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Raw Christmas ebook, by RFRN

The Raw Christmas ebook by the power couple (Heidi and Justin) of Raw Food Right Now is live!

• Over a dozen amazingly delicious and festive raw Christmas recipes
• Substitutions for ingredients that may be tough to find in your area
• Holiday Tips on how to make raw food work in the real world
• Simple and tasty recipes that you won't be slaving over
• Full page color photos for inspiration

Get your copy today and have the most amazing Raw Christmas ever.

Holiday Thriving Guide

Raw Food Right Now just released a Holiday Survival Guide for rawfoodies, which I'm nicknaming the "Holiday Thriving Guide". Because when everyone else is all flued up, gassed up, mucused up and coughed up from genetically modified cookies and hormone laced eggnog, you'll be thriving in full health and happiness because you knew which distinctions brought health success.

It's really that simple.

Here's how you know the Holiday Survival Guide is for you....

• Are you worried about how you are going to make it through yet another holiday season? Do the holidays seem more stressful because you now eat raw food?
  
  
• Do you have nightmares of bingeing at the Christmas party, only to wake up worried about how you're going to avoid the cookie trays at work in the morning?
  
  
• What if you could not only Survive the Holidays, but truly have FUN during the holidays AND stay raw?!
  

Are you ready to Thrive? Click here to get your free copy of the Holiday Survival Guide by Justin and Heidi.

p.s. If you've got the whole raw-food-thing on lock, but have family and friends who are struggling with their health, why not send some love their way? Email them the guide and tell them you love'em too much to hear them bitch about their health!

Musings on the day after...

... Thanksgiving that is. And not by us, but by one of our wonderful community members, Penni Shelton.

The Day After
I won't be sharing my recipes in this entry, although I will get around to it. I just needed to blog my assessment of where I am today, in the aftermath of such a day as Thanksgiving. Preparing all of that food seemed excessive and I felt troubled as I was vigorously adhering to the traditions that my family has always observed. No one had a clue I was at odds with the whole affair, yet in my heart, I kept asking the question, "Will this be my last Thanksgiving to cook?" My family doesn't have a real concept of who I am or what I do as it relates to the whole raw food thing, nor do any of them seem to care. I am speaking in a broad sense because my immediate family..husband and children, get it because they live it with me on a daily basis. But parents, aunts, uncles, in-laws, etc. just look at me with a baffled look as though I am dabbling in some type of cult. Perhaps that is the reason I keep my diet so much on the down low...in an effort to simply not upset the balance of these family functions that seem to revolve around food, all cooked and always in excess.

Keep reading at Real Food Tulsa

Show some love to our community

I'm calling out to all of our established Raw Food Twitter folk for some help.

I need your help to welcome our new Twitter Buddies and show them some love. Add them to your list, introduce yourself to a few, and yes, nudge them if they haven't updated in a while. Basically, welcome them like only the raw food community can!

Here are the first round of Twitter Buddies. It also features who's been partnered up with who.

• Doug and Ian
• Lauren and Rachel
• Carrie and Mary
• Victoria and Carrie
• Rachel and Penny
• Jenny and Alison
• Jennifer and Caroline
• Nelly and Jaleen
• Shreve and Colebern

Now go on, bring sexy back.

Raw Spirit Festival Links

Sarah at The Fresh Network (correction, we wrote Karen previously) and Heidi + Justin at Raw Food Right Now have some great links to photos, videos and blog posts about the 2007 International Raw Spirit Festival.

We also posted some videos on David Wolfe speaking at the festival on our Quickies page.

p.s. After watching Philip's video I know why people think raw foodies are just a bunch of dancing hippies! j/k I got nothing but love for my home boy Philip.

Raw Food Right Now Podcast

Heidi and Justin, from Raw Food Right Now, have just launched their first podcast. The premier show features Tera Warner and Amy De Wolfe from The Raw Divas. Heidi interviews the lovely ladies about "how they found raw food, and how raw food has positively affected their lives." The Divas also talk about the challenges of eating raw while being pregnant, which I found truly fascinating.

You can list to the podcast from the site, but you can also subscribe via RSS or iTunes.

Mad props to Justin for producing a sweet podcast intro.

Related

• RFRN: Fall in Love with Raw Food All Over Again!
• WLIR Post: What's cooking at Raw Vegan Radio?

What's cooking at Raw Vegan Radio?

Checked out Raw Vegan Radio lately? They have two great semi-new interviews with two leaders in the raw food community.

Ani Phyo discusses the benefits of letting go of physical possessions to gain higher purpose, clarity, and emotional release. Following the flow and laws of attraction, she has managed to be highly successful while balancing a natural holistic lifestyle. Ani teaches us how to easily follow a raw food diet while traveling and on a limited budget.

Is Ani a hottie or what?!

Viktoras Kulvinskas discusses the power of our belief system, his insight into the year 2012, the possibility of immortality, the upcoming Raw Spirit Festival in Sedona, Arizona, comparing fruitarian, sproutarian, vegetarian, vegan and raw vegan diets, and much more.

Raw Vegan Radio will also be closing out the Raw Summit series of calls.

Related

• Post: Ani's Raw Food Kitchen get's some big time love | Ani's Blog
• Recipe: Kreamy Curry Dressing by Ani
• Website: Viktoras Office Website

Raw Food World Summit Calls

Kevin Gianni and Mark Perlmutter are have put together something big. They've gathered 13 leading raw food teachers, visionariness and coaches and put them on a series of conferences calls that are free to all.

To sign-up to listen in on the calls, all you have to do is register here.

And here's the schedule of calls:

• Tuesday August 7: 8:00 PM EDT - David Wolfe
• Wednesday August 8: 8:00 PM EDT - Dr. Gabriel Cousens
• Thursday August 9: 8:00 PM EDT - Dorit
• Friday August 10: 8:00 PM EDT - Mike Adams
• Saturday August 11: 8:00 PM EDT - Victoria Boutenko
• Monday August 13: 8:00 PM EDT - Brendan Brazier
• Tuesday August 14: 8:00 PM EDT - Brenda Cobb
• Wednesday August 15: 8:00 PM EDT - Matt Monarch
• Thursday August 16: 8:00 PM EDT - Angela Stokes
• Friday August 17: 8:00 PM EDT - Happy Oasis
• Saturday August 18 8:00 PM EDT - Rhio
• Monday August 20 8:00 PM EDT - Richard Blackman
• Tuesday August 21 8:00 PM EDT - Shazzie
• Tuesday August 22 8:00 PM EDT - Special Wrap Up

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!

Healthy, happy and sexy MySpace Friends

Some new healthy, happy and very sexy raw food buddies I've recently befriended on MySpace:

Melissa
I am a Personal Trainer, Nutrition Counselor and RAW lifestyle chef/coach and the owner of The RAW Experience. I help people gain the incredible benefits of achieving a high energy LIFE, through the use of pure raw and living foods.

Anja
I don't believe in being dogmatic about lifestyle choices, it's more about doing what works for YOU, and that varies from person to person.

F1 / Fruitarian Fitness
Richard Blackman, a.k.a The Fruitarian One a certified personal trainer and a long time strict Fruitarian that is devoted to helping motivated Fruitarian/Raw Vegan athletes and bodybuilders get the best from the Fruitarian lifestyle.

Britanie
I firmly believe that "everything happens for a reason" and that we are here on earth to go through different obstacles and to take what we learn from our hardest times in life, turn it into knowledge and help others to overcome.

Burke
Celebrity Chef Burke Bryant, trained exclusively by world chef "Juliano", is a Master Living Food Chef, Raw fod revolutionist, and educator in health, nutrition and herbal therapies.

Jade
I am tired of the destruction and I want to find others who are tired also, but ready to take action and make changes.

Brad
I enjoy children's paintings, garage sale art, and my own whimsical flower paintings.  Additionally, I'm merging into raw foods.

Sarah
Heroes: those who practice and prepare for peace, not war

Erini
Who I'd like to meet: life enthhusiasts, raw foodists, ecologists, those into ancient wisdom, nature lovers and the unusual!

Britt
i have a broken compass and i will never fix it. i am fond of indoor rainy day games such as building indoor forts. my favorite story is 'the velveteen rabbit' and a close second would be 'where the wild things are'. i have grand plans.

Related

• WLIR Profiles: Dhrumil's MySpace | Sarma's MySpace
• MySpace Buddies & Raw Foodies
• WLIR Reader Profiles