cleanse your two week mind body spirit guide to greater health and happiness and to do that i brought my friend and fellow health coach stephanie whole long with me today to help discuss cleansing and to be our official taste tester so welcome stephanie thanks for having me i'm excited so i know you're a health coach and we share a lot of the same views but i just i want to talk a little bit about the cleanse before we actually get into trying some recipes which i'm really excited about i know that's one thing that we share we like energy like it was on rails but i do eat cleanest so it wasn't dressed drastic yeah exactly but i am very excited to try your clients i did get a juicer so  pretty exciting so the food matters cleanse was at whole foods based or was it what some what were some of the things was there a plan was it for so many days do you remember it was for a certain amount of days but it was i think it was ten days but i could only do that you said you know trying to do a cleanse and be perfect with it can be really hard yeah and one of the things with the bliss cleanse which is you know my new book is that perfectionism is banned so i don't want people to be perfect doing this cleanse but i know that's kind of a lot of what we think is cleansing has to be perfect we have to do it right but that's something a little bit different about this program so what when it comes to cleanse ing what are some of the things that you kind of think about because i want to explain a little bit what cleansing is but what what do you think people's preconceptions are when they hear the word cleanse i think they think of like fasting almost you know like not eating maybe drinking water and that's all but for cleansing you more you get more energy it's i mean  because it's not it doesn't have to be deprivation yeah basically yes and so that's kind of what i want to talk about a little bit about cleansing as far as that goes i think that it's more of a it's about what the old and in with  new so it's just kind of giving your body a break from each of the you know from all that every season our body kind of goes through some trauma as far as you know cookies during the holidays and then easter is coming and passover and so we tend to eat more then and so it just our body needs a break every now and then right so i think of cleansing as out with the old and with the new and kind of like you said there's a ton of different cleanses out there there's juice cleanse there's the master cleanse that's what does it water lemon kind her maple syrup yeah i tried that for a day different cleansers out there there's juice ones there's you know detox ing which can be really good but i think it's and i know you agree with me on this it's really about finding what's going to work for you and that's one thing with the bliss cleanse is that perfectionism is banned so you don't have to worry about  being perfect with it actually we tell you not to be perfect with it and it's a whole foods base and it's seasonal eating and so seasonal eating is so important because our body wants to naturally eat with the season so in the fall time what do you crave show pumpkins pumpkin and everything i want pumpkin everything in the fall or like root vegetables and then in the summer what do you crave fruits winter i don't know about you but it's hard for me to do so in the middle of winter exactly my body just doesn't doesn't want that it wants more heavier things more warm filling things so it that takes that into consideration because i think seasonal cleansing is very important so perfectionism is banned seasonal cleansing and then really taking a mind body spirit approach any of the cleanse that you've done in the past did they have any mental or emotional component they did not know now ok so that's something that really sets this program apart from other programs is because i think that our issues are in our tissues so when we are stressed when we're worried when we're anxious these issues really say in our tissues and build up toxicity emotional toxicity and so one of the things that i really tried to do with this program was make it more mind body spirit so that you can really  release those mental blocks as well so one of them for example we created a meditation cd have you ever done meditations before i have yes ok so we created this meditation cd that goes over different parts of ways to let go in your life and start living more blissfully so for example we have a love your body one love your food mindful eating but then we also have things like nourishing gratitude and let go and finding your purpose so really a compass is a lot of different components so i know you were at my my book release thank you for coming to that i enjoyed it so what is one maybe take away that you got from just starting to do this program because i know that you're going to start to do this program here shortly and what's maybe one thing that you really took away from it just how you were saying you don't have to be perfect like perfection is not i mean you can mess up one day and like that's fine and everyone does i mean it's hard it's hard to stay focused on what you're eating and everyone has different lives like everyone's running errands now so now you don't have to be perfect which is which is key yes yeah because the goal too is to make it in as a health coach i know that you try to help people with this too is that this is more than just a cleanse it's really a way of life this cleanse can help you get back to eating healthy all the time and course even if you incorporated one or two things from each season because this isn't you can do this cleanse four times a year for each season if you incorporate a one thing into your lifestyle that's four habits that used bill a year and over time that's just going to keep building and building and building so it's so another the last thing that i kind of want to talk about before we get into the good stuff which is trying some of the writing is which i know we're both excited about is the just how the books broken down i just want to kind guide you because i know that you're going to do this so i just want to showcase a couple things that we can go over so the book is broken down into different sections for each of the seasons as you can see point into the camera here so we have spring summer fall and winter so you can do the cleanse four times a year and then it's broken down by little tabs on the side so that you can go into each each season really easy there's meal guide so this is a guideline you don't have to be perfect that's not that's not the goal but just a simple guide and then it's broken down it has recipes for breakfast lunch dinner and then at the end of each you have your daily inspiration so this is really the gem of the program where you get to go through each day and cleanse mentally and emotionally which i think is a really really if i do say i know it's my book but if i do say so myself is a great component  that is missing from a lot of other cleanses so agree yeah yeah i know because cleansing can be very emotional especially if your body is not used to not used to eating a certain way like you said you eat pretty clean so you didn't you had more energy but it wasn't it wasn't a huge deal but some people that are very toxic you know they're going to get very emotional they're not having their sweet things like that so it can be very emotional so we wanted to showcase that that is yeah i love how it's broken down i really do yeah it's very very easy yeah so are you on board you're going to start cleansing absolutely i'm so excited that good good will maybe we'll have you back of the show to share your experience with it oh yeah i would love that that would be super yeah of the wonderful so all right well we are going to take a quick commercial break and when we come back we're going to whip up some great cleansing treats for you hi and welcome back to healthy inspirations i'm with stephanie hill here she's also a fellow health coach and we're excited to share some of the cleansing recipes from my new book bliss cleanse your two week mind body spirit guide to greater health and happiness that is a mouthful but so ok now i know that you love smoothies and juicing and so do i and those are some of the recipes that we used in the bliss cleanse so today i have fo you a green smoothie chocolate covered strawberries smoothie and fruit and nuts fruit and nut soaked oats so it's a little different i'll show you how to do that and then lastly we're not going to make it but i have some samples here for you i made healthy dark chocolate chocolate i love chocolate i need to so the first recipe that i want to make is the green smoothie so i have here about a half a cup of greens this is a mixture of green so i have there's suspended scale collard greens different mix you can use whatever you want we're just going to put some of those in the blender here and then we're going to add a banana to sweeten it so the banana will actually take out any of the the bitterness from that very scary putting greens into a smoothie i know it's a little scary at first but i assure you it's not that bad and then i'm going to use some unsweetened monella allman milk so are you familiar with allman mo it's a great dairy free alternative use about a half a cup of this i'm just going to eyeball it here on the camera and then that's it and then you can add ice depending on if you like it a little bit cold or ticker we're just going to go ahead and put it on the blender our intense blender here all right so we got a blended up pretty good here not first this green color looks a little scary i won't lie i always tell people just pretend it's a shamrock shake from mcdonald's because they're green too so here we're going to have your child little bit of that you're going to be my official taste tester i'll try a little bit to let me know what you think in this one but the next one that i'm going to make is a chocolate covered cherry shake ok so i have a glass for you here now this one is simply a banana about six frozen strawberries a tablespoon of rock a cow powder which is a really great super food has a lot of antioxidants in it and then we're going to use allman milk the recipe in the book calls for coconut milk but to make it easier you can switch out the milk's that's not a big deal i always use dairy alternatives because a lot of people are actually very sensitive to dairy so one of the things on the cleanse is that we cleanse is actually pretty much all vegetarian based pretty much egg free gluten free and dairy free of that so because a lot of people are sensitive to those things so if you detox from them you can figure out what your are your body is actually sensitive to that makes sense so i write this one we're going to start off we're going to use another banana bananas are great because they give it a sweet and creamy flavor and again i apologize that it's green here but you can deal right and yeah to get a little extra greens in there and then we're going to use about six they usually last about two or three months or so and one of my favorite places to shop is the strip district because you can get what i actually got an entire flat of strawberries for like four dollars and they were gammick now they were about to go you had a you had to wash them and pick out the bad ones but for four bucks for eight cases totally worth it right now we're going to put a little bit of allman milk in there and i put about an you know a half a cup of  there as well and we're going to blend it and you're going to get a little green here but that's ok because the the chocolate and the strawberries and the flavor designed the buy to make is the most powerful blunder the blades are actually similar to those they're industrial they're like the same i don't know this is just what i read but the same as airplanes try that out let me know what you think  and you have a lot of nutrients from the fruits and the one of the things that i would say to you is when you're choosing fruits and vegetables try to choose local organic as much as possible especially strawberries or things with dinner peels that's going to be the key investing in that produce i always say you know do you want one of the one of the key items that we have in the bush clinton says do you want you know just look at how you feel about food and money do you want your relationship with food to be maximum capacity and bad quality or do you want to invest in really healthy nourishing food that will take less to fill you up think about it it's interesting so that's approved you would serve that to your friends and family absolutely awesome and these are great i think kids really like the green they want to try it just call it the  showcase is for it and not just soaked oats so you can basically take any container you could take it mason jar a plastic container or whatever and put about a cup of rolled oats and it so we sure that the water comes up about a half and above the oats so just like that and you can use water or you can use some allman milk and then what you do is you place the lid on it you put it in the fridge overnight and the next day you have your own mill ready for you if it's just soaking the oats overnight rather than rather than worrying about cooking it or things like that and it's great for on the go it's great for camping  you know that you have a busy day the next day there's no this took what three seconds to do there's no reason why you can't eat healthy on the go so you just put the lid on it soak it overnight and the next morning you wake up and you can heat it if you want you can add a little  if you like your oatmeal a little thinner you can add a little bit more water or milk in the morning but there you go it's so simple so simple so simple so easy so all these recipes really are meant to be super simple super easy because let's face it i am a busy person and i know most of us are busy i don't have a lot of time to cook you know especially when i'm traveling and things like that so we really wanted to make these recipes so simple so easy that anyone can really do them so the last thing that i want to showcase  is the chocolate so i know this is like everyone's favorite right so the chocolate that we're making is super simple just going to switch some of these around so we can see it's getting a little will crowded up in here  now and it's expires the september so you can have this for a long amount of time and you can get it online i suggest a lot of the places you can get it around here but i suggest getting this one online just because it's usually a lot cheaper so i got two of these packs for like eighteen dollars so that's not bad so you'll have that for a while and we have coconut oil a god nectar and i'm sweet and coconut and so that's the last one and this recipe can actually download on bliss cleanse our com for free but i'm just going to have stephanie try this it and the box it's in it's in the book too and you can download it online and i'm going to have you try a piece of the dark chocolate that i made so you can just hold it up so people can see and i put i sprinkled some sea salt on it because i like sweet and salty so try that out so i know that i love chocolate good so you can make your own at home and it's pretty much half the cost half the sugar and it's better what what you would buy at the store oh my god