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

Happy New Year everyone, 2009 is going to be the best! I have so many plans for what I want to achieve in this new year that it warrants it’s own post, but first I would like to introduce you to my new website!

I have simplified things greatly, changed the color scheme to bright and positive colours that represent my renewed outlook on life, and brought a focus on my new projects.

Living Raw in Perth ‘zine is a self-published 20-page magazine that I will have finished mid-January.  It contains fantastic information regarding shopping in Perth, including in-depth reviews of stores that I have actually visited (and in some cases frequent!) as well as a location guide.  I’m also writing articles on related subjects such as plus-sized eco-clothing - which is so darn hard to find! Living Raw in Perth will be available in print from a range of outlets, and available for purchase online in print and/or electronic format.   If you are in regional WA, I’d love to know about any organic shops or farmers markets to put into the locality guide.  There will also be a section on travelling raw, and Melbourne will be my first subject — so if you know of places to get great raw food or produce in Melbourne, please let me know so I can visit when I’m there in February!

Workshops and Classes is something I am particularly excited about!  Thanks so much to everyone who came to my TAFE class last November, your feedback was invaluable and has given me the kickstart I needed to offer more to the raw food community!  In 2009 I will be offering classes through TAFE, private classes in your own home, and public classes in any venue that’s foodsafe and has a kitchen — so a call out to the country / south-west folks: if you want a raw food workshop or demo in your town, please get in contact!  If you’re near Bunbury or Mandurah please let me know as these are great places to start!  The coolest option is the Girls Night In, which is for girls only, to enjoy decadent raw desserts and chat about life, love, weight and other girly issues!

Resource Library contains books, magazines, and websites that are my favourites and are recommended.  There’s a lot of aussie content here, and I have also put up my extensive library of books (I’ll be updating it regularly as I add more books to the library, but right now there’s only 3 books listed…)

There’s still a few things to tweak and finish writing, but Raw & Vegan is an evolving expression of myself - I’m so glad you’re on this journey with me!  And to say thanks to all the fellow raw foodies online, I want one special person to begin the year with RAW ENERGY!   Yes, it’s the first……….

RAW & VEGAN BOOK GIVEAWAY

Up for grabs is a copy of Leslie Kenton’s

THE RAW ENERGY BIBLE

The Raw Energy Bible is a compilation of the bestselling titles Raw Energy Food Combining Diet, Raw Energy Recipes and Juice High.

This is a brand new book that isn’t 100% raw but contains brilliant raw food recipes and advice.  I bought this for myself but then realised I already had a copy of the New Raw Energy and decided to share rather than horde such similar books!

Sweet! How do I enter?

To enter, leave a text or video comment below in answer to the question:

What are your goals for 2009, and what is your plan to achieve them?

I will assign a number to each comment, and will put them into a random number generator to draw the winner. I will contact the winner by email so please make sure you leave and email address!

Closing: Sunday 11th January at 12 noon Australian WDST

Looking forward to reading your responses, which will no doubt be inspiring!

~Kate