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Are Your Health Issues A Sign That You Are Ignoring Your Full Potential?

2012 by Ava

“When people are not expressing their full potential, they often get illnesses that have vague, hard to diagnose symptoms. Chronic fatigue syndrome and fibromyalgia are good examples of what I’m describing.” – from the book The Big Leap, by Gay Hendricks

I was reading The Big Leap last week, and when I found this quote, I paused to consider the controversy and to write it down. At the end of my college career, I spent several months on a final research paper to explore the benefits of a raw food diet for people who have chronic fatigue. From what I saw, raw food provided some relief for the aches, pains and grogginess that sometimes accompany this health issue.

For a moment, assume that the quote above is true. I could ask you to eat all the raw food in the world, and bring in other delicious healing foods, but it might not do anything for you if you stay stuck in an unfulfilling job, a dead-end relationship, or in a creative black hole that is not lined up with what you want.

Will it take coming into alignment with who you are to clear up your health issues? People in my own life have been injured in ways that knocked them onto a new path, and the injury has given them time to explore their deepest desires. For other people, getting through a serious illness lets them fall back in love with their life. Each day that I say yes to what I love, I feel more energy and health.This goes a little deeper than nutrition now.You could be sick because you are ignoring your full potential and your brilliance!

If that is the case, the future of my career expands in this very moment. Let’s bring in more of the life that makes us happy and deeply fulfilled. What if those aches disappear as soon as you say yes?

It’s On My Bookshelf

2011 by Ava

I was at a garden party this weekend, with raspberry lemonade sweetened with stevia, and nearly 20 other dishes of fruit and fresh summer veggies. After the sun had set, the birthday woman began opening gifts under the outdoor tea lights. She cheered as she unwrapped not one, but 2 Cuisinarts! She was also gifted with one of my favorite raw food cookbooks, which inspired me to share some of my favorite food and health books with you.

Here they are:

RAWvolution: Gourmet Living Cuisine, by Matt Amsden

This book is such a perfect beginner book for raw food eating. I’m a huge fan of the pizza, and the soups that can easily be done in a blender.

I Am Grateful: Recipes and Lifestyle of Café Gratitude, by Terces Engelhart with Orchid

To be honest, I haven’t made many of the recipes from this book yet, but I drool over them constantly. They are more involved than most raw food recipes, but I’m sure you’ll enjoy the “I Am Thrilled” cinnamon rolls, and the “I Am Thankful” coconut curry soup.

Superfoods, by David Wolfe

This book is full of uncommon foods that you may read about for the first time. You’ll learn about the medicinal benefits of coconuts, goji berries, chia seeds, bee pollen, aloe vera and many others.

Reversing Gum Disease Naturally: A Holistic Home Care Program, by Sandra Senzon

When my gumline was falling apart 4 years ago, I would have celebrated this book, and I would have loved for someone to guide me through all of the steps. There is even a section about handling pain and fear at the dental office.

Nutrition and Physical Degeneration, by Westin A, Price, DDS

This is the textbook of regenerative diets. If you’ve ever broken a bone, had dental decay, torn a ligament, gone through surgery, thought about conceiving a child, or had gum disease, this book is a must read or at least worth skimming through. It’s quite large, but this book expanded my awareness and gave me hope about dental decay. It is possible to reverse cavities through diet!

I hope you’ll have a chance to read some of these resources. The great thing about books is that they are readily available, and hold an interesting collection of information.

The drawback to books is that they don’t hold you accountable.

If you’d like to make, and keep, some real goals for your health and the way that you eat, please contact me at Ava@ParisianPicnics.com for a Nutrition Breakthrough Session. I’ve been reading these and similar books over the course of 10 years, and I’d be happy to help you quickly uncover the exact tools that you’ll need to change your relationship with food.