wrapping up
As we move into our last week, we’re reflecting on the process we’ve all shared - it’s been a deep, sometimes intense, but beautiful journey... and we’re so proud, and so grateful for you - we couldn’t have asked for more energy or commitment, and we say a huge thank you from the bottom of our hearts for that, it’s been such a pleasure :)
Although this is our last week, but we do have one more zoom to finish the course with, to say some goodbyes, ask/answer any questions, and just have one last hangout together!
This last week, you’re shifting back into a place where you have more freedom with your food again !
You’ve worked hard, you’ve been disciplined, and have done amazing work on your body during these last weeks, and now is the time to begin integrating back into normality, so you can truly enjoy the fruits of your labour.
Your body may adjust quickly, or it may takes some days or weeks to find its balance, this is normal.
Even though you’re finishing the program, there may still be things your body is working on cleansing or healing, so that process may need to finish running its course before everything finds its place again.
Depending on how you’re feeling this last week, you may want to experiment with some of the tools one last time, or you may feel the need to start shifting back to normal, and leaving the deeper practices, we’re going to have a look at some different options for both.
It’s important to try and maintain your focus for this last week, the body, and particularly the digestive system, is sensitive after a detox, if you return straight back to normality, and start introducing lots of different foods all at once, your digestion may suffer for it.
This week you can increase the density of what you eat, so that you’re warming up your digestive fire for the weeks to come.
We’re still looking to keep some hydration in the mornings, and then lunches and dinners you have more choice, as we’re about to look at below.
OPTIONS TO EXPLORE THIS WEEK
We still recommend 750ML lemon water, followed by 1L of green juice daily - because it’s important you continue providing your body with quality hydration, as it’s still working on different areas that have been healing and detoxifying over the last 4 weeks.
After that, each day the choice is yours - you may use any of the approaches to eating that you’ve used in weeks 1 & 2.
You may also continue to do 1 main meal per day some days this week if that’s been feeling good for you.
And still have the option to take a 1 day juice fast (can be helpful if you find yourself constipated), or up to a 24 hour water fast (or 36 if you didn’t have time to try, but still want to), but ideally no dry fasts.
Mono meals of fruit will still be best, especially if you’re adding some new foods (below).
Enemas are still okay to use this week too (no more than 3 days).
Some foods you can re-integrate this week:
GF pasta - 2-3 times (lentil, buckwheat, pea, etc.) - eat with a salad, and keep the meal relatively simple.
Potatoes or other vegetables roasted with avocado or hemp seed oil (1-2 times this week), eat with a salad, and a sauce or dip from any of the weeks recipes (try the mustard sauce).
Sauerkraut / kimchi - unpasteurised (1-2 times).
As you re-introduce these foods, remember that it’s important to keep your hydration up alongside this as mentioned above (mornings).
We’re still looking to eat plenty of raw vegetables - greens, cabbage, sprouts, carrots & cucumber, to help brush out loose plaque that may be left in the intestines.
CHEW YOUR FOOD WELL, AND EAT CALMLY - THIS IS VERY IMPORTANT OVER THE NEXT FEW WEEKS.
And particularly when you’re eating foods that you’ve not eaten for some time - really make an effort to be present and connect with the experience fully, the flavours, textures and feelings that come when eating these foods, it’s a beautiful experience that you don’t want to miss :)
A NEW TOOL
The course may have connected you with your body in a way that can change your relationship with it forever, you might notice you have more sensitivity, more connection, more trust, and a greater capacity to hear what it asks of you.
You may notice you still feel the desire from your body to use some of these practices from time to time, and that’s great, you can implement some of the things you’ve learnt whenever you feel the need, if that’s what your body is asking for.
The idea with this course is for you to be able to drop into and out of the things you’ve learnt, whenever you feel you need to.
We both use these approaches to detox to manage our health in the way that suits us best, for example, when we’re feeling low energy, or digestion is getting slow, we might take a day eating fruits, or juicing, and notice how that brings things back into balance.
We follow the desire to eat and enjoy when our bodies want us to, we exercise and workout when it feels good, and when the body says it’s time to cleanse, hydrate or rest, we try to follow that too.
It isn’t always easy knowing what to do and when to do it, but you now have a variety of tools that you can keep exploring and experimenting with in the context of your life - to help you feel your best and keep your body happy.
It’s likely you’ll have found certain practices, fruits, juices or approaches that feel best for you, and if that’s the case, great, they might be the things that come in handy, or become your go to when you feel your body or mind are in need of a reset or some support.
We hope that this course has deepened the connection you have with your body, it’s an ongoing journey, but this connection is something that can help you lead from your intuition, which helps you to know what you need based on your feelings, instead of on information or advice from others.
And when it comes to diet, we all live in different places, have access to different foods, live different lifestyles, have different preferences, and different genes, so there’s no point us trying to pretend that there is one diet that works best for everyone, because we don’t believe it’s true.
We believe there are many healthy approaches to diet, and that the individual should make decisions about what they feel works best for them based on the feedback from their body & mind.
We want you to create your own approach to diet, some things from the course may make their way into your daily life, or they may be useful seasonally - you need to decide that for yourself.
But the things we’ve been working with during this course are practices that increase that sensitivity to yourself, so that you have the connection that allows you to know what feels good, and what doesn’t, in terms of what you choose to eat, and beyond.
seeds of change
You’ve made it this far and what you’ve done for yourself is a BIG thing, so PLEASE don’t forget that.
What you did was plant a seed of Self love and presence that will keep growing regardless of what you do. You don’t even need to water it or take care of it, that’s the beautiful thing about planting seeds of change. They just grow out of that inner love that’s inside of each one of us.
This goes beyond food, and juices and enemas, this was a moment in time that you dedicated time for yourself, and for deepening the connection with your body in a very respectful and loving way..
Sometimes we take these changes or attitudes for granted, but the fact that something in you wanted to do this for yourself is a miracle.
Whats a miracle? Anything that’s born out of love instead of fear.
We know how hard it is to decide to do something as big as this for ourselves, and the fact that you put your energy into it, is showing you all this love inside of you, and that you can actually do miracles any time you get in touch with it.
That’s the whole purpose of this kind of practices, to show you that when you push a little bit hard and go against your mental blockages, you can find this inner strength capable of creating miracles any time you want. Getting in touch with your self love its all that matters, all the medicine that we need.
You are the medicine, never forget that :)