My Compassionate Detox

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I’ve been doing my very first detox.  It’s not a juice fast or an all grapefruit anything.  It’s a 21-day cleanse and wow has it been a learning experience.

I did it because I had been feeling sluggish for months and my nutritionist friend, Stephanie, was running it.  I knew Stephanie was knowledgeable, nurturing and could be present with me.

The hardest part was giving up control over what I could eat. Control is a hard topic for me.  My first email to Stephanie set the stage:  “I’m your high maintenance client here to ask questions.  I’m afraid.  Will I be hungry? What will I be eating? Can I eat cheese? I don’t eat meat, how will I get full? Will I need to cook a lot?”

Can you believe she still invited me to join the detox?  But she understood that for me to relinquish control to her, I needed her to know how scared I was and to see her reaction.  She was great.  “No worries! I ADORE high maintenance clients!”

Whether she was rolling her eyes at each question or not, I never felt it.  I felt taken care of and so did everyone else on the detox Facebook page.  It was clear.  Stephanie actually seemed to care about how we experienced the process and educated us along the way. Stephanie managed us and the process with compassion and it trickled out.  We were commenting on each other’s posts with recipe exchanges and like’s and lol’s.  It was a community and Stephanie built it through her leadership style.

I gave up brie, baguette and Malbec for 21 days, but look at these results:

  • I am sleeping better.  Priceless.
  • I am more energetic. That dragging feeling I used to feel all the time?  Gone.
  • I accomplished a detox!  Go me.

I’ve wanted to try a detox for years but I was scared of the unknown. Jumping off that cliff with a compassionate leader brought me great gifts.

Do you have a compassionate leader at your work to help you jump off cliffs?  Are you the compassionate leader helping others fly?  We all need compassion when we’re trying to grow and learn and evolve.

 

p.s. The compassionate and knowledgeable Stephanie Pederson can be reached at www.highimpacthealth.com/