hiphoptiff
10-30-2009, 08:04 PM
Hello! I'm Tiffany, mom and fitness instructor. I teach Zumba, hip hop, salsa, etc... It's great because I only work an hour or two a day and for the rest I'm a stay at home mom.
I think parenting was the first time I really deeply realized that things in our culture are not what they seem. Found out about the medical model in birth, etc. Luckily I changed to a midwife. Then immediately discovered attachment parenting, cosleeping, Unconditional Parenting and how to parent without punishment, rewards, including very importantly, no time out. I compare SuperNanny = to the SAD, and Connection Parenting = to living Raw. If you were to see someone at the park eating a fast food burger, you would have a lot of knowledge about what they're doing to themselves & the environment, that they are totally oblivious to. It's an equivalent scenario to when I constantly see people mainstream parenting and punishing at the park...I can see clearly what they are doing and wish they knew better, but there's not a thing I can do about it. It's just torture to watch parents disconnect themselves from their suffering children and exacerbate the situation in a seemingly never ending spiral. :( Anyway, I plan to homeschool and I am totally in love with John Taylor Gatto and John Holt. I think with parenting and then unschooling I experienced a massive life-altering shift, that prepared me to much more quickly intuitively understand why the Raw Lifestyle is so important to embrace, as soon as I found out about it.
By the way, you should see what fitness instructors think is healthy food---there is a Zumba instructors private forum with thousands of instructors and they eat the most processed SAD foods and are always recommending them to each other as health foods! It is crazy. I am glad to have found this forum. Oh yeah, I have Alissa's DVD and am waiting for the book. I can't wait to read it.
It's funny, I lived in San Francisco/Berkeley/Oakland for 10 years and now I live in Richmond Va.... which is conservative and boring.... But it's actually much easier to go raw here, because it is so boring! There is virtually no temptation! It's not like there are a bunch of alluring hip restaurants, and I had already gotten used to preparing all my own food. I never prepared my own food in San Francisco. Somehow I'm in the right place for doing this. The biggest challenge so far is learning all the new recipes, and I'm still waiting for the dehydrator and a couple of other things to be delivered, but I have a very good start going.
I also want to say that I'm so excited to have found raw food because over and over in all different places I see that raw food-ers talk about Byron Katie. After hearing about her a few times in the various audio and video podcasts, I looked her up, got hooked, and read/listened to ALL of her books. I've heard her referenced from all kinds of raw food people. That alone is the proof that Raw Food is the way to go!
I think parenting was the first time I really deeply realized that things in our culture are not what they seem. Found out about the medical model in birth, etc. Luckily I changed to a midwife. Then immediately discovered attachment parenting, cosleeping, Unconditional Parenting and how to parent without punishment, rewards, including very importantly, no time out. I compare SuperNanny = to the SAD, and Connection Parenting = to living Raw. If you were to see someone at the park eating a fast food burger, you would have a lot of knowledge about what they're doing to themselves & the environment, that they are totally oblivious to. It's an equivalent scenario to when I constantly see people mainstream parenting and punishing at the park...I can see clearly what they are doing and wish they knew better, but there's not a thing I can do about it. It's just torture to watch parents disconnect themselves from their suffering children and exacerbate the situation in a seemingly never ending spiral. :( Anyway, I plan to homeschool and I am totally in love with John Taylor Gatto and John Holt. I think with parenting and then unschooling I experienced a massive life-altering shift, that prepared me to much more quickly intuitively understand why the Raw Lifestyle is so important to embrace, as soon as I found out about it.
By the way, you should see what fitness instructors think is healthy food---there is a Zumba instructors private forum with thousands of instructors and they eat the most processed SAD foods and are always recommending them to each other as health foods! It is crazy. I am glad to have found this forum. Oh yeah, I have Alissa's DVD and am waiting for the book. I can't wait to read it.
It's funny, I lived in San Francisco/Berkeley/Oakland for 10 years and now I live in Richmond Va.... which is conservative and boring.... But it's actually much easier to go raw here, because it is so boring! There is virtually no temptation! It's not like there are a bunch of alluring hip restaurants, and I had already gotten used to preparing all my own food. I never prepared my own food in San Francisco. Somehow I'm in the right place for doing this. The biggest challenge so far is learning all the new recipes, and I'm still waiting for the dehydrator and a couple of other things to be delivered, but I have a very good start going.
I also want to say that I'm so excited to have found raw food because over and over in all different places I see that raw food-ers talk about Byron Katie. After hearing about her a few times in the various audio and video podcasts, I looked her up, got hooked, and read/listened to ALL of her books. I've heard her referenced from all kinds of raw food people. That alone is the proof that Raw Food is the way to go!