Cleansing and Feeding my Soul

Thursday, September 2, 2010 at 13:47

Wow... long time no post! My last one was almost 9 months ago. And again, so much has happened. I don't want to roll everything up tho, I want to give you an impression of what I am being present to right now.

I just came back from an inspriring trip to California. There, I was reunited with my boyfriend who had been there for 2 months to work for Jon Marro and Blend Apparel. We had the best time EVER. It was amazing to be around the person you love 24/7 again. I missed that so much. Also, we experienced amazing things, saw beautiful places, met and spent time with great people. One of them certainly is Mr. Marro. He is a leader, a hero and just the most inspiring person.

During our stay in San Francisco, Jon did a juice cleanse after having dealt with some problems due to a food poisoning. He let us try his juice and I had to admit to myself that it wasn't too bad. However, it didn't instantly make me want to try it.

Also, we visited Café Gratitude a lot and I grew more and more fond of raw/vegan food. It was something we really missed on our last part of the trip when we were in San Diego/LA. Eventho we say that we need baked goods sometimes or meat, or maybe even a burger, you do appreciate something like Café Gratitude even more when you're not around one!

So last week I was surfing around on the Café Gratitude website and saw this ad for the Juice Club! It is a newsletter-type of thing by Terces Engelhard (the founder of CG) that is being sent out each first week of the month to support and advise juicers! In that moment I thought "Why not try it?". So I signed up for it and told myself that I was committed to doing it at least 3 days.

The idea is to give your digestive system a rest for a period of time from processing food. Instead, you make juices out of fresh fruits and raw veggies. What I found to be incedibly awesome, is making your own fresh almond milk. It tastes amazing. And I'm sure I'm going to go on with it "outside" of this cleanse. I'm in Day 2 right now and have just devoured my almond milk-banana-date-smoothie, which is too die for. I feel great. And so far, I haven't been really hungry yet. Of course, sometimes you crave a bagel or a sausage or whatever, but then you think "I chose it."...


I have to say, I am incredibly fortunate to have the support of my loving boyfriend, eventho he is not here with me. I am so grateful for him every single day of my existence, as he empowers me and gives me strength, he believes me and loves me like noone else.

I would like to thank you, Emile, for everything you do. Also, I thank Jon and Niki, Sophia, Marie, Cat, Vallie... it doesn't matter how long you spend time with each other, is matters what impact you have on people and how far you allow others to have an impact on you.

Thank you, Terces. I'll try my best.


LoVE.