Raw & Vegan

So much has been happening in the ‘real world’ recently that I haven’t had a moment to blog!   And here we are at Raw & Vegan’s 100th Post! Time to celebrate!

So what’s been happening?

Melbourne & Life Coaching!

Melbourne was great!  Great isn’t enough of a description, it was absolutely brilliant!

After a fabulous 7 days of holidays, including a trip up to the Gold Coast to interview amazing raw food producers for Living Raw, I commenced training as a Life Coach! This involved partaking in a 3-day intensive training program which has been life changing.  Through realising and releasing limiting beliefs about myself, I have been able to look at my life in a new, brighter light and with a confidence I have not had for years!

As such, I have committed myself 100% to building food & lifestyle coaching alongside my raw food mentoring business, starting now.  I am looking for people who would like to receive coaching for 6 sessions, facilitating any life issue that you wish to discuss whether related to raw/food or other situations. These sessions would be complimentary, with the knowledge that I am refining my craft, and that you would give me feedback and a testimonial at the end of our sessions.  Please contact me if you are interested!

Living Raw Magazine!

Living Raw Magazine launched with such success that I am still blown away by the impact.  Issue 2 is going to be BRILLIANT, with content not only Australia-wide but from around the world!  The raw food community is just amazing in the support it gives to one another and I am so pleased that I can use my passion for sharing information and spreading the message of raw foods to deliver the enjoyment of reading and knowledge-building to people around the world.

Copies of Issue 1 are still for sale, for only $6.95 and I suggest you get in quick because this is going to be a collectors’ item!  Although much information is about Perth, Issue 2 will be much more diverse - and if you have something to say, please let me know as submissions are very welcomed!

If you’ve already picked up a copy, THANK YOU SO MUCH!

Please don’t forget to enter the competition on WIN a copy of Raw Family by the Boutenko Family.  Only a few entries have been received so you have a very high chance of winning!  This is an amazing opportunity and we’ll send the book anywhere in the world (but you must be Australian to enter).

Best of all, there are 2 copies to give away - and they are BOTH SIGNED by VICTORIA herself!

All it takes is to buy the magazine, fill in a couple of questions, and either post or email your entry to me.  If you already have the book, it’ll make a GREAT gift for someone you care for!

Two weeks ago, Perth was graced by the incredibly knowledgable Victoria and Valya Boutenko who spent an afternoon sharing their knowledge of raw foods, green smoothies, health and nutrition with the lucky people of Perth and Dunsborough before travelling around Australia talking to people in Adelaide, Melbourne and Brisbane.  We’ll be sharing a full review with you in the next issue of Living Raw!

And…. the word on the grapevine is that several promenent raw food authors will be making their way to Australia later this year!  More will be revealed as the time gets closer, so for now you’ll just have to use your imagination :)

Workshops!

The Raw Food for Beginners workshops are filling up fast, so if you have considered attending please act now! These are 6-hour hands-on workshops held at the beautiful Heathcote training center in Applecross.  If you want to come to the Gourmet Raw Food Introduction workshop THIS Saturday 7th March, please call Ros Bishop ASAP on 9229 8451 to enrol!

Living Authentically

As serendipity would have it, the only other person at my coaching college intake from Perth is someone I know - and she’s an aspiring raw foodist!  A big hello to you, you know who you are :)  I just loved sharing the experience with you!

We had the opportunity to chat about our values, goals and aspirations and through general conversation (something I am really good at!) I uncovered something in myself that was so clear but I never realised.

It dawned on me that everything my life has been about relates to my #1 core value of Compassion.  When I say I care, I really mean it.  It is the underlying reason why I became vegetarian at age 10, but it extends to all aspects of my work and life.  At work recently a customer told me of a challenging event that had just happened in her life. It has been on my mind since, and I do my best to project love to her when I have quiet moments, something that perhaps in a metaphysical way will reach her.  Some of the unhappiness in my life of late can be directly traced to me not living in alignment with this value, as in my daytime job it is easy to become disgruntled with computer systems failing and so on, that you begin to distance yourself and become uncaring to a degree (about the computer systems, I do genuinely love who I work with - they’re fantastic people).  To live authentically, I have realised that I must live to this value by changing my perception of work and the moment that dawned on me I felt the cloud of uncertainty lifting off my shoulders.

The second most revealing thing, brought to my attention by the lovely Perthite at my course, was that Health & Vitality is my #2 core value.  I firmly believe in this, and want this for myself, but so much gets in the way - emotional eating and finding ways to cover up my feelings, thoughts that I’m not good enough, and false perceptions that the world thinks someone overweight simply cannot value Health!  But this is so wrong! And I’m having so much fun challenging these beliefs in myself!  Whoo! :)
I’m really curious to know what YOUR core values are?  Do you live your life according to your values, and if so how does it affect your view of the world?
I must say that in these 2 weeks that I have been quiet, so much has shifted for me that it is beyond description.  I said back in January that 2009 was going to be a year of transformation, but I never realised that it would happen so soon and never realised how open I genuinely am to the transformation.  So often with new years’ resolutions we say something but it doesn’t happen, I am now convinced that true conviction aids the process tremendously!

Much love to you all!

~Kate