Women's International Summit for Health - starts March 8th :)

I'm thrilled to announce that in honour of International Women's Day this year, those divine divas over at RawMom have lovingly pieced together an absolutely *fabulous*line-up of world-renowned speakers, for a *FREE* 10 day Summit, open to all, titled "WISH" or the "Women's International Summit for Health" :)
Remember the "Raw Summit" and "Raw Mom Summit"? Well now imagine that kinda vibe, plus jingling bells, ecstatic whistles, trumpets, sparkles, light-bulb-fringed mirrors and explosions and that might be smthg like what we'll get to experience at this uber-summit ;) It starts on March the 8th and runs for 10 days, one topic a day, 40 outstanding speakers - it's going to be a marathon of love, light, care and connection - will you join in? I hope so, I'm really looking forward to it, there are so many wonderful people involved, such as:

Neale Donald Walsch, Rory Freedman, Marianne Williamson, Donna Gates, Victoria Boutenko, Rainbeau Mars, Gay and Katie Hendricks, Jules Dervaes (urban homesteaders), Dr. Mercola, Tonya Zavasta, David Wolfe, Mimi Kirk, Susun Weed

WOW :) The topics up for discussion include: Sensuality, Spirit, Food, Relationships, Fitness, Beauty, Health, Money, Attitude, Family. What a line-up...and it's all free to anyone who registers before March 8th...you can sign up HERE and let all your yummy friends know too - enjoy :)


On February the 2nd I was blissed with:

1 quart water
2 cups greeeeen smoothie: apple, spinach, parsley, chia flour, water, with 4tbsp acai powder on the side
2 cups water
2 cups greeeeen smoothie: apple, spinach, parsley, chia flour, water, with 2 hachiya persimmons and 3tbsp acai powder on the side
2 cups water
3 cups shilajit/reishi/ormus tea with camu powder, colloidal silver, zinc and stevia added
2 cups greeeeen juice, 2 cups 'chocolate milk' juice: romaine/spinach/carrot/fennel
2 cups water

<3, love, LOVE this new Green Smoothie Song, posted yesterday by Victoria Boutenko ;) Check it out and ENJOY those smoooooothies... :) I've been drinking so many green smoothies lately, working our way steadily through the GLUT of persimmons that Mr. M bought at the end of persimmon season ;) (LOVE Valya's facial expressions in this video... ;)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fN1X0zchLiw

on February the 3rd it was a *hot* day and I loved:

1 quart water
2 cups greeeeeeeeen juice
2 cups water
2 cups greeeeen smoothie: persimmon, cilantro, spinach, sunflower greens, chia flour, water, with 4 tbsp acai powder on the side
2 cups water
2 cups greeeeen smoothie: persimmon, cilantro, spinach, sunflower greens, chia flour, water, with 4 tbsp acai powder on the side and a little handful of soaked/flavoured/dehydrated almonds - YUM :)
3 cups water
1 cup veggie juice
2.5 cups coconut water blended with Greener Grasses
2 cups water

I also loved a lightworker message sent to me by Ms. Kate Magic yesterday, involving focusing our loving intentions towards the people of Haiti (and beyond) as we eat or drink anything, to help send nourishing energy that way, in the manner of the energy flow involved in traditional Vision Quests - you can read the details HERE.
This reminded me too of something mentioned to me recently by one of the workers at The Tree of Life, who was raised in an intentional community. She mentioned that to help people not 'space out' and eat mindlessly there, one of the ideas they carried in that community was to, for example, be conscious for the 3rd bite of every meal, or the 7th bite, or whichever you choose, preferably of course resulting in being conscious and aware with every bite...and if on top of that we are also directing that nourishing flow to places where it may be really appreciated, well, that sounds like an inspired use of time/space/flow to me... ;)

All love, all the time, expanding in all directions,
Ms. Angela Stokes-Monarch. xxx

Frightfully RAW Fun... :)

Mmmmmm, it’s Halloween time of course now for many people around the world...parents and raw foodists all over may grimace and fret about all that refined sugar, the crazy mood swings and so on – and YET – help is at hand ;) Here are a few yummy raw food resources for a hopefully less ‘frightful’ celebration, nutritionally-speaking ;)

*There’s an AMAZINGLY handsome looking pumpkin pie recipe on WeLikeItRaw at the moment – see HERE.
Thanks, Dhru and chef Rachel Fracassa for sharing :)

*Heidi and Justin at RawFoodRightNow.com also have some GREAT Halloween posts – HERE’s the most recent one, with a FABULOUS picture of a watermelon ‘brain’ ;)
HERE is also an older post of theirs with Halloween Recipes and tips.

*Dr Ritamarie Loscalzo has a whole Halloween raw food e-book to share over on her site HERE – packed with recipes, stories and tips – fun ;)

I do hope you ENJOY the celebrations this weekend if Halloween is part of your picture...may the greeeeeeeeeeeen goblins be with you ;)

on October the 29th I had:

1 quart water
little mug of rose tea
2 cups veggie juice: celery, cucumber, spinach, kale, beetroot, carrots, ginger
2 cups energy soup with flax crackers and pistachio butter on the side, followed by yum-balls made by the Monarch (containing lucuma, chia, gojis, pine nut butter and maca)
little cup of spicy tea
3 cups water
2 OUTRAGEOUS persimmons
1.5 cups veggie juice: celery, cucumber, spinach, kale, beetroot, carrots, ginger
bowl of grawnola from Shellbel
3 cups water

I felt moved to share some of the messages today that have been coming in from one reader – Cindy – who set out on a raw journey after seeing the CNN report on my weight loss on September the 23rd. In just a MONTH, Cindy has already released 20LBS by adopting a raw lifestyle and she has been dropping us emails too along the way – here are some recent snippets from the last few days that I felt to share – I think she has such a lovely, direct way of sharing her passion for this new way of life:

“I'm now 19#'s lighter this morning since receiving your weight loss testimony of eating raw food and I just can't wait to see another 100 plus pounds gone. It hasn't been yet a month. Just the other day a friend of mine told me I was shrinking. I did not know that anyone would even notice (and I don't care really, I care that I notice) but I was delightfully surprised. I thought I would have to show a marked amount of weight loss before it was noticeable to even myself.
I'm excited! If this is how quickly the weight comes off, then wow...I will be at my happy body weight in no time. A wonderful comment I heard and keep in mind is that the body will take itself to it's proper place when we eat the right foods for our body. No need to count calories and measure food. We just eat what nature intended for our bodies, and our bodies will adjust and reach "it's" proper weight.
This wonderful feeling of peace and calm and clarity is too hard to explain unless one has experienced it. I thought I would have to wait until the majority of my weight was released to enjoy this sensation, but it wasn't so...I felt it almost immediately as if it were some magic pill. And nature is in itself magic to me so to speak. The answer to this feeling of freedom from garbage food, is the food from nature.
Just...thanks so very much for all that you do, and for all that you share to make this program a possibility for me for life. I can't imagine going back to the way I used to feel. And if losing 20 lbs. in a month can make me feel this great, I can't even imagine how losing the additional 100 will make me feel. I'm sure it will get better...and along the path, I am sure to feel the effects of detox. It's okay. Much better than spending the rest of my life eating SAD.
How can an overweight Mama like me feel as light as a feather? I don't know. But, I feel it little by little, day by day...and I look forward to each new morning and bask in it's newness and my newness as well. You have helped me to save my life! Your article on CNN was timely and I know that I for one have been blessed by it as I am sure many, many others have. In order to keep myself motivated, I read your story every week or so, just so I know that I will get there soon enough.
Thanks ever so much!!!
With sincere gratitude,"
Cindy

WOW – CONGRATS, Cindy, thanks for sharing and ALL blessings to you for your journey onwards :)


on October the 30th I had:

1 quart water
little mug of spicy tea
shot of wheatgrass/ginger/lime juice
2 YUMMERS persimmons and 3 figs
little mug of spicy tea
3 cups water
2 cups energy soup with flax crackers and okra on the side, followed by a few yum-balls made by the Monarch (containing lucuma, chia, gojis, pine nut butter and maca)
3 cups water
2 cups veggie juice: celery, cucumber, parsley, spinach, beetroot, kale, Jerusalem artichoke, carrot, ginger
2 cups water

I had my first persimmons of the season yesterday. Oh My GODDDDDDDESSSSSSSSS...are these things actually still LEGAL? Lol…how BLESSED we are that mama nature is SO kind to us, that she brought forth a creation as lusciously, outrageously, seductively sweet and delicious as the persimmon... If you’re reading this and wondering what I’m talking about, then please be sure next time you’re near a fruit seller, to pick up at least one or two RIPE specimens of these nuggets of pure YUMMM, straight from nature (I would be cautious though, personally, eating more than one or two of these yummies at a time – they feel VERY sugary to me ;)
N.B. these fruits also go by the name of ‘Sharon Fruit’ in some places too... I remember the first time I ever had a persimmon. I was visiting the intentional/spiritual community Damanhur in Italy, back in the autumn of 2004. I had just quit the waitressing job I’d been doing in a mainstream café in Iceland, so that I could concentrate on writing my first book about raw foods. I’d been on a raw path for 2.5 years by then and released around 160lbs of excess weight. A fellow visitor at the Damanhur centre had a pack of persimmons with him (‘kaki’ in Italian, I believe). I’d never seen this kind of fruit before and he offered me one to try. It was LOVE at first bite...unbelievable...this is one of those foods that when I eat it, I just cannot fathom why anyone would want to eat packaged/processed cakes/candies and so on, when they could eat foods like these, straight from nature...lol ;) Well, pesky processed-food-addictions aside, I hope you get to enjoy some of these beautiful creations this season, if they’re hanging out in your vicinity...ENJOY :) (Oh, and be sure to BRUSH YOUR TEETH afterwards ;)

MUAAHHH,
All love,
Angela-di-da. xxx

Fruity Feedback...

I’m re-reading Raw Emotions at the moment. I’m happy to see that it makes sense ;) LOL...after a couple of months’ break from it, I’m reading it over and getting it ready to go to print. I’m adding in a few little extras here and there for the printed version, like a ‘testimony’ page of peoples’ comments so far who have read the book. We’ve had some absolutely lovely feedback already and we’re certainly open to more if YOU’ve read 'Raw Emotions' and would like to share anything in regards to your experience with it. Here’s something sent in by ‘A’ this week:

“Hi Angela, I just wanted to tell you that I finished reading "Raw Emotions" last night.

THANK YOU, THANK YOU, THANK YOU for writing this book.

You have hit so many nails on the head for me in this book, I am very grateful to you. I am now in the process over going back through my notes to decide which concepts I am going to implement first.

I want so badly to heal my relationship with food and eating and you are such an inspiration to me. Now I see clearly why my earlier attempts at being raw or succeeding with any other way of eating have not been sustainable.
And, thanks to your book, I understand why eating raw foods can be an important part of the healing process. Maybe the time was right for me to get the message...and maybe it's about the teacher showing up with the student is ready.

Thanks again.
Best, A.”

THANKS, A :) If YOU have a testimony you’d love to share, or any comments, feedback, typo alerts or anything else about ‘Raw Emotions’ you’d care to send in, please email angela@rawreform.com and let me know :) You can also order the e-book HERE if you haven’t seen it yet...
THANKS :)

on June the 4th I had:

1 quart water
cup of pau d’arco tea
10oz celery/cucumber/cabbage/fennel/spinach/carrot juice
1lb cherries
2 cups celery/cucumber/spinach/fennel/cabbage/endive/lemon juice
spicy flax crackers topped with dill hummus, sprouts and dulse seaweed = yummmmm
little bowl of sweet stuff afterwards = GOJI BERRY POWDER (WOW), yacon powder and lucuma powder, mixed with water
3 cups water
10oz celery/cucumber/spinach/fennel/cabbage/endive/lemon juice
orange fruits meal: papaya/loquats/persimmon
3 cups water

Time for another story of Brighton magic :) A couple of days ago, a dear friend was leaving on a trip to London for the day. Just before she left, I said ‘Mmmmm, if I was going to London today, I’d go and eat durian there...’ ;)
A few hours later, I was walking down a street in Brighton and suddenly felt the energy of durian, as my attention was drawn to the left. I looked up and there was a Chinese supermarket there that I’d never seen before. Hmmm...I followed the clues and walked towards the store. I then SMELT the durian before I even saw it...and entered the shop to find 2 boxes of fresh, unfrozen durian sitting next to the door. :))) I’ve never seen durian for sale in Brighton before and was extremely excited. The owner told me she gets shipments of them every week in the summer time and this was the first shipment of the summer...and it had just arrived a few minutes before I got there. WOW. The synchronicities in this place are just beautiful :) I really feel like Brighton is an amazing vortex at times – things can certainly manifest quickly here... The cost seemed reasonable too, at £5.95/kilo – which doesn’t seem wildly different to London prices, if I recall correctly. I bought a gorgeous little fruit and ate it in the sun yesterday. If anyone else would love to go and partake of these magnificent munchables, the address is:

Ryelight Supermarket, 48 Preston Street, Brighton, BN1 2HP Tel: 01273 734954

ENJOY :)


on June the 5th I had:

1 quart water
1 mug pau d’arco tea
orange fruits meal: papaya/loquats/persimmon
3 cups celery/cucumber/endive/spinach/fennel/ginger/apple juice
a GORGEOUS little durian
1.5 quarts water
3 cups celery/cucumber/endive/spinach/fennel/ginger/apple juice
1 mug rooibus tea
1 cup water

I’ve been eating quite a lot of fruit (mono-)meals of late and REALLY enjoying them. Here are some of the things I’ve been appreciating:

1. I love that when I eat a fruit meal, I feel light afterwards, rather than ‘weighed down’ in some sense by fats/heavier combinations, etc. When we first go raw, for most of us, there’s a sense that we can almost ‘eat anything’ and we’ll still lose weight, feel healthier and lighter after meals and so on, even if we’re eating raw pizza and cheesecakes all day long – this is of course because we’ve STOPPED eating the really crazy toxic processed/cooked ‘foods’ and almost anything that’s raw is some kind of improvement. That all shifts, the longer one is raw. If I was to eat raw pizza, cookies, cakes etc all day long now, I’d be a mess...LOL...my body consistently moves towards a ‘cleaner’/simpler intake all the time. Whereas raw pizza might have felt ‘light on my stomach’ to me at the start of this journey compared to the junk foods I used to eat, that is no longer the case. Now FRUIT meals feel light to me and I like the ‘clean’ feeling of fuelling up on them...
2. Yesterday I was eating some gorgeous papaya in the sun (one of my absolute favourite foods). After eating, I looked at my skin and noticed my arms and legs looked a little dry. Hmmm, what to do...? Then I realised the answer was right there in front of me – the discarded papaya skin :) I picked it back up and rubbed it all over my limbs – I got my food, then they got theirs’ – wonderful :)
3. I’m feeling more and more that I definitely prefer eating fruits whole, as they are, rather than blending them, making them into cakes/puddings etc. It just feels SO good to me to eat something like that in its whole and natural form, giving blessings before I open it or bite into it, visualising where it came from, giving gratitude. It seems a very different energy to throwing something in a blender and shattering all the cells into a mixture of something else. I’m reading the classic book ‘The Secret Life of Plants’ at the moment, which is also impacting my thoughts around this a lot ;) Plants truly sense and respond to all our thoughts and feelings, as repeatedly outlined in this book with countless examples...
4. I love when supermarkets/stores sell off the BEST fruit really cheaply, because as far as their standards go, it is ‘overripe’, when in fact, it is absolutely IDEALLY ready for munching...this week for example, I got a clutch of divine persimmons that were perfectly soft and ripe for less than £1 ($2)...I see this happen a lot with bananas too...
5. Finally...GOJI BERRY POWDER...while this may be a dried fruit product, rather than something of the more succulent nature, I felt compelled nonetheless to mention it here. This week, three sachets of dried goji berry powder arrived here from Mr. Monarch in the US. (: W.O.W. :) This is one of the most sublime raw foods I’ve tasted yet. Absolutely delicious – it melts in your mouth and tastes sweet and fresh and bizarrely reminiscent of some kind of childhood sweets (not sure which...) You can literally just eat it straight from the packet on its own, it’s SO tasty...or add to any kind of sweet raw meal/smoothie/cake etc...you can get hold of some HERE if you’d like to treat your taste buds ;)

All love,
Angela. xxx