RawReform Spanish Translation Ready :)

OOoOoooo, exciting news - we have the first SPANISH translation of one of my e-books ready :) We've had SO many requests for Spanish versions over the years and the delightful Carla Blanes Cañero over in Europe has been so kind as to put her shiniest translator hat on and provide us with the Spanish version of my first book 'How to Go Raw For Weight Loss' or..."Reforma Cruda: Cómo pasarse a los crudos para perder peso" - yeeeeee-HAH :)
You can see the Spanish e-book HERE. We also have the French e-books HERE and many more translations are on their way from all over the place - we have Norwegian, Danish, German, Serbian, Polish and more in the works... :)
THANK YOU to all the amazing translators worldwide and please let any of your Spanish-speaking loved ones know that this first book is now ready, if they'd love to dive in... ;)

on October the 22nd I loved:

1 quart water
shot of wheatgrass (felt reeaaaaally nauseous from that ;)
2 cups STRONG green juice: celery, cucumber, zucchini, buckwheat and sunflower greens, mixed sprouts, ginger, lemon
bowl of energy soup with flax crackers on the side, followed by a little shared hand–mixed yumpot (lucuma, mesquite, maca, pine nut butter, cinnamon, vanilla powder, water)
3 cups water
1.5 cups STRONG green juice: celery, cucumber, zucchini, buckwheat and sunflower greens, mixed sprouts, ginger, lemon
2 Tbsp bee pollen, ½ bag of Noniland coconut crisps, apple–oatmeal cookie
cup of bancha tea
3 cups water

Mmmmm, so it's Halloween next week and here in Louisville, KY where we're talking today there are certainly some VERY elaborate decorated gardens with giant spiders, grave stones, skeletons and more...yet the scariest part of Halloween to me, as I'm sure many of you would agree, is all the refined sugars, crazy candies, cakes and sucrose blues most children (and many adults) go through at this time of year :(
Dr Ritamarie has a wonderful Halloween e–book all about the perils of standard Halloween 'treats' and packed instead with yummmmmmmy, fun, goulish RAW snacks, cookies, sweets and so on – YAY :) The good doctor is coming to the rescue ;) You can check out her book HERE – she just updated it for this year with new info, recipes and so on, so now you get your scary gloves and masks on and get busy in your kitchen with these healthy treats ;)

on October the 23rd I was blissed with:

1 quart water
2 cups STRONG green juice: celery, cucumber, bok choi, mustard greens, lettuces, parsley, ginger, lemon
½ a papaya with lime juice – YUMMMM :)
bowl of energy soup with sauerkraut and spiced sunflower seeds on the side, followed by a little bowl of chia/pomegranate/almond milk pudding – NICE :)
3 cups water
YUMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMY little bowl of banana ice cream with purple mulberries – phew ;)
3 cups water


TOUR DATES:

As I mentioned, we're speaking in Kentucky today – Mr. M's actually on stage right now as I write, explaining to a packed room how to handle cravings for past food choices ;) We have some new dates on our tour calendar, so here is the updated list for y'all:

*Oct 26th - Columbus, OH
*Oct 27th - Cincinnati, OH
*Nov 3rd - Asheville, NC
*Nov 11th - Virginia Beach, VA
*Nov 12th - Silver Spring, MD
*Nov 14th - Pittsburgh, PA
*Nov 15th - Bradley Beach, NJ
*Nov 17th - New York, NY
*Nov 18th - Chestnut Ridge, NY
*Nov 19th - Oneonta, NY
*Nov 21st - York, ME
*Nov 22nd - Montclair, NJ
*Dec 5th - Holland, MI
*Dec 7th - Chicago, IL
*Dec 8th - St. Paul/Mendota Heights, MN 
*Dec 14th - Phoenix, AZ
*Dec 15th - Sedona, AZ

You can see ALL the talk details HERE...we hope to see you out there in the coming months... ;)

All love and blissful unfoldings,
Ms. Stokes-Monarch. xxx

Opportunity Knocks...

Listen up, ladies ;)
‘New Woman’ magazine in the UK have been in contact with an exciting media opportunity for anyone in the UK who has a raw weight loss story to tell:

"Has your friend inspired you to lose weight?
If so, please get in touch to take part in a feature in New Woman magazine. I'm looking for women aged 25 to 35 who have been inspired to lose weight by a slim friend who's into raw food. Perhaps you wondered what her secret was, and started copying what she ate...It would involve a short telephone interview and a photo shoot in central London on 5 December. Please contact Ruth Tierney on tierneyruth@aol.com."

on November the 23rd I had:

1 quart water
1 cup fresh orange juice
1 quart celery/parsley/random greens/carrot juice
½ a medium papaya
avo mushed with cilantro pesto, in nori rolls with cucumber, tomato and fresh sprouts
3 cups water
2 cups celery/parsley/random greens/carrot/sunflower greens juice
2 bananas and 2 black sapote
3 cups water
1 mango
2 cups water

When I was Juice Feasting this time last year, one of the most influential things I read during that time was ‘The Law of Attraction’ (LOA) by Esther and Jerry Hicks. We have now added this title to the RawReform store – YAY :) In recent years, the LOA concept has become very popular, especially due to the popular film ‘The Secret’, which shares similar information to this book (also available in our store). This book is a channelled piece of work and it imparts some very useful life tools, especially concerning visualisation. This book helped me a lot with releasing negative thought patterns and instead creating solid, positive intentions for my reality. You can see more about it and order a copy HERE.
Also, a little reminder that until midnight (PST) on November the 26th, you can use the coupon code ‘juice’ to get 10% off ANY purchase in the RawReform Store at the check out…ENJOY :)

on November the 24th I had:

1 quart water
3 cups celery/cucumber/alfalfa/carrot juice
½ a green/orange mamey, ½ a custard apple
3 cups water
big bowl of papaya flesh with lime juice squeezed over it
bowl of sprouts covered with tomato sauce made by blending together 3 tomatoes, 3 cloves of garlic and a few sundried tomatoes with 1/3 packet sundried tomato hummus. Sprouts/sauce stuffed in nori rolls with spinach
2 cups water
2 cups tatsoi/spinach/alfalfa/carrot/apple/celeriac juice
bowl of bananas blended with black sapote, swirled with goji berries
2 cups water

November the 24th sees the Full Moon in Gemini (6.30am PST). Lisa Dale Miller describes this as the moon of diversity - a great time for communication, networking, socializing and information sharing. You can read all about it here: http://astrowisdom.com/thisfullmoon.htm
I learnt something interesting recently. Apparently at the time of the full moon, any parasites in our intestines release their hold on our insides and this is an optimal time to flush them out. Hmmmm…well, I’m not sure how many parasites I have any more…I decided though today that I’d like to help move on out anyone who IS still in there – that’s why I made a tomato sauce with 3 CLOVES of garlic ;) The guys who told me about this process recommended using Wormwood tincture at this time of the moon cycle – I didn’t have that, so garlic was my anti-parasite choice…we’ll see what happens… ;)

One love,
Angela. xxx

Two Reminders...

Reminder Number 1:
This is the last week that the coupon code ‘chia’ is available for use in the new RawReform Store…use that code as you’re checking out with your purchases and you’ll get 10% off any order, PLUS a free 1lb bag of chia seeds if your total is over $150 – YUMMY :) The code stops working at the end of this month – Sunday the 30th - you can visit the store HERE. I know lots of you have been using this to enjoy big savings on what you’d normally pay for appliances, books and so on…I hope you’ve all been enjoying playing with your chia too…(and NOT as chia pets ;)
Here’s a super-easy chia recipe to get you started if you’ve just got some and are unsure what to do with it ;)

Chia Yumbowl
4-5 tbsps chia seeds
1-2 bananas, mashed with a fork
1-2 tbsp lucuma powder
small handful raisins
small handful pumpkin seeds
Pure water

Soak the chia seeds in plenty of pure water (remember it can absorb 9 times its volume in under 10 mins). Mash down the banana(s).
Mix together the chia, banana, lucuma, raisins and pumpkin seeds in a bowl and eat.
(If you want an even sweeter meal, use apple juice to soak the chia instead of water. Chia seed is very effective at slowing sugar absorption into the body, so you can eat quite a large amount of sugary foods in combination with it and not experience drastic sugar high/lows.)

On September the 27th I had:

1 litre water
800ml celery/lettuce/carrot/broccoli/green pepper juice
2 succulent, delectable peaches
800ml celery/cucumber/spinach/dandelion/lemon juice
½ galia melon
500ml water
1 tbsp green powder
INTENSE celery/cucumber/dandelion/spinach/chard/lemon juice
1½ tbsp hemp seeds
500ml water

Reminder Number 2:
This is also the final week for submitting your entries for the current RawReform Giveaway, to win a copy of the simply wonderful book ‘Anastasia’ by Vladimir Megre. To be in with a chance of winning your own copy of this incredible volume, just email us your answer to the following question:

Who inspires YOU?

I’m SO enjoying reading your stories about who inspires you on your journey. Thanks for all the entries so far… If you haven’t set in YOUR entry yet, just send us the name of who inspires YOU and THREE reasons why they inspire you and you’ll be automatically entered into the draw to win a copy of Anastasia...

Send your entries to angela@rawreform.com and the winner will be picked at random next month. We certainly look forward to hearing more of your stories :)

One love,
Angela. xxx

Sad News...Apologies and Gratitude...

I have some news I feel very sad about. It feels like it’s time to share though… A month from now, thousands of vibrant, lively raw foodists will be gathered together in Sedona, Arizona, to celebrate the fabulous Raw Spirit Festival…and right now, it seems very unlikely that I will be able to join you all… :(
Hmmmmmmmmmmmmm…visa complications are persisting for me and unless things dramatically shift in the next 4 weeks, it seems I am currently unable to enter the US…I absolutely love it here in Canada where I am right now...I would be SO delighted to come down to the US for the festie though too...
I have been holding off from announcing this, in the hope that things will shift…and they may indeed still yet – the GREAT thing to focus on is that myself and MANY other bright beings have been holding the vision of me actually being there for the festie…SO, we have a lot of energetic power behind this… ;) If you feel to also lend your visionary attention towards this, that would be wonderful :) Thank You…
I’m sorry for any disappointments and SO hope it will work out for me to join in the fun down south with y’all… ;) All limbs crossed ;)

on September the 11th I had:

1 litre water
½ medium papaya
1.2 litres green juice
bowl of sea spaghetti with sprouts, granulated wrack seaweed, hemp oil, sunflower seeds and baby leaf greeeeeeeens
500ml water
10 fresh figs
500ml water
500ml green juice with lemon
½ medium papaya
500ml water

I’m SO sorry. I guess the last newsletter I sent out produced quite some response and the RawReform server actually got totally overwhelmed with email traffic and crashed…EEEEEEEkkkkk…so, for all of you who tried to send in messages – especially for the ‘Who inspires YOU?’ Giveaway draw – apologies…the mail system is cooperating again now after some gentle encouraging, so please feel free to send things in again if you feel to, to angela@rawreform.com – thanks ;)

on September the 12th I had:

1 litre water
1 litre yellow watermelon juice – yummmmmmmmmm
1 dragon fruit and 6 fresh figs
500ml water
bowl of kale salad with sea spaghetti, sauerkraut and granulated wrack
little raw chocolate bar with raw shortbread
1 litre green juice with lemon
bowl of appleflax – blended apples mixed with ground flax seed, ground almonds, lucuma powder, swirled with a little spirulina and goji berries
1 litre water

Three things for which I have recently felt grateful:

1. Experiencing the most INCREDIBLY powerful thunder and lightening storm a couple of nights ago whilst out bike-riding…it was an intense experience…my energy had been tight during the day and I wanted to release…if ever I wanted confirmation of the truth that the outer reflects the inner, this was IT ;) The weather was beautiful as I set out, then rapidly shifted to gale-force winds, dramatic thunder and lightening all around me, lashing rain, hailstones and gusts so strong that they literally blew my glasses off…it was amazing…I was howling like a BANSHEE into the wind and my arms were whipped bright red from the cold hail and wind…what a release :O
2. Seeing the film ‘Hairspray’ recently at the cinema – MMMmmmmmm :))) SO sweet and funny and uplifting and wonderfully well acted…yes, I do just LOVE musicals… ;)
3. Reflecting on one of the gifts of our ‘constantly-on-the-move’ lifestyle: that we get the opportunity to see how SO many different houses and specifically kitchens function…it brings me so much inspiration and clarity for how I would like a raw kitchen to be as and when I settle somewhere…two things I see very clearly right now are that I want to have a HUGE amount of surface space for things to dry after being washed up, on racks/a surface that allows drainage AND I’ve also been really appreciating flexi cutting-board covers which you can chop things on, then pick up the sheet and slide the chopped yummies into your receptacle of choice ;) I’ll share more kitchen pointers as and when they present themselves ;)

One love,
Angela. xxx

RAWREFORM ONLINE STORE NOW OPEN – GET 10% OFF YOUR ORDER and FREE CHIA SEEDS :)))

OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOHHHHHHHHH, CHEEKINESS itself – that Mr Monarch is utterly incorrigible…sneaking into my blog...LOL…judging by your emails and feedback today though, many of you seemed to enjoy his little adventure into my blog space yesterday…I’ll be more careful to close down my blog windows from now on when I leave my desk ;) Thanks for all the messages… ;)

On September the 3rd I had:
1.5 litres water
350ml warm water with lemon juice
1 litre watermelon and orange juice
bowl of avo blended with banana, swirled with maca, lucuma, sprouts, shavings of broccoli and pumpkin seeds
1 litre water
1 medium papaya
500ml water
bowl of chia soaked in blended apples, swirled with cinnamon, pieces of dried figs, spirulina and lucuma
1.5 litres water

Hey, FUN NEWS…de-de-de-de-de-de-deeeeehhhhhh (cue fanfare, drums, explosions, etc…)

RAWREFORM ONLINE STORE NOW OPEN – GET 10% OFF YOUR ORDER and FREE CHIA SEEDS :)))

I’ve got an ACTUAL online store :) I’m so excited…this has been a loooooong time coming and today we’re officially unveiling the new RawReform Store – WELCOME :) (I know some of you keen-eyed tricksters have already sneaked through the back door and made your way in there - cheeky ;) So, come on in, one and all and have a good poke about – there’s books, raw foods, kitchen appliances, rebounders, beauty products, supplements and all kinds of other yummies to explore… HURRAY :)

AAAAAAANNNNNNNDDDDDD...

...to welcome you to the new shop, we’re offering a 10% discount on all orders PLUS a free 1lb bag of magical chia seeds if you spend over $150…yeeeeeeeeeeeeeee-HAH ;))) Just enter the coupon code ‘chia’ when you’re at the store checkout, to claim your discount and free seeds ;)

The RawReform site has been online for over 3 years now and never really had a fully-functional store, so this is an exciting step forward - now you can get all your rawness straight from the site and pay in whatever way suits you best – cards, cheques, Paypal – we accept it ALL now…I know a lot of you have been having issues in the past with ordering my ebooks for example, as we only accepted Paypal - well, here we go, now you can pay any way you like...HURRAY... ;)

Visit the store HERE.

on September the 4th I had:
1.5 litres water
800ml watermelon/orange juice
handful of gojis with pine nuts
3 peaches
1 litre water
700ml green juice with apple
slice of outrageous raw magic cake :O
1 litre water
handful of sprouts and gorgeous Japanese seaweed
1 medium papaya
1 litre water

PHeeeeewwwwwwwwww…we had great fun doing the photo shoot for Kate Wood’s next book today – ‘Raw Magic’ will be out around the end of November and all being well, you ought to be able to see myself, Matt, Kate and other yummies galavanting on the cover with outrageous raw cake ;) You can check out Kate’s other books HERE…
One love,
Angela. xxx