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Mindful Monday is a tradition where we take a few minutes to reflect on the week gone by and the one ahead.

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What Are You Grateful for This Week?

• International Women’s Day: It’s time to celebrate International Women’s day, and what better way than with The Women’s International Summit for Health? I’ve been sending out links to WISH to my newsletter subscribers for the past few weeks in anticipation for today. Because we really need to celebrate women and women’s health together.
• Thought Provoking Movies and Good Food: Friday night I enjoyed an evening in good company at one of Toronto’s raw restaurants called Rawlicious. (I loved the raw pizza I had, super double yum!) We watched the movie The Yes Men Fix the World, and it was a very relaxed but insightful movie followed by great conversations.
• An Awesome Walk by the Lakeshore: Sunday my boyfriend Robin and I took the most amazing walk along the lake shore. It was sunny, it felt like spring, and there were these gorgeous sea birds out on the lake. It was a great way to get reconnected to nature. It made me realize how much I love being outside in it.

What Do You Intend for the Coming Week?

• Lots of Ease in Finishing my Work: I’m heading to SXSW in a few days and I have this massive to-do list to finish. I intend to check things off easily, in a flowing way that doesn’t cause me stress or worry. I know everything will get done.
• Simple, Quick, Packing: I’m generally good at packing and organizing before a trip (see my how to eat healthy at SXSW post) but I want this time to be stress-free. I know that the weather in Austin is going to be warmer than here, but I’m ready to pack a little variety to make sure I’m comfortable no matter what.
• An Awesome Time in Austin: I intend to meet some awesome people, learn some cool stuff, and enjoy myself at SXSW. Looking at the schedule at SXSW is a little overwhelming. I know it’s all about hanging out in the Bloggers Lounge or meeting people between sessions rather than trying to fit every panel in.

Note: I will be back with more Mindful Monday in two weeks from now!

Leave a comment below and let us know what you’re grateful for today and what you intend for the coming week. :)

Mindful Monday is a tradition where we take a few minutes to reflect on the week gone by and the one ahead.

Feel free to join in the fun by commenting!

What Are You Grateful for This Week?

• Canadian Hockey: Yesterday the Canadian hockey team won the gold medal in the winter Olympics, and it was epic. There was no shortage of cheering on the streets of downtown Toronto, and it was just such a fun time to be Canadian. ;)
• Meeting New Friends: I’ve been making connections left and right, some of which are just so much fun and I am super grateful! Check out Liz Rice for her veg*/eco friendly events, Justine for her Etsy marketing materials, and Bianca for her freelancing. I’m also grateful for meeting with my wildly brilliant friends Tara and Jamie!
• The End of February: With the end of February comes March! I am super grateful for both the warmer (I assume) weather and the fact that SXSW is coming up! If you’ll be at SXSWi let me know, I’d love to meet you. :)

What Do You Intend for The Coming Week?

• Rolling Out the Goodies: I’ve been hard at work creating my next set of recipe videos, and a new recipe book. I’m super excited that this week I get to share a piece with everyone!
• Recipes & More Recipes: I’ll likely have my head in the recipes for a big chunk of this week, not that I mind. I can’t wait to share what my next Big Thing is going to be! :)
• More Live Events: Working on promoting my next live raw event, happening in April. I’m hosting another live Spread Your Raw Food Wings class here in Toronto, woohoo! There are only half the spots left, so if you want in click here to sign up.

Your turn, now

Leave a comment below and let me know what you’re grateful for this week, and what you intend for the coming week.

Mindful Monday is a tradition where we take a few minutes to reflect on the week gone by and the one ahead.

Feel free to join in the fun by commenting!

What Are You Grateful For This Week?

• Speaking at PodCamp Toronto 2010: On Saturday I spoke to roughly 80-100 people on How to turn your Raw Passion into a Budding Business using Social Media. It was so much fun, there were some great questions and I felt so energized during and after the talk. It reminded me why I like speaking!
• Great romance novels: I read a few great romance novels over the week-end and it was a great way to unplug from the computer.
• Exercising my creativity: I had fun making a little raw meal planning video. It’s a parody on the google commercial from the superbowl and it was just a fun way to flex my techy video skills too!

What Do You Intend For the Coming Week?

• To Make Stuff Happen in my Kitchen: I’ve got a lot of ideas for recipes brewing, and I just need to set aside some time to make them happen in my kitchen!
• Make Progress & Wrap up some projects: As you know, I’m working on my next Big Thing, and things are moving along nicely. I would like to get the majority of the work for this project done and wrapped up nicely this week.
• Swimming: I plan on working pretty hard this week but I also want to balance that out with going swimming and taking an exercise break.

Over To You Now…

What are you grateful for this week? What do you intend for the coming week? Let us know in the comments & happy Monday!

Mindful Monday is a tradition where we take a few minutes to reflect on the week gone by and the one ahead.

Feel free to join in the fun by commenting!

This week I’m taking some time away from the computer. That’s right, I’m celebrating both Chinese New Year with my boyfriend Robin, and Valentines Day.

So this post is actually a scheduled post that I wrote on Friday. Enjoy and feel free to join in the fun by commenting!

What Are You Grateful For This Week?

• Systems! I’m really working on streamlining my business systems and so far it’s working out quite nicely. I’m glad I’m building these things into place now and not waiting until things get too complicated to fix them.
• Videos! I’m really grateful for having made and published the Raw Relationships video with my boyfriend Robin. I’ve been getting a lot of good feedback and it’s just awesome to hear that it’s helpful for people.
• Dentists! Okay, maybe not grateful for going to the dentist but I’m grateful that it’s my last appointment until summer. Plus it was one of the shorter rendez-vous with a dentist I’ve had so that was something to be grateful about too!

What Are Your Intentions For the Coming Week?

• Partnerships: Partnerships and working together with other people have really been on my mind lately. I know that all of the ideas and details will sort themselves out nicely this week and the next.
• To Crank Out Some Good Stuff: As you know, I’m working on my next project and things are starting to shape up nicely. This week I’m really going to be pouring my creative and productive energy into getting this stuff in a presentable form and out of my head!
• Figuring Tax Stuff Out: In general my tax situation is pretty simple, but I want to get some momentum on this so it doesn’t come back and bite me later.

Interviews

I’ve been interviewed over at EpicSelf and you’ll definitely want to hear what I have to say about raw food, paleo diets, and other topics there!

Over To You Now…

Leave a comment and let us know what you’re grateful for today, and what you intend for next week!

Mindful Monday is a tradition where we take a few minutes to reflect on the week gone by and the one ahead.

Feel free to join in the fun by commenting!

What Are You Grateful for This Week?

• My Raw Event Was a Success! On Saturday I had my first Toronto Spread Your Raw Food Wings event. It was awesome, everyone loved the food, and we got some great questions and discussions going. Thanks to everyone who attended, I am truly grateful for each of you!
• Listening to new music: I tend to stick to my tried and true bands. My usual go-to songs are from Sarah McLachlan, Delerium, and The Cure. But these past few weeks I’ve been branching out to new songs by Tegan & Sara and of course the raw-foodist Jason Mraz. It’s been awesome!
• Whole Foods Event: On Sunday I recovered from leading my own event by heading out to Whole Foods and listening to Yafa from House of Verona’s talk on raw food and aging. It was a great talk specifically about grey hair, wrinkles, and cellulite. All those fun fun topics!
• Apple Fixing My Mouse: My mighty mouse hasn’t been scrolling for a few weeks now. I brought it to the Apple Store this past week and they fixed it, so I’m a happy geekgirl again!

What Are Your Intentions for The Coming Week?

• Much Video To Edit: I have hours and hours of video to edit, both from my event on Saturday and also from earlier in the week. I know that it won’t edit itself, but I’m putting it out there that it will be quick and easy and turn out magickal.
• Beethoven Concert: This week my boyfriend Robin and I are attending a classical music concert. It’s my intention to relax into it and really be in the moment. I tend to get edgy during classical music concerts, but I’m working on really enjoying being there immersed in the experience.
• Chinese New Year! Next Sunday February 14th (Valentines day) is also Chinese New Year. That means spending time with Robin’s family celebrating the year of the tiger. Somehow the year of the tiger sounds very exciting, so I’m open to learning more about the symbolism behind it. Gong Xi Fa Cai!

Guest Posts

Check out my guest post over at The Change Blog called Want to Change Your Life? Travel. Or Don’t. Find out more about my trip to China.

I’ve been featured at Hello!Self blog, read my interview there. Find out what my favorite food is!

Over To You Now…

Let us know what’s happening in your life: What are you grateful for? What are your intentions for the next week?

Comment below…

Mindful Monday is a tradition where we take a few minutes to reflect on the week gone by and the one ahead.

Feel free to join in the fun by commenting!

What Are You Grateful for This Week?

• Friendships in bloom: Yesterday I went to Jamie Riddler’s Full Moon Dreamboard circle and all of my Toronto twitter people were there! :) It was so awesome to see all these great ladies again and meet new ones too: Jennie, Tara, Lynn, Anita, and of course Jamie!
• That space between: At the circle, we each got to pick a card and explain why we think we got that card. Mine was “wait” and on the back of the card it said: sometimes the best action is no action at all. This stopped me in my tracks, because I’m very much the go-getter action type. Yet I have been feeling like I’m between things, like I know where I want to go but it’s just not ready for me yet. Now with this “wait” card I think I can stop worrying about making this happen and just wait for them. They’re coming for sure, it’s just a matter of time now.
• Puppies! My boyfriend Robin and I have been talking about getting a dog for awhile. Marie Forleo recently got a puppy (a mighty cute one at that) and it’s been stirring up my ambition for a dog. So I put lots of cute dog pictures on my dreamboard.

My dreamboard for the year ahead.

What Do You Intend For The Coming Week?

• Overhauling: This week I intend to go through the site and my systems with a fine comb and improve the little things that add up to bigger things.
• Wrap up January: There were a lot of little things that I didn’t quite wrap up for January since my friend was visiting. Now is the perfect time to clean up and organize a little.
• Preparing and planning: For my live event happening this Saturday Feb 6th. For the most part it’s ready to go, but I still need to buy the food and get things polished up!

What Are You Delegating?

Jen from Inspired Home Office delegates to God or the Universe, whichever works. I love the concept!

• Finding the remaining 2 right people for my Spread Your Raw Food Wings Event this Saturday February 6th, 2010 in Toronto, Canada.
• Figuring out the details on an upcoming project I want to get involved in.
• Migrating everything over to a new system as smoothly, easily, and quickly as possible.
• Finding the time to do more creative play in the evenings.
• Getting all the little bits and pieces ready for my class this Saturday so that everyone has a great time, learns a lot, and enjoys some delicious food!

Guest Posts

Read my guest post at Write To Done called “How to Leave Your Readers Better Than You Found Them“.

Check out my guest post at Evolving Wellness called “You Don’t Need Drugs Once You’ve Tried the Gateway Drug to Healthy Eating“.

Your turn to be mindful…

Leave a comment below and share what you’re grateful for, what you intend, and what you delegate.

Or just share 1 thing you’re being mindful about…

Mindful Monday is a tradition where we take a few minutes to reflect on the week gone by and the one ahead.

Feel free to join in the fun by commenting!

So here’s what I’m being mindful about this week…

What Are You Grateful For This Week?

• Having an Unplugged Week-end: Or as Goddess Leonie would call it, having a switched off Sunday. I didn’t turn on my computer at all this week-end and it felt oh so good! Not checking my email took a lot of self-control, but it was also very liberating. And knowing that everyone who emailed me would be fine if I didn’t reply within a few hours was great too.
• My live class more than half full: I’m really grateful at how quickly my live raw food class is filling up. We’ve only got 4 more spots left and I’m so excited to be meeting all the wonderful people who have signed up! Click here to see if one of these spots are for you.
• Playing Card Games and Board Games: On the week-end I played card games and Settlers of Catan with my boyfriend and our friends. I even won a few times! In line with my Virgo-ness I try to “play to win” or at least play to not look like an idiot. But this week-end I really didn’t care if I won or not, and it was really fun. Not to mention that I learned some new Chinese words in the process.

What Are Your Intentions for the Coming Week?

• Setting Time Aside for Writing: I’ve got lots of ideas, as usual, and sitting down to write them out is my next step. These may end up as articles for this blog, as guest posts, or articles for The Cue.
• Reining in my thoughts and picking a name: I’m working on my Next Project and the name keeps escaping me. I tinker with the potential name for a day or two. Then a week goes by and I still haven’t settled it. This week I’m picking a name and making some stuff happen on that project!
• Promoting my Bewitch Your Spouse eCourse: Getting along with a partner who isn’t raw is one of the questions I get asked the most. Usually people bring it up in private, as if there was something wrong with them for not being able to go raw with a reluctant spouse. Trust me when I say it’s a lot more common than you think! I’ve been there and I plan to share my experience and know-how with anyone who needs help with their spouse or partner.

What Do You Leave for the Universe to Figure Out?

Last week I read Jen’s post on Inspired Home Office about delegating to God or the Universe, whichever works for you. I love the concept and decided to give it a try this week on Mindful Monday!

• Finding a Place for my Friend: A good friend of mine has recently relocated to Toronto and is looking for an apartment. She’s been staying at my place for the past week and sleeping on our inflated mattress. :) I’m letting the Universe find and secure her a great place to live!
• Getting images for a Dreamboard: I’m attending Jamie Ridler’s dreamboard circle this Sunday and am letting the Universe bring me the images I need to create it.
• Finishing the Month with Flying Colors: I’m letting the Universe align me with all the right people who need my work in the form of 1 on 1 coaching clients starting in February.

Your Turn!

Let me know what you’re grateful for, and your intentions are, and what you’re delegating to the Universe this week. Leave a comment below!

Mindful Monday is a tradition where we take a few minutes to reflect on the week gone by and the one ahead.

Feel free to join in the fun by commenting!

What Are You Grateful For Today?

• The Highly Sensitive Person’s Survival Guide: I think I got the idea to read this book from Havi’s blog. I knew I identified with being a sensitive person, but I was surprised to “ace” the quiz in the book. Anyways, the reason I’m so grateful for this book is that it’s giving me tips and tricks that I’ve known about or applied before, but have fallen out of use. It’s the little nudge I needed to get back into my healthy meditation / relaxation habits.
• Earplugs: One of the recommendations for highly sensitive people is to use earplugs to get true silence. I used to wear earplugs to sleep during college because I had some loud video game playing / partying neighbors. I thought I was done with earplugs but I think I’m going to give them another go and see how it improves my sleep.
• Developing Friendships: I’ve been meeting tons of fun new people here in Toronto. From Dave of rocking films, to Jamie who is hosting a dreamboard creation circle at the end of the month. And of course there’s Tara, Jennie, Yafa, and my geek girls! :)

What Are Your Intentions For the Coming Week?

• Slow morning ritual: One of the aha’s I got from reading The Highly Sensitive Person’s Survival Guide is that I was designing my morning ritual in a rushed way. Trying to get through the morning ritual so I can get to work already. This week I’m open to experiencing a slow, relaxed morning ritual.
• Allowing my creativity to flow: I’ve been working on some more artistic painting-like ideas for the site. This week I’m giving my computer the night off so I can focus on those in a gentle but open way.
• To share some awesome tips, ideas, and secrets on how to change your diet with a reluctant spouse or partner! The free call I’m doing with Annie Lin has the potential to change lives, or at least relationships. Sign up now!

Live Raw Food Class in Toronto, Canada

I’m holding a Spread Your Raw Food Wings Class live and in person here in Toronto, Canada. You can get more details and register for the class here.

Over To You…

Now it’s your turn to share what you’re grateful for this week… and what your intentions are for the coming week. Leave a comment below and have a mindful monday!

Photo by Mike Baird

Time Sensitive Announcement

This is just a quick reminder that today is the last day to score some cheap one-on-one raw coaching with me. If you’ve been on the fence about working with me to go raw or eliminate cravings, then this is your time!

• Get Your 1 Hour Magick Power Session at $48 instead of $74.
• Or Buy 4 Hours of Inspired Raw Coaching for $192 instead of $296.

I don’t see myself hosting another moving sale like this again (I’ve got a 1 year lease, naturally) so strike while the iron is hot. Or raw, or whatever.

Sale ends TONIGHT at 9pm EST.

Guest Post Goodies

Since I’m moving this week-end I wanted to leave you with lots of posts to read. Here are a number of the guest posts I’ve written in the last month or two.

• Living Goddess, Living Food at Goddess Guidebook: Read about my journey, or what I call my raw food faerytale, on becoming a Goddess. Leonie really inspires me every day through her blog, so it was an honor to write my story for her and other beautiful Goddesses.
• Jungle of Food Choices at Jungle of Life: In this post I discuss the parallel between the wild jungle and our own modern jungle of food choices. This post generated a great discussion and I encourage you to read through the comments. Lance is a great supporter and I’m so grateful to have presented my ideas with Jungle of Lifers.
• Loving your Life Means Loving your Food at Lyved: This post is all about finding the love of food in a healthy sustainable way, even if that means eating “healthy food”. I really enjoyed writing about ways to make healthy foods fun and enjoyable, and mentioning my ever magickal green smoothies.
• Save Money & Boost Energy at Work at Work Happy Now: When Karl asked me to write a guest post on the benefits of eating raw at work, it turned out to be a great exercise in making the most of your day by making sound food choices. I loved writing this post and I’m so grateful to Karl for letting me share some of my experiences with eating raw at work.
• Late Summer Peach Cobbler Recipe at Eco-Chick: I consider myself to be an eco-chick and I love Starre’s blog motto: “Mother Earth is a Woman.” I knew people would enjoy a glimpse into the world of raw food, and since peaches are in season here in Canada this recipe came at the right time. Let me know how you like it!

Inspiring Reads

Here are a bunch of great recent articles from around the blogosphere. Enjoy these on your long week-end and let me know if any of these really resonated with you.

• Raw Punks by Candy at Avocado Meet Zucchini: I love this post about the techniques for getting kids to eat raw. The photos are great candid glimpses into the life of young raw punks in training. Go Candy!
• Paper Towel Alternatives by Carla at Green and Chic: I love the concept and I’m so glad Carla posted about these great paper towel alternatives. Disposables aren’t necessary, and this is such a cool product.
• “Is it okay to eat ___?” by Gena at Choosing Raw: This is a question I get often too, and I’m really glad Gena decided to tackle it. She really digs down to the root of our questions about what is okay to eat.
• Together, we are Unlimited by Kyeli at Freak Revolution: This is an awesome article that really relates to the Raw Foods Witch theme of being different… a witch in a mundane world. Now I just need to watch the Wicked musical.
• Two Magick Words: Start Again by Kate at Crazy Sexy Life: If you’ve been feeling the blah’s lately then this article is here to give you permission to start again. I often find that when the student is ready, the teacher shows up.

How will you Enjoy your Long Week-end?

I’ll be moving to Toronto this week-end, how will you be spending it? Let us know in the comments, and I’ll see you all next week!

Stories, people, and blog posts I’m grateful for. Read and savour the gratitude with me!

Photo by Celeste RC

The other day I received an email from a gentleman named Don, from Florida who tells me he is eating about 60% raw.

Don is 68 years old and does not take any medication. He feels great and can work like when he was 45! He mentioned it is nice to grow old in a healthy manner, and that health is top priority.

Way to go Don, you’re an inspiration for me and for so many others now as well. Thanks for sharing your story with us.

Linda of Linda Eaves: I wanted to commend Linda for making a choice that’s having an ripple effect in her life in many ways. Linda had weight loss surgery on March 4th, 2009. Since then she has been meticulously providing her body with what it needs to heal. She’s also been eating more raw foods, and I just wanted to share my support for her publicly. You’re doing great Linda! Follow @LindaEaves on twitter.

Jonathan of Illuminated Mind: Jonathan and I have a lot in common, we’re both a little unconventional (Jonathan has been called a modern day James Dean), around the same age, and also into raw food. If you’re interested in making your dreams a reality you’ll want to check his blog out or follow him on twitter. @JonathanMead on twitter.

Lance of Jungle of Life: Lance has been a great supporter and friend since I started my first blog. He has the ability to write such touching posts over at his blog, and I really admire what he stands for. He’s also mentioned quite a few times that he’s eating more raw foods after reading Raw Foods Witch. Woo go Lance! @Lance02 on twitter.

Henri at @Henrijunttila on Twitter: Henri and I met through my other blog, and we’ve kept in touch via twitter. He’s been telling me he’d start a blog soon, and I’m still holding my breath. ;) I know that whatever he does will be incredible, because he has a deep appreciation for matters of health and personal development.

Chris from Art of Nonconformity: If you’re interested in world travel, then Chris is the go-to person. I’ve had a number of interesting conversations with Chris about airports and some of the countries we’ve both visited. I definitely recommend Chris’ blog for unconventional articles. It’s a bit of theme, in case you haven’t noticed. ;) @ChrisGuillebeau on twitter.

Raw Food Recipes From Around The Web

In addition to thanking people from around the blogosphere, I also wanted to highlight some great raw food posts I’ve seen lately.

Kristen’s Raw teaches us how to make sauerkraut via video. I’ve never made sauerkraut before, so I’m quite inspired. I might make mine with more of a kimchi flavor though. Yum!

Shernell Cooke shares her Luscious Cantaloupe Milk recipe over at Raw Experiences. With cantaloupes in season, this is bound to become a family favorite!

Gena from Choosing Raw shows us how to make a Raw B.L.T., yummy! I especially like how she uses a traditional squirt bottle, very creative.

Ingrid from Raw Epicurean shares a recipe for Carrot and Pistachio soup contributed by Omid. The photography alone is mouthwatering.

Sarma’s got a new blog! You might enjoy reading her article about how good tippers make better lovers.

Last but not least, I’m very grateful to you for reading this! Let me know in the comments what you’re grateful for today, and we can all bask in the gratitude of it all! :)