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I grew up with a big daddy. I'm talking whopping big. Over 350 lbs. BIG… with a belly that sat in the lap of his lap…BIG!
I was raised eating a pathetic man made diet of fast foods, additives and preservatives. At age ten I was already receiving Demerol injections to combat the debilitating migraines I was suffering from. I was constantly sick with all kinds of immune issues. By the time I was eighteen, I was addicted to nasal spray and nicotine. Next I developed hypoglycemia, where at times I would loose my vision and hearing or even pass out. Sometimes I needed to eat as many as three times in the night just to make it through to morning. I have had Epstein Barr, mono, chronic fatigue, extreme candida and also suffered with severe anxiety attacks.
Then... (about thirteen years ago), I got poisoned by the off-gassing molecules of oil-based paint. I was taken to the hospital by ambulance, spent six hours on IV and sent home with fistfuls of pills. At times, people had to feed me and I couldn't even open my eyes. For months I could barely make it through each day, each hour, each minute...
I have been amazingly blessed to learn, heal, and come out the other side with vibrant energy and a passion to share what I have learned with others! I knew nothing about creating recipes or writing. I had no role models and simply had to learn how to eat raw foods in order to survive after being poisoned.
I have more than victoriously recovered from all those debilitating illnesses I mentioned earlier... By amazing grace, highly focused research, roller coaster trial and errors and hours of creative kitchen episodes, I found the way through the maze of intense body symptoms. Eating a balance of raw and whole cooked foods, laid the foundation for recovery on a cellular level.
The people who were there feeding me when I was so ill, saw me slowly eek my way through layers of toxic fallouts, back into the land of the living. When doctors had no solutions, I literally had to pray my way through each day and miraculously was lead through visions and impressions that came to me one step at a time. Slowly, through juicing and eating all raw I began to recover my strength and energy. In time, when people saw me with vitality again, they wanted to know what I was doing. As I prayed for total recovery, many things were revealed to me...
Recipes seemed to pour forth, filling my head! I kept being inspired to put together all kinds of recipes (some all raw and some cooked) and the most glorious energy and vitality seemed to be birthed from each new creation! People asked for the recipes and then wanted lessons... It has been about twelve years since I began writing the book and teaching "hands on" workshops.
My slogan is: "Don't make food your religion, make it your wisdom". What I have been shown, is that the choices we make in our food selections can absolutely have a direct impact on our bodies, minds and overall well being. But more importantly I was shown, in my long recovery process, that it is the renewing of our minds that truly sets us free. We can eat the purest, most wholesome, immune building foods yet if our minds are filled with negative, fearful, bitter thoughts, we can cause much internal damage. We are not any more spiritual or closer to God because of what we eat. However, making wise, informed food choices can clearly impact our energy, clarity of mind, and immune systems.
In the years I have been in and around the raw food movement, I notice that people tend to glamorize, spiritualize, biblicize, and fantasize raw food cuisine! I just want to normalize the preparation and ingestion of raw foods into the every day lives of busy, on-the-go people! Where does someone go to learn how to shop, prepare, and eat mostly raw cuisine? My passion is to teach people how to get off packaged and preservative laden foods and find the delight and vitality that comes from creating and eating mostly RAW with SOME cooked... hence RawSome Recipes! I also have a passion to show parents how to make wonderful, healthy foods that kids will enjoy and thrive on...foods that will build up their immune systems not tear them down.
After spending so many days of my life, really ill and unable to function, it is so glorious to have my spunk back! Life now, is on a wholesome new level and it is an absolute honor and delight to get to share with thousands of people through my book and workshops, how to shop for, transition into, prepare, and ingest vibrant foods! When I teach workshops it is like being a kid again. I always get so excited to meet each new class, as if it were my birthday party! When I make recipes live (in front of people like at my workshops and demos) using raw and alive foods, they become living art. It is such a fun, creative cuisine! It is so rewarding to see everyday people, just like me...learn and then create a vibrant living cuisine that changes their lives!
On this website you will also find all of my favorite equipment and whole food supplements that I have found to be of the absolute highest quality. I am also very pleased to be a distributor of Sunrider herbal foods. Please feel free to ask me abaut Sunrider and why I think their products are absolutely the best on the market for cleansing, nourishing and balancing the body.
It is my sincere hope that RawSome Recipes will greatly inspire, positively impact, and delight you in your quest for vibrant living! Eat well and be well! Cheers, Robyn Boyd |
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