Karen Knowler * The Raw Food Coach

PMS Sorted! ~ In Style Magazine

Hot off the press! A stunning-looking 4 page feature in October's In Style magazine about 4 different common health complaints and what foods can help alleviate them.

There's insomnia, fatigue, stress and PMT. The latter was the one I provided information for. As always a little bit "edited" in places, but overall a really well done piece. To read the whole 4 page article in full click here.

And yay! Maca makes it into the feature as intended! (Even though they said buy it from somewhere other than The Fresh Network - naughty little peeps!).

Thank YOU

Wow, there's so much that I want to say, but yet again, I'm seeing bed the latter side of midnight!

But the first and most important thing to say, by far, is a big and sincere heart felt THANK YOU to everyone who has supported me in my web endeavours recently. (If I owe you an email, it's coming! I've literally just crawled out from under the post-web-launch aftermath!)

It's funny ~ I've actually got used to surviving on 3 or 4 hours sleep per night these past couple of weeks. And while I certainly don't recommend it, I have at least learned what's possible! And the bags under my eyes have come in very useful for my weekly shopping...ahem. (Shame I had a photo shoot right in the middle of that "look" - still, c'est la vie!)

So... lots of blog posts lining up here chez Knowler's. I really don't know which to get to first, but what I do have coming through is a quick media update (see next post) and I'm planning on writing a personal update of some length too. As ever life continues to move on, and me with it, and I feel yet another shift coming on which looks and feels like the best one yet!

Also, a new photo album coming through as a result of said photo shoot. Raw chef Russell and I took of to London for the day just over a week ago (before he flew to NY) and we got ourselves snapped in a catering college kitchen and the very bustling Borough Market in preparation for all the projects we have lined up independently and between us. It was a very fun day and in spite of the tired eyes I'm actually quite happy with some of the pics! ... So they'll be coming soon. I'm going to experiment with flikr I think...

So... as it's only just gone 1:40am, I think I'm gong to have an "early night" tonight! I'll post the media update, wish you well and see you in the next 24-48 hours.

Oh yes, and if you haven't checked out my new site yet, now's the time!

PS: The pic above is how I'm feeling inside. That's where the similarities end ; )

Web Site Launched!

Finally, my web site is up!

After months of work, and more recently nights of super-hard work, it's up and raring to serve you : )

Will write more later. Off for a well-earned swim!

http://www.therawfoodcoach.com

Gabriella Goddard's Gulp! Virtual Book Tour

Regular readers of my blog may recall how a couple of months ago I purchased a book called "Gulp!" by Gabriella Goddard. I explained how I had worked with Gabriella a year previously when I was a client of hers seeking to brand myself as "The Raw Food Coach" - but I wanted to do it right. So it's largely thanks to Gabriella that the look and feel of TRFC that you see today (and that's finally going live on my web site this weekend) exists, as she was brilliant at encouraging me to find my own authentic style and be 100% me through my brand. Yes it did mean binning a £1000 logo, but hey! Needless to say I'm very grateful for that advice as I now have a brand that is completely me, that feels very right and others seem to love too!

So after purchasing Gabriella's first book recently, which, incidentally has nothing to do with branding (!), I once again became one of her biggest fans! This time Gabriella's theme of being authentic is running through life itself, encouraging people to go for it with their biggest and boldest hopes, dreams and desires.

And I do have to say it: quite simply this book is brilliant - both in the way it is written and the way it has been all pulled together into a framework that really works! As such it's fantastically useful and an invaluable tool for anyone contemplating making changes in their life - big or small.

So it gives me great pleasure today to welcome Gabriella here to The Raw Food Coach blog at 10:30am, Friday 1st September 2006. This is one of a few stops Gabriella's making on her Gulp! Virtual Book Tour and it really is an honour to have her here with us. So welcome Gabriella :)

And seeing as many raw fooders are familiar with the concept of change - and often more than a little (!), I have decided to interview Gabriella on the ultimate shift - that of living your biggest dreams, so our subject today is "Making your dreams come true - and the consequences if you don’t!".

Let's see what Gabriella has to say...