February 2, Candlemas, Brigid's day, Imbolc, Lichtmess. The day of the return of spring. In a quiet, unremarkable and often snow bedeckt way, the spring arrives. The sap begins to flow, the crocuses, daffodils and tulips, all begin to poke their green noses out of the earth smelling the change in daylight. Snowbells bloom suddenly when the snow melts, they are revealed in their perfect miniature whiteness, those daughters of snow.
The days are noticeably longer, light begins to return. And although, as I heard last night in my class on the sexual organs, Vitamin D is not available to folks at our latitude between October and April because the UV rays can't reach us due to the curve of the earth, still, the light begins to reach the eyes. Which does a lot for one's mood and general health.
Speaking of which, I just did a three day green smoothie cleanse with nic and a friend and am now embarking on a full on elimination diet to figure out what could still be causing my plethora of digestive and skin issues. At least 28 days long, we'll see by the end what I have learned. I am generally following the very good advice and mapped out plan for the elimination diet by Ali and Tom at Whole Food Nutrition. They have a great blog full of recipes too, not only for the elimination diet but also good gluten free, refined sugar free yumminess. Between that and Weston A Price, I am doing yet another layer of research into nutrition and health.
The ultimate intention, apart from healing my own issues, is to be able to offer guidance and support for others who want to do such a diet, heal their bellies, eat real food, and my newest interest, heal cavities.
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