Share Your Secrets Week

What you suppress will continue to progress. However, if you accept, you rise above.
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Heidi and Justin, the power couple over at Raw Food Right Now, were pretty inspired by theme of Sarma's last post. Inspired enough that they thought they'd ride the wave of authenticity and post som of their own  insecurities, challenges and secrets. But that's not all they did....

Heidi and Justin took this theme, made it into a two way street and issued out a challenge to the raw food community called "Share Your Secrets Week".

From Heidi:

I encourage everyone else out there in the blogosphere to share their thoughts and feelings. Come clean about any secrets you want to confess. This is your opportunity to tell people that you drink coffee, that you binge and eat donuts every night. Tell us that you read steamy romance novels, and you're a guy. Whatever you want to say, share it now. Share it this week. Let this be an opportunity to let go of what you might be afraid to share, and then give yourself a chance to look at life in a new perspective.

Whether you got a blog, forum, myspace or whatever, Raw Food Right Now and WLIR want to hear from you. And if you don't have any of the above, shit, post your secrets in the comments section of the RFRW blog or this blog.

Just remember, darkness is immediately transformed to light once one chooses to let the light in. Happy sharing!

Comments

[LOL]

DHRU 1st!!!!

[allisun]

i started posting this over at my livejournal, but i don't know if i'm ready to share this one with everyone who knows me in real life...

so i feel safer to share here, for the moment.

my secret:

alcoholism. it's a rampant thing in my family; my mom recently got out of a 30 day rehab program.

i love bitter microbrews, and i drink too often. and when i do it's nearly impossible for me to have just one drink.

and it's become the one thing standing between me being now at ~70% raw, and the 90%+ i want to be. the one thing preventing me from detoxifying and purifying my body.

so, um, yeah. that's what i'm working on at the moment.

[Dhrumil]

Hah, mine is coming up later today.

[LOL]

allisun,

I have almost the exact same problem. Both parents are alcoholics... they've never been treated as they are somehow functional. And me? I just can not seem to let go of great microbrews... if i do commit to 90-100% raw, my love for great beer is always the breaking point that brings me right back down. I also love getting drunk at bars... but i do wind up talking about healthy eating and hopefully inspire pub-food eaters to think about food a little differently--I guess that's a plus.

All the best. I love this site. Great wishes to all the beautifully imperfect people out there. Life is crazy!!!

[Prisca]

That gets me so angry!!! Girls, stop drinking. It is one of the worst things we can do physically and psychologically. I've been alchohol free for over two years and my life has just gotten better and better since. I almost got raped while out on a date. The guy I was with couldn't stop drinking and neither could I. That was in April of 2005.

I must confess though, I take major laxatives every Sunday after I binge on nuts and dried fruit. Now, someone, please lecture me on how unhealthy my behavior is and how I can stop doing this to myself.

[prisca]

sorry, not angry at you guys, but angry that society accepts drunkeness as a safe,mature and appropriate form of recreation. No judgements here folks. I'm not saying I don't crave a glass of wine here and there, but I know that the consequences aren't worth it. Oh, and by the way, scarfing down half a box of Ex-Lax is far from a healthy, mature habit. I know.

[Milla]

I've had an eating disorder for the past eight years. I've been switching between anorexia and bulimia, but eating raw definitely helps get the eating patterns straightened out.... and works on losing weight too :) lol...

[: {()]

I have been totally absorbed in figuring out what is happening in the next few years to the point of it taking me out of enjoying my life now. 2012, aliens, government conspiracies, economic and resource meltdowns, pole shifts, climate change, polluted water, global seed control, etc. But my daily goal is to stay present now, developing and following intuition and breathing. Breathing is good.

[greenbee]

Eating disorder is my vice too... I caught caught up with bulimia early on in college, but quickly got my head on straight as I focused on healthy food to heal. This path eventually let me to raw! The eating disorder still comes back to haunt me in weird ways though, and I feel like I will never be able to fully escape it... but being raw keeps it from coming out of the closet!!

However I'm still struggling to maintain a healthy weight...trying to gain weight on 80/10/10 + green smoothies is too much food for me!

[Penni]

Having a safe place to roll out one's dirt is a good thing. There is something freeing about it. I blogged my guts up on my myspace blog the day after Sarma's post here on WLIR. (myspace.com/ruby_vroom) Since doing so, I have had great input and encouragement from my friends.....I think too many people have a facade going. I mean we're all trying to work on ourselves, right?

[little cat]

I try to deny that I'm in love with someone that I was in touch with 5 years ago. I don't want to see him again until I have more self-confidence about my looks.
This is like that book and website, post secret :)

[Prisca]

What, no one is telling me that my Ex-Lax habit is bad for me? wow, I'm impressed. thanks for not casting judgement. While we're at it airing secrets, I have a major crush on my boss and he's like 60.

[Odalys]

I've no idea where my life is going, and I'm scared, nervous, and sick to my stomach thinking what will be of me four months from now. I have a crush on my chemistry TA, and I haven't worn a bathingsuit since I was 13 (7 years ago) because I feel I"m too fat. I feel I'm missing out on so much, I'm so young, yet I live the life of an old woman. My boyfriend is afraid that when he leaves (leaving in 4 months) I'm going to become a lonely bitter woman. I have trouble letting people in, and I don't have friends. It sucks to have nobody to lean on when I'm going through so much, nobody understands this raw vegan lifestyle... and it's just so frustrating sometimes, it makes me cry and feel sorry for myself.

OK, I will address the Ex-Lax issue. Be honest with yourself and listen to that voice that tells you it's not ok. If eating a raw diet leads you to binge then it isn't a healthy lifestyle. Consuming so many nuts and dried fruit is just like eating tons of junk food. It loses all it's benefits once you over do it. You're taxing your body way too much. The laxatives are chemicals and they are drugs and you WILL become dependent on them. Address your reasons for binging. Are you addicted to sugar? Are you stuffing yourself so you won't feel your emotions?
You are counteracting everything you are doing to be healthy.

[lakshmi]

odalys - I just want to reach out to you and give you a hug and let you you that it won't be like this forever.

I have been lonely all my life, I have always found it hard to make friends and do the things other people seem to do so naturally, like make friends with everyone and have good relationships.

I have met people in the last few months who are different and I know things are going to change this time.

My marriage is a total mess, my intimacy "issues" are tearing us apart, but step by step I know something is happening and it is changing, I know I am not going backwards but forward, even if it is only in a minute way.

I am raw, and life will get better. I will be healed. And I know you will have all the love you need too.

[postsecret.com]

Check it out: postsecret.com

[Milla]

I wish that Tammy Faye had found out about the MIRACLES of raw food.........before she died. :(

I overeat, and eating when I should be doing other things keeps me from experiencing life. It's obnoxious. Two steps forward, one step back I suppose...

Milla, that is so sad. You are right, just imagine what could have happened to Tammy Faye.

[nvme]

Milla....I know exactly what you mean..

I had a period of time after the 2004 elections that I could not get out of a spiraling depression because of learning about conspiracy theories (although it ain't a conspiracy if it's fact!) and the Free Masons and many other scary things (look up anything about 9/11 haux).

After about six months, my brain had time to digest everything. I still feel paranoid, but much less so.

After discovering raw foods, I became an addict, a junkie, wanting to learn more. Now I have an actual problem. I have to buy a raw food book if it's published!!

That doesn't sound that bad, but I'm not even following the freaking diet! I aspire to, but just can't.

I did do it for 30 days two years ago and felt amazing. But I got bored with the food and wanted the old stuff, mostly the chocolate and beer.

[Matt]

OK, my secret...well, I'm Matt, it's my first time here, and I can't seem to stop smoking and drinking coffee. I can do raw, no problem; but it's like I always have this desire to jack myself up with these legal stimulants. It's depressing because it's pathetic. I'm like that lion in the Wizard of OZ who can't get his ROARRRR. I want to stop. But I guess everybody has their thing...eating disorders, alcohol, loneliness, laxatives and etc. Why is this? I figure smoking and coffee hides something from me, like facing some emotion. I don't know. That's all.

[Matt]

Whoever wrote about that 9/11 hoax, should watch this... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mMs733gFg-I

It's scary, but hopefully you'll get strength and evaluate your priorities. God bless.

[B]

i just had a baby back in november, and while breastfeeding her, discovered that my eating dairy caused her much pain and indigestion. so... that was the beginning of my journey towards becoming a raw vegan.. and it is a slow journey. i was doing well until i went to my BabyDaddy's sister's wedding a couple of weeks a go... she marrie and Indian man and I could resist the Chicken Masala... and I've been spiraling downward with meat and dairy cravings ever since. Just ate a pizza tonight, felt like shit, so I did more research about eating habits, dairy allergies, etc. on the internet, and came to this site for encouragment.

Now my daughter is awake crying with cramps from drinking dairy-laced breastmilk. I feel pretty guilty, but this site is encouraging.

[B]

correction: COULDN'T resist the Chicken Masala ;)