To Heal Means to be Healed

I wasn't always passionate about health, but I did always have an interest in the thought of being healthy. As a young kid, I always wanted to be outside to observe the soils, touch the roots, and gather many different types of flowers so I can give them to my grandmother. I didn't have much control over what I was eating in my youth. If I could go back with the same mind frame I have now, then as a kid, I would definitely have gone a healthier approach to eating healthier. I was pretty skinny as a kid until around the age of 8. I've lived most of my youth being overweight, suffering from eczema, asthma, ankle issues, knee pain, and being sick often. At this time, I didn't think it would be my eating habits that were creating all of these side effects affecting my body. Today I know that these are warning signals my body has been attempting to communicate with me to inform me that I have put my body at high stress levels.

It wasn't until I moved away to attend college that I found the ability to work out, eat right, took control of my health and weight. Moving away from home, away from everyone, and moving to an area where I didn't know anyone allowed me to spend a lot of free time in the gym. Seeing the progress was the most exhilarating feeling, which is what pushed me to keep going. The largest size I can recall being is 243lbs, at the height of 5'9ft back in the fall of 2013. I am now 5'11 at 180lbs, and it feels great. The smallest size I've experienced was 155lbs in the spring of 2020, which also felt really good. I enjoy pushing my body to its limits to see how much I can tolerate. Being the guinea pig for others shows that being healthy and taking control of our bad habits is a consistent but rewarding experience. I strive to relieve our feelings of fear when leaving the comfort that we have already created for ourselves and also settled into.

My journey and passion are about being healthy overall and encouraging others to also do so. I completely changed my eating habits back in 2014. I was looking to eliminate anything unhealthy out of my temple. I started slow, steady, and released things one by one. This journey led me to become fully vegan in 2017. It all started with research and the consistent mindset of wanting to be an overall better human being to the world and to myself inside and out. Being healthy to me does not just mean losing weight; this is a misconception. This is why so many of us end up back in the same weight we started in or gain even more weight because weight loss doesn't mean I want to be healthy. Weight loss means I want to look better but continue my habits, which doesn't equate to a substantial healing process. This is actually insanity, in my opinion. I was looking to overall better myself mentally, physically, emotionally, and spiritually. Changing my eating habits, cleansing my gut, and controlling one of the things we do have control of in this world, our food, has led me to do more extensive healing within myself.

Today we call self-healing shadow work. This is where we go deep into the unseen, hidden crevices within ourselves where our traumas, hidden fears, pain, triggers, the root of our anxiety and paranoia resides. The act of shadow working consists of bringing these challenges to the surface for us to face, acknowledge, give love to, connect with, and send on its way to become the higher being we were meant to be when we decided to make this transition to earth.

My passion is being the beaker of light to others. I enjoy seeing happiness, love, and pure joy on others' faces when I've inspired others to better themselves. It gives me the same happiness and joy knowing I sent someone just the right amount of love to keep them going to fight, experience, and grow higher another day. I remember feeling this way when I started juice cleansing. I tried juicing back in 2015, but due to poor recipes, the lack of knowledge of how to effectively juice, and how to operate my time while cleansing didn't allow the fast to last after 1 day. I tried juicing again in 2018, where I looked for a 3-day flush targeting my liver, colon, kidney, heart, and blood. Again I wasn't quite fond of the taste of the juices but felt that I would enjoy the process if the juices at least taste close to digestible and tasty.

From late October 2018- 2019, I spent countless nights staying up testing recipes I have conjured together. I've juiced all types of products to find the perfect flavors for my recipes. I've had many failed attempts and many successful attempts. I've created many great recipes but narrowed them down to using only 8 total for my business adventure.

In late 2019 I decided to grab a friend to assist me in testing out the recipes by participating in a 10 day cleanse challenge. The results were fantastic! Not only were we consuming some delectable fresh-pressed juices, but we were experiencing a healing process that went beyond weight loss! I remember feeling overall stable while cleansing. I also felt mentally settled, more focused, had strong urges to finish projects, indulged in more creative projects, and wanted to get active. The cleanse made me feel more vibrant, I was in an overall better mood, I felt spiritually aligned with my truth and purpose. At the same time, we both also experienced a 20lb weight loss at the end of the challenge.

I wanted others to experience what I experienced from the cleanse. The joy, the freedom, the overall detoxing of many parts about myself. It was a total spiritual restructure for me, and I wanted to bring this healing process to the community. I am passionate about helping others become their higher selves through the power of what we can control. Cleansing our "Rootz" is important because within the root of ourselves lies the struggles and challenges that keep us stagnant and swimming within self-sabotage and self-affliction. One thing I've learned while on this journey is that everything is internal. Until we collect and gather our inner struggles, we will continue to live in chaos. We attract what we are, what we entertain, surround ourselves with, and what we put into our mouths.

I won't suggest that everyone should become vegan. I believe we all should eat according to our blood type. I suggest that we should do a cleanse either every month or an extensive cleanse every 3 months to flush out the daily toxins we put in our digestive system daily. Fasting consists of putting the digestive system to rest to allow the body to endure an inter-cellular regeneration process. Yes, fasting allows the cells to heal, repair, revitalize and build new cells while also flushing out and removing toxins from the body to operate at our total capacity. Juice fasting extracts the juice from the produce by separating the liquid from the pulp, also known as fiber. Pulp extraction leaves tons of micronutrients to be absorbed into the bloodstream.

During juice consumption, the cleansing exponentially removes metabolic waste and toxins from the body faster. The detoxing process can help strengthen the body's major organs and systems, such as the kidneys, liver, colon, prostate, heart, lymphatic system, and circulatory system. Juice cleansing can help restore the biochemical and mineral balance in the cells and tissues, preventing premature aging. We can improve the digestive system by introducing healthy enzymes that make the gut work more efficiently. A healthy gut encourages a healthy physical, mental, and emotional state.

Juice cleansing has a large scale of benefits that can help the body thrive to its highest potential. Fruits, vegetables, and herbs have been put on the planet to serve us, heal us, nurture our bodies, water us, and satisfy us. Fasting with a juice cleanse can help speed up the healing/recovery of damaged, dead, or sickly cells within the body. Fasting may help rebuild torn tissues, including muscular tissues, within the body after stressing or damaging them. Cellular restoration occurs because of the energy saved within the digestive system, which allows the body to have a more extensive cleansing duration. Juice cleansing can help balance the alkaline-acidic levels in the body (Ph). Juice cleansing can boost the immune system because of the high amounts of phytonutrients, flavonoids, antioxidants, vitamins, and minerals they contain, helping the body fight off invasions. Juice cleanses also contain high amounts of anti-viral, anti-cancerous, anti-inflammatory, anti-parasitic, anti-fungal, anti-bacterial, anti-septic, anti-diuretic properties. Raw juices contain certain natural medicines, antibiotics, and vegetal hormones such as string beans, cucumber, and onion which have the hormones needed by the pancreas to produce insulin.

It's a painful feeling seeing the human race pass on from health complications when the answer is bettering what we put on our plate and how we treat our bodies. The body, through time, loses its ability to fight back because today's food does not benefit the body. Today's food only satisfies and entertains the taste buds, which really isn't good food but food that imitates good food. These foods, such as processed foods, sugars, fried foods, dairy, meat, many color dyes, are actually destroying the defense mechanisms within our bodies. This makes us more susceptible to disease that overruns and takes over the body leading to the complete shut down of our vital organs.

As we know, 2020 was a challenging year for the world. During this time, I was selling many juice cleanses to help the community boost their immune system. During this time, I had over 50 orders a week. It wasn't the money that made me happy because I was selling at my lowest rates to encourage my loved ones to boost their health during this time. I found my passion when I started to see results from others when they consumed my juice cleanses. I encouraged that we keep the lymphatic system functioning by staying active and having a steady pumping lung capacity. By increasing the vitamin and minerals within the body, we could better fight off any free radicals and toxins looking to invade our wellness. This protection can quickly be done by juice cleansing or incorporating fresh juice into our daily regimen.

I have many different flavors and a few options when it comes to intaking the cleanses. 1 day cleanses, which are to be consumed in one day consisting of 5 16oz bottles of the same juice flavor. I also offer a deluxe sampler which consists of 1 each of our juice flavors. We like to push this one the most because we want our supporters to fully enjoy the cleansing process. Trying every one of our juices will give the taste buds familiarity with the flavors before consuming the larger cleanses. Our most extensive cleanse consists of 3 days, 6 days, and 9-day packages. These cleanses are to be done without food consumption for the best results. The digestive system must be put to complete rest for it to begin the regeneration process. We wouldn't put a cake in the oven while cleaning the stove, and we shouldn't use the toilet while we are cleansing the bowl. The same concept applies when it comes to detoxing. Suppose the consumer is only looking to add vitamins and minerals to the body. In that case, you can consume solid foods and fibers while drinking the juice. Juice cleanses are not meal replacers, but they are a liquid form of multivitamins.

I want to provide juice bars that will feature my juice cleanses, protein milk, smoothies, raw foods, and herbal cleanse blends to give the community more options when we need to bring the body back to its total capacity. I don't want us as human beings to think there are no other options and that luck has run out when dealing with tough challenges. I am also a plant-based cook who works with food from scratch to create foods we've grown accustomed to culturally. Same flavors, same enjoyable energy but with ingredients only including rootz from the land.

This is more than a passion for me; it's more of a purpose. I've found how I add value to the world. I've found what I want to be known for and what I can bring to the table for those around me. During this journey, I've changed lives. I've helped provide results that some of my supporters thought were impossible for them to reach. I've helped elders relieve joint ailments that modern medicine wasn't quite tackling. All I have done is used the nature of the rootz to bring the body back to its stable structure to fight.

Where is your body defensively? Do you have the capability to fight what is thrown at us physically, emotionally, mentally, and spiritually? Is the food you are eating protecting you or leaving you open to be attacked by outside energies? Are we treating our bodies like the temple it is? These questions should be answered honestly and should push us to better care for ourselves because self-love is the best love. To love ourselves, we must first remove anything that doesn't emulate the love frequency. "All new beginnings start with cleansing the Rootz."