Another Sunday Morning :)

A serene morning. Not quite this golden outside but I will put it in my mind that it is so :)

Since starting this change in my eating, I have expectedly had such good things happen. Craving certain things have past and I am clear headed to see the path that I have chosen and I'm not disappointed! I am sure many people think me just mad to give up eating in a standard way but I am so content with how I feel that going back just doesn't make any sense.

The best thing that has happened to me is that all signs of depression have lifted away. Doesn't mean I don't get sad. I actually am much more sensitive to things but in a good way. Light, Music, laughter. Richer is the best way to describe it. I don't, however, wake with tears and struggle to clear my head of that dark oppressive mantle that used to lay on me. I don't struggle with trying to force myself to do things and I personally have no doubt that what I put in my mouth directly influences how I think, feel and behave. So, to that end? I MUST choose carefully and following a plant-based life is my path.

There is so much out there to learn about what it means to eat only plants. A real journey that can be had so easily by sitting at my computer and finding and sharing with others on the same journey. There is so much success and joy finding people eating for a better life and they are so encouraging.

Enjoying the change of the seasons into my favorite. I wish gentle blessings of love and care to my family and friends. Enjoy your Sunday :)

Sunday with the Stones

A wonderful Sunday morning! I came across this picture and it instantly reminded me of my youth. I grew up North of Chicago about 3 blocks from the beach of Lake Michigan. I use to lay on my belly for hours looking at the stones. I LOVE stones. I would bring home buckets full of them. I'm sure my Mom tossed them into the garden or the bushes or something. This picture totally gets my OCD going and it is something that I would do and may yet again! Laying belly in the stones, the sound, the smell, making them wet to see the colors and hoping to find the beach glass pieces mixed in with them. I will meditate on this picture today. I will let my youthful visions flow and allow them to bring a smile to my face. Just perfect for today :)

A Perfect Fall Day

What a perfect Autumn day it has been. Today I thought about my lonely blog sitting here for years at a time and thought, how much I miss sharing the pictures that make me smile. 

My eating journey has been one of many trials but I am, once again, driven to sharing with you the reasons that I have to eat vastly differently than so many people. I continue to learn, move forward and grow with the changing trends but, I always come back to eating things as naturally as I can.

Currently, the buzzwords are Plant-Based Whole-Food. What is most important to me is, WHY I choose to eat this way. The best way for me to explain is to tell you how I feel when I don't eat PBWF :) The worst feeling for me is the feeling of being unable to stop myself from indulging in what I know is wrong for me. I have such a feeling of frustration and disappointment to struggle so hard only to cave so easily. Skin, Hair, Nails all change and lose their luster and strength, Napping becomes the norm just to make it through the day. Feelings of self-worth become infrequent and the slide down is inevitable. 

HOWEVER, when I place back in my mind the reasons why I choose to eat this way, I once again find all that I lack. Motivation, energy, self-control, no depression, a full sense of worth, and just plain happiness.

So, as I sit here waiting for my Instapot to finish cooking my veggies, I thought I would once again hit the BLOG and see what I can find to inspire and share with myself and others :)

Looking forward today for a new lesson in Body Work. Expanding my knowledge and skills makes me happy... That is all :)

June 18, 2016

Well Let's see.. Last entry was a LONG time ago. Looking at where I am right now, I would have not expected some of the things that have happened in my life. I am sitting here, feeling good, nothing to complain about. I've lost my son and my father and I miss them without measure but, here I am sitting quietly, tangibly at rest.
Gratitude.. That is the way I choose to live. Not longing for things, just being satisfied with here and now. My son Bryan is a shining spot in my life. He takes me to the park and shows me his new Helicopter and makes me squeal with delight. I feel like a kid again. Thanks Buddy.
I made good Raw food for my brother and his friend Rita. Glad to make them smile and enjoy their art walk.
I need to do this more often, stop in at my raw day and see what has passed. speak some words out of my heart and let them rest gently on me. I am grateful.

Garden you say?

Oh I am so excited! Looks like I have a garden location this summer!! Gonna find seeds today!!

Some days words fail

Funny how I always find something to say but at this moment, thoughts and words fail me. All that can be said is Thank you Lord for your Love and Faithfulness.

Got the RAW feeling back!

You know, sometimes those who have the gift of easy adaptation are very susceptible of losing the drive for even things we love. More easily said... I am back in my healthy groove hehe

First Mobile Post!

Decided to take my blog with me!

Sorrow and Life

Today someone that has run through my life as one of those side persons, Mr. Bush, always pleasant and smiling always good things to say, is laying to rest his son. There has been no reason given nor does there have to be only that it is a grievous loss and my heart goes out to him and his good wife.

Life continues and we that are here must endure and take stock in our lives and how we live them.
I bought juicing stuff today and my mind is focusing on movement . I need to get back to the pool and move my body. I am so lucky that my health has been so good and I need to look to the future of gaining and maintaining my health.

Time to Begin again

One of the joys of being alive is the chance to decide that you can change. Today is a brand new day and open to all possibilities. I get bogged down with my dark inner voice and I lock myself in a room of bad thinking. I know that I have the power and choice to fix and change what I don't like about my life. SOO having said that and feeling rather profound this New Years Day, I am starting over with a view to my health and well being. 
My laptop is my window to all things healthy and good. There are limitless sites to gift me with ideas and inspiration. I spent this morning putting the things that I most want hovering in my mind at the touch of a button. The file on my desktop that holds gems of wisdom, ideas for eating and wonderful pictures to nurture in inspire me.


I have always appreciated having a blog and a place to go and speak my mind and thought. I will use it and pour out my ideas and in turn that will keep me centered in a place that helps me to grow and maintain what is important to me!

Things I want:

To be grateful
To gather love to myself and give it out
To find my health and keep it at a high level of importance
To keep learning and growing

Ok onward with the plan!

Wow 2012!

So! Here is sit :)Facing a new year with promise and hope of a better year than last. I am hold hard in my heart many things. First I DON'T want to give in to being a defaulter! No I hate that just letting my life roll by and waiting for stuff to happen. I know what it is like to move forward and do things that I want to do but I want more of it. In order to accomplish momentum I must MOVE! Went out last night and looked at the stars.. I should do that often! Gives a beauty and perspective of simplicity that I want. I want to shine steady and be all that I can be. I have made a determination that I must do things for myself and that, although I love doing things for others, my goals for myself will only get done if I organize my time and do things that best suit me.  


So I am going to make every day count and set myself in motion and put all effort into living my life the way I want to.


1. Eating Raw
2. Exercising 
3. Learning


Sounds simple right? It is!!!


Diana, Stay focused and don't let the dreaded nothingness take you away if it sneaks up on you or attacks? GO OUT AND WALK! No more excuses!
 I promise!

Been a few!

Mmmm Ok been a few days but still working the juice!! Stress has been fairly constant but keeping the nutrition coming in is VASTLY important. I have been feeling strong urges to exercise again and that is a good thing. My feet will be ready soon. I also need to make water a very inportant part of what Im doing. I'm tired tonight and I will not try to solve tomorrows troubles with today's energy!

Stress and Juice

So how does one do the best they can to come through very stressful situations and have the least amount of damage to the body and soul?  One way is Juicing! Had and having a really hard week and lost nearly an entire nights sleep. I would not have been able to make it through it without the support of my good eating.

Working it!

Everyday is a step toward a goal of health and energy. I am struck by how much I want my friends to be healthy and walk this path with me and I need to be diligent for myself and my friends too!

Another effort to change the body and the mind.

So is there really a law against trying something again and again once you have failed? WAIT WAIT!! I looked it up and guess what? there is NOTHING ANYWHERE that says I cant keep trying to get things right with my life with Raw Eating. If I fall down and have the inclination to try again, then I can, I will and I do!


It is fascinating to me that some people do it on the first time. I mean whoa.. Others it takes a few times, and the rest still strive and fight the good fight. Where do I want to be? Well, I have already passed the first effort so, I accept that I am not in that first group. OK I can handle not being perfect! Really! It's impossible to think you are in the last group because time lies before us so that is not really an option or it requires a permanent decision to stop and fail and even that is an unknown...
I guess then that where I am is in the middle with most people making the best choices we can, fighting our demons and striving to once again to gain balance and succeed at what we feel is best for us. OK I accept that too. So now what?


When I found Raw, it was a real journey of gathering knowledge. It was fun and every day was filled with new people and recipes and Ideas. I had to glean off what I thought was the best path to me.. Mix and Match with others philosophies of what Raw Eating meant to them and what they were successful with. I found that I was rather toward the beginning of this wave of the raw trend and that in itself bares reflecting on in future posts.


Sooooo.... Where does all that leave me at this moment?  Starting again naturally!  
Well, then off I go! This time around though, I have someone to share my raw journey with! It makes a huge difference even just mentally to have a comrade in arms to understand the joys and not least to forget MAKE THE JUICE! 


So Amy? here we go girl! let's head on down the highway and strive for the best we can do! 

Well Well Here I am :)

A slow gloomy Saturday....

SO why on a day like today would I feel so compelled to finally go back to my Raw ways? Well... I sat down for a few minutes and really asked myself how I feel. I Really did a mental check on where I am and where I want to be.

I think back to the 90 days of high raw I was on. 

Amazing changes... Yes I want to be there again. 

Lane has been my inspiration and my Dad an unwavering encouragement and support. I Imagine Lane stepping away from the life he had to eating what makes him healthy and strong.. Wait I taught him that!!! I look at my Dad at 86 Still learning and drawing knowledge to him.  What's my excuse????

No more excuses... none! I have no reason for not living my convictions.

So today... this minute... this gloomy Saturday.. I begin again. Never too late to begin again.

I will use what I know and continue to learn and use the support of those who love me and have the vision for a different and better way to live.

Yes I begin.....

Guess it's time

A year has passed - almost too much to imagine. So much has happened Mostly good some awesome but some that I couldn't imagine I would have to face. I saw this picture and it made me think of New, Fresh, Clean and what better way to feel about yourself? Raw? Wow it's been far and away in my practice but near and dear in my heart. It's a strange thing about doing anything that is good for yourself, you have to ask yourself WHY is it such a struggle sometimes? hehe I mean I a good person, I do good for others :) WHY NOT ME? so I am working my way back... Blogging for myself, Raw, Swimming.. Learning and growing... Yeah .. It's time

The Passing of Days + The Eating of Raw

Each day holds within it, if we choose, a chance to live a lifetime of memories. The memories that we choose to draw into our mind are selected sometimes by our desire to try and change the present, to make it easier by reassuring ourselves that what we did or chose was the right thing or maybe even to punish ourselves for past mistakes. Memories are our anchor to the past. Sometimes they can give us comfort in who we are and how we got here and other times they can lock us to self destructive thinking and shackle us to a place of misery. Many times our memories aren't even accurate!
All too often, I drag into my thinking the thoughts and feelings of the past and I allow them to wash over me and drag me under. When I choose to eat Raw, it is like a battle front for me. It keeps my mind clear and focused. It helps me to reach out and allow my mind and heart to accept new and positive thinking. Some days I have to go farther and lean on the guidance and friendship of others to help me threw some low spots because nothing can replace the support of a caring person.
Eating raw, Cleansing, exercise all help me to battle against bad thinking and everyday is a new chance to make things just a bit better.

Reaching Out

I came home from my fabulous swim this morning and I sat down in front of my computer. I opened my E-mail and looked at my favorite sites you know, the one's that make you smile and feel comfortable, make you laugh, or give you the information you seek. I wrote at a couple of blogs before starting on my own and as I was writing at the Renegade Health Show, I was brought to a place of searching out within me, what I am grateful for (Thanks Kevin). I went in search of a picture to speak of my feelings and as I was looking at pictures of people hugging each other, I found the Hugs Free Site. I have seen the guy before but never gave it much more than a passing amusement as most do I am sure. However, I challenged myself to step outside my comfort zone and watch the video and I am so glad I did. At first as I watched, I felt uncomfortable for him standing there holding a sign and everyone passing him by, I thought how sad that everyone thought he was just being weird, then it clicked... no.. not sad for him... I put the shoe on the other foot and I instantly felt the freedom of what he was doing. He was offering a free gift with no strings. The people to feel sad for were the ones that passed him by and gave up the chance for that fleeting moment of comfort from a caring person in this troubled world. Every day we have a choice to reach out or stay closed off and I want to be the kind of person who would walk right up and take the hug and turn around and give one away.
So to all who read here, friends, family and strangers a Big Hug to you all!
Gracie