Greet, Pray - Eat

GREETINGS to the present moment. To you. Welcome.

Deep breaths. Not worrying about what's been yesterday or what's coming tomorrow.

All this "Rapture" talk leaves me now, more than ever just wanting to be...right...here....right...now.

It's the only certainty we really have.

We can PRAY for the things we've done in the past hoping that in the near future when said finishing axe, death star comet or zombie Apocalypse arrives we will be right with our higher being.

But this is it. This exact breath. This minute is all we can really hold on to.  Pray in thanks for that.

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In prayer - I'd like to take a moment to give thanks. 

Thank You, yes YOU for staying being here in community with me, with Green Mom Green Baby. Thank you for your blessed return, for your devotion and loyalty.  I've recently checked up on GMGB's stats and I'm grateful for the amount of readers showing up from all over the globe.  And while Italy is lacking in numbers con diligenza Sono benedetto mamma del bambino verde verde :)

Eat. 

Something that I must be present to and no longer deny is that my entire being, my temporary skin bag if you will is not of perfect health as of late. 

There is no doubt that it's from all of the stress I've processed the past 12 months however some of the pain has been reoccurring for several years now.  

Everything hurts.

Everything. 

Everything has changed. I've had a conversation with my body and she feels as if she's on toxic overload. Whether it's old habits I'm trying to break, toxic relationships or plain old stress, 

I know in my heart that if I go to a Dr. about my plight the same thing will happen. 

The catscans, x-rays & blood work leave everyone guessing and me still doubled over in whatthehelliswrongwithmeville.

Sophia on the other hand has allergies yet to be diagnosed by her pediatrician. 

The symptoms are cyclical since last spring, runny nose, sore throat then a massive cough that lasts for weeks and ends with Dr's orders for antibiotics.  She's too young for the allergy medications and quite frankly I don't know that I want to keep her so pilled up.

When I suggested she be tested I got a prescript for a Sleep apnea. 

I felt pissed off that the woman with the medical degree dishonored my mother's intuition.

So what's been coming up for me recently in meditation is the power of healing through nature.  Can I get a drum roll for this hippy?

That being said I was lead to a book (Thank you Melissa Burda!) 

called Crazy Sexy Diet by Kris Carr .

She's an amazing woman who let her rare form of cancer empower her rather than sit, Doctors orders waiting to see what her disease would or could do.  

Now, it's my firm belief and my divine experience that books find us when we most need them.  I certainly needed this. I'm empowered and have been writing and recommending friends with every page turn. 

I'm so committed to changing my little one's diet so that her symptoms ease and mine lessen.

 Kris's vegetarian/vegan way of healing has led her to peacefully coexist with her canSer (which she chooses to spell funny to poke fun at).  As a newly recruited Wellness Warrior I am proud to say that today I was meatless once again. (YAY) but this is going to be a super challenge in order to really heal the issues that Sophia and I are experiencing. 

In 2005 I participated in the Cosmic Cleanse at the Gayatri Institute, San Francisco with Christina McGold and the late Janna Wissler. Since that time I've carried the amazing experience and knowledge with me - about the benefits of not eating meat, drinking caffiene or alchohol and being more raw with my diet but I struggled with the why and the how.  

Living here, in the heart of hunting and fishing hick land where everything is fried and stuck between bread served with a side of fries or potatoes a bud and one last helping of Nascar it's been more than difficult to maintain that sparkly, San Francisco progressive language let alone the lifestyle.

However, knowing that both Sophia and I could greater benefit from wiser food choices is making me put my damn foot down.  I am going to lead by example and stand up for my daughter and I in the face of the rest of her family shoving fast food down her throat to gain her affection. 

I'm going to look her too preoccupied to listen pediatriton in the face at her next check up and say antibiotics weren't necessary because mommy became a kitchen witch and cured her incessant cough.

Disclaimer: Within reason of course. I'd never deny Sophia the proper medical attention should her cough become worse or last more than a week.  

So today I greet you with new resolve once again down this Green Mom Green Baby adventure.

I pray that in this moment I have shared an inspired you to pick up some new knowledge and to eat a little more greener and with a lot more conscious.  

As Kris says, your mouth is your altar to your God pod.  

You can have power over your being.

I cheers you with my green juice minus my morning cup of joe.  

XO

GMGB