Deborah's Ten Secrets To Living An Inspired Life!

“You are what you eat, think and feel, and I believe that in order to live a truly inspired life it’s about bringing all of those three elements into balance”

Do you know how exhilarating it is to feel truly alive?  Truly healthy?  To sleep like a baby and awaken early each day and bounce out of bed with a clarity of mind and an energy to take on the world and manifest your dreams?  To look in the mirror each day and feel absolutely fabulous and know that everything in your wardrobe will slide over your gorgeous hips?  Imagine not wasting another day without feeling totally alive… it is so easy to do!  It is simply all a state of mind.

We are on the outside a direct reflection of what’s going on inside.  We can look at this holistically, not just relating to food, but our appearance, our homes, our office spaces, our entire environment.  When we are emotionally upset chaos and disorder infects our daily lives.  We may not dress the same, may not have energy to style our hair, iron our clothes or put on our lippy, our eyes aren’t as bright and our shoulders slump.  When we are happy we stand taller and glow… your glow comes from the inside out and the energy from your deepest core permeates the world!  People are attracted to you, want to do business with you and want to hang out in your energy!  This is how you serve the world with your brilliance!

When we feed our body processed and low vibration foods, this literally shows in our face, body, waste line and energy.  Conversely when we eat living high vibe foods we feel alive, more energised and we think more clearly.  This is when we are able to reach peak performance!

You can never reach your peak performance and know your true brilliance while you are unfit and unhealthy.  It will never happen!  Because I want each and every woman to know just how it feels to be on top of the world, I want to share the best recipe I have ever written…

Just throw all the ingredients into a bath of contemplation and apply liberally to your life!

Deborah’s Ten Secrets To Living An Inspired Life!
1)    Laugh out loud everyday with people you love and cherish.  Friendships are the essence of a good life.  Tell your friends and loved ones you love them, often.

2)    Get plenty of sleep.  Early to bed, early to rise makes a  successful women wise!

3)    Eat loads of raw living high vibe foods.  Ensure your diet is at least 50% raw foods.  Balance your blood sugars by combining; protein, raw food carbohydrates and beneficial fats at every meal.  One without the other is not the same.  Only eat fruit on an empty stomach and avoid caffeine and refined sugar.  Eliminate all additives and processed foods and drink fine wine (organic) moderately.  And if you don’t already – develop a love of great food!

4)    Protect your body ecology. Your friendly gut bacteria are your allies to longevity and peak performance! Be proactive with your health.  Find the best Naturopath you can, have an annual overhaul, ensure your hormones are balanced and your adrenals are firing with optimal charge!

5)     Be fully present in every moment.  Stress and feelings of overwhelm do not reside in the present moment, for there everything is perfect and as it should be.  Remember in times of turmoil, the greatest students get the hardest lessons!

6)    Create your day.  Each morning as you wake up before your big ole thinking brain kicks into action, focus on what you want your day to be and what things you would like to manifest that day.  Ask for specific signs that you have created your hearts desires.  Believe wholeheartedly you are the master of your reality and you will forever dance in the wondrous glory of creation!  You are the magician in your own life – believe it!  Love your life and all you do!

7)     Create a neural net that loves exercise…  to get started put your exercise gear at the end of the bed, wake up, create your day, and get out the door to exercise without thinking about it.  Get into nature and ground yourself to the earth.  Do this every day for three weeks and before you know it, your brain will be getting you out of bed automatically, no will power required!  Don’t listen to that negative old part of the ego that tries to talk you out of it!  Just allow the essence of who you truly to flow.  Your spirit longs to be fit and healthy, it longs for a body to allow its power to shine through!

8)    Avoid skincare and cosmetics that contain nasty preservatives (parabens) and toxic ingredients.  Use the best quality eye cream you can afford! It is not vanity to stay youthful and keep the body young, it is wise.  Have a regular massage and pamper session.

9)    Relax everyday!  Preferably naked in the sunshine for ten minutes every day and don’t forget to have fabulous sex and intimacy with the one you love!!!

10)    And practice forgiveness!  To yourself and those who do not know the extent of their own limitations.

Today is a day you will never get again, make it count!
Deborah Murtagh

http://www.healthykitchen.co.nz
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Debs Nutritious Ginger Crunch!

Sometimes you've just gotta have a little good with the bad and sometimes icing on something nourishing and full of beneficial fats like nuts and coconut is just what the Doctor ordered!  Of course there is also my yummy coconut fudge icing that I'll post another time which is guilt free, but this is a traditional slice with a modern twist, or rather a modern slice with a traditional twist!

The kids are getting back into routine after their summer holidays and are a bit tired... so some good ole nourishing home baking is just what's needed!

Yesterday I baked delicious blueberry friands, gluten and grain free of course, using almond flour and coconut flour.  And then I made this scrummy Ginger Crunch!  It's my oldest daughters 15th birthday today and Ginger Crunch is her favorite, so just for her I created this years ago but it hasn't graced our kitchen in a while!  With the horrid teenage mood she's been in lately, I hadn't been feeling the love... what better way to make amends after a mother-daughter altercation, than with her favorite food!

The recipe is SOOOO easy to make, and takes no time at all.  If you are on a GAPs diet or Candida diet, or watching your blood sugars or weight, ensure you use Erythritol instead of sugar.  While not a whole food, it has some benefits by enabling us to have sweet tasting food without the calories, blood sugar issues or stimulating candida growth.  And of course if you are on a sugar free diet, omit the icing on the top!

Debs Nutritious Ginger Crunch

1) Preheat oven to 170 C, or 338 F

2) Grind together in a food processor until breadcrumb size:

3/4 Cup Sunflour Seeds, raw
1/2 cup cashew nuts, raw

1/2 cup pumpkin seeds, raw 

3) In a mixing bowl add the following to the above:

1/2 cup sesame seeds, hulled

1/2 cup coconut flour (chickpea or spelt may be substituted)

3/4 cup ground almond

3/4 cup erythitol or sugar (coconut sugar or rapadura or sucanat is best)

1/2 cup fine organic desiccated coconut, sulphite free

2 rounded teaspoons ground ginger powder
1 tsp each of guar gum and xanthum gum (or 2 tsp of either)
Big pinch Himalayan Salt

4) Then add:
2 large eggs

200 grams melted butter or coconut oil

Mix together well and press into a lined baking tray 20cm x 20cm until its about 1 1/2 cm thick.
Ensure you press firmly.

5) Fanbake for 10 -12 mins until the edges are golden and your kitchen smells divine!

Remove from oven and leave to cool.

6) Ice with Ginger Icing:

1 1/2 cups icing (powdered) sugar
1-2 tbsp ground ginger, to taste
1 tbsp butter
1/3 cup hot water
Place the butter and hot water into a bowl and mix to melt butter.
Sieve the icing sugar and ground ginger into the bowl and combine into a smooth icing.  If too thick add more water, if too thin add more sugar.
Smooth onto of crunch and refrigerate to set.

Remove from tray by lifting the baking paper, cut into small 4cm x 4cm squares, stack in layers of baking paper and store in the refrigerator.

Yum! Delicious with Ginger Tea!

Warmest wishes

Deborah Murtagh

PS  Don't forget to pop over to my website www.healthykitchen.co.nz for more recipes!

What A Whole Foods Coach REALLY Eats!

Join my journey beyond the year from hell!  2011 was a tragic year, we evacuated our city after the Christchurch Feb 22nd earthquake, I left my successful Cook School  & Weight Loss business and my beloved students behind and took the next plane out of Christchurch to Cambridge.  

Thinking our troubles were behind us, we rented a toxic moldy leaky home where our health deteriorated and our diets were not what they should have been due to mold smells and ant infestations in our kitchen!  Now we face a court battle with the owner who a few weeks back, skipped the country!

Always the optimist, I am picking up the pieces, and have recently relocated to a  lifestyle block and business is booming!
 

In my blog I'll share what I am determined to be the BEST YEAR EVER!  2012 is all about getting rid of the old and awakening the new!

Join me as I divulge all the delicious details of how I cope in the kitchen as a busy mother of three, running a business, finishing my first book, creating my online cook school, hosting Sally Fallon-Morell, founder of Weston A Price Foundation from the states, AND while managing a home and cooking from scratch (Did I mention I home school our middle daughter as well?)  

If I can do it, so can you!  Eat your way through the ups and downs of life and inspiration with me here!  

Love,

Deborah

PS  Today I made homemade feta cheese from farm fresh raw jersey milk. And I have fresh yogurt in the Excalibur incubating.  We ate a nourishing chicken salad with broccoli micro-greens, cultured vegetables and avocado, I snacked on raw crackers, drank loads of raw milk because we hadn't had any in months! Then I craved chocolate and had a bit of a pig out... that time of month!  Now I am off to feed my 121 year old sour dough bug and my newly fermenting gluten free black ferment!

Okay, So I Am New To Blogging!

Okay, so I am totally new to blogging but in the interest of staying connected with students and friends who love to know what I am up to in the kitchen, I have decided to share what I am eating both good and not so good and I'll expose what I eat (and drink) when I trip up!  All the delicious details shall be divulged!


Of course I'll also share how I stay on track with eating well even when I feel like shight!  The benefit to you the reader is to see how easy it is to eat an incredible diet that supports your vitality so you can jump out of bed in the morning and take on the world totally inspired by life!  And to see that no one is perfect and it's how we manage each new day that counts.


Some days I feel like crap, life gets way too overwhelming and there doesn't seem to be enough hours... so you'll see what I eat and how I manage both through good times and bad. I truly know that the way you eat affects every part of your life and consciousness... you eat your vibrational match!  If you are low vibing, you'll desire a low vibe dead diet of processed gunk, if you are high vibing you'll crave high vibe nourishing foods!  It's that simple!


So lets get started...  First thing... You Are What You Eat, Think & Feel.  More on that later.


Catch you soon!
Love
Deborah
PS  This morning I made Julia Childs French Omeletes for everyone (sounds posh, but not really - totally the easiest breakie in the world!) Then after I got rid of the family for the day (yay!) I stood in front of the camera trying to remember a load of lines for my video clip promo for my online cook school... have you ever tried to do that?  50 takes later, I may have recorded a few good lines!  At least I can edit out the profanity!