| Vol. 1, Issue 8: August 17, 2007 From The Desk of The Divas
Another 7 Day Diva Detox will be starting up this weekend which means we’ve now had well more than 1000 Detox participants! Great results are being enjoyed by women all around the world. We love spreading the raw message and supporting those already familiar with it. The feedback about weight-loss, increased energy, and release from depression has been unbelievable! In other news, participants of the Body Enlightenment System have nearly reached the halfway mark of their 30 Day program. Go, Girls, GO! Also, this week in The Raw Divas Sisterhood we had an amazing interview with Victoria and Valya Boutenko, which was a total inspiration! If you haven't joined The Sisterhood yet, it isn't too late! Every month brings more treats and motivation for your raw journey, and all completed interviews are available to listen to online. We'd love to see you in The Powder Room! We’ve got lots on the go, and we’re having a great time! Thank you so much for your contributions to what we do!
Juicy Treats: The Simplest Salad Dressing
Ever!
The recipe is as follows: Take 1 ripe and beautiful lime. Place it on your counter top and roll it around with your palm, pressing with some firmness to massage the flesh inside. Cut the lime in half and squeeze one or both halves over your salad, depending on its size, and enjoy! Yup. Told you it was easy!
Each day, place an attractively arranged plate or bowl of sliced fruits, cut up veggies (we loving refer to these as veggie pickers), or lettuce wraps on your table or counter. Any time you are being tempted by your old health-challenged standbys, dive into that plate and enjoy! You'll be even happier when you find an empty plate, ravanged by the rest of the family! **Do you have a handy raw-friendly kitchen tip you'd like to share? The Divas' strength is in the support of community and we would love to help one another spread the love. Send us your tip and it might make it to our next issue of Health in High Heels, and better yet, you could inspire a fellow Raw Diva in her Kitchen Goddess adventures!**
Earlier this year, while living in Costa Rica, life presented me with my greatest “opportunity in disguise” to date. I have received a lot of emails asking what happened. I promised I’d tell the story, but admit that the story isn’t easy to tell. I like to put my attention where it helps and where it serves, so recounting the details of what is unquestionably a highly dramatic tale, just for the sake of being dramatic, doesn’t interest me. But what I can do is share the lessons I learned and hope that they can serve you in some way. The story in brief is that while living in Costa Rica, I caught a virus and became physically very ill. Due to the conditions at the time, the situation worsened over the course of two weeks, which ultimately caused me to lose control of my ability to function or reason. I was eventually hospitalized in the National Psychiatric Hospital** of San Jose in Costa Rica. Now, that’s not easy to say, but it’s true. And here’s what I’ve learned. I hope it can serve you. 1. Take Care of Your Body and Take Time for You
Then I got sick. I never got another chance to go back to the beach. In the events that took place I’m quite sure that I realized the maximum output potential for my body, because when it happened the plug was pulled and I no longer had control over my body. That meant other people were now in control of my body for me. That’s a very scary place to be. What happened to me can happen to anyone. Rest sufficiently. Eat well. Take time to play in the sun. If you do that, you’ll be okay. 2. In All Circumstances and Conditions, Find your Point of Personal Responsibility
If you grab onto that thread, you’ll see it’s attached to a rope. And if you grab onto that rope, why, you can pull yourself out of just about any swamp. And when you get out of the swamp, then you’ll see that with that rope you can climb any mountain. No matter where you are right now, you can get where you want to go by grabbing onto just a thread of personal responsibility. See yourself as the cause of your conditions, no matter how difficult that may be to imagine. When you let go of your personal responsibility, you let go of your power to change things. Whether you’re stuck in the muck of a cooked food binge or a broken marriage, you are where you are because you created the conditions that put you there. Accept that you have something to learn and maybe even more importantly, you have something to teach others when you get through it. Your experiences are your training ground for life. Learn from them and share what you learn to serve the lives of those around you. 3. Know your Friends and NEVER Minimize your Strength or Power
You may lose every manner of fine sparkles, gadgets and gismos. You may even lose your home and some relationships, but if you lose your strength, your honor, or your personal integrity, then you have lost everything. You’re not here to please others or have their approval. You’re not here to be “liked” or “admired,” you’re here to be YOU! And who you are is a glorious gift to the world so LET IT OUT! And never permit anyone to extinguish the fire of who you ARE! Be true to your own goals, be true to yourself and never compromise with your own reality. With profound gratitude to all who have ever loved in spite of great fear, Tera Warner **In the United States a person is involuntarily committed to a psychiatric institution every 75 seconds. Inform yourself: http://tinyurl.com/yqxe2b
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Well,
things are busy as we are preparing to release our new product,
The
best and tastiest salad dressing I know of is also the easiest!
While it may not appeal to the palate of those used to the chemical-laden,
fat-filled concotions of many common bottled dressings, it deliciously
and perfectly compliments any salad creation. Try it once and you
will love the way the flavor of your crispy greens and delicate
tomatoes, grapes, apples, or whatever you enjoy in your salads,
will shine through.
Having
trouble keeping inspired on your raw adventures when the rest of
the family is still under the spell of processed foods? 
You
never quite know when life is going to throw you a fastball—when
you’ll find yourself in a situation you’d not expected,
wanted or even imagined possible. I subscribe to the idea that crises
and “problems” are just opportunities in disguise.
The
only reason I caught a nasty tropical virus in the first place is
because I wasn’t taking care of my body. I stayed up all night
one night to work and missed a day on the beach to work some more.
In
your moments of greatest struggle there will always be the end of
a thread there for you to grab on to. The thread is personal responsibility—it
is your ability to see yourself as the cause of the conditions you
create in your life. ALL OF THEM. 
If
you find yourself in a situation where you are being asked to be
less than you fully are… if you feel you have to extinguish
your fire to receive approval or acceptance from others, then take
note.
