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Juice Detox Fast
I couldn't believe how great she looked. I had never seen an accountant look that radiant right after tax season. They normally look burned out, bloated, and like they had a hang over. (No offense to my accountant friends). But not Joanne. Joanne DelBolso from No Fuss Accounting in Cicero, NY was on her 10th day of juicing and she looked RADIANT!
I spent an entire day with her at an Accounting and Organizational Seminar she gave. Nine hours of great but brain intensive information. I was shocked to see her fully energized at 5pm while the rest of us were exhausted. Then I remembered how energizing fasting could be.
I wrote about my 7 day juice fast back in October where I almost made it 7 days. Since then I realized I did things kind of wrong and am thinking about giving it another try. Joanne was really motivational and helpful in seeing that you need to work up to it. You can't just decide you are going to do it tomorrow without investigating a juicer, testing out recipes, slowing down the sugars, and carbs and then gradually going into it. She planned and achieved!
Here is her story:
Joanne has more videos.
Here is her video sharing about her juicer and getting ready for your fast.
Here is her video on how to make her JO JO Juice Recipe and how she drinks it:
Part I Juice recipe
Part II with more tips
Joanne has really helped me see that I CAN DO IT and how to make a delicious drink.
So who wants to join me for a Juice Detox Fast? Leave a comment below if you want to join me.
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Do You Struggle with Feelings of Unworthiness?
I first started seeing the importance of loving yourself about 12 years ago in my practice. I would spend an hour with many patients with my combination Chiropractic essential oil treatments. Some women would open up to me right away, others after many sessions. Maybe they sensed that I cared, maybe they knew I was a safe outlet, that I could relate or maybe they knew I might have a resource for them to help. Their stories were of their past, hurts, heartaches, and wounds.
Sadly the stories were devastating, heart breaking, and some you wouldn’t be able to believe the cruelty in this world. As a result, many of these women’s traumas had directly affected their current beliefs about themselves. Some saw themselves as ugly, some un-loveable, and not worthy of much in life. In addition, they may have had habits that protected them or even pushed love away.
Your habits reflect how you feel about yourself
I don’t mean to be insensitive, but I think everyone would agree that individuals that are plagued with eating disorders, alcoholism, drug addiction, and even cutting struggle with SELF LOVE. In fact some call these behaviors acts of self hate.
But there is another group of people who at a lesser degree still struggle with SELF LOVE. They may sabotage their success in different areas. They lose 30 pounds, start feeling unworthy of being healthy or slim and gain it all back and then some. They may have success in their business and then start believing what their ex verbally abusive husband said “YOU WILL NEVER BE GOOD AT ANYTHING”.
Have you ever wondered why you keep going around in circles in your life? Have you seen patterns of self-sabotage?
If yes, KEEP READING.
How to Overcome your Struggle with Self Love
Loving yourself totally requires that we pull of the roots of unworthiness. See, somewhere in your life a seed was planted. It could have been one boy at the playground calling you fat at recess. It could have been an ignorant parent telling you to shut up and you don’t know anything. It could have been a rotten husband crushing your once beautiful self esteem with awful words. And it could have been years of your own negative self talk.
Seeds get planted but it takes water, sun and nutrients to grow. Sadly, roots grow then the stem, then the leaves and if the process continues without WEED KILLER, we may even see a TREE with FRUIT. Fruit of UNWORTHINESS, LOW SELF ESTEEM, even SELF HATRED.
But we have to understand we can’t just simply pick the fruit. Why? Because it will grow back. Telling ourselves we are “over it” or using affirmations like “I am beautiful, I am successful, I am worthy” is not enough. It’s good, don’t get me wrong but it won’t get to the roots.
I want to share a pattern I have seen in some women. Trauma in their childhood, usually abuse of some sorts with parents who were neglectful or not loving in the way parents should be. The trauma of their childhood led to eating disorders, or some form of self abuse or self hatred. They found themselves in abusive relationships and by their 30’s started struggling with their health. They padded their lives with fat, things, or habits like emotional eating, co-dependency, always saying yes, putting all their energy into a career, child or other person. This padding is a wall… a wall to keep love out. In relationships mostly with men, they might push them away with meanness and cruelty just because of their own feelings of unworthiness.
Now of course this is the extreme, but many individuals do this on different levels.
How to Break Free of Self Hatred
Self Hatred is a powerful force that could leave a person in bondage for life. The good news is there is a force greater than this. A force that can break the bonds of torment, hurt, self sabotage, and pull up the roots of unworthiness. Some call this force miraculous and with bondage breaking over night. Others use this force and break free over months or even years. I personally have witnessed dozens of clients and friends set free from the past junk that controlled their lives. The cool thing is they did it without a decade of counseling, medications, or electro-shock treatments.
Most people believe in it but still don’t know how to harness this force to BREAK FREE.
For over 3 years I have worked with this specific Bondage Breaking Force. It is amazing how radically it can change your life. How good happiness feels, freedom, and joy! I would love to see you experience this same thing and learn to break free. On May 18th, we have a special presentation given by Dr. Lavonne Atnip, a counselor who has helped hundreds of clients including myself harness this 2000 year old force and BREAK FREE from the Bondage of Unworthiness. If you would like to break free too, join us.
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Earth Day Video Blog
Sunday April 22, 2012 is Earth Day. On Earth Day, Washington D.C. Monument will have tens of thousands of people from all over the US to show their support for the environment. Now I am not an over the top environmentalist. In fact, there are some comforts I am not willing to sacrifice (like a warm house and my daily shower) but I do know there are things I am willing to do to do my part to take care of the Earth.
Today's Video Blog shares simple things we all can do to give our EARTH A HELPING HAND!
Earth Day Video from the Total Wellness Doc from Mary Starr Carter on Vimeo.
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The History and Celebrations of Easter Around the World
Beyond Easter bunnies, jellybeans, hot cross buns, colorful eggs, Peeps and egg hunting events for kids… why exactly do we celebrate Easter? Here in the United States children and adults are seen dressed in their Sunday best with new spring dresses and some with beautiful hats going as a family to church, followed by a special Easter Meal. Easter baskets are presented as gifts to each other.
There are many versions of its origin and everyone in the world celebrates this special day differently.
Celebrations Around the World
In the Philippines, the young and old are seen solemnly remembering their sins and some taking up the challenge of putting barbed wires as crowns on their heads and carrying a heavy cross, walking the streets suffering like Jesus. Some even attempt to be nailed on the cross on Good Friday, known as Penitensya to recreate what Jesus did over 2000 years ago. Easter is celebrated for a week long from Palm Sunday to Easter Sunday.
In the streets of Antigua, Guatemala, Good Friday is the peak of the celebration where andas or floats with statues of Jesus suffering and holding a cross or hung on the cross. Some statues are carried by hundreds of men clothed in purple robes. This celebration is called Semana Santa or Holy Week. Carpet of fresh flowers, fruits, pines and sawdust are put together by residents and adorned in front of their homes and street for the procession.
Here is a video from Pilot Guides on Easter Celebrations Around the World, particularly Antigua:
History of Easter
Easter is also called the moveable feast because it doesn’t fall on the same date every year. It is observed in Spring on the first Sunday following full moon after the vernal equinox on March 21. So it is celebrated anywhere between March 22 and April 25 every year.
The word Easter is derived from Eostre, a Teutonic goddess of spring and fertility. The exact derivation of the word Easter is unknown. According to History.com, the Latin term hebdomada alba or white week, is an ancient reference to Easter week where people wear white clothing and get baptized during this time. There was a translation error and which appeared as esostarum in Old High German and eventually translated to Easter in English.
Is it a pagan or Christian celebration?
In the festival of Eostre, rabbit are a symbol of the goddess. I learned somewhere that Christians combined elements of the festival of Eostre to help convert and baptize pagans to Christianity. I don’t know if that is true or not. To the Spanish, Easter is Pascua and the French, Paques, derived from the Greek and Latin word Pascha or Pasch, which is Passover.
Church bells throughout France are silenced on Holy Thursday also known as Maundy Thursday, the night before Good Friday, since the 12th century to recognize Jesus’ death. The Easter bells, les cloches de Paques, flew to Rome to bring back Easter eggs. The bells ring all year the few days before Easter Sunday.
When the church bells ring, the celebration starts with Easter eggs, treats and chocolates of all sorts. Imagine, there is at least one church bell in each town or village that chimes all year. What joy it brings on Easter Sunday, when it chimes again with goodies after a few days of silence. The bells bring back goodies to France from Rome. Children go egg hunting and celebrate Easter with Grandma with a traditional Easter lunch of dishes made out of eggs and lamb.
Most countries celebrate Easter from Lent to Easter Sunday, which is about 40 days. Christians around the world take this time for reflection, fasting, praying and observing it like the 40 days that Jesus spent in the wilderness.
Places like New Orleans, United States and Rio de Janeiro, Brazil celebrate Fat Tuesday or Mardi Gras. The Tuesday before Ash Wednesday where sinful activities, fireworks, parades, food, parties and masked and beautiful costumes are worn in celebration of the day before solemnness and fasting begins the next day.
To many Christians in the Western World, Easter is a time of celebration where Jesus resurrected from the dead. It is an important day to remember there is hope after pain; there is life after death…a time to usher in the new and let go of the old.
Here are some Easter quotes to ponder as you celebrate with your loved ones:
Alice Freeman Palmer: For I remember it is Easter morn, And life and love and peace are all new born.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: 'Twas Easter-Sunday. The full-blossomed trees Filled all the air with fragrance and with joy.
Robert Flatt: The resurrection gives my life meaning and direction and the opportunity to start over no matter what my circumstances.
Let’s celebrate the resurrection of Jesus Christ. The One and Only Son of God that conquers death and bring hope to all who believes and have faith to move forward with His plan for you and I.
The Total Wellness Doc and Mom and Team would like to wish you a Happy Easter and a time for new beginnings and healthier living. Please join our growing community of moms, dads, grandmas, grandpas on our Facebook Page… making a difference in our own life in Total Wellness of Body, Mind and Soul.
Happy Easter.
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