Raw and Radiant [antikvár]

INTRODUCTIONMY STORYI've had a love for holistic health, plant-based eating, and fitness for as long as I can remember. It has long been a passion that has become my purpose. I was born in the Ozarks of Missouri, on a self-sustainable 10-acre farm; my father is an organic farmer and my mother is a Waldorf educator as well as a total health nut. They raised me to be aware of the food I eat, where it comes from, and most importantly, how to heal myself and my family with it. Growing up with wheatgrass-shooting, carrot juice-drinking, big salad-consuming parents set a foundation that I am eternally grateful for. No matter where I've been or how far down the rabbit hole I went, I knew where home-base was in my body and in my heart. I knew what healthy felt like and I knew how to get back there. Growing up with these amazing people has been a major influence on where I am today and what I feel passionate about sharing.Like many, I strayed from the path I was shown growing up. After leaving my little sleepy town of Sedona, I lived in Los Angeles and San Francisco. I worked in the music and beauty industries, which both can be very high-stress with late night parties, very hectic cofFee-powered days, and not much time for one's self. I was sick often, tired, extremely drained, overweight, and felt no willpower or drive within myself. Caught in cycles of toxic relationships and not seeing my true essence, I got very depressed. A deeper place within me knew there was another way to make it in the world, another way to live, but I felt so helpless and bogged down by the weight of worldly expectations. I attribute my reawakening to a book called The Presence Process, which found its way to me in early 2009. This book was what I needed to give me a litde bit of a shake and a major wakeup call.The summer of 2010 was a very transformational time for me. A lot had happened in my life in a very short timeI got married, my husband left for an eleven-month deploy-jment to the Middle East, I quit drinking, I began reading books that supported a positive way of living, I started a consistent meditation practice, I began to listen to my body again, I began practicing yoga, and I also went 100 percent raw. For the first time in a long time, I felt a deep sense of purpose and gratitude. I also felt like I needed to share some of the things that woke me up out of my sleepthus, Raw and Radiant vias born.All that pain, passion, and experience led me to open Local Juicery in 2014. Local Juicery is an organic, plant-based kitchen and pressed juicery located in Sedona, Arizona.Introduction | ix