Cleansing Journal

I start the 21 day cleanse tomorrow and I think I'm fairly prepared. It's amazing but sugar, gluten, and animal products is in everything!! But I managed to find gluten free bread and waffles, organic peanut butter, organic raw blue agave (for sweetness)!!! I'm a sugar addict.. Some millet puff cereal and I have recipes for vegi burgers, black bean burgers, ect. I will post all the recipes that I have tried and like.. It's suggested that we take vitamin B12 during the cleanse so I bought some and have been taking for the past few weeks, but I found out today that the b12 vitamin comes from an animal source! Wow I can see why Kathy says you have to lean into wellness. This life style change will be an ongoing process for the rest of my life.

I know in my gut that becoming a vegan is my path to take. Eating meat has rarely if ever brought me any joy, I hated handling it and cooking it. I am a very sensitive person and have been finding over the past few years that that sensitivity has become problematic in my life. Symptoms including anxiety, depression, unable to sleep, emotional pain associated with any kind of animal that is hurt or killed. The deep sadness and anxiety around this issue has been enormous (it really keeps me awake at night)! I think Kathy's book has come along at the right time, my spirit has been wanting me to stop eating flesh for a long time I just wasn't ready to listen until I read Quantum Wellness. Spiritually eating meat is a complete contradiction to how I want to live my life. Living in a constant state of denial and sleepiness is driving me crazy. It's time to wake up!! I cannot and will not continue to ignore the urgings of my spirit. So this part of the cleanse is easy for me (sugar and baked goodies is another issue). Maybe I can't stop all the suffering in this world but I can one meal at a time lessen that suffering, and the impact is has on all the world.

Leslie