tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-70507270973414515932024-03-18T20:45:34.719-07:00The Bottom LineA blog about colon hydrotherapy and how cleaning up your body can transform your life in ways you could never imagine.allswellpdxhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10711874460698422048noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7050727097341451593.post-13817623795640427702010-12-25T10:51:00.000-08:002010-12-25T11:01:31.614-08:00Oh the things you can do with poop!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEirJs3MMt-_CO1sIeJ0-kCOXx9riePs8ES4KRIbzO3tcbWOqXJQyXTDitJi4Gur13OOuBTUq8mQXnWJ5W7O-zUpR2P0Qbf6zZpEdxCl1yVEhpUYmQHaBOHwyVxl_GmxyX9oO-N1qLZYPLc3/s1600/crazy+poop+picture.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEirJs3MMt-_CO1sIeJ0-kCOXx9riePs8ES4KRIbzO3tcbWOqXJQyXTDitJi4Gur13OOuBTUq8mQXnWJ5W7O-zUpR2P0Qbf6zZpEdxCl1yVEhpUYmQHaBOHwyVxl_GmxyX9oO-N1qLZYPLc3/s320/crazy+poop+picture.jpg" width="265" /></a></div><br />
Boy howdy, it's been a long time since I've blogged! That was quite a Fall: two trips to the east coast, an awesome autumn cleanse with <a href="http://replenishpdx.com/">Andrea Nakayama</a> and <a href="http://phytofoods.blogspot.com/">Andrea Livingston</a>, oodles of new clients, a deeply satisfying Chanukah with family and friends, soaks and saunas galore, and a real enjoyment of the foods of the season. (Thank you hearty kale, mushrooms, and winter squash for your existence!)<br />
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And now it is Winter, the first day of it, to be exact. My wonderful hometown of Portland, Oregon has gone cuckoo with all of the hubbub of Christmas; The streets are bursting at the seams with traffic and noise; The parking lots of all major and minor stores are full to the brim; The energy is high; The days are dark, wet, and short; and of course, there is a lot of sugar, caffeine, and alcohol being consumed.<br />
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On a positive note, this is the season of giving, which brings me to the topic at hand. Now if you are a person who is squeamish or gets grossed out easily, STOP READING THIS BLOG, because the gift I am going to tell you about is probably the most disgusting, most vile, and heinous thing you can imagine. But it's also kind of cool, which is why I am blogging about it.<br />
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If you are like me, you are probably wondering why anyone in the world would ever want someone else's poop. Here is the answer: <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fecal_bacteriotherapy">fecal transfusion</a> (aka bacteriotherapy). My friend, you see, has been very ill for many years with ulcerative colitis. She has done everything known to man to keep herself in good form, but this year has been a hard one on her leaving her unable to work or function and glued to her bed for more than six months. And while she is slowly getting better, she is not too proud to do anything and everything that may help. Hence the idea of a fecal transfusion, which after consulting with her doctor, she decided to try. <br />
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Fecal transfusion? Here's the concept: You take the poop of someone who is healthy, ideally a family member, blend it in a blender, and with the help of an enema bag, you put that watered down healthy poop into the colon of the person who is ill. There are fancier ways to do this that are being done in doctor's offices and hospitals all over the world, but the idea of transfusing the healthy poop into a sick person's body is the same. Check out the stuff from <a href="http://www.drmyhill.co.uk/wiki/Faecal_bacteriotherapy">Dr. Thomas Brody</a> in Australia if you want the nitty gritty.<br />
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"Why not?," I thought to myself. I was just going to flush it anyway. It's not like I need to be stingy with my poop or anything. I am a colon hydrotherapist, after all. If someone wants the gift of my doo doo, then they should definitely have it, no matter what the reason.<br />
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In spite of my willingness, my brain wanted to understand why doing such a thing could be useful. I looked online, read testimonials, and even noticed it mentioned in <i>The New Yorker</i> food issue from November. It is not a joke. It is actually something people do and have done for decades. If you can get beyond the "Eeeew factor," the theory makes sense.<br />
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<div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">It's all about good bacteria. If you have come to <a href="http://allswellpdx.com/">All's Well That Ends Well</a> as a client then you probably know that we are #1 fans of good bacteria. Good bacteria is essential for our overall health and well-being; It is a pillar of our immune system, helping us to fight off infections and bad bacteria; It helps us to poop well; It supports healthy skin; It keeps cravings for sugar in check. Look online and you'll see that the list goes on and on about the benes. Good bugs are everything.</div><br />
<div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">And yet, we don't live in a society that is down with bacteria. Bad bacteria freaks us out, and our cultural answer has to become extremely anti-bacterial. This would be awesome if we were anti BAD bacteria and pro GOOD bacteria, but no such luck. We live in a society that believes the answer to bad bugs is complete annihilation. Sooooo, we pasteurize everything we can get our hands on; We make sure that all of our cleaning products kill 99.99999% of all bacteria, even the good stuff; We bleach the crap out of everything, and we throw antibiotics at every illness possible. <br />
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We are, in essence, throwing out the baby with the bathwater. Because without good bugs/bacteria in our guts, we get sick. On a small scale this can mean chronic infections especially the yeasty variety, compromised immune systems, food cravings, skin problems, and digestive issues. On a big scale, this can mean serious illness and gut problems, hence my friend with ulcerative colitis.<br />
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The theory of a fecal transfusion is that you put that baby back into the bathwater. Bring on the good bacteria and more! I know this may be difficult to conceptualize, but inside that large intestine of yours is a whole world. We have hundreds of thousands and maybe millions of different strains of good and bad bacteria in there, not to mention soil of sorts! My friend compares it to a forest. You've got soil, flowers, plants, trees, shrubs, animals, bugs, birds, and more! And like a forest, there are predators and scavengers that ideally keep the balance of the gut in order. The same is true with your gut. So when my friend put my poo in her body, she was getting the whole shebbang! <br />
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And after just one "experience," she reported feeling better and having the best elimination she has had in months! Well, I am sold! <br />
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</tbody></table>Here's the good news for you, dear reader: no need for the average Joe or Jill to ever do a fecal transfusion. But what you should take away from this post is that your body desperately and extremely needs good bacteria! If you've ever taken antibiotics, even one time in your entire life, then do your body the favor of helping that internal forest to grow. The most ideal way to get this is by eating fermented food. Anything cultured is bound to be good for the gut. Bring back <a href="http://phytofoods.blogspot.com/2010/09/how-to-make-saurkraut.html">raw sauerkraut</a>, naturally-fermented pickles, plain whole yogurt, kombucha, kim-chee, miso, tempeh, and everything you can think of to bring the good bugs in! Eat raw vegetables and fruit which naturally have good bacteria in and on them. Take a probiotic supplement. <br />
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Put cultured food back into our culture so we can keep our poop to ourselves.....<br />
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MAKING SAUERKRAUT! <br />
(It's so much easier than you could ever imagine.)<br />
Video with Frank Giglio...<br />
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</div>allswellpdxhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10711874460698422048noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7050727097341451593.post-74348087461260357162010-10-27T13:47:00.000-07:002010-10-27T13:47:27.027-07:00How bout them apples?<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiiwv3FVSBd5Ro6uo3CMzb-lqZ6rjXRuKBCkXxZLW0WECQqOvmO6rzCspGXu-8b4cGv29do6MB_jwlE_RJonx_HynWfNRtmlOKESdo6atm5kbwOkE84OqWQ0h6ugyfnn084ruw9usqyzjvm/s1600/last+years+apples.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiiwv3FVSBd5Ro6uo3CMzb-lqZ6rjXRuKBCkXxZLW0WECQqOvmO6rzCspGXu-8b4cGv29do6MB_jwlE_RJonx_HynWfNRtmlOKESdo6atm5kbwOkE84OqWQ0h6ugyfnn084ruw9usqyzjvm/s400/last+years+apples.JPG" width="400" /></a></div><br />
"How about them apples?" It was a common phrase uttered from my very sassy, 4'11", New York, Jewish, chain-smoking (until quitting cold turkey post heart attack), vegetarian Grandmother.<br />
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Me? I'm a huge fan of apples. My Southern upbringing deprived me of the beauty of berries, green vegetables, and really any fresh produce. But we had apples! And bananas! And oranges! Hurray! And while I've kicked the bananas and oranges mostly to the curb, the apple stays near and dear to my heart.<br />
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As a child, I only knew of two kinds of apples: the red ones and the green ones. I liked them even then, but in the last 10 years, my palate has been wowed by the plethora of variety out there. Fujis, Braeburns, Galas, and Honeycrisps: you all rock my world with your tastiness.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Michelle and I at Sauvie's Island</td></tr>
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Call me crazy, but it really never crossed my mind that I could go apple picking. That is until my friend, Michelle invited me to join her and a group of friends last year at Sauvie's Island. Sauvie's Island?! Well that's practically my backyard! I've subscribed to my CSA, <a href="http://sauvieislandorganics.com/">Sauvie Island Organics</a>, for years for weekly produce and it's one of the places I go berry picking when I'm not up for the long drive. They have apples there too? Who knew? <br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">My boy picking apples!</td></tr>
</tbody></table>Ok, people, let me break it down for you: Apple picking is THE EASIEST fruit to pick in the whole wide world! Unlike those itty bitty berries that you hunt down and caress, apples are large. No neck straining, bending, pulling, yanking, or torking required. You can pick hundreds and hundreds of apples in mere minutes. I timed it this year, and my 4 year old son and I picked 50 lbs of apples in 15 minutes and that included stopping to take bites of apples off of each tree. Fifteen minutes of picking, two hours of sitting in the sunshine in the quiet of an orchard, and weeks and months of tasty treats! And did I mention cheap? Fifty pounds of local apples = thirty dollars and some change!<br />
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Now I like my food to be fresh, easy, cheap, and tasty,but most importantly, I want it to be healthy. Apples are all that! If you google them like I did, you will learn all sorts of interesting facts about the benefits of apple eating. To highlight a few, they contain malic and tartaric acid which helps prevent liver and digestive disfunction. They are known to regulate blood sugar, be antiviral, clean teeth and strengthen gums, lower cholesterol, and add good fiber to your diet. "Yahoo!," says this <a href="http://allswellpdx.com/">colon hydrotherapist</a>, giving it her stamp of approval.<br />
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</tbody></table> I do loads of things with apples: I eat them fresh (with almond butter), sauce them, dehydrate them into apple rings and fruit leather, juice them with veggies for some sweetness, and make apple crisp at least once a week. Thanks to <a href="http://phytofoodspdx.com/">Andrea Livingston</a>, I am wild about raw food desserts. That being said, there's nothing quite like warm apples on a cool Fall night. <a href="http://phytofoods.blogspot.com/"> Andrea's raw food delights</a> inspired me to create a crisp where the apples are baked but the topping is raw. Yum-o-rama! And because I love you all, here is the recipe plus my recipe for sauce. Enjoy!<br />
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(I rarely measure things out so this is an approximation. Luckily apple crisp is not the kind of thing you can mess up! Add more or less of the following ingredients and it will still turn out good.)<br />
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<i>Ingredients:</i><br />
About 7 Apples (cored)<br />
3/4 Cup of Pitted Dates<br />
1 Cup of Almonds or Pecans<br />
1/4 Cup of Coconut Oil or Butter<br />
Pinch of Salt<br />
1 tsp. of Cinnamon<br />
1/4 Cup Raw Honey<br />
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Preheat the oven to 350. Cut up apples into slices or chunks and layer in a glass baking dish. I leave the skins on, but feel free to peel them if you prefer. Cut the butter and/or coconut oil into little chunks and drop those bits onto the apples. Drizzle the apples with honey and sprinkle cinnamon and salt on top. <br />
Put in the oven to bake until the apples are soft (usually 30ish minutes depending on the size of your apple chunks). <br />
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While the apples are in the oven, make your crisp topping by putting the almonds and/or pecans into a food processor with an S-blade. Process them until they are chopped into small bits. Then slowly add the dates, one at a time, into the food processor until they are sufficiently mixed into a crumble.<br />
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Put the topping on top of the apples and serve! Viola!<br />
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Making applesauce is a very, very easy endeavor. The concept is chop those apples up, cook them down, sprinkle with a little spice, jar up, can or freeze. The hardest part of the whole thing is the peeling, coring, and chopping part. For that reason, I highly recommend "The Apple Machine." For about twenty bucks you have this snazzy gadget that does it all at once in seconds. And my little guy loves doing it himself! <br />
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Peel, core, and chop up your apples. Put them in a pot ( I use a big soup pot because I do high volume!). Pour in about about an inch or two of filtered water so that the apples do not scorch. Bring apples and water to a boil and then bring down to a low setting, cover, and let them simmer. You will need to periodically stir them up as they start breaking down. Don't be afraid to add more water if need be, or boil some of the water off. It will take awhile to break the apples down to a saucy consistency. Once there, add a touch of salt, cinnamon, cardamon, ginger, or whatever spices you please.allswellpdxhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10711874460698422048noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7050727097341451593.post-43627557586576127162010-10-13T10:59:00.000-07:002010-10-13T10:59:17.699-07:00Fall: The Perfect-O Time to Cleanse<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: left;"><tbody>
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<div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">This past year, I've had the pleasure and delight to follow the seasonal cleanses created by nutritionist </span></span><a href="http://replenishpdx.com/"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Andrea Nakayama</span></span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"> and live food chef </span></span><a href="http://phytofoodspdx.com/"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Andrea Caplan Livingston</span></span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">. I have been doing cleanses with myself and clients for years, but their cleanses really take the cake in the form of kale, super foods, and other deliciousness. </span></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Cleanses, in general are a chance to give the body a well-needed rest. By making the decision to not eat allergens and inflammatory foods (such as wheat, dairy, nightshades, sugar, and caffeine), the body has a chance to step out of "fight or flight" mode and focus on doing essential organ repair work.</span></span></div></td></tr>
</tbody></table><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I’m a fan of doing cleanses. What can I say? I love my liver and I will do just about anything to make that funky organ do it’s very important job of shlepping the waste out of my bloodstream. In this world and in these times, I know that my liver needs all the love it can get. So I am not just willing, but eager to do 1-3 weeks of clean living in exchange for 49 of potential debauchery. And for many many years, that willingness to do whatever needs to be done has led me to some pretty drastic stuff.</span><br />
<div style="font: normal normal normal 14px/normal Helvetica; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; min-height: 17px; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"></span></span></span></div><div style="font: normal normal normal 14px/normal Helvetica; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: left;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Drink clay? I’m there. Drink olive oil? Check. Subsist on nothing but vegetable juice, lemon juice or water for 3 weeks? I’m in! Do daily enemas or colonics? Yes! The only thing that I have drawn the line at is drinking my morning pee, but c’mon that’s kinda gross.</span></span></span></div><div style="font: normal normal normal 14px/normal Helvetica; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; min-height: 17px; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"></span></span></span></div><div style="font: normal normal normal 14px/normal Helvetica; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: left;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">If you know </span></span><a href="http://replenishpdx.com/"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Andrea</span></span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"> and </span></span><a href="http://phytofoodspdx.com/"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Andrea</span></span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">, you know that their individual and collective sparkle are enough to inspire anyone to cleanse. That said, I was a bit skeptical about doing my first cleanse with them in the winter. Winter is the season for eating richer heavier foods and I couldn’t imagine what cleansing would be like. I wasn’t sure that I was ready to face the typical hunger pains and annoyance over food restriction that comes with doing cleanses. </span></span></span><br />
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</span></span></div><div style="font: normal normal normal 14px/normal Helvetica; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; min-height: 17px; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Well, people, you can only imagine my sheer delight and exuberance when I realized that doing a </span></span><a href="http://replenishpdx.com/"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">cleanse</span></span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"> could be darn right tasty; Foods to look forward to eating that make you feel good; Foods that even anti-cleansers would like. Clay and dirt? Nowhere to be found on the shopping list, (and it turns out they’re completely unnecessary). And to top it off, I felt like there was an overabundance of food! I learned after day 3 to cut the recipes in half.</span></span></div><div style="font: normal normal normal 14px/normal Helvetica; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><br />
</span></span></div><div style="font: normal normal normal 14px/normal Helvetica; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: left;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><a href="http://replenishpdx.com/"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Andrea</span></span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"> and </span></span><a href="http://phytofoodspdx.com/"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Andrea</span></span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"> take the best of what the season’s bounty has to offer while at the same time honoring what each season brings to healing the body. The result is that you are not only eating food that’s fresh and alive, but you are also doing essential repair work on specific organs. Winter is the time of the kidneys, adrenal and lymph system; Spring the liver; Summer the heart and small intestines; and Fall the large intestine and lungs. </span></span></span></div><div style="font: normal normal normal 14px/normal Helvetica; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; min-height: 17px; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"></span></span></span></div><div style="font: normal normal normal 14px/normal Helvetica; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhfBNwrj3vD-Axfjh-SKSTJF6ownBh6GA8tlkUsJuOhBX67ZLRBKM4tfiBm5FZsbuiMZQOZh6vTSe9SYpw4mfFP7NYglD8JsLZAXV7tWlTbHF30hXcErqbObfd5Hkdo2EmsfHuTTMSbAe_G/s1600/CIMG1866.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><img border="0" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhfBNwrj3vD-Axfjh-SKSTJF6ownBh6GA8tlkUsJuOhBX67ZLRBKM4tfiBm5FZsbuiMZQOZh6vTSe9SYpw4mfFP7NYglD8JsLZAXV7tWlTbHF30hXcErqbObfd5Hkdo2EmsfHuTTMSbAe_G/s200/CIMG1866.JPG" width="150" /></span></span></a></div><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">It is such a treat to make and eat the yummy foods from the recipes that </span></span><a href="http://phytofoodspdx.com/"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Andrea Livingston </span></span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">creates that it’s easy to forget that you are actually on a cleanse. Last Winter I cleansed myself with yummy coconut squash soup, collard wraps and delectable juices . In the Spring the ante was upped as we took on the liver via veggie juice, smoothies, and savory soups. In the Summer we delighted in the bounty of fresh berries, juices, smoothies and salads. </span></span></span></div><div style="font: normal normal normal 14px/normal Helvetica; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; min-height: 17px; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"></span></span></span></div><div style="font: normal normal normal 14px/normal Helvetica; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: left;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">The result of </span></span><a href="http://replenishpdx.com/"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">cleanses</span></span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"> is a sense of renewal, energy, and well-being. As an added bonus, I have been able to kick my sugar and caffeine habit to the curb. (Who needs fake energy when you can sustain yourself on the real thing?)</span></span></span></div><div style="font: normal normal normal 14px/normal Helvetica; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; min-height: 17px; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"></span></span></span></div><div style="font: normal normal normal 14px/normal Helvetica; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: left;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Now I’m not just saying this because I am a colon hydrotherapist, but Fall is the perfect-O time to cleanse. In Chinese medicine, it is the time of the large intestine and lung meridian. For many people, the result of doing a </span></span><a href="http://phytofoodspdx.com/"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">cleanse</span></span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"> in Fall means a Winter with a stronger immune system (fewer colds and flus), and a more efficiently running digestive system. For me, Fall cleanses give me a vibrancy to help face the darker colder months. </span></span></span></div><div style="font: normal normal normal 14px/normal Helvetica; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; min-height: 17px; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"></span></span></span></div><div style="font: normal normal normal 14px/normal Helvetica; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: left;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">And here’s a little secret that I want to tell you and everybody else. There are these things called superfoods that make your body feel absolutely amazing. They give you energy, nourish your body and brain, and even kick up the sex drive a notch. You want to make love to the world because you are so happy you are eating them! Well, the cleanses </span></span><a href="http://replenishpdx.com/"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Andrea</span></span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"> and </span></span><a href="http://phytofoodspdx.com/"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Andrea</span></span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"> lead have those things too! A big fat Wooo Hooo! </span></span></span></div><div style="font: normal normal normal 14px/normal Helvetica; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: left;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><br />
</span></span> </span></div><div style="font: normal normal normal 14px/normal Helvetica; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: left;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><a href="http://replenishpdx.com/"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Andrea Nakayama</span></span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"> is a nutritional counselor who is brilliant and inspiring. You can check her out at </span></span><a href="http://replenishpdx.com/"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">replenishpdx.com</span></span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">. </span></span><a href="http://phytofoodspdx.com/"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Andrea Caplan Livingston</span></span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"> is a live food chef who I am positive could find a way to make dirt taste delectable. Check her out at </span></span><a href="http://phytofoodspdx.com/"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">phytofoodspdx.com</span></span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">. Both of them offer free subscriptions to their blogs which offer monthly tasty recipes. Or check out their joint adventure of nourishing the whole fam at yourvibrantchild.com.</span></span></span></div><div style="font: normal normal normal 14px/normal Helvetica; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; min-height: 17px; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><br />
</span></span> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"></span></span></span></div><div style="font: normal normal normal 14px/normal Helvetica; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: left;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Do yourself a favor and join me in participating in </span></span><a href="http://replenishpdx.com/"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Andrea</span></span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"> and </span></span><a href="http://phytofoodspdx.com/"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Andrea</span></span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">’s Fall cleanse this upcoming November. If you are a Portlander, there will be a live class happening on November 13. If you don’t live in this town and want to join the cleanse, they offer a tele/web class cleanse as well . </span></span></span></div><div style="font: normal normal normal 14px/normal Helvetica; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; min-height: 17px; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"></span></span></span></div><div style="font: normal normal normal 14px/normal Helvetica; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: left;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">The cleanse is more than reasonable in price: $129 includes your very informative class (tele/web or live), recipes, inspiration, and discount offerings by various local practitioners (yoga and colonics included). And as a special to all of you </span></span><a href="http://allswellpdx.com/"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">All’s Well</span></span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"> blog readers, <b>they are offering you $10 off</b>. Such a bargain for transformation!</span></span></span></div><div style="font: normal normal normal 14px/normal Helvetica; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; min-height: 17px; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"></span></span></span></div><div style="font: normal normal normal 14px/normal Helvetica; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: left;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">And if that’s not enough, they graciously agreed to let me share two of my most favorite sweet recipes of theirs. Let it entice you and tease you all the way to a healthier happier you! </span></span></span></div><div style="font: normal normal normal 14px/normal Helvetica; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; min-height: 17px; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"></span></span></span></div><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><tbody>
<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhR5vXQwMrpnuwZ4kAqCAOsaZzBWrXYDt9ciuxNxC3lIYemZk1HwXFMfmy4srZL6DEEpreoS0bD48jG90F0zSSPEaBjURZoZwLrAY1UvZMrqJfdOSO82_ws6cmWzQvIfG9b7KwOTK4eFsg9/s1600/andrea+n.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><img border="0" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhR5vXQwMrpnuwZ4kAqCAOsaZzBWrXYDt9ciuxNxC3lIYemZk1HwXFMfmy4srZL6DEEpreoS0bD48jG90F0zSSPEaBjURZoZwLrAY1UvZMrqJfdOSO82_ws6cmWzQvIfG9b7KwOTK4eFsg9/s200/andrea+n.jpeg" width="156" /></span></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://replenishpdx.com/"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Andrea Nakayama</span></span></a></td></tr>
</tbody></table><div style="font: normal normal normal 14px/normal Helvetica; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: left;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Cookies N' Cream Nakayummies</span></span></b></div><div style="font: normal normal normal 14px/normal Helvetica; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: left;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Ingredients:</span></span></i></span></div><div style="font: normal normal normal 14px/normal Helvetica; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: left;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">1/2 cup coconut oil, gently melted </span></span></span></div><div style="font: normal normal normal 14px/normal Helvetica; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: left;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">scant 1/4 cup raw honey</span></span></span></div><div style="font: normal normal normal 14px/normal Helvetica; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: left;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">1/4 cup raw cocoa nibs</span></span></span></div><div style="font: normal normal normal 14px/normal Helvetica; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: left;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">1 tspn vanilla extract</span></span></span></div><div style="font: normal normal normal 14px/normal Helvetica; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: left;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">1/2 tspn good quality sea salt (or more, if you like the salty sweet)</span></span></span></div><div style="font: normal normal normal 14px/normal Helvetica; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: left;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">heaping 1/2 cup pecans, chopped medium-fine</span></span></span></div><div style="font: normal normal normal 14px/normal Helvetica; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; min-height: 17px; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"></span></span></span></div><div style="font: normal normal normal 14px/normal Helvetica; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: left;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Preparation:</span></span></i></span></div><div style="font: normal normal normal 14px/normal Helvetica; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: left;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Mix all ingredients into melted coconut oil in bowl. Place bowl in refrigerator for about 1/2 hour. Using a spoon, scoop rounded dollops into mini muffin or candy cups. I like to use flexible ice cube trays--which come in many shapes and sizes. Freeze for an hour or until candies are hardened. </span></span></span></div><div style="font: normal normal normal 14px/normal Helvetica; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; min-height: 17px; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"></span></span></span></div><div style="font: normal normal normal 14px/normal Helvetica; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: left;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Serve these candies directly from the freezer. </span></span></span></div><div style="font: normal normal normal 14px/normal Helvetica; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; min-height: 17px; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"></span></span></span></div><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><tbody>
<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjG1RiUD7Aw9YL4UXEp2A7dy0Sv66C2WZX6YBkgZisD3iA8lcW3JQ57_h-7n28Scent-Cy3glsgoxX0CFcxaUbFtfape_vyFzsxt_KeUxvw1l4AungH5hS4J066udNV6ENh116swkv54LZA/s1600/andrea.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjG1RiUD7Aw9YL4UXEp2A7dy0Sv66C2WZX6YBkgZisD3iA8lcW3JQ57_h-7n28Scent-Cy3glsgoxX0CFcxaUbFtfape_vyFzsxt_KeUxvw1l4AungH5hS4J066udNV6ENh116swkv54LZA/s1600/andrea.jpg" /></span></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://phytofoodspdx.com/"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Andrea Caplan Livingston</span></span></a></td></tr>
</tbody></table><div style="font: normal normal normal 14px/normal Helvetica; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: left;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Piece-of-Cake No-Bake Brownies</span></span></b></div><div style="font: normal normal normal 14px/normal Helvetica; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: left;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">ingredients:</span></span></i></span></div><div style="font: normal normal normal 14px/normal Helvetica; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: left;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">1 cup almonds </span></span></span></div><div style="font: normal normal normal 14px/normal Helvetica; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: left;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">3/4 cup dried cherries</span></span></span></div><div style="font: normal normal normal 14px/normal Helvetica; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: left;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"> 3/4 cup dates, pitted </span></span></span></div><div style="font: normal normal normal 14px/normal Helvetica; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: left;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">1/4 teaspoon vanilla extract or 1 vanilla bean seeded </span></span></span></div><div style="font: normal normal normal 14px/normal Helvetica; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: left;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">1/4 cup cocoa powder or raw cacao powder </span></span></span></div><div style="font: normal normal normal 14px/normal Helvetica; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: left;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">1 teaspoon coconut oil </span></span></span></div><div style="font: normal normal normal 14px/normal Helvetica; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: left;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">1 tablespoon shredded coconut </span></span></span></div><div style="font: normal normal normal 14px/normal Helvetica; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: left;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">pinch of sea salt</span></span></span></div><div style="font: normal normal normal 14px/normal Helvetica; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; min-height: 17px; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"></span></span></span></div><div style="font: normal normal normal 14px/normal Helvetica; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: left;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">preparation:</span></span></i></span></div><div style="font: normal normal normal 14px/normal Helvetica; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: left;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Using a food processor with an S-blade, pulse almonds until they are a fine crumble. Add dates and cherries, pulse again until incorporated. Add vanilla, cocoa/cacao, coconut oil, shredded coconut and sea salt. Process until ingredients form a dough like mixture. Remove from food processor and press into a small (7x5 or so) glass pan.</span></span></span></div><div style="font: normal normal normal 14px/normal Helvetica; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: left;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Refrigerate until firm. Cut into squares and enjoy!</span></span></span></div><div style="font: normal normal normal 14px/normal Helvetica; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; min-height: 17px; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"></span></span></span></div><div style="font: normal normal normal 14px/normal Helvetica; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; min-height: 17px; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">For more recipes, check out Andrea Livingston's blog: </span></span><a href="http://phytofoodspdx.blogspot.com/"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">phytofoodspdx.blogspot.com</span></span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"></span></span></span></div><div style="font: normal normal normal 14px/normal Helvetica; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; min-height: 17px; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"></span></span></span></div><div style="font: normal normal normal 14px/normal Helvetica; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; min-height: 17px; text-align: left;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"></span></div>allswellpdxhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10711874460698422048noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7050727097341451593.post-57209712519573193322010-10-04T22:19:00.000-07:002010-10-04T22:19:17.024-07:00Ending Well...<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgSnhoSJ4BnTM3XD5dq8Kd6YPbiUuuWZE7tV71RwOon4RetsuWs5vL5fPWJQi81HK3_rUTp-h26Wvxvnbr6RJhLBRr8CbIb8mt6pCtyTtxy_ke-JfNohiqqM0X0I25hZ9uyUm-GiFB6BOxE/s1600/art.gitmowest1.cnn.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgSnhoSJ4BnTM3XD5dq8Kd6YPbiUuuWZE7tV71RwOon4RetsuWs5vL5fPWJQi81HK3_rUTp-h26Wvxvnbr6RJhLBRr8CbIb8mt6pCtyTtxy_ke-JfNohiqqM0X0I25hZ9uyUm-GiFB6BOxE/s1600/art.gitmowest1.cnn.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font: 14.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><br />
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</span></div><div style="font: 14.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">I have been to prison quite a bit in the last couple of years, luckily not as an inmate, but to visit a friend. And while I could fill up the pages with the surreal experience of what a visit is like, I know that I cannot even begin to touch what it means to be incarcerated.</span></div><div style="font: 14.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; min-height: 17.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"></span></div><div style="font: 14.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">Most of us can live our merry lives without putting much attention on what life is like on the inside. If you’re like me, then you’ve probably been conditioned to think of it as the place where bad guys go or have the attitude that the inmates (especially the men) deserve whatever they get for committing crimes. </span></div><div style="font: 14.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; min-height: 17.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"></span></div><div style="font: 14.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">Having a friend end up in prison completely erased any preconceived notions that I had. Just going as a visitor strips you of a little bit of your humanity as you have to jump all of the hoops around dress code, security checks, and what seems like silly policies. How anyone gets out of prison with any shred of themselves intact seems like a miracle to me.</span></div><div style="font: 14.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; min-height: 17.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"></span></div><div style="font: 14.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">And yet I think I saw a miracle last night. I had the beautiful experience of going to the men’s prison in Umatilla, Oregon to see a play. Not just any play, but an inmate production of Shakespeare’s “A Midsummer Night’s Dream.” </span></div><div style="font: 14.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><br />
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</tbody></table><div style="font: 14.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; min-height: 17.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"></span></div><div style="font: 14.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; min-height: 17.0px;">Good Lord, Shakespeare is hard! I barely got through reading all of the “thees” and “thous” when I was in high school and could not imagine what it would be like to see a bunch of potential murderers and criminals doing a production. And honestly driving 3 hours away to a prison show was not my idea of a hot date with my husband.</div><div style="font: 14.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; min-height: 17.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"></span></div><div style="font: 14.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">I willingly agreed to go, though, because of the amazing dedication of my husband Eric’s friend <a href="http://openheartsopenminds.net/">Johnny Stallings</a> who leads a weekly support group at Two Rivers Correctional Facility and was awarded this grant to put on this production. Eric led a voice workshop and wrote a song that was in the show. I was on board to see the fruits of their labor.</span></div><div style="font: 14.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; min-height: 17.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"></span></div><div style="font: 14.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">It was unreal, and I mean that in the most complimentary way possible. The show was AWESOME. They brought Shakespeare to life in a way that made me deeply feel the story. In spite of none of them having any acting experience, they performed like professionals. The men played all of the roles including the women (just like original Shakespeare productions). Each one of them showed a piece of themselves while at the same time staying in character. I was seriously wowed and was easily able to suspend my initial mind chatter and curiosity about what led them to doing time.</span></div><div style="font: 14.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; min-height: 17.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiUk3xyC486WzYzwC_QjQMi-jNh9hTX_cb9i004TbV2VVlMxKWOn5DfHJoI-g-Wrze9CI703siugmCGzX8E42raSufb_LgJlJGSX5uLUcLUhzjPYpwE39DBCgim6vYr2DnKxMoTnHJM93bj/s1600/prison+discussion.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="203" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiUk3xyC486WzYzwC_QjQMi-jNh9hTX_cb9i004TbV2VVlMxKWOn5DfHJoI-g-Wrze9CI703siugmCGzX8E42raSufb_LgJlJGSX5uLUcLUhzjPYpwE39DBCgim6vYr2DnKxMoTnHJM93bj/s320/prison+discussion.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div style="font: 14.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; min-height: 17.0px;"><br />
</div><div style="font: 14.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">And then after all was said and done, we got to stay and ask questions. That twenty minute question and answer session was one of the highlights of my year. I didn’t get to leave the performance with a skewed perception of prison life being about acting and shows and performances with cookies and coffee and community. Instead I got the gift of reality. I got to listen to these men pour their hearts out and share their personal stories about the bleakness of their daily lives and how this production has internally changed each of them.</span></div><div style="font: 14.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; min-height: 17.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"></span></div><div style="font: 14.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">“A Midsummer Night’s Dream” in prison was more than a show, it was the culmination of six months of risk taking, feeling, and emotional rawness that began with a dialogue group then led to rehearsals. The result was personal transformation like I’ve never seen. But all of us in that weirdly over-lighted, institutional room felt it that night and I know that we are all the better for it. I walked out of there with some hope.</span></div><div style="font: 14.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; min-height: 17.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"></span></div><div style="font: 14.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">Now I am not in any fantasy that this one production is the answer to all of the harm these men have experienced and committed. But I did see self-reflection, honesty, and vulnerability. I heard about the internal baby steps and the big leaps that the production inspired. And I am left hopeful because of that.</span></div><div style="font: 14.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; min-height: 17.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"></span></div><div style="font: 14.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"> At <a href="http://allswellpdx.com/">All’s Well That Ends Well</a>, the theory is that if things end well, then all is well. We borrowed that phrase from Shakespeare ourselves, and while we are specifically referring to the end of your digestive tract, we get the bigger picture. Call me a sucker, but wanting things to “end well” is the reason I get out of bed in the morning. Personal transformation (mine and yours) seems to be what this life is all about.</span></div><div style="font: 14.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; min-height: 17.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"></span></div><div style="font: 14.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">Through the years, many of you have graced us by using colon hydrotherapy and your sessions to bring on that change. And I have watched you and admired you as you have broken through life-long patterns. You have changed your diets, stopped being so hard on yourself, and moved a vast amount of physical and emotional shit that has been in the way of you having your life like you want it. I am in awe of you, my clients, and I am in awe of you Casey, David, Steve, Salathiel, Zebdiah, Aaron, William, Brandon, Larry, Joshua, James, Allen, and Gary. Thank you for changing my life by changing yours.</span></div><div><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><br />
</span></div>allswellpdxhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10711874460698422048noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7050727097341451593.post-63245590233457298752010-09-17T09:48:00.000-07:002010-09-17T09:48:34.385-07:00Colonics are so wonderfully un-cool!<div style="font: 14.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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</tbody></table><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">People can’t have their cool on when they have a tube in their ass. For me, this is a great thing. Sometimes I am alarmed at how we walk around the world showing so little of our insides on the out. Sure sure, we might look cute, dress great, have good style, but who are you people really? And most importantly, why do you only show the world that you have it all together?</span></div><div style="font: 14.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; min-height: 17.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"></span></span></div><div style="font: 14.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><div style="text-align: right;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><tbody>
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</tbody></table><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">As many of you know, my lovely husband, </span><a href="http://ericsternevents.com/"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Eric</span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">, is one of the most creative and talented musicians in this town. He leads an ensemble called </span><a href="http://vagabondopera.com/"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Vagabond Opera</span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">. They are cool. I mean really super uber cool; They wear fancy fun costumes and make-up; They have hula-hoopers, fire, and belly dancers; Eric plays the accordion; Someone plays the musical saw; And on top of all that, they make really good music and they sing opera. (If you need to be awed and delighted, you should definitely see them.) </span></span></div><div style="font: 14.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; min-height: 17.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"></span></span></div><div style="font: 14.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right; margin-left: 1em; text-align: right;"><tbody>
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</tbody></table><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">But as I said before, they are really cool. As if living in Portland, Oregon wasn’t hipsterville enough, this Burning man, Country Fair community is in my proverbial backyard. I often feel surrounded by the coolest, flashiest, good-looking-est people on the planet! </span></span><br />
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Now I’m all for sparkly spectacular goodness. I love to be delighted visually, but I am a girl who wants it all. I want to go deep and know the nitty gritty of this and your existence. </span></span></div><div style="font: 14.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; min-height: 17.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"></span></span></div><div style="font: 14.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">This is yet another reason that being a colon hydrotherapist is the greatest job on earth. Because when you come to see me, you are vulnerable. It feels a little funky to have water go up your butt. Sometimes you feel crampy. And for the love of god there is loads and loads of poop coming out of you and someone is seeing it. This is definitely not a place you could or should hold it all together. (As mentioned in the last blog, having a colonic is all about letting go, physically and otherwise.) And luckily that means you can’t have your cool on! </span></span></div><div style="font: 14.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><br />
</span> </span></div><div style="font: 14.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">We are so much more than what our culture tells us we should look, show, and act like. And yet there are so few places that welcome us to let our guard down. At </span><a href="http://allswellpdx.com/"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">All's Well That Ends Well,</span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"> I am proud to say that we delight in the emotional and spiritual dump that you may need to have as much as the physical one. </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">And believe it or not, showing yourself is liberating. </span></div><div style="font: 14.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; min-height: 17.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"></span></span></div><div style="font: 14.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Now I’m not proposing that you immediately run home and invite the neighbors over to watch you poop, but I do propose this: Showing your shit is a very very good thing. Who you are in the midst of all of your delights and upsets matters. And personally, you being real is a huge relief. I like hearing stories about your struggles, passions, and desires. I like that there is something real to hold onto in the world beyond the facade. And how can we possibly know what we have to let go of when we are holding ourselves so tightly together?</span></span></div><div style="font: 14.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; min-height: 17.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"></span></span></div><div style="font: 14.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">The messed up part is that we have all been horribly shamed about what our precious bodies do. Our poop stinks. We fart. We drool. Our bodies secrete all sorts of fluids inconveniently. Colon hydrotherapy is not magic. A colonic will not take away a bad childhood, suffering, years of shame and humiliation, but it is a place that you have to be real. And to that I say, “Hooray!”</span></span><br />
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<div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Remember that first week you joined Facebook and your brain miraculously saw life through the lenses of posts? </span><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Jill Simons is</span></b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> eating her breakfast. </span><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Jill Simons is</span></b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> watching her son get dressed. </span><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Jill Simons is</span></b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> going to the market. </span><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Jill Simons is</span></b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> riding her bike. </span><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Jill Simons is</span></b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> thinking about what to say on her Facebook post. Seriously, in my head, my life was one big </span><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Jill Simons is</span></b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> dot dot dot!</span></div><div style="font: 14.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; min-height: 17.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"></span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">That being said, you can only imagine my full-on delight in considering that I no longer have to conjure up the synopsis of my life into a wee teeny tiny post. Looks like the blog IS the answer to all the evil of the world. </span></div><div style="font: 14.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; min-height: 17.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"></span></span></span></div><div style="font: 14.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">So what do I have to tell you today? Today I want to talk to you about the complicated subject of stress. And how does that connect at all with the beauty of colonics? Hold onto your eyeballs because I’m gonna tell you...</span></span></span></div><div style="font: 14.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; min-height: 17.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"></span></span></span></div><div style="font: 14.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">People choose to have colonics for a billion different reasons (candida, low energy, cleansing, diet changes, skin issues, heavy metal chelation, etc.), b</span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">ut one of the most common reasons people come to </span></span><a href="http://allswellpdx.com/"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">All’s Well That Ends Well</span></span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"> is because of The Big C. I’m not talking about Cancer here, although we do have our fair share of clients with cancer. (Check out the awesome work they are doing at </span></span><a href="http://quest-center.org/"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Project Quest </span></span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">where we donate 2 free colonics per week!) I’m talking about CONSTIPATION. </span></span><br />
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</tbody></table><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">What lucky people! We at </span></span><a href="http://allswellpdx.com/"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">All's Well That Ends Well</span></span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"> have watched oodles and oodles of people turn a lifetime of constipation around with just a few sessions! Now from here I could profess to you the amazing benefits of colon hydrotherapy and all it has to offer but instead I’m gonna take you on a trip through my brain. Because after watching thousands of people have colonics for 12 years, I am struck with the question, why does this happen? Why do our bodies defy what is supposed to be a natural rhythm?</span></span></div></div><div style="font: 14.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; min-height: 17.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"></span></span></span></div><div style="font: 14.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">I have lots of theories but no answer because we humans are complicated like that. But this is what I want you to know: We humans are out of sync. Not on purpose, but by accident, our world has evolved faster than our bodies can keep up. </span></span></span></div><div style="font: 14.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; min-height: 17.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"></span></span></span></div><div style="font: 14.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">There are of course many obvious reasons some people can’t poop every day and many things that get us out of sync: bad food, not enough water, lack of exercise, past antibiotic use, parasitic infection, caffeine, alcohol, drugs, nerve damage, traumas (childhood and adult ones),etc. But in my mind it all comes down to this: stress! </span></span></span></div><div style="font: 14.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; min-height: 17.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"></span></span></span></div><div style="font: 14.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Now if you are like me then you might be saying to yourself, “I’m not stressed. I feel fine!” but the truth of it is that we are not meant to be moving at such a fast pace, eating non-food as food, working long hours, having interrupted sleep or sleeping less than 8 hours, breathing in environmental pollutants at a horrifying rate. Studies have shown that the mere act of watching tv can be a stress to our bodies and that is what many of us call relaxation. Add in noise pollution, mercury fillings, and unclean water. Put a little pressure on at work, stress about money, worry about our children or relationships, dissatisfaction with our bodies. It is a wonder we function at all! </span></span></span></div><div style="font: 14.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; min-height: 17.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"></span></span></span></div><div style="font: 14.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">I have a great example of stress for you. Just a few months ago, I had the brilliant idea that what I really could use in my life was more centered time carved out only for myself. I decided that I would take a yoga immersion at The </span></span><a href="http://yogashalapdx.com/"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Yoga Shala </span></span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">near my house. The class was awesome. The teacher great. But the sad bitter truth of it is that I found myself completely stressed out. The class started at 6 am and I couldn’t sleep my normal rhythm. I woke up in the night in fear that I was sleeping through my alarm. I couldn’t have my typical morning snuggle with my son. I was exercising before pooping. The opposite of what I was hoping would happen happened. My push to relax became an added stress.</span></span></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">So what do you have to do to get your body in sync and free of stress? Again the answers are complicated. The obvious things are to do the opposites of what you did to get yourself in stress: drink lots of clean water, eat nourishing whole foods, work a rational amount, sleep 8 hours a night, get in nature, move your body, reinoculate your gut with good bacteria, give yourself media breaks, remove the toxins from your body, supplement deficiencies through food or herbs. For many people just doing a portion of those things brings on huge delightful change. </span></span></div><div style="font: 14.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; min-height: 17.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"></span></span></span></div><div style="font: 14.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">But de-stressing our lives is easier in theory than in reality. De-stressing your life means paying attention to your internal self: something that we are not taught how to do. In fact the world tells us not to do it. We live in a very external world where most of us would rather take a pill than sit with ourselves quietly.</span></span></span></div><div style="font: 14.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; min-height: 17.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"></span></span></span></div><div style="font: 14.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">There are many reasons I think colonics are the perfect springboard for this. One is that you are taking charge of your life by deciding to give your body support. Two you are giving yourself an entire hour to be present with your body: revolutionary! Three is that when you clear out the crap, you feel more energized which in turn gives you more attention to think about what you are putting in your body. And when you are being thoughtful about food, you get even more energy to do things like exercise. It is the impetus for a plethora of goodness. One good thing leads to another and another and another and another. And here’s the beauty: you can make huge changes in your life without stressing yourself out about it. </span></span></span></div><div style="font: 14.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; min-height: 17.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"></span></span></span></div><div style="font: 14.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; min-height: 17.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"></span></div>allswellpdxhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10711874460698422048noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7050727097341451593.post-9399270231399774582010-08-26T21:33:00.000-07:002010-08-26T21:33:48.532-07:00The most awesome career in the world!<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #2a2a2a; font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13.1944px;"></span><br />
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"How did you EVER become a colon hydrotherapist?" It’s a common question that I get asked at least once a week from clients and others. Perhaps it’s because only a small percentage of the population can fathom what sticking a tube in your butt and pooping for an hour with a stranger can do for you. Or perhaps it’s because we don’t really talk about pooping in this culture, let alone make it our livelihood or passion. Let’s face it: being a colon hydrotherapist is an odd career.<br />
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Well, it is true that as I was growing up, spending my tender years in Memphis Tennessee surrounded by my imaginary world of stuffed animals who had come to life, I wasn't dreaming that one day I would clean people’s asses out for a living. I grew up in a household where we didn’t even call our body parts by their actual names. My vagina was my poo poo (well that’s confusing!) and my butt was called my tush. I had only vaguely heard of the word vagina and since I was in the south, I was quite confused that Virginia, the state, and my private parts were the same thing. <br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Yes that's me in 1978! </td></tr>
</tbody></table>Oh, the trials and tribulations of being an odd-ball, short, dark curly-headed Jewish girl from east coast parents living in the South! To call me different, even as a child, was an understatement. But as odd as I was, colon hydrotherapy was nowhere on my radar as a potential passion, pastime or future!<br />
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What was a lifelong aspiration was that I just wanted to be good in the world. To love and to be loved. So naturally I wanted to become a veterinarian. What could be greater in the world than helping out the most helpless beings? Sick cute animals completely dependent upon us to save them. But like so many others, the reality that the sight of blood makes me want to vomit set in. What didn’t change was my desire to help and to love and be loved. This was the perfect set-up for a lot of crap romantic love relationships in my 20s, but career wise, I had my head on. I channeled that love and passion into becoming a teacher for 3 years before becoming an advocate and counselor in the domestic violence movement.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Paddy 2010</td></tr>
</tbody></table>And then there was fate. The gods must have been smiling down upon me when I was 21 and moved to the awesome funky town of Portland,Oregon and found myself living next door to one of the most fantastic people on the planet: Paddy Lazar. Paddy Lazar: a radical, East coast Jewish lesbian in her early 40s with kick-ass politics and a heart wide open. Loud, Out there. A voice of reason, compassion, and social justice.<br />
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I was in love. Not romantically, but spiritually. I had never met anyone quite so spectacular! Paddy not only loved animals but topped me with her complete obsession over her dog. Hence the daily ritual of walking our dogs together and becoming deep close friends.<br />
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There are many things that happened in the 6 years between moving to Portland and starting a colon hydrotherapy practice. Here’s what you need to know: Paddy, neighbor and friend extraordinaire turned into co-worker. We worked at a radical agency that helped support women in getting out of the brutal life of prostitution; Paddy was a counselor for adult women and I was a counselor for the children of these moms.<br />
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And then there was <a href="http://doctorariel.com/">Ariel Policano</a>, a dear friend of mine who was a walking, talking billboard of colon hydrotherapy. She, herself, was a colon hydrotherapist, who was very extremely passionate about its benefits. She all but begged me to come in for my first colonic, which by the way took me an entire year to convince myself to do. I had never had constipation or digestive issues and couldn't grasp what a colonic would do besides get my friend to shut up...which was seriously a big motivation.<br />
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That first colonic was a life changer. I'm not going to lie to you. I didn't enjoy the feeling of having the actual colonic, but I couldn't deny the difference of how I felt afterwards: energized, lighter, and clearer! It inspired me to eat better, exercise more and take better care of myself. Well, it wasn't long before I convinced Paddy to try it. She, too, found it life-changing, helping to cure her of a lifelong struggle with constipation. We loved it and finally understood why Ariel loved it too. When the agency that Paddy and I worked for went under and we found ourselves jobless, there wasn't much of a question of what we wanted to do.<br />
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Can I just say this? Shit is shit-- emotional, physical, energetic. The form doesn’t particularly matter. What matters most is that we have to excrete things out of our bodies and lives that aren’t serving us well. Perhaps you were abused or neglected as a child and you are carrying around the shit of that. Maybe that’s the reason you grab that soft drink, eat that fast food, or drink yourself silly every night. We all have traumas, some smaller or bigger than others. We cope. We deal in the best ways we know. There is shit to be cleaned and cleared and we all know it.<br />
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So being a colon hydrotherapist is not a big leap from being a counselor. As a colon hydrotherapist, I am your counselor and cheerleader asking you what it is that you need to move out of your life so you can be happier, freer and more yourself. I tell clients all the time: you have no idea of how good you can feel in this world. Our bodies are brilliant machines that can live off of Twinkies and Fritos if need be. When you figure out what needs to move and move it you will feel better than you have ever felt in your life. And then let the cheering begin.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Paddy and I in 1998 when All's Well was born!</td></tr>
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</tbody></table>allswellpdxhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10711874460698422048noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7050727097341451593.post-44879709653630427442010-08-13T21:27:00.000-07:002010-08-13T21:27:35.171-07:00Confessions to and from a colon hydrotherapist<div style="font: 14px Helvetica; margin: 0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><br />
</span></div><div style="font: 14px Helvetica; margin: 0px;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj-d-OgqFhYAMmJLTxnjGdjEITp6tUhb7EQkoeYAAAS4GAHr9WgXoal9id0dqsbratE9PjssmReRB3wDYAM5ioKNT62vRfAOzAch6fe32bTomXcYQmJRSfD97Y9Hiz-Lj0diy_bgVGjcWF_/s1600/_RSG8641.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj-d-OgqFhYAMmJLTxnjGdjEITp6tUhb7EQkoeYAAAS4GAHr9WgXoal9id0dqsbratE9PjssmReRB3wDYAM5ioKNT62vRfAOzAch6fe32bTomXcYQmJRSfD97Y9Hiz-Lj0diy_bgVGjcWF_/s320/_RSG8641.JPG" /></a></div>People say the darndest things to their colon hydrotherapist...and I'm not just talking about poop stories. I’m talking about the things that you would only say to your deepest loved ones or your therapist. </div><div style="font: 14px Helvetica; margin: 0px; min-height: 17px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"></span></div><div style="font: 14px Helvetica; margin: 0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">You know how it goes. You are going to the salon for a simple hair cut and as soon as the stylist (or hair artist as mine likes to be called) touches your scalp, you are telling not just anything but all...Well folks, the same thing is true when the other end is stimulated. Hence "The Bottom Line"-a blog to share some of those very interesting confessions and then some.*</span></div><div style="font: 14px Helvetica; margin: 0px; min-height: 17px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"></span></div><div style="font: 14px Helvetica; margin: 0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">This was really my friend Thomas’s idea. Thomas is a fashion designer extraordinaire and an all around fabulous, fun human being. We have shared a love of many things through the years: gardening, low budget fashion, bike rides, being nerds, food, and most importantly good bum cleanings. So as you can imagine, many a colonic has been had followed by bike rides, carrot juice and good chats. And I, as the colon hydrotherapist, find myself talking on and on about the fascinating things that can happen in one (yes, just one) colon hydrotherapy session!** Thomas, being the designer he is, suggested the coffee table book: Confessions To a Colon Hydrotherapist.</span></div><div style="font: 14px Helvetica; margin: 0px; min-height: 17px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"></span></div><div style="font: 14px Helvetica; margin: 0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">And while this is no coffee table book, it is much much more: The best of 12 years of confessions to and many more from a colon hydrotherapist. I am positive you will be deeply moved, charmed, and inspired! Colonics, food, lives, people, bikes, nerds, cooking, low budget fashion, and if you are lucky a story or two about my son...</span><br />
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">* Just a little disclaimer here: colon hydrotherapy sessions are completely confidential. This blog will share revelations, general topics of health, and overall interesting stories that will be sure to delight and inspire you without divulging any client's name or personal information.</span></i></span><br />
<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">**Again, colon hydrotherapy sessions are completely confidential!</span></i></span></div>allswellpdxhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10711874460698422048noreply@blogger.com1