Angie's Page

I've been pondering a lot lately on the direction I want my life & career to go. I am finishing the certification process to become a Holistic Health Detective (thank you to everyone who is helping me by being volunteer clients!). As my certification gets closer to being a reality, I have been pondering on some things: how my life path has changed so dramatically - over the years AND over the last few months, how being diabetic has led me to learn so much about natural approaches to wellness… Continue

I have recently realized that in the past, I ate to make up for a lack of joy/connection at holiday time & get-togethers. I stuffed myself silly at every single party or evening out. Even after going raw, I would spend hours of prep time & loads of money to make raw versions of whatever everyone else was eating in order to try to feel like I wasn't different: raw lettuce leaf tacos when the family got together for a taco night, raw cranberry relish at Thanksgiving (and I never really eve… Continue

I have recently faced the fact that my blood sugar levels have been out of control the majority of the time ever since I started using agave. Now I am just sad, wondering what my health might be like if I had never tried agave 4 years ago. I know I've learned from the experience, and I know I can go forward from here, and a million other positive things that I'm sure will come to me later. Right now, I'm just sad.

I am a type 1 diabetic & have been raw most of the last 4 1/2 years. I have had a lot of problems with insulin resistance (which isn't normally a type 1 issue) & other health challenges in those years (although some of the health issues existed before that, too). Not only have I had health problems, but in the last year and a half (since I was hospitalized for complications of diabetes), I have put on almost as much weight as I lost in the first three months of eating raw. Weird. Anyhow,… Continue

I have type 1 diabetes.

I feel a bit with experts/raw gurus & diabetes like some people say they feel with the medical industry & whatever health problems they had before they found raw food & got well: I feel it's time for me to find exactly what will heal my body. And I haven't found it in all the books I've read or all the videos or blogs or whatever else I've looked at relating to healing, nutrition, raw foods, non-raw foods, etc. - and there have been a lot. I'm done looking to… Continue