Meet Marie: A Green Smoothie Detox to Turn Her Life Around

Hey gorgeous health heroines!

We have a little something special to support and inspire you along your path to perfect health. As many of you know, our Green Smoothie Detox kicked off TODAY! We’re starting with a week or preparation and then next week we rev our blenders and get into green mode.

One of our most recent participants on the 22-Day Green Smoothie Detox is a writer and decided that she would love to share her experience on the blog as a way of inspiring other people to change. She’s coming from a bit of a rut in the road after she lost her husband to cancer a year ago. She certainly helps keep it all real. I invite you to follow along and enjoy the ride as another wild woman of courage picks up her straw and starts slurping her way to vibrant health and high-energy living.

Not everyone has the guts to put their “before” picture out there before the changes and improvements have happened. We’re so confident about what the program will do for her, that we’re perfectly comfortable having her flaunt her fabulous improvements. Anyway, here’s Marie:

I choked writing a bio.   Because I don’t know who I am anymore.   I come to the Raw Divas – raw and scraped to the bone with emotional and physical pain.   A year of bad eating or barely eating.   A year of crying.   And I’m ready to crawl out of the hole and live again and be remarkably healthy.   I’m going to surf ride a green wave of wonderful to health.

A year ago, I had a great life.   I live in Mystic CT, a beautiful seaside community, near casinos with great live shows and fantastic art museums scattered around the area, and a train hop to New York or Boston.   A year ago, I had a husband who loved me, who had a great job and I was working on my writing.   We were happy, healthy, and financially solid.   Then cancer hit like a bullet train in May. Long drives to the hospital had me chugging coffee and eating apples and peanut butter at best, and drive through or nothing at the worst.  Of throwing up in fear and pain, and panic that my husband was so ill.  Last August my husband died, and I hit rock bottom emotionally and financially.   Suddenly, I had to start rebuilding my life and I had no idea what to do.

I sit here today.  I’m a new widow, jobless, and stressed.

Worst (best) I have an agent for my books I met her the day I put my husband in Intensive Care, but I have to finish writing the books, and I cry, am depressed, and spend about 10 hours a day during the day in a flannel jammy watching Star Trek. Jean Luc Picard doesn’t boldly go anywhere he hasn’t gone at least 12 times before.   When I lost my husband, I lost the last of my family, we had moved for his job, so I’m isolated.   The economy here is so dismal I can’t find work.  And my best friends moved to whole different continents!!!   And I had to fight to get my husband’s ashes after 10 months.  It’s been grueling.

Do the words “life sucks” mean anything???   I’m tired and miserable and need to change.

I have eye circles  so dark that the racoon is asking if he can get makeup tips and I need something.   I was mumbling something to the cat or God, or something and this invite to Raw Divas popped in my inbox and I jumped.   Leapt.

I have my own garden, plenty of parsley and greens!!  I grow blueberries and raspberries and strawberries and a lot of other veggies.   I‘m ready for a new and fabulous life and I’m going to chronicle the journey to health, wealth, well being and a new life. Check it out!  I’ll be blogging every day about my experiences.