Raw Nomadic Lens: Recent Episodes
Sheri Meshal
Join me for a good catch-up episode where I discuss my new grape fasting guide I published yesterday, how I'm doing now (spoiler alert!) with raw vegan and my lab work results! My guide can be purchased at Beacons.ai/sheri.meshal for $7.77 and I simply hope it helps someone out there become their best self, even if it's just one tiny step in their journey.
Join me for my strangest episode yet, because it was not intended to be on a podcast. I was giving myself a serious heart-to-heart pep talk while getting ready to take Jebby to the vet for a growth on her eyelid. Call it a come to Jesus moment, an epiphany... an I don't know what. It was intense. When I reached the part about addiction, it shifted unexpectedly from a pep talk for myself to me defending my decision to do another grape fast so soon and the whole addiction vein within my family, like I was on trial. The decision to share this as a podcast episode consciously hit me several hours later. Maybe I just slipped in and out of podcast mode, because I was recording on the same app. I don't really know, and it doesn't really matter. When I listened to it, because I've needed the pep talk a lot today, three things were clear to me. The first was that I should share it for the sake of full transparency. The second was that it could help someone who thinks or feels that they're all alone in their food addiction. The third was that it was going to take an enormous amount of courage for me to actually share it in the podcast. It's hard for me to listen to it, let alone share it with people all over the world. By the way, I am astounded by the number of people who listen to this podcast and all of the places you live. I was thrilled to see I now have a listener in Ireland. I never thought I would.
From my TikTok post, stating today is Day 1 of my new grape fast: I broke my 40-day grape fast with my raw vegan tomato-basil soup, a cabbage salad with toasted sesame oil and sea salt and zucchini chips. My plan was to try eating 'raw 'til 4,' as many successfully do. It didn't take me long to discover that I'm not someone who does well with this eating plan. No one would say "I'm going to stay clean until 4pm and just do heroin at night." Addiction runs deep in our family. It's taken more than one life. It's taken me 20 years of trial and error, experimenting with raw vegan, repeatedly trying to have my cake and eat it too, to finally make peace with being raw vegan for the rest of my life, so that it's a much longer and happier life. Still filled with delicious food, but also much more energy and health. After just one week of eating cooked food, I'm exhausted, sore, puffy-faced, bloated, achy, stiff, overeating, foggy-headed, low-energy, rash is back across my shoulders, forgetful and three pounds heavier than I was when I started the 40-day grape fast. A 35 lb. weight gain in seven days seems utterly impossible and absurd, but the scale doesn't lie. That's so hard on the heart in more ways than one, but I choose to focus on the positives. My blood sugar remains low. My bloodwork's positive changes cannot be undone in one week, especially not my A1C, which is a three-month average. My hummingbird energy will return in a few days. I have the best raw vegan recipes in the world, thanks to Melissa and Nate Maris of Raw Food Romance. So I can plan my entire first month of raw vegan meals to eat after I finish this current grape fast. I've spent 26 years learning about raw food, and know without a doubt that finishing this grape fast strong by embracing raw food for the rest of my life is how I will ensure that diabetes is behind me forever. I recorded a powerful pep talk for myself this morning that I'm going to gather the courage to share in its entirety on my podcast Raw Vegan Lens. The only way to lose is to quit. I choose to learn from my mistakes and persevere. I choose to listen to my heart instead of the addiction and the worries, fears and criticisms of others. I've done this once. I can do it again, and for even longer. I'm so happy and grateful I read The Grape Cure by Johanna Brandt. She was brave to experiment, persevere, heal herself, and share her findings with the world. Everything is going to be okay. In fact, far better than okay. Just stay the course and be patient with yourself.
Join me for all the details of my fast, how I broke my fast AND my bloodwork results!!!
Join me for a catch-up, some reflection, growth and ideas! I'm going to begin exploring, documenting and sharing how a raw vegan diet can super-charge our manifestation abilities.
Join me for an update... a rollercoaster with high highs and low lows, but lots of healing.
Normally when an episode recording is interrupted the two files merge. My apologies for not noticing that they had not this time. This is an unorthodox solution, but also the simplest and quickest.
Join me for challenges, victories, defeats and the pre-launch of a great experiment! Also, learn a little about True North Health Center in Santa Rosa, California and hear my favorite True North patient testimonial!
Join me for probably my longest episode ever. Thank you for listening. It helped. I hope it helps you too. If you ever wish to reach out, email me at sheri.meshal@gmail.com
Join me for a an unusual episode of doctor's appointments, super-sleuthing and puzzling this out.
Join me for a little travel, Melissa Maris' Hand Salads uncook book, a little spill at work and my progress in general!
Join me for the portion of Green for Life that includes the surveys from the Roseburg Study!
Join me for more of Green for Life and a look at acidity & alkalinity, as well as an update on my Grape Cure journey
Join me for the shortest episode ever, lol... less than eight minutes, due to the rest of the household awakening.
Join me for several more chapters of another one of Victoria Boutenko's incredible books, Green for Life.
Join me for three more chapters of Victoria Boutenko's fantastically researched Green for Life!
Join me for another great read. In my humble opinion, Victoria Boutenko's Green for Life should be required reading for every human being. Do with this information what you please, but know that if implemented, it will change your life. I implore you to purchase a copy of this incredible book for the delicious recipes, fascinating research and I hope you share it far and wide. Some books are meant to pass through our hands again and again.
Join me for the reading of the remainder of Raw Family: A True Story of Awakening by The Boutenko Family.
Join me for the first chapter of my favorite raw book and I believe, the first raw book I read back in 2000, the year it was published! Get comfy! This is an EXCELLENT, highly entertaining and inspiring story!
Join me for the next three chapters of The Grape Cure written by nurse Johanna Brandt in 1925. For nine years she managed to prevent her stomach cancer from growing and spreading, but was unable to heal herself completely. Then she did The Grape Cure and healed herself completely (proven through exploratory surgery and evidence of the scar tissue) in just six weeks. She lived several more decades until age 87 in 1968.
Join me today for something completely different! I'm thrilled to say that I'm reading out loud chapters 1-5 of The Grape Cure. I'll read the book in its entirety over the course of the next few podcasts. South African author Johanna Brandt made it her life's work to spread word of her life-saving discovery. After learning how to keep her stomach cancer from growing by experimenting with water fasting, she was able to prove her findings through an exploratory surgery. The surgeon confirmed that her stomach cancer had disappeared, but Johanna assured the doctor that she was not completely healed. She still experienced pain in the same area. Undaunted, she was determined to find the solution, all while helping many others to heal from a variety of illnesses and cancers. She achieved victory several years later. After six weeks on what she deemed The Grape Cure, she completely healed herself from stomach cancer and continued to help many others heal all over the world. She and her colleagues later experimented with grape juice as well, and found that to be just as effective. She lived several more decades and died in 1964 at age 87.
Join me for an extra-long and overdue update on my raw journey, as we explore raw and ADHD, food addiction, self-healing, The Grape Cure and more.
Join me for a few more details of my Ayahuasca experience and an awesome tomato-basil soup recipe!
It's been almost two months since my niece Deven died, and the only raw thing about this episode is my grief. I wish I could be lifting you up right now instead, but this is the truth of where I am.
Discussing some heavy happenings this episode. Every challenge is an opportunity for growth.
Join me for a return to my original solo format with some healing 963Hz + 639 Hz + 396Hz music to boot.
Join me for one of my unprocessed, unedited, raw, reflections. I asked FX if I could do an old school, solo episode and he was all for it.
Meet my new co-host, FX Runzel! Join us for a whole new adventure as we explore everything related to the subconscious mind... which is practically everything.
Join me for a humbling recount of some of the toughest lessons I've learned lately, despite having been in one of the most beautiful places on earth!
Join me for a major heart-to-heart, as I face my many shortcomings, give myself a little credit where credit's due, share my current challenges and discuss podcaster, speaker and author, Peter Shankman's phenomenal book, Faster Than Normal: Turbocharge Your Focus, Productivity and Success with the Secrets of the ADHD Brain. How's that for the mother of run-on sentences?! Lastly, please FOLLOW and leave a review on Apple podcasts!
Join me for a quick update on my nomadic travels, raw vegan lifestyle, writing and animal communication practice!
Join me for a quick touch-base on my nomadic adventures and the realization that if I want to continue to live this lifestyle (and I DO), I need to stay raw and exercise daily. No more monkeying around. Covid brought this into sharp focus for me. Every challenge is an opportunity for growth!
Join me for another episode on my nomadic world journey to becoming a full-time raw vegan!
Join me for a nomadic update and hear how I'm navigating these new challenges aka opportunities for growth!
Juice Feast III - third time's a charm! Having a blast with animal communication & TikTok, processing visit with my mother and loving life on my way back to Cali for another pupper sit with my favs! Warning: car noise (first and only time I'll subject you to this!)
WOO! Join me for a new season to discuss victories, challenges, things I've learned, my relationship, my animal communication practice and my itinerary!
Join me for a short episode and catch up session on what it's been like getting ready to become truly nomadic!
Breaking up sounds so painful, awful and tragic. Could we call it breaking forward or how about simply moving forward? I don't want to break anything. It sounds so destructive, when we're actually building new lives for ourselves. We're building forward.
Join us for some laughter, tears (mostly laughter) and a smidge of profanity, as we reflect on some of our biggest challenges... aka opportunities for growth.
Join me for a travel, adventure and healing update. When you say you want to grow as much as possible, the universe delivers, lol.
Dog sitting in Santa Clarita, Weight Loss, Old Friends, RAW RESTAURANTS, Autobiography in Five Chapters, UCNDOIT, High Vibrations & Angel Cards
Join me on the road for an update on my yearlong raw sabbatical! It's going GREAT. The universe rewards leaps of faith. I see this more every day. Take more leaps!
Raw relationship challenges, travels - Ireland's Malin Head & Skelling Michael, then on to Copenhagen and finally hitting the road!
Join me for a fun first interview with my Canadian friend Kara. She's been my raw buddy for 13 years and going strong. Kara's a teacher and I just love the way she presents information. She's very logical, practical and hilarious. I'm so grateful she took the time to really pack a lot of great information into this interview and as always, was completely honest about her experiences.