Bette Shaw Health Coaching

I have been hearing of sooo much illness these days. Also feeling really grateful that my life does not consist of running off to the doctor/ER/lab etc for any number of invasive and/or painful stuffs!!!! How grateful we can be, those of us who have been turned onto raw food, food of this earth, from which we came, and seen the profound results it has brought to our bodies!! I am feeling so grateful for raw today. How about you? Love from my grateful heART to yours, Muah, Bette Bliss

Have you heard that before? I have heard it a million times. Well, not quite a million but ALOT! What is the deal? Why do people have such a hard time to keep it real and keep it raw. I suppose one can come up with a lot of reasons why they eat cooked foods. What is the way to see clear to get and stay raw? Is there a way? Well sometimes it just has to be the progression of things. Some go raw as soon as they hear, others toy with it and add raw more often, some go back and forth between raw and cooked. I see the key is this: getting clear on what you want for your health and your life. Ask yourself "what is my powerful reason WHY I want to eat raw foods? If you dwell with that for a while, getting clear on what it is you are wanting and WHY, then every food choice, made from that place, will be a raw one. If this is not the case, the committment is not strong enough. This has nothing to do with will power when you choose from this powerful reason WHY. This is the differenc...

Have you heard the superfood buzz? All the powders and potions and stuff you can send away for? Things that take time and big fat bux to order? Is THIS what I am talking about when I say the word "super foods"? As you may have seen on our app, Superfood Hd, we do cover some of these types of super foods. Although these are beneficial and a good addition to your diet, I am talking about powerful, nutrient dense, foods that are right in your local garden, field, grocery store or health food store! That's right! Common everyday foods are loaded with phytochemicals that raise the level of your health beyond what you might imagine.   The key is to eat these foods in their whole, raw, natural state. This not only preserves the enzymes, by not cooking them, but it also does not alter their makeup. Did you know many foods change into something else when cooked? Most of the time, it is renderded useless for the body. Example: potatoes turn into a substance called acrilomide...

Isn't this life just one CLASS ACT? The ACT of BEING ALIVE! What is ALIVE? What does being alive mean? Are you truly alive? How do you know? What if you just happen to be a walking dead person? Well, lets not go quite that far. What is you are living at LESS THAN your full potential? How would you know? Hmmmmm? Well do you feel your absolute best or less than the best? Do you have energy to burn or lack energy? Do you have a worldview, perspective, that can take you through anything or do you cave in at the slightest disappointment? So you DO jump out of bed in the morning to go running, seizing the day before it gets away? You just cannot wait to go to work and make a difference in the world with what you do? You cannot wait t o make all of your yummy food for the day and love every bite, it bringing you nothing but bliss and joy? Oh, and your relationships...ummm, you knew I was going there next didn't you? Are all of your relationships healthy and happy and bring you and the...

WHY WOULD PEOPLE CHOOSE SICKNESS? Yes, you heard correctly....why do people CHOOSE sickness? Truth is,YOU are choosing, health or sickness, by  every food you put into your mouth. Simple as that! Yes it is that simple. Sickness and disease are caused and created by two things, toxicity and nutritional defiency. So one must clean the body to rid the toxins and feed the body nutrient dense foods. How can this be done? Simple, as I said above. Make good choices, one by one. Feed your body with the closest material your body is made of. Your body was made from the dirt, dust of the earth and the closer you feed it to the ground, the greater your health! Your body is living, thus the closer the material is to raw materials, in their unprocessed state, as found in a garden, the greater your health! Living material, plant foods, feed our living bodies. Anything that is taken from the garden and processed with heat is no longer living, it is devoid of vi...

Aloe Glow Smoothie 2 bananas 6-7 strawberries 2 tablespoon of fresh aloe vera 3 cups or more baby greens 1 cup water Blend well, drink and glow baby, glow! This recipe comes to you courtesy of our Superfood hd app (avail at itunes)!!! Love, from my superfood loving heART to yours! Muah! Bette Bliss Follow us here:  https://www.facebook.com/Superfood-HD-337119796312800/

Seems like we have all heard it over and over that "Raw is not hard, it is easy!" This is what I have found in my life. I eat alot of simple raw foods and that really works well for me. It really is not complicated! I think, if you say it is hard, then it is. If you say it is easy, then it is. This kind of follows my post about listening to your body. THAT is what MAKES raw easy. The body naturally wants simple foods that do not bog us down. Most gourmet raw does exactly that. Even heavy smoothies, laden with bananas and all kinds of other ingredients, are also pretty taxing on the body. When I got to the point where I wanted juice from fresh fruits and vegetables (mostly vegs), my life got even simpler. I get up and make my jars of juice and off I go. I also might add in an apple to my "feed bag" and even a few nuts, if I might want something heavier. Raw really is as easy or as hard as you want to make it....and the beauty is, you get to choose! Pick ...

An epiphany came this morning and just wanted to drop it to you or just say it "out loud"....teehee. (Of course it is not freezing here in Ct, as it is sunny and super warm! Thee winta be yet anotha tale to tell...as I do faaar-eeeze then!) So, our dear friend, and cohort in raw education, always says he and Minh do not freeze their food. He sees it the same as cooking. (granted they DO live where there is no winter...the desert!) The epiphany was this; Speaking of winter, in winter, all the plants freeze and die. The life force goes into the roots and sleeps in the ground until morning comes and it is time to wake up. The LIFE is no longer in the greens, the above ground part of the plant. Right off, one can see that, just as heating breaks the food from its fresh state, equally thought oppositely (haha), freezing breaks the food and renders it dead food...yes? no? seems in only makes sense eh? Go one further step; so, if winter time calls for rootstock life and a rest fro...

No this is not about the upcoming shopping season! This is about RAW FOOD! Delicious LIVING and RAW foods! I love to live in a world of peace and happiness and POSITIVITY. I still wear my "complaint free world" bracelet although I did not even want the word complaint in it so it is now my Gratitude Attitude Bracelet! Anyway I was thinking about the negative aspects of life and how many people operate solely from all that is missing, all that isnt there, all that isnt coming to them, how they have lack and dullness and feel in desperation. A couple days ago, I woke up feeling not my best. I have been around alot of buggies that people have been taken ill with. Although I was not my best, I pulled toward wellness and that is what I got. However, waking up feeling like that (albeit very minimal) I got to thinking. I thought, to a greater degree, this is how the world of sad eaters must wake up every day. Surely their mood matches their feeling...you know, the vibration. Living ...

So you have a craving. You are wanting an ice cream sundae. Hmmmm Are you really wanting an ice cream sundae? Lets pick this apart. What is going on emotionally right now, in this moment, craving this ice cream sundae? What has happened today? Are you stressed? Are you tired? Did your bird die? Did your aunt go to the hospital? Did someone tell you your hair was ugly and your mother dresses you funny? So this is the place to look first. Well, say there is nothing emo going on. You still want an ice cream sundae? Is there a connection to nostalgia for you? Check that out too. Is it what you used to have in connection with an event or ritual like going for ice cream after a ball game. If so, simpy replace it with something else that is now the ritual. Go to the health food store and pick out your favorite raw chopped salad or pick up your favorite kombucha! No? Ok. So you are craving an ice cream sundae. Hmmm Do you need fat? Do you need something sweet? Perhaps some protein? Maybe yo...

What does? Well, most anything you eat can be measured with these words "Better Than". In transition to raw and living foods, one can ask, "is this food "better than" what I used to eat?" "Is this food a choice that is "better than" something of lesser quality? So say you used to drink soda. What is "better than" soda? Seltzer water. Kombucha. Homeade lemonade made with fresh squuezed lemons and maple syrup or other sweetener. So many "better than" choices. What about meat? You want meat? Well, there are all kinds of meat substitutes while transitioning to a meat free diet. Check out the alternatives in your frozen food section or your local health food store. As far as protein, if you are eating an all inclusive diet of raw foods, you will be meeting your protein needs. What about dairy? What is "better than" dairy? Make your own almond milk or brazil nut milk. There are alot of substitutes for dairy. Right off...

I had set out the startings of a recipe this morning, then off to my afternoon job I went. Knowing I wanted goji berries and chocolate and figure a way to get them both. I said to myself "self, goji berries are amazing and there has to be a recipe with ALOT of gojis in it!". So I created one. Here is what I did. Ground up (food processor) a cup maybe, of gojis in a little water. I let them mesh together, the gojis absorbing the water a bit. Then I added chia seeds until they soaked the liquid up. When it was all set up, I ran cacao nibs through my champoin juicer with blank screen in. Out came the nicest cacao creamy butter stuff I had ever seen! I "chased" it with almonds, thus making a nutella type mixture! I put some of this cacao nutty paste into the goji mix. I added coconut shreds, coconut oil, vanilla, some himalyan salt, hemp seeds, and chopped walnuts. I stirred this all together. Adding the choco paste made the mixture firm all up nice! I then rolled ...