The Fall Cleansing Detox

Depending on who you ask, three weeks of eating no sugar, caffeine, meat, dairy and alcohol could seem daunting or maybe not such a big deal. For my dear friend Martha and myself, it was like taking the toy out of the baby's hand and watching her wail away for the entire duration. As each day passes from the finish line of last Sunday, I have new insights as to just how powerful this experience was for both of us. Day after day of steaming vegetables, cooking rice, taking the prescribed tincture and downing large glasses of flax soaked water, all at precise times of the day with specific intervals between liquids and solids, I now feel like a wild child left to her own spoiled devices. What does that say about me and my relationship to food? What is the big deal here? I cannot imagine having done that on my own. Codependence got me through the hardest parts. We ranted, screamed, whined, freaked out and complained in texts, emails and phone calls as our bodies were subjected to releasing just the surface of years of tightly held 'things' deeply rooted in the body's tissues. There is much to express about this profound experience. Ahead will be a diary of our dialogue, some pictures of the food we ate and thoughts on how a simple every day thing like food has changed the way I see myself and the world I live in.