Orange You Glowing Juice

I hope you all enjoyed your Easter!  

Did anyone make these cookies ??

I did… and I ate A LOT of them! 

I don’t usually eat any refined sugar…

BUT Easter and Christmas are for cut out cookies, at least that’s what Grandma always said, and Grandmas know!  So I ate my cookies… and I drank a little less water and a little more wine than usual... 

Needless to say, my tummy isn’t used to all that and I was feeling kinda gunky and like I needed a bit of an immune system boost.  My eczema kinda freaks when my diet is off so I needed some skin loving alphabet vitamins too.  So this gorgeous and delicious juice was born.  All that vitamin A, C and those antioxidants were just what I needed to rehydrate with! 

 

Orange you Glowing Juice

6 Carrots

6 Strawberries

3 Cuties

 

Juice it all and drink up buttercup! 

Be tough enough to accept sometimes you aren't tough at all...

 

They say destroy what destroys you...

But what if what destroys you is yourself?

It is then, more than ever, that you have to find the balance between soft and hard.

 

Develop body awareness, but don't just hear what it's telling you...LISTEN! Move when and how you need to move, breathe when you need to breathe, eat what and when you need eat, cry when you need to cry, and by all means... rest when you need to rest. 

Be tough enough to accept that sometimes you aren't tough at all.  

Because fighting with yourself isn't going to get you anywhere except more exhausted, frustrated, and discouraged.  Who needs that? 

Be on your own team, always! 

Kick that cold immunity boosting green juice

I always drink real food medicine! Seriously it's very very rare for me to take any kind of pharmaceuticals, ever.  Unless you have some morphine to share... just kidding!! 

I've had lots of kiddos missing school lately, and all the germs finally got me a little. And we all know what it's like when a gutsy girl is down... autoimmune hot mess! I knew I needed to rest or it would be bad.

I took the afternoon off and spent it diffusing onguard, hydrating like nobody's business, napping, watching Bruce Springsteen live, juicing some good stuff, sipping tea, practicing some restorative yoga, making chicken soup, and cuddling my dog.  Perfect day of recovery! 

One of the best things I could do for myself today was legs up the wall with a straw in my mouth sipping this stuff while the boss serenaded me with some acoustic thunder road! 

Try it if you need to kick some tough germ ass too! 

 

1 c Kale

1 c spinach 

1 lime- peeled

1 lemon- peeled

1 carrot- 

2 oranges- peeled 

2 cucumbers

4 in ginger

1/2 t turmeric- if you have fresh 2in is even better! 

Pinch of cayenne pepper

Throw all the fresh stuff in your juicer.  I add the turmeric and cayenne after and then hit it with the hand blender to get it all incorporated.  

I'm warning you this is a should we say "acquired taste"! 😂. Just focus on all the good it's doing inside your body and sing along to the song! 😉🎶

Lessons from colitis... my love/hate relationship with colitis...

 

It's been three years since colitis tried to take my intestines, my light, and quite honestly, my life... I won, and am still winning, most days anyway! 😉💪🏼

 It is so true that you don't know how to stand up until you've been knocked down.  I've cried, laughed, grown, and learned so many lessons on my way back up.  

Here's some of them in no particular order...

1. You're always stronger than you think... and every struggle is a chance to be brave. 
2. You find out who you're friends are... not everyone's going to get it, you don't need those people.
3. Nothing is worth sacrificing your health.... NOTHING!
4. Trust your gut...that bitch knows what's up!
5. Food is the best medicine or the worst poison... you choose.
6. Pain equals perspective...
7. Tell your story... you never know who you are inspiring, or saving.
8. Always, always, always find the silver lining.
9. Listen to your body before it has to scream at you.
10. Stress destroys you... manage that shit! 
11. It's ok to rest
12. Never underestimate the power of some deep breaths.
13. Gutsy girls can still drink red wine, and tequila too! 😘
14. I knew you didn't need gluten, but you don't need dairy either... in fact it's kinda gross! 
15. Lettuce is so overrated... eat some real leafy greens!
16. Happy girls are not only the prettiest, they're the healthiest too.
17. You need to take responsibility for you own health and save your own little self.
18. A medical degree doesn't necessarily a doctor make... find a real doctor that you trust and gets you and your health goals.
19. Salt water has the power to make everything better... need to find yourself and your power again?...head to the beach!
20. A punching bag is a necessity... gutsy girl life can be frustrating!
21. If you don't have enough energy to punch... that's ok, get on your yoga mat instead!
22. Makeup makes your illness invisible, which can be good or bad.
23. It's ok to say no, not today, or not ever.
24. Invest in your health or later you will be forced to invest in your illness.
25. Yes, it always could be worse, BUT... you don't always have to be thankful that you don't have it worse... some days it gets you, and that's ok... let it, and try again tomorrow.
26. Most people walk around feeling like total shit and don't even realize how amazing they could feel.... IF they ate the way their bodies needed them to.
27. Green smoothies make everything run a lot smoother.
28. Parts will just keep breaking if you don't fix the real problem.
29. Your digestive system fuels your entire body...If it's not functioning, nothing else is!
30. Nutrition and digestive health have an insanely profound effect on mental health. 

So yes, #fuckcolitis and the way it changed my life... 

However; remember, always find the silver lining... so at the same time; be grateful for colitis and all the ways it changed my life! These are lessons my stubborn little ass wouldn't have learned if I hadn't been forced to... so for that I am forever thankful.