Beauty, Food, Soul

What would happen in your life if you could spend a weekend creating your "perfectly fabulous" vision?

 

A weekend with no interruptions, no one to distact you away from spending quality time with yourself.

Bliss right?

It is something I have always loved doing, spending time with myself doing transformational work, eating gorgeous vibrant food, yoga, exercise, pampering, chatting, sharing with like-minded people.

And yet...

Somehow something always gets in the way unless you make very firm boundaries, which actually is something I am very good at getting my clients to do ;)

The point is I know many of you love doing the inner work to create your dream body and life.  You get that mindset is crucial to living the life of your dreams and you understand that a diet high in raw food can increase your awareness and clarity of mind.  Not to mentioned the side effect of looking hot and feeling great.

However, it is one thing to know and another thing to take the time out of your busy schedule to do it....

Which is why I have been working on making my dream come true, one I mentioned in the post below.  A dream to get a retreat opened, to be a centre of fabulousnes, a place where women can come in confidence to connect to and find their inner fabulousness and bring it out to play in the world.

This is work I love to do and it is work I love to share with you.

So big drum roll please as I have the pleasure in annoucing the first retreat or as I prefer to call it an experience, as believe me that is what I intend for you to have...

  


Mark in your calender May 20-22nd for the grand opening of the "Perfectly Fabulous" retreat, a weekend that is going to be fun, decadent and absolutely full of passion. 

To find out more continue reading here.

I so look forward to seeing who is coming to join me on this weekend, I promise you an absolute blast combined with serenity and love.  

Are you ready to claim your vision of your "Perfectly Fabulous" life? Yes, then click here.

Please note: if you have any questions, do please feel to get in touch with me claire at therawbombshell.com

Happy Easter and if you are in the UK enjoy the sun.

Why My Word of the Month is Connection

 
 
The picture above is where I live (taken end of summer 2010).  A beautiful 18th Century farmhouse nestled between the North Yorkshire Moors and Dales.

It is pehaps not as tranquil as it could be but there is a big reason for that! 

The reason? It is being lovingly restored.  And it is very nearly completed.  Which is very very exciting.

Now, what has this to do with you?

For I am sure you may be thinking I am just showing off my lovely house!!!  Well, there could be some truth in that I am thrilled that I live here yet as much as I love to show off on a stage, to show off where I live is not my style.

And remember this article is about connection.

You see, I want to connect in person with you.  To give you an experience that you love, to eat food you will adore, to discover what you are passionate about and to walk in your true identity with a body you love and an attitude that supports you. 

And this is what I have been quietly working upon.

Turning this place into a retreat, to open as a centre for fabulousness!

For connection I believe is where it is at.  Especially for women.  We love to connect with each other, to learn, to share, to experience the joys of life.  I am certainly like that.  For when we connect in a meaningful way we expand our awareness to enable us to move onto the next level of life in an effective manner.

What would happen to you if you could connect on a deep level with the true you, to strip away the masks we hide behind in everyday life? 

To reveal the real you, the passionate fabulous you?  How would that make a difference to your life?

These are questions that I feel are necessary to contemplate and ones we don't give ourselves the necessary time to ask.  Life has the nasty habit of getting in the way.  By honouring yourself and letting go in a space devoted entirely to you, you get to experience the meaning of exquistite self-care and love.

For when we are kind to ourselves, when we create that oasis of calm and an outburst of fun what shape will your life really take? 

What would you introduce into your life when you are completely nurtured and nourished on all levels - mind, body and spirit? 

And perhaps just as importantly what would you let go of?

Connection to me is to reach out to people and share my knowledge, my journey and experiences of life and to uplift and bring joy to others.  For me, there is nothing like being able to do that in person, for I do adore people and the energy that brings.

What does connection mean to you? 

How do you honour that in your daily life?  What could you do to bring more of it into your life?

Enjoy contemplating the word connection.

And watch out for more information regarding the retreats I will soon be running in my beautiful home.

Happy International Womans Day - Celebrate With A Bombshell Free Gift

What an inspirational day - 100 years of celebrating the achievements of the progressive movement of women into the econmic, politic and social arenas   As a woman myself I think this is fab and yet these are areas in this day and age which can be overlooked.  For even though there is still struggle around for us women to raise our voices and be counted as equals, on the whole in the Western society, the womens role has become pretty powerful.  I for one, do feel I can have, do and be what I desire.  That there is nothing, apart from myself, that will hold me back. 

When I speak to women younger than me,the ideas of femininism just don't appeal and yet it is because of the women that have paved the way before us with their strong tactics and ideals that have allowed the girls of today much greater freedom. 

And I for one, love now how women are stepping into their femininity, that we are not trying to encapsulate the masculine role to get ahead.  That we recognise our own strengths and the wonderfulness of being a woman.  You see, I adore femininity, I love the fact that the more I have stepped into my feminine energy the more great stuff comes to me and the easier life becomes.  I have come to the realisation that claiming femininity and using my feminine energy does not disempower me and in fact the opposite as I work in ways that are congruent to me. 

So in honour of International Womans Day I would love to share a gift with you.  These are my Bombshell Cards - messages of inspiration, motivation, sensuality and fun.  They are there to remind you to take the time to nuture and nourish yourself and to honour the unique woman that you truely are. These retail for £5.99 ($9.70) and are yours today completely free.

Just click on the link below, for this one day only special I won't even ask for any information for you as I just have a desire to share, and you will instantly get the bombshell cards.  The bombshell cards are in digital format and come with an ebook to explain what they are and how to use them. Please note it is a large file.

SORRY, the offer is now over.

If you did download the cards and you enjoyed them, I would appreciate a comment below.  Thank you and have a fab day.

How Would You Like to Feel Happier in Your Body?

It sure is a fabulous feeling when you can strut your funky stuff with style, pizazz and sass. 

Plus the level of confidence it brings to you is second to none.

Which is why I have gone to the trouble of pulling together all my top secrets for getting more out of your body and consequently your life skyrockets into the stratosphere of fabulous, darling.

I've squeezed fabulousness into one easy and can I say FUN homestudy course.  Meaning, you can study this and apply in YOUR time.  And in honesty, who doesn't want a bit more of fabulous in their life?

What will you learn?  Well, I have to say I was pretty amazed myself when I wrote out all the course content... I thought to myself, mmm I have shared a lot of cool stuff. 

So here goes, are you ready?

• Create an inspiring vision that gets you into the spotlight of your life - by creating your perfect day, vision statements and of course a beautiful vision board.  All the steps are explained in detail. 
• How to effectively use your time and importantly see where/what your time wasters are.
• The necessity of putting yourself first and getting into alignment with who you really are.
• Preserve your energy with setting effective boundaries.
• The absolute importance of self-love.
• How to create a nurturing sanctuary of space.
• Learn how to make exquisite rituals that support you.
• What is the energy of raw food that can transmute onto you?
• Why you need different kinds of energy to nourish you.
• How we can justify our eating behaviour with emotion and the negative impact that can have.
• How to engage the senses when eating and why.
• We will perfect your eating plan to support and nourish you in the way that makes you feel good.
• What beauty means to you, it has a different meaning to everyone which is why it is imperative you live by your meaning to get away from constant comparison.
• Exploring your attitude and confidence to be expressively you.
• We will upgrade the story of you to increase your vibration and in doing so attract more of the good stuff into your life.
• Use the power of words you use to describe you which makes you feel fab.
• Tips on how to create a signiture dish.
• The importance of giving and receiving compliments.
• How happiness is the key to sensuality.
• Why enhancing your environment will give you success.
• How to find a way to move your body in alignment with you.
• To have fun with pin-up poses and why that can give you that feminine sizzle.
• How to deal with attention that will be coming your way as you start to look hot and feel sassy.
• To understand what your statement is to the world and why it is important.
• To show off in a way that is congruent to you.
• We will create a wish list of clothes that reflect the true you (and of course you are free to go and buy them!).
• To understand what glamour means to you, as it doesn't have to mean big heels, big hair and expensive make-up.
• And finally to just be fabulous in the knowledge of being true to you.

That is one extensive course!

Don't let that put you off though, as the course is split into 6 modules which covers different aspects of what you learn, as outlined below.  Each module consists of one 50 minute talk of me going through the accompanying workbook. Contained within the workbook are all the activities and assignments you need to Embrace Your Fabulousness.  Accompanying each module is a supporting video and a success journal for you to track what you have achieved. 

Plus you get my Playful Bombshell Recipe Book with 30 Fun, Easy and Enjoyable Recipes covering breakfast, lunch and dinner.

Grab this course at the mind-blowing offer of £49 ($78) while you can.

Modules to Embrace Your Fabulousness

Module 1 - Explore Your Vision

Module 2 - Exquisite Self Love

Module 3 - Energetic Playfulness

Module 4 - Expect Beauty

Module 5 - Evocative Sensuality

Module 6- Exhilarating Glamour

 

Can hold herself with a sassy regard to be confident, open and warm "I called upon my Inner Raw Bombshell yesterday and it was awesome!" "So, my friend who I was having trouble with when I went raw before has come back into town. Spur of the moment, we decided to catch up. I was all sweaty and in my training clothes and I thought, who cares! I'm fabulous and sassy and you know what? I was! I was confident and warm and open and flirty and funny and we had a fabulous time. I feel confident enough to not give away my power. I feel totally fine about saying, 'yep, I'm fabulous. you know it.' 　I think it's what got me into trouble in the first place! But this time I kind of feel more aware of it and it's a bloody good feeling.　 I was a bit surprised that I could hold myself with such sassy regard, but I did and it came pretty easily.　 And it was all from your help! Thanks so much!" Susan Whitby, Fitness Instructor, Australia

 

I have always said there is a load more to me that just raw food.  And this course shows you exactly why.  Raw food is a mere stepping stone into bigger and greater stuff. 

So fabulous babe, are you willing to step into the spotlight of your life and rock 2011?

Yes, well you are in for a treat as this course worth a mere £99 is on a special half price offer running until my birthday (February 20th btw).

Grab this course at the mind-blowing offer of £49 ($78) while you can.

If you still need to read more then click here >>>

What is Luxury?

I wrote in my eZine last Friday that I was off to a back to basics retreat with no luxury!  Now I have just come back with the thought, well what is luxury?

Luxury can mean so many things on so many different levels.  For sure, there is the obvious one of the goods we buy with luxury meaning quality, attention to detail and exclusive.  To perhaps be indulged in a beautiful luxurious opulent surrounding.  Maybe it could be in the service you recieve.

But what got me thinking was why had I immediately thought the retreat would not be luxurious.  Was it the thought of sleeping in a bunk bed, sharing a room with 5 others, sharing a bathroom with 11 others?  Was it the idea of lack of space, that 30 plus of us would be in one communal area?

Probably.

Yet, what got to me was yes, I do love a pampered lifestyle, but luxury is more than that.  Luxury is saying yes to yourself.  It is having that opportunity to have time out.  The ability to reflect on where you are at in your journey of life.  The luxury of being in the moment, of being present and setting your intentions.

Luxury is being surrounded by like-minded people with similar aspirations yet achieving them in their own unique and special way.  Luxury is having the support of love and being honoured by friends.

Luxury is people believing in you, of making the time to listen to you, of caring enough to share their story with you, of inviting you in to hear their vision.

Luxury is the commitment you make to yourself, of seeing the strides forward you make towards achieving your desires.  Luxury is the wonder of new ideas and solutions to challenges.

Luxury is being in the presence of people who can impart knowledge and wisdom, of having an ability to pass on healing and enlightenment.

Luxury is eating wonderful food and dancing and talking and laughing. 

 
Me with the flower in her hair, giving the wonderful Shazzie a kiss for her birthday on the idetox holiday retreat.

Luxury is the bliss of life.

So was the retreat I went on luxurious, most definately yes as it delivered on all of the above and I think just a little bit more.

And did it matter that I shared a room and a bathroom, that we were living communally?  Well no, not at all, I loved it!

A little fabulous Bombshell treat for you?

 Are you anything like me?  Busy buying for everyone else?

Yep, I know it is the season of goodwill and all that jazz but I asked the question on my facebook page the other day - have you got a treat for yourself this Christmas and I was impressed with the love you lot give to yourself but...

Just in case you are wondering what you can give to you, may I please introduce my fabulous little treats for you.

First up, I have my awesome Raw Bombshell Cards for sale - think Angel Cards with attitude. 　I have used these in workshops to everyones complete joy. 　They are very special to me.

 
Each card, and there are 50 of them, has a unique saying on them based around beauty, food, soul, life and body. You can through the use of them then incorporate the wisom into your life. It is fun, inspirational and a joy to do. I guarantee these beauties will bring a smile to your face.

To keep the costs right down and as I have grown up in the alternative DIY culture, I thought instead of making the cards, boxing them up and so on, that you can just print off the cards and in good old fashioned DIY style make your own! Therefore, this product is digital - when you purchase them you receive an eBook and the cards to print.

Buy now for £5.99, a complete bargin!!

Secondly, I thought it was about time that I released a recipe book. 　I am well known for my love of creating food and feeding people and I have a huge repotoire of recipes. 　What to do with them? 　Well, for my last tele-course Embrace Your Fabulousness, I put 30 of them together for my gorgeous girls to use and now I am offering them to you.

 

Some of the recipes you will get to enjoy:

Dreamy Porridge; Fruit Platter with a Toffee Inspired Sauce; Moreish Mushrooms for a Lazy Sunday; Pineapple with Chocolate Creme; Bloody Hell Mary; Nori Wicked Wraps; Evocative Spiced Bites; Jumpin' Beans; Tomato and Basil Soup; Bloomin Marvelous Broccoli; Chinese Style Cauliflower Rice; Thai Influenced Pad Thai; Sweet n Sour Greens with Squash Spirals; Pesto Stuffed Mushrooms; Ice-Kreme Sundae... plus more.

Buy now for only £7.99

I am so excited about these two products that I have created. 　And I know you will be too especially as you deserve a wee treat.

9 Ways to Bring Joy Into Your Life

The art of being joyful, of having joy of living joy... We all talk about having more joy in our lives but are we actually doing it or paying lip service to it? The reason I ask is I often see people struggle with their raw bombshell journey. We either get the food and can be happy with that or we don't get the food bit and go off on a tangent trying to get it to work or we get the lifestyle bit and look externally fantastic or again we don't and end up not knowing what our true style or representation to the world should be. More often that not we cannot get both of them working together which leaves incongruency within us. Shining on the inside yet hidden away on the outside or stunning on the outside disguising the internal yuk.

This leaves a feeling of frustration at not knowing which direction to focus on first. A feeling of being stuck in a rut with your raw food journey and the image you present.

Back to joy, how does this fit in? Well, I am a believer in having key words that represent the journey you're on. Now being a bombshell or a bombshell in the making, an important representation of you is joy.

To encompass joy means: The passion or emotion excited by the acquisition or expectation of good; pleasurable feelings or emotions caused by success, good fortune, and the like, or by a rational prospect of possessing what we love or desire; gladness; exhilaration of spirits; delight.

 

Here I present to you nine delicious ways for you to bring in joy to your life right now:

1. Only surround yourself with things that make you smile, that you love. It is draining to your energy to hold onto stuff you feel you should. Like that vase which great aunt Mabel bought you and hell, you never liked it anyway, but you were just too sentimental to throw it out and now it's sat there chipped and the flowers have passed their best. What is that really saying to you? How is that treating you? Come on, you are number one in your life so start to act as if you are. Let's freely toss anything in your house that is not making you smile. You don't have to go to town on this one (well you can if you wish!) but take it one small step at a time, just throw out one thing that depletes your energy and makes you frown. So liberating!

2. Go to the closet. Is it an array of clothes all different sizes from the time you piled the weight on, the skinny jeans that perhaps you might just squeeze into again, the top you bought 10 years ago that just might come back in fashion. Get rid of them. They are energetically stopping you from releasing your bombshell. From finding the clothes that really represent you. By clinging to the past through your clothes you are stopping the joy flowing, you are subconsciously putting the breaks on living your style. Again go and toss away freely and with joy all the clothes that no longer serve you.

3. Into the make-up bag. How long has some of that stuff been in there? Go toss! Ooh I'm getting on a roll here. A streamlined make-up bag with feel good products in, makes you feel so damn special. Beautiful packaging, beautifully luxurious products, beautiful you, you get my drift.

4. Underwear, is it all saggy and grey? Come on! How is that going to get in touch with your bombshell? Go and treat yourself. A pair of exquisite knickers in silks or satins with pretty lace can be just for you, you don't have to wear them for anyone else but yourself and you don't have to wait for someone to buy them for you! It is such a shame that we all keep the good stuff for a special occasion. I say a special occasion is everyday when you want to live with joy!

5. Only eat the raw food that you really really love. There is so much information out there about the "correct" way to consume raw food that in honesty, it can lead to too much back-biting and playground I'm better than you camps. Are we grown ups here? To me, if you are acting out as your raw bombshell, you choose the food that supports her. With a flick of your delicately perfumed wrist, give all the do-gooders a dismiss and use your instinct to find the best food for your desires.

6. Make raw food that gives a song to your heart and a joy in your step. Find a recipe, create a recipe or buy a recipe and make it your signature dish. Make this whenever you need a cheering up and a reminder of the joy raw food can bring into your life.

7. Serve food in your prettiest, most glamorous dishes and glasses. There is something magical about the treat of a decadent smoothie in a leopard print glass perhaps that is just me, but you get my drift and I'm sure we all have a favourite glass and if not, why not... go and buy one!

8. With all the chores we women have to do, with all the mundane running around and serving other people, we really do put ourselves on the back burner and forget that we are special. It's time to stop and take a moment to remember that you are important, that your hopes, dreams and desires are to be taken seriously. There is never a better time to start something, the grass is never greener and to take in the power that the present is our gift means it is your time to connect to you and your passion. This can be whatever gives you joy and makes time stand still when your pursue it.

9. Stop the negative inner chatter and get the devil off your shoulder, his sweet nothings lead to nothing but mayhem. Now as exciting as mayhem may appear to be, long term it brings nothing but disorientation and a loss of you. So with your sweetest smile tell him to take a ride and go hang out else where, whilst you insist on listening to the glorious joyful chatter of your bombshell spirit.

Here's to your sweet success. If you want to find out more about how to bring the joy into your raw bombshell life, how listening to your raw bombshell spirit will inflame your desires or how raw food is pure joy, I invite you to download for FREE my raw bombshell visulisation, just enter your details in the box above.

Fabulous Friday -- Energy Shifts

Does anyone else get them?

I'm happily on one plane and then wham, I off somewhere else as if my whole energy inside me has shifted.  This happened this week after my teleclass on Tuesday which was awesome.

I know it's to do with the stepping out to the edge of your comfort zone and then finding it ain't quite so bad, so your awareness increases and you think, hell I can do that.  Feel the lovely afterglow of doing something, feel the love and appreciation that you have done something that people love and then...

You have to step onto the next level. A new shift in your focus and energy.

This is the reason it is great to keep setting goals, small tidy ones that you can happily tick off. Each tick representing a pat on the back and a surge of energy. 

The moral of my Fabulous Friday?  Remembering that baby steps are the way to go on the road to your success.

 

Raw Food Decadence to Indulge Yourself and Celebrate Christmas

Ok, so it is that time of year when our minds start to think of the yumminess that is Christmas and of stuffing our faces.  You know that big belly ache you get when you sit on the sofa eating yet another chocolate.  It is what Christmas is all about - INDULGENCE!

Well, yes it is a marathon eating festival but do you really want to feel bloated and yuk?

There is another way...

My very good friend Rebecca Kane, from Shine on Raw www.shineonraw.com, and I have joined our love of this season and brought you 12 of our favourite seasonal recipes.

These recipes are delicious, indulgent and best of all guilt free (well almost…).

To receive a recipe a day complete the form below and these delicious treats will be sent to your  inbox over the next 12 days.

Delight your senses, treat your guests or surprise your hosts, but most of all enjoy

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Munch, Munch What Are You Eating?

So you have in your mind that you are doing to get that body of your dreams, you are going to eat right, you are off to the gym, you have read all you need to about being healthy,  for sure, you know the score and you know what to do.  Yet, there is something lacking... ENJOYMENT!  You stare into the cupboards and want something more than the dried up prune sat on the back of the shelf, you begrudgingly pop into your mouth the lettuce leaf lurking into the back of the fridge and you tell yourself that this is the way to nirvana...

Yet, when everyone’s back is turned you pop the odd biscuit into your mouth, you polish off the kids tea as you tell yourself you don’t like waste and and and oh there are a thousand excuses as to why you sabotage all your good intentions.

I have been there.  Thinking the few chips stolen off the friend’s plate at a restaurant won't harm, in fact I tell myself they are doing me the world of good as I'm satisfying some deep urge within me and that is important.  The days I've been feeling low or down and want to keep myself in that state so I can rejoice in the poor me syndrome.  But the converse of that are those days, where I feel so amazing and happy that I desire to keep my mood elevated by eating raw food that brings me joy.  I know I can feed my emotions and needs.

Your emotional needs are important when it comes to food and to have success on the raw food journey.  It will come as no surprise to those of you who have been following this path for a while that your emotions become as raw as can be when we eat raw, from nowhere something springs up and can tear us apart.  This is the moment when we have a choice to dumb down with food or elevate with food. 

 

Do you have a forbidden list of foods?  Does it tantalise and scintillate you?  A list that tempts you into wanton destruction when you’re feeling low?  How do you feel when eat something that is on your forbidden list?  Why do you have a forbidden list?  Do you consciously know why you have decided not to eat certain food and have you got yourself so in alignment with that decision that you are unmovable when said foods come up?  What happens to your when you are tempted to eat something that you have said does not serve your journey? 

These questions are not there to tell you off but to make you aware of where you are at today with your attachment to food.  Believe me, our attachment is very deep and there are many stories and comforts that come through food.  There are also the external influences to factor in as well. How do you deal in company with your strange fixation, in the eyes of others, on raw food?  Can you explain gracefully why you eat the way you do?  Do you make a fuss when someone serves you food with love but is not on your eating list? 

This all sounds so stressful but the story we tell with food leads us to view some food as enjoyment and other food as dull, and it is surprising how we often associate the enjoyment with the food that is not going to give us that body of our dreams. It is, therefore, imperative that you make peace with what you are up to now before we can move forward to the next step so

Your Capture your femininity assignment for the week is to keep a chart of all the food you eat and the emotion you attach to it.  How does it make you feel?  Was there a reason why you ate what you did?  Remember there are no rules here about your choice of food.  No-one but yourself is telling you what you should eat.  Food is a source of joy pleasure; it evokes the senses and creates a bond between us all.  We are here to encourage and share all our desires with the outcomes we want with our raw food diet and remember everyone’s reason for eating is different, we have to honour and accept that but to do so, you have to honour and accept your way of eating.  So with joy and grace do this exercise, it is for enlightenment and awareness.  I will not send you to the back of the class with detention and a firm telling off if your attachment to emotional eating is not to my liking (well unless of course you like a stern telling off...... but that might be a cause for concern!!)