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Tammy’s Mean Green Juice

I have been dabbling in juicing these past 4 – 5 weeks.  The more I use other people’s recipes to learn certain taste combinations, the more ambitious and creative I’ve become.

Here is one of the most popular green juices created by Joe Cross and Phil Staples from their Reboot Program.

Mean Green Juice

  •  1 cucumber
  • 4 celery stalks
  • 2 apples
  • 6-8 leaves kale (Australian tuscan cabbage)
  • 1/2 lemon
  • 1 tbsp ginger

For a basic green juice, the original Mean Green Juice outlined above is a great place to get started.  Below is my mean green juice adaptation. Continue reading Tammy’s Mean Green Juice

My name is Tammy, and I have an AV, but it doesn’t have me!

Our brains (or minds), I have discovered can be both, friend and foe. While actively drinking and knowing I had a problem, but still focused on controlling my drinking, not quitting, just controlling, my own mind acted crazy. By crazy I mean it had a double personality. I had my authentic brain that was my friend and spoke to me with my true voice. I also had a booze brain that was my foe and would harmfully manipulate me.

I discovered I had these two opposing brains over a course of about 15 years of abusing alcohol. I’d wake up with regrets from the night before and I was certain I would not drink alcohol all day and maybe not even tomorrow, heck I should abstain until at least Friday. More importantly, I would think, let’s just not drink today.

“So I find this law at work: Although I want to do good, evil is right there with me.” – Romans 7:21 NIV

Continue reading My name is Tammy, and I have an AV, but it doesn’t have me!