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🗓️ 18 September 2019
⏱️ 60 minutes
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What does it mean to cleanse? For many, the word throws up images of green juices and fasting. But that’s not quite accurate. You might be surprised to learn that you can cleanse in a gentler way. But you also need to go beyond diet if you want to really reset your body.
Elissa Goodman looks 20 years younger than her age (59), you might think she’s been blessed with great genes. But she was not the healthiest child. She had a low immune system and was always sick. She got every type of virus, digestive issues, tonsillitis, chickenpox, chronic fatigue - you name it, she had it. To make matters worse, she felt unworthy compared to her high-achieving Type A personality parents.
Fast-forward to adulthood, Elissa went to college, got into advertising, and climbed that corporate ladder because she was determined to make her parents proud. But she wasn’t following her passion or purpose. She just worked. And got sicker. And one day she was diagnosed with Hodgkin’s lymphoma.
She knew that this was because she’d been sick most of her life and that her lymphatic system was full of toxins that she’d been unable to clear. But she hadn’t thought of the emotional aspect. The doctors she saw first just talked of chemo and freezing her eggs. But one of them was different. He sat her down and asked: Are you happy? Are you doing what you love? It was a turning point.
Elissa realized how miserable she’d been in her job and how much she disliked herself. She knew something had to change. She went 100% vegan, she started doing yoga, she went into talk therapy, and do emotional release work. She got rid of her cancer, but the radiation caused hypothyroidism. Then she was diagnosed with Hashimoto’s and celiac (two autoimmune conditions). And then her husband died of cancer. It was like a cascade of traumatic life events. That’s when she decided to go back to school and learn about nutrition so she could help her daughters stay healthy.
And that was it - she never looked back. She became a cleanse expert to help as many people as possible get healthy the easy way. Like her 1-week soup cleanse, which contains 45 different vegetables, is totally vegan and free from anything processed or GMO. She helps her clients to reset their body and brain so they can rejuvenate, re-energize, heal, and maintain a new, healthy lifestyle long-term.
Here are some of Elissa’s tips to reset your body:
Cleansing is so important because it also allows you to step away from addictive foods so that you can crave healthy, whole, plant foods. However, cleansing is emotional as well as nutritional.
Have you dealt with your trauma? Because no matter how clean your diet, you can still get sick if you have emotional issues you haven’t dealt with. Here are Elissa’s tips to start letting go of those trauma toxins:
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0:00.0 | Food Heels Podcast, episode 275. |
0:05.4 | I live that cleansing lifestyle, and I feel like that has really been the catalyst of staying healthy and putting myself into remission for Hashimoto's and hypothyasem and cancer-free and all of that, as well as, like, anti-aging. |
0:21.7 | Holistic Voice presents the Food Heels podcast with your hosts, Alison Melody and Susie Hardy. |
0:28.4 | Join the Food Heels Nation and learn the secrets to go from feeling unwell to healing yourself. |
0:34.5 | Warning, side effects of this podcast may include increased health and vitality, thoughts |
0:37.8 | of living longer, an increase in sexual activity, feelings of joy, cravings for kale |
0:41.2 | and chemo, and a spike in Tinder matches. |
0:43.3 | In real cases, women have experienced a strong desire to stop asking their boyfriends |
0:46.4 | if they look fat and stressed. |
0:47.6 | If you experience any of these symptoms, post a selfie to Instagram immediately. |
0:51.4 | All right, welcome Food Heels Nation. |
0:53.1 | Thanks for joining us. |
0:54.0 | I'm Alison Melody. |
0:55.5 | Today, co-host Leslie Derso and I are chatting with cancer survivor and holistic nutritionist |
1:00.3 | Alyssa Goodman. |
1:01.8 | After battling cancer herself, she watched cancer take her husband's life too soon. |
1:07.3 | Using the lessons that she learned throughout her life, she created soup, which is the |
1:11.2 | acronym for superfoods, organic, uniquely designed, prepared with love, which is a five-day |
1:18.9 | food cleanse, and she created the Cleanse Your Body, Cleanse Your Life, 21-day online program. |
1:24.7 | I can't wait to share her incredible healing journey with you. We had such a blast |
1:28.8 | here in the Food Heels podcast studio. But first, Food Heels Nation, you know that I love traveling |
1:34.3 | with my organicified green juice packs. They are convenient. They keep me healthy. They keep me |
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