TWELVE YEARS LATER . . .

Well, I haven’t visited my blog in ages! Life happens, right? So, where have I been? What have I been doing?

Here’s the lowdown in an abbreviated fashion:

Things were going great, then I burned out on my workouts and healthy eating. Over the next four years, I was sporadic about everything. I’d work out one or two days, then nothing. I started eating a lot of takeout. It’s just easier, you know?

In 2016, my husband decided he’d be better off without me and, after I supported us for several years while he got his PhD, he secured a job and dumped me over the phone. The worst part about that? I had already put in my notice and trained my replacement at work, hired movers and, to top things off, my mother had just passed away.

My wonderful boss was okay to let me stay on while I got situated and figured out what I was going to do. So, I moved back to Georgia. The one thing I swore I would never do! Fortunately, I landed in Athens where my sister lives and here I stayed!

Fast forward to the present. I’m looking at retiring in 5 years. I had become a certified Reiki Master while living in Rhode Island and haven’t really done anything with that since moving. I became a Tarot reader. I went through an intensive and excellent program with Biddy Tarot and became certified. So, I’m legit! If you are interested in learning tarot for yourself or to pick up a little bit of extra income, I highly recommend them!

The other project I have recently completed is my Sound Healer Certification. Sound baths are wonderful for reducing stress, anxiety, depression, releasing old emotional wounds, pain relief and just pure relaxation! Okay, some of you may think it’s garbage, but sound healing is scientifically proven to help with a lot of things!

With all of these old and new skills, I am starting a side business that I will expand on once I retire from my current job.

I have always been interested in helping people to find their passion, their path, help them overcome confidence issues, and to help them find their own abilities to guide themselves through life to find their joy and a way to deal with personal blocks and these horrible global issues that affect us all in so many different ways!

Energy healing is a wonderful way to help yourself and also to unburden your mind, heart and soul. Regular sessions can really make a difference! Just one more thing! Distance sessions actually provide relief as well as in-person sessions.

If you want information or to schedule a session – either a Tarot reading, Reiki treatment or Sound Bath, please reach out to me! I have very reasonable pricing right now, since I am just starting out and will work with you to provide an excellent experience!

So, that’s what I’ve been up to!

Week 1, Day 7!

Week one has not been pristine, but that’s okay – at least up until yesterday. Got home from work on Friday to a starving husband and, although I had plenty of food prepped to keep me raw through the weekend, I was weak and we ordered pizza. Yeah, that didn’t turn out so great. I was fine all night, but, in the morning, my body protested strongly. No details, but my digestive system was very unhappy. What did I do? Did I clean it up for the day yesterday and get my system happy again? Oh, no! I made chunky monkey pancakes for breakfast and just went downhill from there for the rest of the day. Ugh. Well, I can say that I won’t do that next weekend! I journalled the experience, so I can go back and remind myself how awful it was! Who knew my body would make such an adjustment so quickly to raw food that it would react so badly on one day of bad eating! I didn’t even really notice a lot of change in those first 5 days. Huh.

On the bright side, where I usually ditch clean eating for the whole weekend, here I am on the last day of Week 1 and I started it out with a big bowl of cut up fruit, dates and hemp seed. This has become my go to breakfast with the occasional smoothie.

This week, I have a couple of recipes that are supposed to use sprouted seeds. I didn’t plan very well. I should have bought the seeds last week and started sprouting them by Friday at the latest. Needless to say, I’ll have to do some adjusting with my meals for this week. I ordered my seeds from The Sprout House yesterday. They’re based in New York, so I’m hoping they’ll get here pretty quickly. Of course, then they have to be soaked, rinsed and drained until they sprout and are ready to use. We learn by doing, right?

I’m really looking forward to this week! At least the food is tasty that I anticipate the things I get to eat!

Some of the other meals I made this week are Pad Thai – the sauce for this is so amazingly good! You could use it for a lot of different things! On the menu for today are my Collard Rolls and Banana Ice Cream! Yes! I get to eat ice cream! I’ll let you know how that turns out!

Really? Only Day 2?

I was doing great until this afternoon. I got a headache. I’m not sure if it’s coincidence or if it’s detox, but around the same time, I started craving cooked food. Oh, yes! I’m already wanting fish and sweet potato fries, maybe a turkey burger with some caramelized onions and mushrooms – mmmmmmm. I’m not helping myself any here.

I’m certainly not depriving myself. I eat when I want and how much I want and if I want to eat that date nut torte all day, I will! It’s really rich though and I can’t eat that much of it at one time. It’ll probably last me all week! The food is good, tasty, filling, but for whatever reason, I really want cooked food. It’s popping into my head as “real” or “junk” food. I guess I should look on the bright side, I’m not craving sweets! Guess that’s a positive.

I wish I had someone doing this with me! I could really use the support right now. I need a sponsor!

Just wanted to update you today.

Hm, I just realized I didn’t do any shopping for food for my husband this weekend. After tonight, he doesn’t have any food for dinner. I’ll make a run to the fish market for him tomorrow. Oh, boy. We’ll see if I get over this craving before then, otherwise, we might end up fighting over the fish!