Crazy Healer Lady
09-19-2008, 10:27 PM
Wow! When I first joined two years ago, I didn't stay with the forum long as a poster or reader for the sheer size (and my insistence that I be up-to-date with the happenings on my forums) and also for coming off of Raw due to moving in with my boyfriend, who at that time was adjusting to vegan cooking, let alone Raw. I still tried to keep up the Raw diet, but was living mostly on cooked stuff. I took the time to advance my career, settle things, etc. I still came back here every once in a while to find articles, recipes, and enthusiasm for food and for life.
Well, my back gave out, and I'm only 21 (22 in a few days) and 115lbs. I did something at work, not sure what, and have been off work and bedbound for over a month. A week ago I said ENOUGH, and have gone back to Raw. I've been Raw for eight days now, except the first seven have had one cooked addition, which has been toast or other cooked bread.
After reading Victoria Boutenko's 12 Steps to Raw, I have realized that the bread is an addiction, and today is my first day without, and I feel amazing. I find it wonderful how after four weeks and many therapies (massage, chiropractor, physician, acupuncture, kinesiology, physiotherapy, energy work) my back did not improve, but now, on my eighth day Raw, I am feeling so much better. Add a spine cleaning from my friend, and I'm feeling emotionally more whole.
I started a group on Facebook for my friends who have since joined me in adding more raw foods to their diet, started a blog detailing my process (all of which are extra measures to keep me from going off, until it's second nature like it was when I first went Raw), and have decided that when I get better, I am teaching un-cooking classes at our local leisure centre and Seventh-Day Adventist church (which our landlords lead, and I have learned apparently that Seventh-Day is very into health, and regularly hold vegetarian cooking classes.)
This is getting a bit long, but I am so glad to be back to RFT on this healing journey. I love the energy of this forum, and am almost in tears, probably because I'm still "high" from my healing treatment. I have been browsing the "before and after" pictures and I must say: EVERY SINGLE ONE OF YOU ARE SO INCREDIBLY BEAUTIFUL!!
Thanks for the rant, and all of you, even those I don't know yet, I love you all.
-CHL
Well, my back gave out, and I'm only 21 (22 in a few days) and 115lbs. I did something at work, not sure what, and have been off work and bedbound for over a month. A week ago I said ENOUGH, and have gone back to Raw. I've been Raw for eight days now, except the first seven have had one cooked addition, which has been toast or other cooked bread.
After reading Victoria Boutenko's 12 Steps to Raw, I have realized that the bread is an addiction, and today is my first day without, and I feel amazing. I find it wonderful how after four weeks and many therapies (massage, chiropractor, physician, acupuncture, kinesiology, physiotherapy, energy work) my back did not improve, but now, on my eighth day Raw, I am feeling so much better. Add a spine cleaning from my friend, and I'm feeling emotionally more whole.
I started a group on Facebook for my friends who have since joined me in adding more raw foods to their diet, started a blog detailing my process (all of which are extra measures to keep me from going off, until it's second nature like it was when I first went Raw), and have decided that when I get better, I am teaching un-cooking classes at our local leisure centre and Seventh-Day Adventist church (which our landlords lead, and I have learned apparently that Seventh-Day is very into health, and regularly hold vegetarian cooking classes.)
This is getting a bit long, but I am so glad to be back to RFT on this healing journey. I love the energy of this forum, and am almost in tears, probably because I'm still "high" from my healing treatment. I have been browsing the "before and after" pictures and I must say: EVERY SINGLE ONE OF YOU ARE SO INCREDIBLY BEAUTIFUL!!
Thanks for the rant, and all of you, even those I don't know yet, I love you all.
-CHL