Hello lovely :)

Hope you?re enjoying a gorgeous time of exploration...I?m back in Iceland at the moment, as those of you who read my blog or Twitter Updates already know ;)
I am LOVING the pristine air and water and amazing endless sunlight of summer here.
I?ll very likely be here for a few weeks more, as we continue to wait out the visa process for the US. I?ll do a talk here in Iceland in the coming weeks and Mr Monarch will hopefully be here soon too, so we can all play together ;) Talk details will be announced on my blog?
For now, read on below for more juicy details about the following?

-?Raw Emotions? in Print SOON
-Kevin Gianni Interview, July 2nd
-Introducing: Philosopher?s Notes
-?Raw Magic? Book in RawReform Store
-Brighton Rocks ? A Synchronous Story
-CHIA Giveaway Contest  :)
-Article: Top Ten Essential Tips for Travelling Raw
-Upcoming Raw Festivals


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?Raw Emotions? Going to Print? ;)

I?m very excited to say that my latest book ?Raw Emotions? is going to be produced as a printed book very soon :) I?m working on getting it ready for printing RIGHT NOW and hope that we?ll see it in a printed format within 2-3 months ;) I?ll keep y?all updated on progress with that...in the meantime, here are some yummy comments readers have sent in so far about ?Raw Emotions?:

THANK YOU, THANK YOU, THANK YOU for writing this book.
You have hit so many nails on the head for me in this book, I am very grateful to you. I want so badly to heal my relationship with food and eating and you are such an inspiration to me. 
Now I see clearly why my earlier attempts at being raw or succeeding with any other way of eating have not been sustainable.  And, thanks to your book, I understand why eating raw foods can be an important part of the healing process.  Maybe the time was right for me to get the message...and maybe it's about the teacher showing up with the student is ready. Thanks again.
Best, Arlene

I think this book should have the widest possible audience. It is simply superb: very well written and jam packed with information on every page. So many "self-help" books waste your time promising insights but string you along to a disappointingly limp conclusion. Stokes delivers from the get go and keeps it up the throughout the book with her keen insights, solid research and synthesis of ideas, and numerous helpful exercises. There is nothing silly, woo woo or frivolous here -she respects her readers' intelligence and our ability to embrace real work to make real change. I felt respected and nurtured by this book and cannot say enough good about it. I'm a voracious reader and a fairly tough critic, and I believe this book deserves a huge audience.
Thanks again, Angela
RR

This book truly is a wealth of information. We are confident that any reader interested in really exploring, releasing, and finally overcoming their troubles with going and staying raw will obtain serious benefit with a read through of Angela?s Raw Emotions. She knows this journey, inside and out. She's lived it. She's been there, and because "success leaves clues", it's highly recommended that everyone who is considering (or has!) changed their diet significantly in the more raw direction, grab a copy and read with an open mind and heart.
J&H Ohlander, RawFoodRightNow.com


THANKS everyone :) I very much look forward to having the book ready in print soon to share with you all...stay tuned :)
In the meantime, you can purchase Raw Emotions as an ebook from HERE: http://store.rawreform.com/ product_info.php?products_id= 1001468
You can also read an excerpt from the book HERE: http://www.rawreform.com/ content/view/354/


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Listen LIVE to my ?Raw Emotions? interview with Kevin Gianni, July 2nd

On Wednesday this week, it?s time for me to have a public chinwag with Mr. Kevin Gianni  ;)
On July the 2nd at 7PM EST, 4PM PST, we shall commence on a 70 minute live exploration of all things raw and especially weight-loss related...you wanna play? Everyone is welcome to join the call...and you can even shape the content of the discussion as you please, by sending in your questions ahead of time at THIS LINK.
I look forward to answering your most exquisite and extraordinary questions on Wednesday :)
 


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Introducing: The Philosopher?s Notes
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There is a VERY exciting new project I?d like to introduce you to (if you haven?t discovered it yet already ;) It?s called ?Philosopher?s Notes? and basically, it?s like mini ?Cliff?s Notes? for self-development books.
Think titles like ?Authentic Happiness?, ?Feel the Fear and Do It Anyway?, ?Loving What Is? and Eckhart Tolle?s ?A New Earth?...

Brian Johnson (the man behind the wonderful ThinkArete site) takes all his favourite inspirational books like these and distills the offerings in them down into 6 pages each OR MP3 recordings of around 20 minutes, that you can listen to as you go about your day... I think it?s an INCREDIBLE project and such a wonderful offering to the world...think of ALL those amazing books you?d love to take the time and space to read and it maybe never quite happens for you...sound familiar?

Well, now you can quickly and easily get the ?skinny? on titles like ?The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People?, ?Ask and It Is Given? and so on from a guy whose true gift in life seems to be assimilating universal truths and presenting them for others in a way that makes them super-easy to understand and integrate. See why I?m excited about this now???? ;)))

?Raw Magic? Book, Now Available in US

I?m delighted to say that we?re the first outlet to be offering ?Raw Magic? for sale in the US - the world?s first raw superfood recipe book.
Written by the UK?s marvellous Ms. Kate Magic Wood, this glossy new volume contains 160 recipes, demonstrating how to use superfoods like maca, goji berries, bee pollen, spirulina, cacao, purple corn and so on in yummy meals DAILY.
Containing dishes such as ?Cacaoslaw?, ?Flaxtastic Olive Bread?, ?Super-Sexy Curry?, ?Buzz Cake?, ?Superbliss Tart? and ?Quantum Cake?, Raw Magic is sure to go down as a classic in raw recipe book history.
The presentation of the book is absolutely GORGEOUS, with full colour photography throughout, taken by none other than Ms. Shazzie herself. This book absolutely blows the idea that raw foods are ?boring? out of your distilled water ;) Along with LUSCIOUS pics of the superfood creations, you?ll find many snaps of raw foodists munching on yumminess too ? look out for myself and the Monarch on the back cover and inside, Shazzle-dazzle and little Evie, Dr. Wolfe, Super Goji Girl and many more.
This book is an absolute feast for your eyes, interest-nodules and hopefully your belly too, when you start preparing some of these nutrient-packed creations... ;)
Raw Magic is Kate?s 3rd raw recipe book and the recipes are really simply laid out and easy to follow. Before she gets into the recipe pages themselves, she also offers a very informative section on the various transformative properties of the different superfoods.
Kate?s vibrant creations are legendary, especially her cakes and when I first read through Raw Magic, I wanted to try some of these recipes IMMEDIATELY, like ?Sky High Spaghetti?, ?Ecstatic Being Salad?, ?Tarts for the Tart?, ?Chocolate Crispy Cakes? and ?Golden Goji Love?...YUMMMMM ;)
I am also very excited to see that Kate has included a recipe for seaweed chocolate in this book ? ?Hi-Seas?. I lived on and off with Kate and family for a while in Brighton and seaweed chocolate was one of the YUMMIEST and most inspired things I ever experienced from Kate?s magical kitchen creations.
Here?s a note from Ms. Magic herself:

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Brighton ROCKS Story

Here below is a yummy story I shared recently on my blog. If you?re not subscribed to my blog, you can sign up by visiting http://rawreform.blogspot.com and entering your email address in the box in the top right corner. I usually write every other day or so, sharing my food logs, stories, thoughts, recipes, inspirations etc ;)

RawReform Blog, June 1st 2008
I had SUCH a beautiful experience on Brighton beach today, which I would love to share.
It was the first time I?ve been to the beach since I got back to the UK. As perhaps you may be aware, this is not a sandy beach ? it?s all pebbles. As I stepped out onto the rocks, a HUGE smile spontaneously spread across my face and is actually still with me as I write this. Something about Brighton beach just really seems to resonate for me... I had a very moving experience here on my ?spiritual? path a couple of years back, which I?ll write more about further down the page... My mother?s side of the family is from here and this place holds a lot of energy for me... I love how so many people all sit on the beach, facing out to sea ? they rarely face other directions ? it?s like a collective meditation out to the ocean... I laid down on the pebbles this afternoon and tuned into the energy of the place through my whole chakra system; yummy, relaxing energy flowed through me. After a while I sat up and looked around at all the stones around me. I thought to myself, ?mmmm, I?d like to bring one of you with me, to carry this energy on my journey?, then I wondered how I would recognise such a stone in my collection ? I have many stones from many places and the stones from Brighton beach are relatively plain ? how would I tell it apart from others in years to come? Right then, my hand reached out and picked up the first stone I laid eyes on. I turned it over and right there, etched into the surface, was the word ?Brighton? (see pic - hope you can kind of make it out - my usual camera is on holiday at the moment ;).

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Chia Giveaway Contest :)

Hmmmmm, it seems to have been rather a long time since we had a RawReform Giveaway Contest. Surely it?s time to play again ;)

This month we?re celebrating all things chia-related: the prize is a copy of our shiny new ?Chia Cheat Sheet? chart, along with a 1lb bag of chia and a bag of the delicious new ?Chia Goodness? cereal. YUmMMmMmmMMmmm :)

Please send in your answers to angela@rawreform.com before July the 31st. The winner shall be picked at random and with love thereafter... ;)

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My Top 10 Essential Tips for Travelling in the Raw...

*BE PREPARED ? take nutrient-dense things with you that travel well ? e.g. ? don?t take a watermelon with you on a plane ;) LOL ? aside from the fact it would probably take up half your baggage allowance and quite possibly be confiscated at the other end, it?s not going to feed you for more than a day or two. Take foods that are somewhat the ?opposite? of watermelon ? dense, concentrated things ? nuts, seeds, crackers, goji berries, seaweeds, trail mixes, etc. Have these things with you, then get the fresh stuff where you are. If travelling by plane, pack as many foods as possible into your CHECKED luggage. Take whatever you\'re going to eat on the plane in your hand luggage (water-content rich things like cucumbers are good here ;) - try asking the security people NOT to x-ray your plane food - you might get lucky ;)

*FRESH PRODUCE ? clearly, organic is usually preferable ? you might not always be in areas where organic produce seems very forthcoming though, SO, aim for stuff with thick skins, if in doubt ? papaya, pineapple, avocado, possibly durian ;) etc. If pushed, it seems preferable (though certainly debatable ;) to go for non-organic fresh produce than to choose any processed, packaged food instead. Do your best with what you find available and be sure to give your food lots of love, gratitude and blessings, regardless of origin ;)

*CHIA SEEDS are a FANTASTIC food to travel with, as they are very nutrient dense and bulk up in under 10 minutes to 10 times their volume, when soaked in any liquid. This is the food Aztec and Mayan messengers used to use, to keep them going on their travels. See the Chia Cheat Sheet for more info.

*GREEN POWDERS ? definitely take green powders with you wherever you go ? hopefully and preferably you?ll find fresh greens that you feel good about, wherever you end up ? in the event that you don?t though, or you just want more greens ? you?ll always have the powder as a back-up ;) VERY important to help keep us balanced/alkalised/ mineralised, especially if you?re somewhere where the main things you?re munching are fruits and you?re getting a bit sugared-out ;) (If you can take some probiotics with you that are stable at room temperature/travel well, that will be useful too ;)

*COCONUTS ? if you?re somewhere that has fresh cocos available ? GO for it, preferably many times daily ;) I am in LOVE with fresh cocos ? they are quite incredible ? so balancing, nourishing, full of electrolytes, sterile environment (coco water can actually be used for blood transfusions for humans if necessary ;O...), they?re also anti-fungal/microbial/viral etc ? oooooo, they?re just wonderful. Consume, often ;) In many cases, drinking coco water will be FAR preferable to drinking any water sources you?ll find, though do try to drink ?pure? water daily too (which will often mean bottled water...).

*RESEARCH ? if you feel drawn to, it can be useful before you set out to do a little poking around on the internet etc to see what kind of options might be available where you?re heading ? try search terms in Google like ?organic?, ?organic farm?, ?permaculture?, ?raw food? and so on, for that area and see what pops up ? you might suddenly discover that there?s an organic farm with a home-stay right in the region you?re interested in visiting... ;) Or you might locate some markets to go and check out that you wouldn?t have otherwise maybe found... (As always, you can check out sites like WWOOF.org ? Willing Workers On Organic Farms ? for places to do work exchange. Couchsurfing.com and Craigslist.com may also be useful ;)

*BELIEVE that you will eat foods you want to eat ? i.e. don?t be in fear that there?s going to be nothing for you to eat ? where there?s a will, there?s a way. Mr. M and I travel all over the world and have NEVER resorted to eating cooked/processed things ? there is always SMTHG to eat, if you?re willing to focus energy towards finding it ;)

*EQUIPMENT ? we find it useful to have a few basic items with us ? a few spoons/forks/a sharp knife or two, a couple of wooden bowls, NUT MILK BAGS, water containers, etc. We use nut milk bags for sprouting on the road, as well as straining juice, etc. On this last huge trip down under, we ended up travelling with a blender AND a juicer ? pretty intense ;) I would hope not to do that again and wouldn?t really recommend it (though it?s definitely nice to have access to those things ? also depends a lot on HOW you?re travelling ? if you have a vehicle of some kind, that can make a big difference ;) You could also of course travel with a little ?personal blender?, which can be also used to make juices, IF you?re carrying a nut milk bag ;)

*HOUSE GUESTS ? if you?ve never read it, you can hop over HERE to read an article I wrote a while back called ?How to Be a Great House Guest? ? which was published by the Guardian online in the UK :)

*ENJOY ? remember that whatever happens, it?s all just a game ? a big ol? cosmic giggle ;) Regardless of what appears to be unfolding around us, we can be happy in every moment, if we choose to be. Every experience is an opportunity. Life on the road can feel pretty intense at times, far from ?home?, unfamiliar languages/places/tired/jetlag/ etc etc... do your best, whatever the apparent circumstances are, to be with what is, with grace. Breathe deep...you might not have seen an organic kale leaf in 3 weeks...hmmm, life?s still ok though, right? LOL ;) Go with the flow...and ENJOY :)

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Upcoming Events

August 15th-18th ? Space of Love/Funky Raw Festival in the Sussex Countryside, England. I hope to be in attendance at this loved-up, vibrant raw event out in nature. CLICK HERE for more info.

August 22nd-24th ? Myself and the Monarch are scheduled to speak at the 4th Annual Vibrant Living Expo at Fort Bragg, CA. See HERE for more details.

September 5th-7th ? We will both be speaking at the marvellous ?Simply Raw? festival in Ottawa, Canada. See more info HERE.

September 12th-14th ? Raw Spirit Fest in Sedona, Arizona. Yeeeeee-HAH, all aboard for the biggest raw food party of the year ;) We?re scheduled to speak on the main stage on Saturday. More info HERE.

It is also looking rather likely that myself and Mr. Monarch will give talks in both the UK and Iceland too this summer ? you can keep an eye on our blogs for more details and announcements:

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I look forward to seeing your chiiaaaaaaa creations :)
All love,
Angela. xxx

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