Chapter 1 Wake Up Call.. Pick up Gorgeous!

Before you go any further with this book you need to pick your name.  It's like you own  a company (your body) and you are the CEO.  Once you start treating your body like the Goddess temple  it deserves to be things change.  Our, hair, smile, energy, outlook, even our sex life!  If my company is my body then I will give myself a title of Chief Starshine.   Must make new business cards for my vintage clothing company and add Chief Starshine to the title.  That's me... a star that will shine.  Sound conceited?  Yeah but if I don't love and feel myself who is going to do it for me.   The author Kris Carr says in her book

 "Nobody can take away your ruby shine when you're happy and healthy.  And when you are in the positive space there is a cascade effect.  You pay it forward by sharing your wellness tips."

That's how I feel.  I'm going to slowly take  in every word of this book. I'm go blog about every chapter and try to get as many people as possible to get on the wellness train with me.  I was going to pick a date to start this new way of living but how can I when I am still reading this book.  I'm going to take my time and not stress myself out because that will not help me at all.  I'm not sure I'm going to go completely vegan over night either, that's not realistic because I've been a meat eater all my life.   Baby steps...  I personally feel if you eat meat that has been fed a vegetarian diet is not as bad as the regular meat you buy at the supermarket.  These are decisions I will make after I'm done with the book.

I connected with this book and the author because she didn't study for this, it just happened to her.  She didn't feel well one day and went to her doctor because she was having severe pains in her abdomen and trouble breathing.  The doctor ordered an ultrasound and the results were:  tumors on her lungs and liver.  Can you imagine? One doctor told her she should just transplant all 3 organs and another said she had 10 years to live.   I hate when doctors do this, I know it's their job but taking away someone's hope doesn't help.   She heard that voice inside of her say "No, there is a better way!  I do not accept this."  She searched and searched for a Doctor who would work FOR her and not against her.   Luckily she found a oncologist she meshed with who knew what he was  talking about  He wasn't missing that sensitivity chip so many doctors today are missing.  He told her that her cancer was slow moving, she had time if she changed her lifestyle and the things she ate.  He said, instead of calling it cancer, let's call in an imbalance.   So here her journey began....

Her next stop was Whole Foods, she said she turned it into her pharmacy.  She started meditating,  doing yoga and exercising regularly.  Meditation is a great for people like me who suffer from anxiety disorders.  It's all in my head.  I feel her when she says it calms the wild animals in her head.  That's me, the consummate overthinker.   Overthinking causes stress and there have been studies that have proved that stress can cause cancer.  She describes her lifestyle in her book before she was diagnosed and it wasn't very different with mine.  I'm paying attention Kris Carr... Full Attention.

She did something very smart next, she went back to school for nutrition.  How can you cure your body if you know nothing about it?  Genius?!  She traded in her rage for prayer and her cocktails for organic green drinks and vegan diet.  In this chapter she asks:  What is your cancer?  Me?  Lets see,  mild anxiety, mild depression, nothing too horrible but enough that it does put a hindrance on a lot of things in my life.   She teaches us to let these things be my Guru instead of my jailer.  Hmmm.. interesting.  So have these teach me about myself instead of succumbing to them and let them be my ruler.   Back up bitches, I see you for what you are and I'm going fix this.   My anxiety disorder only appeared in this past year and the mild depression I think was always there but stays dormant until something triggers it to appear.   So now they are my gurus, I have to learn from them?

I need to find out what are my triggers and how to deal and coddle them so they don't disrupt my life. First step:  Eliminate all negative people from my life.   Then follow up with eliminating bad food my kitchen.


"Change now.  Love now.. Live now.  Don't wait for people to give you permission to live because they won't.  That's permission is your birthright Grab it!" 

 I think we all know our triggers and I think a lot of us are scared to make major changes in our life because we are scared of the repercussions.  Fear is not our friend, it just stirs things up and helps us discover things about ourselves.   Why was I scared to get rid of that toxic friend all these years?   Why do I forgive people who talk about me behind my back and make excuses for their own dysfunctionality?


"Change is frightening to those who find safety in routine"  

I felt safe with these people around because I'm used to them and I know their shit.  If I get rid of them then I lose that familiarity and that feeling of comfort that a long time friend brings to my ego.  Then this brings me to my health and my lifestyle.  I'm safe in my bad eating habits because they  are easy   Being healthy is work and my ego doesn't like that.  The Ego is scared of change and it's especially scared of failure.  It's such a scared little baby, I need to pop a pacifier in his mouth and shut him up.  I'm in charge of now and it's going to have to work for me.   It says I can't, I ask why not?  It says what if you fail?  I say , why think so far ahead?  I'm only on chapter 1.  Lets read Chapter 2 and slowly learn a little more.  One sentence and word at a time, no need to get all worked up about it.

When I signed up to Kris Carr's newsletter she sent me this welcome letter.  If you haven't bought her book yet this is a great start to get an idea of who she is and what she is all about.  She calls it her Crazy Sexy Diet Manifesto.

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