long
time by creating gradual and consistent changes in my diet with the
idea of transitioning to raw foods. I am now doing a whole food diet
with an emphasis on raw food and have transitioned from juice to
green smoothies and the most amazing energy rich food! Which
of course means spending lots of time playing in the kitchen creating
all kinds of wonderful raw feasts. It's a blast and the increase in
my over all health and well being are so amazing i can't possibly
begin to express it. And to celebrate, i begin Feldenkrais sessions.
Feldenkrais
Method
Juice Feasting
Raw Reform
Emax Health
Kathy
I know your friends have asked, what took you so long to create your
own website and showcase your unique and eclectic talents. Can you
tell us what inspired you to finally create the Empowered Goddess
website?
Hmmmm, that's funny but you know what they say...."other people's opinions are none of my business!" The simple reality is, until i did it i wasn't ready. And truthfully, i've been working on it for a very long time, but it was "inside me" and now it's "outside."
Where
does your passion and commitment for taking your health into your own
hands come from?
That's easy, frustration with the western model of medicine. After years of knowing something wasn't right and not getting answers i took my health into my own hands and became my own doctor. And so began the process of experimenting with different methods and modalities and fine tuning the nutritional aspects of healing. I became interested in learning about what others have tried but at the same time was not at all interested in emulating them. We are all wonderfully unique, what works for someone else may not work for me. My rule of thumb is, if it doesn't resonate with my own innate wisdom, i don't do it.
Juice Feasting
Raw Reform
Emax Health
Kathy
I know your friends have asked, what took you so long to create your
own website and showcase your unique and eclectic talents. Can you
tell us what inspired you to finally create the Empowered Goddess
website?
Hmmmm, that's funny but you know what they say...."other people's opinions are none of my business!" The simple reality is, until i did it i wasn't ready. And truthfully, i've been working on it for a very long time, but it was "inside me" and now it's "outside."
Where
does your passion and commitment for taking your health into your own
hands come from?
That's easy, frustration with the western model of medicine. After years of knowing something wasn't right and not getting answers i took my health into my own hands and became my own doctor. And so began the process of experimenting with different methods and modalities and fine tuning the nutritional aspects of healing. I became interested in learning about what others have tried but at the same time was not at all interested in emulating them. We are all wonderfully unique, what works for someone else may not work for me. My rule of thumb is, if it doesn't resonate with my own innate wisdom, i don't do it.
In spite of illness, in spite even of
the archenemy sorrow,
one can remain alive long past the usual date of disintegration if one is unafraid of change, insatiable in intellectual curiosity, interested in big things, and happy in small ways. Edith Wharton. |
My commitment and passion
comes from REmembering good health and knowing it's my birthright
along with a deep rooted refusal to settle for poor health. It also
stems from a desire to find economical ways to improve the health i
have that transcends the traditional western model. Good health
doesn't require health insurance or a doctor, of any kind, other than
yourself. There are simple, every day things, that can and do make a
difference. It's work, there isn't a magic bullet, however working
toward providing the body with what it needs to heal is an incredible
act of self-love and discovery.
That is not to say i don't ever go to a doctor or think doctors are bad, i have simply made a conscious decision to only work with those willing to work as a partner in the process. I have a right to be listened to, respected and heard, it is after all my body, my time and my money, i will not squander my resources!
That is not to say i don't ever go to a doctor or think doctors are bad, i have simply made a conscious decision to only work with those willing to work as a partner in the process. I have a right to be listened to, respected and heard, it is after all my body, my time and my money, i will not squander my resources!
You
are the co-creator of this E-Zine. Pariah's mission is, "Perpetuating
the use of radical knowledge, subversion, frugality, simple health
care and creative expression to empower personal healing from chronic
illness and injury." For you, those are not just words on a
website, they are a big part of who you are and how you live. How
will the Empowered Goddess website be an extension of these ideas and
beliefs?
You know, i'm sure all those things will be included in some way but it's too soon to "know" the how of it. There is a natural progression that happens whenever something is created. Hopefully, as it evolves, the end result will be a lively site filled with a natural flow of information that is as practical as it is thought provoking and everything in between.
You know, i'm sure all those things will be included in some way but it's too soon to "know" the how of it. There is a natural progression that happens whenever something is created. Hopefully, as it evolves, the end result will be a lively site filled with a natural flow of information that is as practical as it is thought provoking and everything in between.
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