“A Course In Weight Loss” by Marianne Williamson – Book Review

Right before the end of 2010 a new Hay House book arrived on my door step, innocently entitled “A Course in Weight Loss, 21 Spiritual lessons for surrendering your weight forever” by Marianne Williamson. I was really excited to delve into this book for a couple reasons, one of which being that I was about to begin a Raw Food Cleanse for 30 days and a book on weight loss seemed like the perfect match for my voyage. I opened to the first page and found that although this book was about loosing weight, the depth to which it covered reached far deeper than weight loss. This was a guidebook into the unhealed baggage we each carry emotionally that for some of us shows up as extra pounds.

In each of the chapters the reader is pushed, prodded, and coached by Ms.Williamson to first tear down the walls of denial, emotion, and self sabotage and begin to be honest about what is Really going on. Each layer revealed by the work, is healed and mended with an action step – some as simple as buying a new plate, others as challenging as writing a letter from the fat you to the thin you and visa versa.

As I read the pages I thought, wow this is a great book for someone who is an emotional eater, if I meet one then Ill be sure to share it with them. I really didn’t think I was an emotional eater – until my daughter was hospitalized and I ransacked the hospital cafeteria for chocolate and coffee. Oops time to take out my book again.

I love Marianne’s no holds barred approach, your not gettin anything past this firecracker of a healer. It helped me to see that first: I’m not alone in my attempt to hide my emotions under a chocolate disguise, and second: there is a very loving healing way to honor my emotions and experiences without anointing them with food. As always, I was shown what the answer is to my fears. The answer is Love.

I highly recommend this book to anyone wanting to truly find peace at the center of their core and release unhealthy self sabotaging behaviors. Although the title seems innocent enough, this book Will help you change your life and your body if you let it.

To find out more about Marianne Williamsons work and to order this book follow this link:

http://www.hayhouse.com/details.php?id=5111

Much Love and Many Blessings,

Christine

Day 24, Recovering and Renewing!

There has been a short lapse since the last time I wrote and I must admit – I fell, or rather Jumped off the Raw Food Wagon. I made it through three weeks of no sleep, white knuckled it through the Happy Feet episode (see previous post), I even confusingly made it through girls night out at Javiers of all places (mexican food is my weakness!) without even a single tortilla chip… but when my daughter was hospitalized last Monday night, I looked for the nearest chocolate factory (which believe it or not happens to be in the CHOC cafeteria) and went to town. There was raw food everywhere, in fact that is all my daughter ordered and ate while in the hospital, I however ate and drank anything with sugar caffeine and fat – none of it healthy and all of it satisfying. I didn’t even miss a beat when I saw the garden burgers, soda machine, and chocolate chip chocolate cookies. In fact I bought three of each kind. I plowed whatever I could find and didn’t have one feeling of embarrassment or shame. Lets just say I ate like it was 1999 and I was 21 years old again, minus the drive through food and little white convertible.

Until last week I never thought of myself as an emotional eater. In fact as I was reading “A Course in Weight Loss” by Marianne Williamson (I’m reviewing it for Hay House, I’m part of their Blogging Review program) I found myself thinking -’this is a great book, great advice for someone who emotionally eats – not really for me though’. As we all know, when you declare that you are Not something, that very something shows up to test you. I was tested and I succeeded in proving that Yes I do throw all positive eating/health plans out the window when push comes to shove. Hmmm something to work on.

After sharing this all with my Raw Food Coach and accountability group monday night, my coach Pam Sterling pondered something aloud that really made me think. She said, I wonder when the last time you reached for those specific types of foods was. I have to admit, normally I would gravitate towards salty foods like mexican, so I thought about it. The last time I remember buying a 12 pack of coke and a box of cookies was when I was in college. I had just broken up with a boyfriend and felt both empowered and sad at the same time. I went grocery shopping and remember a feeling of pride that I was indulging in sugary treats instead of drinking away my sadness at the local frat party. hmmm very interesting.

While we were in the hospital there were so many traumatic events that occurred on top of not very much sleep, not to mention the month before this that I didn’t sleep due to the kids having the flu and other major sicknesses. I am pretty sure that the foods that I ate plus the 12 coffee’s a day helped me get through this without breaking down in an emotional heap in front of my brave daughter while we were in the hospital. Once we got home, I opened up my email intending to reply back to some posts and after reading one post it was as though a huge wave of emotion crashed down on me. It was all I could do to get upstairs so my children didn’t see me fall into a huge heap of sobs. My mother in law watched the kids and I let it all out. Whew – I felt much better afterward.

There were several times in the hospital when the doctors made Serena do things that were extremely painful and when it was hardest Serena would say to herself (and to me) be brave be brave be brave. Starting in the emergency room when Serena was unconscious and several times after, I would hear in my head Bob Marley’s song :”Don’t worry…about a thing… cuz every little thing is gonna be alright”. I clung to that song and even sang it to her as she lay on the emergency room table still unconscious after her procedure. I sang it for her and for me and for any of the other families that may be listening. It warmed my heart and brought back my sanity. It reminded me that I wasn’t alone in that room – all the angels and ascended masters and God and Buddha were there.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LanCLS_hIo4

My dear friend Lori texted me at midnight to see if she could bring me anything. Really all I needed was to have another person as a rope to hold onto, she was the perfect rope – as usual. When we were finally brought to our own room at 4:30am I found the hospitality room, ate about 20 crackers and passed out for 2 hours until the next doctor came in to talk about the severity of what was happening.

We spent the next three days pretending we were on vacation having the coolest slumber party where Serena got to order whatever foods she wanted (turns out she isn’t an emotional eater, the child only wanted fruits, vegetables, brown rice and tea – seriously). We watched movies all day and played board games like Sorry and Connect Four. They brought us books and friends and family came to visit. Just this morning Serena said to me “mommy I like CHOC hospital, that was fun”. Not a mention of the horrific procedures she had to endure, or the morphine they made her take two times. Mission Accomplished!

Now that we are back home and I am moving out of Post Traumatic Stress, I’ve made the choice to return to 75% raw, which still qualifies as a cleanse. I have been eating fruit and plain veggies for breakfast and lunch and then just a normal healthy dinner. There are so many coincidences, and major divine interventions I feel taking place and I am just allowing myself to be honest and process what just happened. I am really glad we are home even though Serena still hasn’t returned to school, I am so glad I followed my guidance to take her to the after hours doctor for what looked like a spider bite but turned out to be MRSA which left untreated for another day would have gone into her blood and shut down her organs.

I am grateful that I allowed myself to eat what felt right without guilt – I have already shed the 5 lbs that I gained that week, and feel even more supported and connected to the Universe & God, that I have in a long time. Im grateful for my husband who brought me clothes and snacks, and for my friend Lori who brought me the yummiest Raw dinner I have ever had in the hospital, I’m grateful to my Sister Michelle and my Mom who came to visit and help, & for my mother in law who flew down from San Francisco to help with the kids, and for our new nanny, and also for all of my friend who posted loving support and texted get well messages. I’m also grateful for the doctors and nurses who made our stay short and healing and the ER doctors who did her procedure and who encouraged me gently to sit when I was about to faint. Im grateful to the three clients I had that days before we went to the hospital, that had children who needed assistance. I found myself giving them (and myself) guidance about being their childs advocate, noticing the small signs that something is off, and honor their own intuitions about their children and never think twice about acting on an intuition – it may save their child’s life. As I sat in the hospital waiting for Serena to wake from the anesthesia I remembered those messages that came through for my clients and smiled as I realized that we really are all one. What I am saying to you is for you as much as it is for me, if I am willing to pay attention and listen. This time I did:)

Much Love and Many Blessings:)

Christine

Day 12 – Oh what a Penguin:)

Let me first begin by saying if you ever want to challenge yourself and see how much willpower you have, plan a raw food cleanse while all three of your children are sick for 20 days consecutively, you will know without a shadow of a doubt that you indeed do have the ability to pass by the half eaten plates of cooked food and make yourself a salad instead:)

I am coming out of a 20 days stretch, longest ever, of less than 2 hours sleep each night, followed by vomiting, spiking fevers and most recently constant crying every other minute of “mommy my tummy hurts”. My poor babies have been so very sick and Ive been doing everything I can to keep it together and nourish my own body, if not with sleep then at least with healthy raw foods.

I hit a wall though- and hard. Im not sure if you will be able to relate, but I will share with you anyway. It was Wed afternoon, I took ariel to a new pediatrician because our pediatrician whom we have seen for each of the children since serena was born (almost 8 years ago), suddenly was offered a position with Kaiser and hightailed it out of his own practice – passing it on to some doctor who could barely speak english and not notifying his patients.

So I found myself in a new pediatricians office after getting lost and having to carry ariel a block and a half to the office. After filling out the paperwork amidst my crying baby (“my tummy hurts mommy, my tummy!!”)- it happened. I saw it…. On the television was Happy Feet – you know the part where they are singing their heart songs and mumble begins tapping his feet with pure joyful enthusiasm…. I began fantasizing about laying on my sofa wrapped in my favorite blanket with a big bowl of piping hot tomato soup and a yummy Grilled Cheese sandwich, I imagined how I would fall asleep in the quietest of houses while watching happy feet and having a full warm belly.

Just then we were called and I was snatched out of my daydream only to realize I was still standing watching Happy Feet in the middle of the full doctors office, just like you see kids doing when they see their favorite show, Oh Dear me:)

Needless to say I pulled myself back into reality and did not follow through on my inclination.  However – I did eat some salmon last night, gasp:) It was not a knee jerk craving rather a desire that I felt was healthy and fine to fulfill. After wards I felt ok but today I feel heavier and not as light as I have been feeling before.

I am hoping this weekend the days magically get longer and my energy sky rockets so I may post some recipes and more photos for you:)

All in all I am still really enjoying this adventure and feel so connected to my health in a way I haven’t in years.

I love all the messages you have all been sending and I hope to hear from you more! Lots of Love to each of you!!

many Blessings,

Christine

Day 7 – Fun week ahead!

So here I am beginning day 7 and feeling pretty good. Last night I was up about 4 maybe 5 times, its hard to say. I do remember weaving back and forth as I walked back to my bed from the kids room for the millionth time in the last month, almost like being on a ship. Right now its Ryder who has gotten sick, the kids seem to be passing it back and forth between each other. It’s seriously exhausting. Ryder’s fever has been ranging from 102-104, poor little guy!

Since its my one week mark I thought I would run some stats:

6 days 100% Raw, beginning day 7

3 pounds down

Feeling inspired and excited about possibilities

My Intention for week 2: Move past my surfacing emotions and reincorporate meditation and movement. Wake each morning and create a short ritual of quiet contemplation/journaling for 5 minutes followed by exercising. This one I am nervous about because I haven’t been able to sleep, but in order to achieve what I desire I have to push past current circumstances and create my life the way I want without outside influences aka my kids up 4 times a night. I have to make exercise a priority, no one else will do it for me! I love how I feel when I have run or done yoga.

Wanting to take a Raw food Class:) see below!

I am also very excited about something really fun that is happening this week. Later this week my raw foods coach Pam Sterling is going to come by my house, go through my fridge and cupboards and grab some things I already have to make a yummy Raw Dish. We will be shooting a video and sharing it with all of  you – isn’t that Great!? I am really looking forward to sharing with you all how my adventure and journey with this is going and how I am sharing it with my family and what they think about it. This is going to be a lot of fun, I ll let you know when and where you can see our video!

Have a beautiful Sunday, enjoy each moment, remember You Create your Reality – not your body:)

Love and Blessings!

Christine <3

Day 6 of my 30 Day Cleanse – Intuitive Wow!

Good Afternoon everyone! I am feeling so much better than I was in the middle of the week. I was feeling good but sluggish and still very emotional. I am pretty sure it is due to the fact that I am cleansing and because I have not slept through the night in close to a month. The kiddos have been sick since Christmas eve and leading up to that was still having my nightly hot flashes and cold sweats, which I am happy to announce have gone away!

I had originally thought about ordering premade raw meals to make the first week of transition easier on myself, boy am I glad I didnt do that! Dont get me wrong, not having to plan and make meals would have been fantastic, but I have really enjoyed preparing and creating my food this week. I use to Love cooking, I would read cookbooks like the south beach diet and get so excited to make them. I actually lost my baby weight each time doing south beach and really enjoy their recipes.

Something strange began happening, I would say about 1 year ago. I lost my appetite for foods. This does not mean I wasnt hungry, or that I didnt eat. Instead I completely lost my desire to make yummy foods and often times just ate whatever I had around the house. I would wander the grocery store and not have a single idea of what to make for dinner. We often had the same rotation of 3 different meals over and over. I became overwhelmed by finding foods for us, In fact I was Daunted by Dinner.

I know some of this had to do with the fact that we were barely surviving on the little bit of $$ I was making working a couple days per week. As some of you know, my husband sold his company 1 1/2 years ago and when he went to find a job a couple months later could not find a single opportunity. Job offers were like a needle in the hay stack of interviews. I wouldnt be surprised if he went on more than 400 interviews in that year, easily – most he was overqualified for, some commission only, others that just didn’t pan out. He was actually out of work for over 1 year before he was offered his current position!

Needless to say, food was just another area I had to figure out how to make something out of nothing. I started accidentally burning dinners, making things no one would eat, and basically hating meal time – even lunch.  Larry decided to make dinner more often after I almost caught the kitchen on fire from burning steamed broccoli, I simply forgot to put water in the pot – oops!

This last week, I am proud to say I have made all the meals in my home, and not burned a single one:) hee hee pun intended…you know cause its all raw:) I have loved preparing the foods, they have all tasted yummy, been in-expensive, and very healthy.  I feel like I know what to do, or at least I know where to look online on in my Outrageous Joy un-cook book if I need pointers or ideas. I also have found some other really amazing benefits I want to share with you.

I have noticed my clairvoyant abilities have exploded, which I expected but didnt know it would be so easy to manage. Let me explain. When I first began opening up to my intuition I felt overwhelmed by all the information. I would walk into a store and know this person has been pigging out on way too many sodas, or this person thinks no one can tell they are high..on and on. I felt like an overwhelmed radio playing way too many stations at once. I slowly learned how to respect peoples privacy and turn down the volume on their lives. I couldnt quite figure out how to live between the two worlds where I could tap into info anytime I wanted and keep the stuff I dont need to know out, you know like a good strainer.

I have learned over the years how to do this, but what I have noticed over the last couple days is that I am more sensitive to energy, but it doesnt affect me. Does that make sense? I also had an experience today where I swear I could hear the woman talking in the car facing me, her eyes caught myne, she didnt move her lips but I knew what she was thinking. It was really cool. The class I taught yesterday and the reading I did after were both very healing and I felt my guides in a way I haven’t felt in quite some time. I feel open, safe to explore, and completely in integrity. I also seem much clearer on facts, where I use to be able to pick up on health concerns with a specific area, this week I have been able to see when it started what caused it and what to do about it or which doctor to see. Soo cool!

I’m really looking forward to incorporating exercises like yoga and running. Today I taught my weekly Pilates class (email me if you ever want to come) and it was so great – my muscles fired in places they haven’t fired in a while, yaya!

I love reading your feedback so keep it coming, I am feeling very inspired and hope you are inspired by how yummy all the food looks. It really is easy, and inexpensive as you want it to be or as challenging and pricey as you make it:)

Lots of Love,

Christine

I’m Loving 100% Raw!

Here I am on the fourth day of my 100% raw vegan journey and so many wonderful and healing experiences continue to surface and abound. I began feeling more clear headed, more vitality almost immediately. By Tuesday morning I was elated and floated to work in a raw food high, until I did some meditation and my first chunk of emotional healing surfaced.

I have spent the last couple of days sitting with the heaviness of this emotional release on my chest. It is a healthy heaviness, much like when you are running away from something you know you will eventually need to face, and so even though I am heavy, I am no longer running. I am standing in the moment and feeling the huge wave of emotion crash down on me and realizing that it wasn’t as bad as I thought it would be. I mean to be honest, I would much rather be in the bliss state I was in on Tuesday morning, obviously. But I do feel like Im moving through some big stuff here and its normal to feel this way when clearing years upon years of emotions stuck in my cellular tissue.

This emotional block has been there in my mind for quite some time, I have been spending all kinds of energy trying to avoid it. It was sort of like this huge dark alley that I kept trying to go around and now that I have decided to walk down it, its pretty overwhelming and draining but not the same type of draining as it was to avoid it.

The reason I begin with this as my first post for my cleanse is because I think its important to know that when you set an intention to live the most vibrantly healthy loving guided abundant life – anything that does not resonate at that level will show up right in front of you and line up so you may deal with each issue, relationship, job, friend etc. until there is no longer anything in between you and your highest desires for yourself.

Let me be clear about this point. No one is keeping you from your joy, rather it is the distraction that those unhealed issues create that is keeping you from fully feeling vibrant. Everyone, and I mean Everyone has stuff or has had stuff in the past. That’s what life is. Hiding from it is pointless and exhausting. Instead take one step right into the perceived tornado and see where it takes you. Don’t go unconscious simply because its painful, feel it embrace it, express it, this is how you move through it instead of staying stuck in it.

OK so now for the yummy part, I want to share with you what I have been eating because its seriously the most amazingly vibrant healthy yummy pretty foods Ive ever eaten, and I am making it all from scratch, and loosing weight! Me! I have found yummy recipes from my coach (www.Pamsterling.com) and then branched out and found all sorts of blogs and sites with amazingly delicious foods that make me feel like I’m being decadent. Take a look:

I am really enjoying all the great things that are happening physically as well. My kiddos are still sick but I have more energy than I did before so I am better able to help them. I have lost about 4 pounds, water weight Im sure, but I feel less puffy which is always good.

I am really excited about the meals I am making in the next few days including Raw Nachos, Blueberry Torte, and possibly a chocolate creme!!!!! I cant wait to make, eat and share with you!

Also, beginning today I am adding in exercise. I am feeling like I am rounding a hurdle with being use to eating raw, and so its time to assist my body in cleansing by moving those muscles! I am thinking about some Bikram Yoga, Jogging, and major stretching. I have found that at night I can literally feel my entire body buzzing. Last night I took a bath which helped a bit but if I really want to be healthy, I must exercise – its impossible to feel vibrant and not get some movement in those muscles.

If you would like any of the recipes be sure to email me:) And if you enjoy my blog then be sure to subscribe on this page so you will know when I update it. I like sending out free offers and being a subscriber is the easiest way to find out when the free offers come flying:)

Many Blessings and Joy,

Christine

30 Days Joyfully Raw begins tomorrow!

In honor of making big changes for big joy, I am beginning 30 days 100% Raw tomorrow morning. I have been flirting with raw foods for a few years now but normally eat cooked foods for dinner and on the days I don’t work. I love the way raw foods make me feel and am really looking forward to sharing it all with you!

My goals are: Feel Vibrant and Healthy, More Pure Energy, Loose Weight, Get Glowing!

My Resources are: I have enlisted a Raw Food Coach Pam Sterling. www.PamSterling.com who will meet with me once a week over the phone to check in and answer questions, my chiropractor Dr.Gooing who will be checking in with me to see how my body is responding by using applied kinesiology, Yoga and Meditation – I will begin with yoga until I see how my body responds to the changes and then add it more physical activity. Moral Support…that’s where you come in!

My mindset is: Optimistic, Hopeful, and Inspired.

My Desire is to create a shift in my health by radically changing my lifestyle. I believe that What the mind can conceive it can achieve. My intention is to achieve a beautifully balanced life full of kind supportive and loving people who are like minded. I choose to learn how to nurture myself so I may be more present for those in my life. I hope you join me in making this the year that you create your life exactly as you desire it to be!

Much Love and Many Blessings,

Christine

The Power of Intention by Dr. Wayne Dyer book review

When I received this book from Hay House to read and review I was in awe of the beauty, design and layout. The colors and beauty are very similar to Louise Hays book You can Heal Your Life, both books focus on the power of our thoughts and intention.

Dr. Dyer begins by bringing us into a greater understanding of what the power of intention is and how when we connect to Intention and our source energy, all that is aligned with the divine come into fruition in our lives. He describes what he calls the 7 faces of intention which include the faces of creativity, kindness, love, beauty, expansion, unlimited abundance, and receptivity. When we align and understand these faces we bring ourselves further into the flow of intention and our energy raises. This is one of the most wonderful ways to explain in a non judgmental way that when you live and interact in your world using these ideas and “faces” you will raise the vibration of your life, yourself and your experience, thus attracting like people and experiences.

In the second half of the book Dr. Dyer outlines specific areas in which many people may be finding difficulty creating a positive flow of intention which I found to be a helpful sigh of relief. By focusing on the intention of what you desire, you bring about healing and releasing that which is unlike what you desire. It is a much more loving way to embrace change and becomes more receptive to all the beauty you wish for.

The final chapter, A portrait of a person connected to the field of intention, exemplifies how a person living in the flow of intention thinks and lives. Dr. Dyer calls them connectors and specifically points out how these people constantly operate in extreme optimism. They do not have a pessimistic thought, instead when someone unknowingly attempts to derail their positive focus connectors wholeheartedly respond with knowing that there is a source that is  alway providing opportunity to experience what is being focused on.

The book is closed out with a beautiful saying that I love: “Change the way you look at things, and the things you look at will change.”

I really enjoyed this book and find it to be so harmonious with living an abundant life. It is one of those books that you will continue to go back to over the years to remember and expand upon the ideals.

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Getting Into The Vortex: Guided Meditations CD and User Guide Review

As many of you know I am part of the Hay House Book review program where they send me books, CD’s, and sometimes even movies and I review them, which I absolutely love! One of the most recent Books/CD’s that I have been sent is Getting into the Vortex: Guided Meditations CD and User Guide by Esther and Jerry Hicks. The book is a guide to what you are about to experience with the CD and its guided meditations. I was very excited to move further into the Vortex and I found that I was able to read through the book very easily and effortlessly. The information is channeled through Esther by a consciousness named Abraham. Many of you may know Abraham while others have still yet to experience him. His message is mostly surrounding the Law of Attraction and assists us in resonating in truth and joy and love so we may continue to attract this into our lives. The vortex is the place where your higher self is, it is where all creation begins and where you may create your life exactly as you desire it to be.

I truly enjoyed listening to each of the 4 guided meditations and found it very appealing to a mother of three that they were no more than 15 minutes each. Within the first 2 minutes I found myself slipping into the space that can only be described once you have felt it and feels like love, warmth, and a cozy truth blanket. I noticed my resistance to expansion with many things in my live diminishing and found it easier to allow what is and raise the vibration of what I create in each moment. I am very excited about this new addition to my meditation repertoire.

To find out more about Esther and Jerry Hicks you can visit their website: http://www.abraham-hicks.com/lawofattractionsource/about_abraham.php

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Opening your Heart Chakra and Shifting into Your new paradigm

Seeking a greater resonance in spite or rather encouraged by old energetic patters allows and creates opportunities for new growth realities. The realm of your higher consciousness gravitates toward higher planes higher states of consciousness and so in doing this bring forth in the forefront of your reality/consciousness that which does not match the vibration of that which you are desiring to achieve. Your resonance stays stagnant if you allow your focus to rest on your stagnation, instead allow yourself to acknowledge and find a moment to breathe into the reality of that which is currently your block. you may see it for what it truly is, a physical representation of a belief you have deep in your subconscious, a belief that may or may not have been set into motion by you or someone close to you. Once you see the physical representation and culmination of this thought pattern you may begin the process of deconstruction and then reconstruction. Reconstituting the same belief of lack and fear will only cause to create more of such experience in your reality. How then to deconstruct and reconstruct a new life? Sometimes it is necessary for your manifested world to seem to crumble so as to create a stronger more solid foundation. It is as if there is a large tree in the center of your home with roots into the foundation. removing the obstacle by force will disrupt the foundation which was never based on solid ground anyway. You must come to a place where you are able to dissolve the roots as well. Some may take decades believing they must dig and re cement, others find the vortex of healing by offering up all that is not love to the universe and asking for love to filter into these cracks of pavement. Either choice is appropriate, either choice is correct, there is no wrong direction, only that which you wish to experience. One path is much more arduous, much more exhausting and intricate, the other necessitates trust, compassion for oneself and a supreme reliance on intuitive release of negative patterns. Both encourage the heart chakra to open, both bring about a shift of reality, both feel uncomfortable in their lack of familiarity, and both bring one to a higher state of awareness. Release into this moment your constructed beliefs and remember the truth of your being-ness that vibrates at a level just beneath the surface. Open to the reality in which you may change and create change as all of life is ever changing. It is simply fear and ego that attempt to mask reality of change and deaden the senses to what is a constant law, change is necessary stagnation is painful. We send this message to you in gratitude and alignment with your highest good. All is Love.