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Spring cleanse

What I eat

June 16, 2009 by Jessica Leave a Comment

For a long time, I’ve been eating a lot of calories. A typical breakfast would be sausage, one or two eggs (mostly just the yolk), raw/cultured sauerkraut, sprouts (usually pea, lentil or azuki bean — not alfalfa), sauteed zucchini and some kind of green vegetable cooked in homemade chicken stock. Kombucha and supplements on the…

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Filed Under: Healthy Eating, Uncategorized Tagged With: detox, food, Spring cleanse

Second spring foot soak

May 8, 2009 by Jessica Leave a Comment

About a month after my first ionic foot soak (since pregnancy, since weaning), I did another. I think it looks a little less dark (less black/heavy metals) this time. But who knows if that’s good or not! Does it just mean I’m holding on instead of excreting? I’m so stressed out with showing the house…

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Filed Under: Holistic Health Tagged With: detox, skin, Spring cleanse

Spring cleaning

April 8, 2009 by Jessica 1 Comment

I went to a great detox class the other night with Monica Corrado of Simply Being Well. She talked about ways to use nutrition to support your liver and why spring is the best and most natural time to do detox. I hadn’t realized that a “cleanse” is the most intense thing you can do…

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Filed Under: Healthy Eating, Holistic Health Tagged With: detox, food, Spring cleanse

Ionic foot soak

April 3, 2009 by Jessica Leave a Comment

So, now that my son has weaned, I’m ready to do some detox. I tried an ionic foot bath twice the year I got pregnant. The water turned very yellow both times — like egg yolk. I heard at the time that this was connected to hormone issues. Last week I tried it again, and…

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Filed Under: Holistic Health Tagged With: detox, goals, nutrition, Spring cleanse, weaning

Food + JH = TruLv4Evr

May 3, 2008 by Jessica Leave a Comment

I usually try to avoid using the word “change.” It implies that there is something bad or wrong, and it doesn’t provide a vision the way a more descriptive, active verb would. And yet, when I tell people I’m doing something of a cleanse, the phrase I keep coming back to is, “I want to…

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Filed Under: Healthy Eating, Holistic Health Tagged With: Spring cleanse

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I also publish the resource blog Mindful Healthy Life of Metro DC. To learn about my writing and appearances and for details about the writing, editing and consulting services I offer, visit JessicaClaireHaney.com.

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