Welcome to the Thrive Cafe! Pull up a chair and let’s talk about what you’d like your future to hold with respect to optimal health, body, mind, and spirit…

Create a body your soul wants to live in™ is a base program of 12 sessions, every other week, where you learn to leave the concept of dieting behind forever. From this point forward you will be in tune with the needs of your body, will know how to meet them with whole foods and soul foods, and can fully engage in a life full of energy and purpose!

The initial 3 sessions will be devoted to assessing food intolerances with an elimination diet. This is key to creating an eating plan that will work for the rest of your life. I will create the choices of foods with you based on your bio-individual needs in the first session. The intermediate session will include instruction on the use of teas and juices that will contribute to cleansing your body of toxins and toning your organs. The last of the 3 will cover the process of the re-introduction of the potentially offending foods to assess intolerances.

Inflammation is the slow, and sometimes not so slow, road to disease, and our exposure to substances that we do not tolerate contributes dramatically to our production of inflammatory cytokines and other markers of inflammation. This creates tremendous damage to the villi in our gut, thus making the elimination diet the single most effective tool to use initially in the Eat to Thrive program. The waterfall of damaging effects from the consumption of these foods creates almost all disease; bowel wall damage leading to leaking incompletely digested proteins, autoimmune conditions, then cascading into everything from nutritional deficiencies to gut-brain dysfunction, to the lowering of the immune system, the list goes on endlessly.

If you would like to experience this program in person at Valle Escondido in Boquete, Panama as a 6 month intensive, please contact me privately for details on a Cloud Forest Immersion Adventure and it will include:

An initial food shopping trip throughout the Boquete area, as well as instructions for ordering organic produce from the local supplier, Finca Santa Marta.

If you would like to complete the virtual program, shopping guidelines and resources will be provided so that you will learn to read labels and learn what to avoid and what is acceptable to include.

The remainder of the 9 (1 hour) sessions will cover the following:

• Greening your foods, incorporating greens into the diet, tastefully, and why it is critical to your health!
• Detoxifying your home and personal products for lasting health
• Gut health and balancing your gut biota
• Detoxification – organs and lymphatic system
• Stress, it’s impact on health, hormones and weight gain, and how to resolve it
• Balancing your chakra energy centers for mind, body and spirit optimal health
• Ayurveda, doshas, seasonal eating and staying balanced
• Demystifying food myths including the low-fat diet, salt controversy, cooked vs raw, etc. and which works best for you bio-individually
• The last class I purposely keep open based on how the program evolves and your particular needs, but could include Sugar and Substitutes, The Insulin, Leptin, Ghrelin Connection, Macrobiotics Basics, or a customized class at your request!

The program will include a binder that we will fill with hard copies of all topics covered within the program as it proceeds.

The cost of the program as outlined, not including food and lodging, is $1,200.

There are additional sessions and classes that are available if you choose to experience the Cloud Forest Immersion Adventure, at additional cost, including:

• twice weekly boot camp power walks
• vision boarding to set intentions for an optimal life; mind, body, spirit, and manifesting those intentions
• hands-on cooking
• raw food prep and juicing
• Raindrop neuro-auricular Essential Oil Therapy
• Transdermal magnesium massage therapy
• Incorporating superfoods into your eating plan for optimal wellness

All of the additional classes can be included, as well as more intensive nutrition education and hands-on cooking, for the duration of your stay, at a rate of $75 per supplemental session (excluding power walks).

A membership to the Quebrada Grande Country Club in Valle Escondido can be included as a part of your Cloud Forest Immersion Adventure and will entitle you to use of the gorgeous facilities, access to members rates for Spa treatments, and an incredible fitness program. Again, contact me for details.

Looking forward to being a part of YOUR transformative journey!