How to get support when you want to stay on a healthy diet as a family

That’s our 2 sons at the beach in Costa Rica some days ago

When we first changed our diet towards raw food back in 2005, the world went nuts around us. Our parents (mine more than Katie’s though) thought we were going with a strange occult movement, being almost mad at us.

All our friends and family thought that we were crazy!
They didn’t understand at all why we were doing it; most people even were offended, as we questioned the whole modern-western “science” of nutrition by going raw.
We were not prepared at all for the storm that broke lose.
It came to a point were family members were thinking of reporting us to child service in Germany!

Really crazy, isn’t it?

If you think that people support you if you eat processed, poisoned food from the supermarket, drinking dangerous Coca-Cola and eating mass produced meat paid for by innocent living beings that suffer so badly, so you can buy a steak for less than $1.
It is assumed to be normal to go to MacDonald, drink alcohol daily, smoke Marlboros and abuse your body by sitting in front of the TV. You are absorbing negative energy all day long through all the lies produced by big corporations that want to sell products your don’t need, showing them to people you don’t like.
That is normal?? Hah!
You and my Rawfoodfamily we know better, don’t we??
You think it’s crazy to eat organic, fresh food from Mother Earth??

Still this is how society and the system work and if you chose to change you cannot expect support.
It makes people veeeeeery uncomfortable, as by choosing your lifestyle people have to question their own. Nobody likes to be forced to do that.
If you can see yourself struggling with similar problems in your environment, we have the following advice for you:

1. Keep low profile. Don’t make the mistake we made in the beginning and shout your new beliefs about raw food and natural health from the rooftops. Better is to find stability within yourself and to practice your new, changed diet for at least a year, before you go too loud and too public with it.
Share it with people that ask you and are open but please: Don’t argue with friends or family that do not like your new ideas. It’s wasted time and leaves room for planting seeds of doubt within you.

2. Concentrate on yourself. The only thing you can do to improve the world, to help your family and friends is: BE A SHINING EXAMPLE! It is when you 100% live your truth, that you reach hearts and face doubts and fears with your increased life force. Stay with yourself!

3. This third tip is the golden tip that saved us.
Surround yourself with likeminded people. Even if you cannot see ANY other person in your direct environment interested in raw food and natural health they are there! Their numbers are growing. More and more people see and understand that what you have been taught in school about nutrition and the lies presented in the media are believed by less and less people. People wake up, and there are likeminded people in your area as well.

Meet them at the health-food store, at the wild-edible or gardening course in the next city.
Make a flyer and start a raw food group. Hang that flyer in your health food store.
Go to the places where you expect like-minded people hang out.
(You will not find them at McDonalds for sure!)

But even more so:

Go online, meet them on Facebook (check our 5000 friends there for faces you might know!), watch the You tubes that show likeminded people doing the things you love to do yourself or want to be surrounded with.
Know that there are 100.000s of people interested in natural health and raw food on earth all looking for people like YOU!
This was the main inspiration for us to create our Rawfoodfamily membership program. We want to prevent the isolation you as a family or single mom, raising your kids in a healthy way, may suffer from.
You can meet families and moms that might even be living in the neighborhood by joining and going to the membership forum, where all people have profiles. Connect with like-minded families that share the same interests, have the same problems and passions you have.
You can get in contact and communicate with them through our website and you should do that, if you feel isolated with your family or children trying to find alternative solutions to the ones that are no longer true to you.
The reason why it is so helpful to have this support from other families is, that it makes it much more difficult to go back to the old unhealthy habits again.

You can also join us for our raw retreat in March 2012
Just have a look at
http://rawfoodretreat.yolasite.com

When you connect with health interested families and moms, you will not only get inspiration and answers to some questions, but you also will get emotional support.
You know that your new friends support your ideas, that they might even suffer from the same problems and they will give you stability.
They will back you up if you get shaky and fear falling back into a live you desperately want to leave behind.
They might have a way of looking at things you haven’t seen before, present you with the raw food recipe that will allow you to make the dish you crave the most as a raw alternative, or bring you together with new people that support you with your brave new life.
Support is essential.
You looking for it also means that you are serious. It’s a commitment you make towards yourself. You are not just pretending to move forward as a family, but you are taking action, and making effort to really change the unhealthy life you came from.
Don’t wait!
Take action today and make some new friends out there. They are waiting for you!
We have been showing you some actions on how you can attract them in your healthy, improved family life.

Lots of love and support
Katie and Ka

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Letting go to receive what we want!

—– This article written by Ka Sundance was also published in the pear magazine August issue 2009 ——

Do you know the feeling, when you wanted something so badly, that you whole world circulated around this desire?
Did you ever loose your keys and looked for them everywhere, and couldn’t find them?  Haven’t we all experienced this?

And then after you searched all possible places several times, but still did not find them, you finally did let go of it. You did forget about your desire completely. And at exactly this point the magic happened.

In a totally unexpected moment, the thing you wanted so much, weather it was your car key, or any other thing: It was just there. Sometimes at a places you could have sworn that you looked before so many times!

But now it was just there!

What is this magic, so many of us have already experienced?

I call it: letting go to receive!
And about this magic that has happened to all of us, I want to write to you today!

When we are to tense concentrating on a wish, on a thing we want and focus all our attention on it, we get stuck. Stuck in a circulating energy, that makes us blind for the solutions, for the thing we want, that is already there, right before our eyes.  We just see a narrow perspective of all that is there, too focused to see the possibilities.

Life and the universe itself is not moving in closed circles, or narrowed in some way. Life is abundance. It is moving and evolving constantly, giving us all we need, and want, when we just are able to see, to receive it. Giving and taking, receiving and letting go again.

Both things belong together. And when you have problems to let go of something, that automatically will make it more difficult for you to receive.
Because you are so concentrated on holding on to things, maintain them, clean them, reorganize and restructure them, that there is just no free space, or no free attention to receive the new things you have ordered, and the universe has already delivered to you.
And the universe is very precise. It never, ever makes a mistake.
To give you a practical example:
Once we lived in a house, and it was like magic. More and more things were finding its way in our cellar, and our free spaces at the roof.
Although we were trying to consciously let go, and organize our belongings, it still felt like we gained more and more stuff, like a magnet.

Then we decided that the point of time had come to do a world travel with our children, which was our dream since we became a family, and even before that.
We took the opportunity and cleared out all our stuff. Most things we gave away as presents to friends and people wanting it, and other stuff was going to the recycling centre.
We tried to give all the things away with loving kindness and thankfulness in our hearts, because it felt better this way.
That was a very intense process, and took a lot of energy; at least as much as getting all the gear together.

The Rawfoodfamily in NewZealand 2006

Not only physical letting go, organizing and packing all things in a box, driving them to friends, but even more the emotional side of it. Letting go of all the memories and energies that were connected with this specific item.

But maybe you also know the feeling, after you decided and took the action.
You feel good! You feel light! You are free!
New space, free attention and lots of fresh energy!

And this is what it is all about. Let go to receive!
We managed to reduce all our belongings down to 2 small boxes that stayed at our parents places and did a long world travel together with our 2 children at that time with only 1 backpack and a buggy for Jaro!
We felt so rich!
We were free to go whatever way we wanted, choose the direction we liked most and felt best about.
to go, or to stay, to start in a new life and create and live our dream.

And even this light and almost completely empty, the cleaning process was never stopping. It was, and still is, a constant habit.
We were checking and cleaning our single backpack during our travels all couple of weeks, and found stuff that was not of use anymore.
We just did let go of it.

This brings us to a very special sentences that comes up, when ever we clean up. And that is:
“Oh no, I could keep this. It could be useful at some point of time!”

This sentences is the killer of all the action of letting go!
Yet it can be difficult to overcome. It has to do with trust. Trust in yourself, life, and the universe. Trust in the fact that whenever you need something, it will be brought to you at the exact right point of time. Once we fully understand the deep meaning and existence of this law, we do not need to collect and save all sorts of things anymore.

In our experience it never happened, that we did regret any of our clearings, and cleanings.
Whenever we need anything it is just there. It always is. Always will be.
All is good.

If you want some assistance in your process of letting go, just contact me through on of my websites and I will be pleased to help you.

Ka Sundance from the Rawfoodfamily