Category: Spring Cleanse


Don’t give up! 13 ways to keep your cleanse joyful

Whether you are doing a one day, three day or ten day cleanse, detoxifying is not without it’s challenges. It’s kinda like signing up for a yoga class, and you finally go, and half-way through it you are sweating and…

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Exercise during a cleanse? (or, why can’t I nap all day?)

Cleansing is not easy – it’s the hunger that gets to me. Your jaw can get pretty tired “chewing” all that juice, and unless everyone else in my house is cleansing, too – I still have to look at food…

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Everything that holistic cleansing is NOT

It really is amazing to do a Google search for “spring cleansing.” The sheer volume of results is enough to make the stomach turn. The most criminal thing about the cleansing hype are the profit margins of “cleanse-in-a-box” marketing. Seriously,…

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Cleansing the holistic way

Welcome to the holistic life – and ’round these parts, we mean more than just natural remedies. Holistic is wholeness is holism is holiness (to borrow some poetry from my favorite folk healer/wise woman Susun Weed). Everything is embraced here…

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Oh my aching gallbladder! (A true story)

Our gallbladders are amazing little organs. Weighing-in at just over 2 ounces, and less than 4 inches long by 2 inches wide (that’s on the larger side…) the gallbladder holds onto bile created by the liver. When the bile is…

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Three levels of joyful cleansing – what’s yours?

There is no such thing as “one-size-fits-all” in diet, health, lifestyle…anything! So, I’m never going to recommend that everyone MUST try this or that product or cleansing protocol. Instead, I want to help you customize your cleanse this year by…

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You definitely need to cleanse this Spring if…

I love skeptics. They keep me on my toes. They keep me real, they keep my feet on the ground, my head out of the clouds. They say to me, “Why should I cleanse? I’m not sick!” or, “Who are…

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My 9 tried-and-true tips for a successful Spring cleanse

Melting snow, rising sap, budding trees…spring! Do you feel it in your bones…that restless energy calling you outside? Digging in the snow, on a treasure hunt for those first adventurous seedlings to burst into the full sun? Daring to go…

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