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Arts
Soul Collages ~ Kathy
Fitzpatrick
Poem~ Jon Neiss

Book Review
The Endangered Brain ~ Dr. Kaye Kilburn

Comet Hunter
Autumn Equinox Astronomy

Eco Blogs
Wildflower Stew
~ Rebecca Swan

Letting Go
Vagabonds in Conflict~ Lucinda Hodges

PARIAH People
Ever Wonder Why You're So Different?~
Kate Goldfield
My Non Toxic Wedding~ Jennifer
D’Alvarez

PARIAH Reader's
Talk to us!

Passing's
Daniel Hanson ~Lucinda

Root
Cellar
Chick Pea Curry~ Rachel Rogel
Fruit/Citrus Roasted Veggies ~ L. Hodges
Kathy's Raw Food Holiday Recipes
Roasted White Beans with Miso ~ L Hodges

Seasonal Healing
Interview
with Joyce Le Fleur on the Light Brown Apple Moth~ Kathy
Fitzpatrick

Shameless
Self Promotion
Empowered Goddess, Interview
Pariah Blog Roll

Spiritual Healing
The Great Escape~
Henry Thomas
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Shameless Self Promotion
Pariah
Blog Roll
Interview with Kathy Fitzpatrick,
co-creator of Pariah, A Healing Journal
Interview with Kathy Fitzpatrick,
co-creator of Pariah, A Healing Journal
on her new online
adventure:
The Empowered Goddess!
Stay tuned! Kathy's new
website will be online very soon!

interviewed by Lucinda Hodges
Kathy can
you share with our readers what you have been doing to improve
your health while Pariah, A Healing Journal has been on hiatus?
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Attitude is everything so you might as well have a good
one!
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On
August 31st i completed 92 days of a 92 day juice feast.
According to David Rainoshek, MA, juice feasting "isn’t about
abstinence of solids. It’s about an abundance of enzymes,
vitamins, minerals and protein in liquid form." Juice feasting
is a way to allow the body "to cleanse, rebuild, rehydrate and
alkalize by drinking 1 gallon or more of freshly made juices
each day of the feast". It was an incredible, life altering,
health promoting experience, really the ultimate urban vision
quest. Everyday my body was flooded with an abundance of raw
living enzymes and all the vitamins, minerals and proteins it
had been missing. I never once felt hungry because i was
juicing between 10-15 pounds of raw organic vegetables and
edible weeds on a daily basis. My energy increased
exponentially after the 4th day, gone were the days of coming
home from my part time job and crashing, there was life after
work! Along with the daily juices i also drank a daily quart of
a drink called "the master cleanse", took liquid B-12, MSM,
chlorella, hemp oil and when the urge to chew came munched on
bee pollen. I also did coffee enemas [not daily], ion cleanse
foot baths, a parasite cleanse, body brushing, daily detox
showers and used a zapper. To some this may seem over the top,
extreme even, but i've always been one to push just beyond the
edge of my limits in order to open myself up for the next
thing. In truth, without even knowing it, i had been working
toward this feast for a very long time by creating gradual and
consistent changes in my diet with the idea of transitioning to
raw foods. I am now doing a whole food diet with an emphasis on
raw food and have transitioned from juice to green smoothies and
the most amazing energy rich food!
Which of course means spending
lots of time playing in the kitchen creating all kinds of
wonderful raw feasts. It's a blast and the increase in my over
all health and well being are so amazing i can't possibly begin
to express it. And to celebrate, i begin Feldenkrais sessions.
Feldenkrais Method
Juice Feasting
Raw
Reform
Emax
Health
Using a Body Brush to Detoxify
Kathy I know your friends have asked, what took you so
long to create your own website and showcase your unique and
eclectic talents. Can you tell us what inspired you to finally
create the Empowered Goddess website?
Hmmmm,
that's funny but you know what they say...."other people's
opinions are none of my business!" The simple reality is,
until i did it i wasn't ready. And
truthfully, i've been working on it for a very long time, but it
was "inside me" and now it's "outside."
Where does your
passion and commitment for taking your health into your own
hands come from?
That's easy,
frustration with the western model of medicine. After years of
knowing something wasn't right and not getting answers i took my
health into my own hands and became my own doctor. And so began
the process of experimenting with different methods and
modalities and fine tuning the nutritional aspects of healing. I
became interested in learning about what others have tried but
at the same time was not at all interested in emulating them. We
are all wonderfully unique, what works for someone else may not
work for me. My rule of thumb is, if it doesn't resonate with my
own innate wisdom, i don't do it.
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In
spite of illness, in spite even of the
archenemy sorrow,
one can remain alive long past the usual
date of disintegration
if one is unafraid of change, insatiable in
intellectual curiosity,
interested in big things,
and happy in small ways.
Edith
Wharton.
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My commitment and passion comes from
REmembering good health and knowing it's my birthright along
with a deep rooted refusal to settle for poor health. It also
stems from a desire to find economical ways to improve the
health i have that transcends the traditional western model.
Good health doesn't require health insurance or a doctor, of any
kind, other than yourself. There are simple, every day things,
that can and do make a difference. It's work, there isn't a
magic bullet, however working toward providing the body with
what it needs to heal is an incredible act of self-love and
discovery.
That is not
to say i don't ever go to a doctor or think doctors are bad, i
have simply made a conscious decision to only work with those
willing to work as a partner in the process. I have a right to
be listened to, respected and heard, it is after all my body, my
time and my money, i will not squander my resources!
You are the co-creator of this E-Zine.
Pariah's mission is,
"Perpetuating
the use of radical knowledge, subversion, frugality, simple
health care and creative expression to empower personal healing
from chronic illness and injury." For
you, those are not just words on a website, they are a big part
of who you are
and how you live.
How will the Empowered Goddess website be an extension of these
ideas and beliefs?
You know, i'm sure all those things will be included in some way
but it's too soon to "know" the how of it. There is a natural
progression that happens whenever something is created.
Hopefully, as it evolves, the end result will be a lively site
filled with a natural flow of information that is as practical
as it is thought provoking and everything in between.
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