Do you have a BIG Dream that, for you, that dream not coming true isn’t an option?
That’s how I felt about having kids when I was told, especially by my body, that I was not going to have kids. To me, that was not an option.

Today, years after that Beautiful testimony (I now have three amazing kids) I find myself in deep desire for another BIG dream to come true. One that right now seems seemingly impossible. But that’s the thing about learning, you’re taught to replicate success.

I was speaking to a new detox client the other day who’d been told some scary things concerning her fertility. I got so impassioned when I heard her story I was virtually in tears as I told her that even before we could work together, we had to start by uprooting the fear that had been instilled in her!

I recommend all my clients to read my book “Detoxxed“ even before they start on my detox program because I know it will ignite their Believe, and when that happens, anything is possible.

“Detoxxed” is my story from “Sorry you can’t have kids” to having three beautiful children I conceived naturally and carried to full term. To God be all the glory because it is His Love and Guiding hand that led me to my Breakthrough. Through my book “Detoxxed” I share that Breakthrough now with you. You can read the first chapter of “Detoxxed” for free Here:

Oh My! Food that actually burns fat! Yes beautiful people, such wonderful things exist.

They’re called negative calorie foods.

Now some argue no such thing as a “negative calorie food” exists. Technically they’re right as all food, no matter how healthy, contains calories. However the term “negative calories” is taken from how our bodies process these wonderful foods. Foods such as grapefruit, broccoli, apples and celery (to name a few) are believed to use up more calories to digest than they contain. So just by eating these foods you’re losing calories! Thus the term, “negative calorie”, I just love that!

Here’s a list of some negative-calorie foods:

Grapefruit

Apples, broccoli, celery, carrots, leafy lettuces, tomatoes, cucumber and watermelon.

There are other negative-calorie foods, they’re mostly plant-based. Look out for them.

Happy eating!

It’s so quick and easy you won’t ever have to buy hummus again.

What you’ll need:
1 can of chickpeas (rinsed and strained)
1 large handful of fresh chopped coriander (cilantro)
2 cloves of garlic (cut into small pieces before blending)
Juice from 1 lemon
1 tablespoon of extra virgin olive oil
2 tablespoons of water (this makes blending the mixture easier. Add more water as needed)
Optional: a pinky size piece of onion
Season with salt and freshly ground pepper

Place all ingredients in a blender and blitz.
When smooth, add in glass Jars and use generously as a pasta sauce, dip, salad dressing or spread.

Here are just a few benefits of this deliciously healthy condiment:

Garlic is anti bacterial, the chickpeas are a great source of protein, folate (brilliant for hormones), good source of iron and magnesium which is essential for bone health. Magnesium also aids in calming stress so having something like this is good especially in the evenings for folks who battle with sleep.
Lemon juice is superb for digestion. The fresh coriander (cilantro) is brilliant for Detoxifying the body.
Olive oil is fabulous for inflammation, especially eaten raw.
Olive oil is also good for heart health.

Seth Godin calls it shipping. 

The thing (getting our work out) that we must (absolutely) do no matter what.

So what about the stuff we don’t want to do but need to do?

It sucks sometimes right?

But I’m remembering something, that had helped me succeed greatly in the pursuit of things, but had somehow forgotten:

Push through the hard, not so great stuff, to get what you want.

Last year I started writing my book on Body Detoxing and Natural Health. The quest to finish it dragged on way past a year-

To every person wanting to write a book, a book should not take that long to write.

Unless it’s based on loads and loads of research, a book based on your expertise or personal journey should not take more than 12 months to write.

When a friend, who’s a published author, told me to stop messing around and FINISH MY BOOK! I did it in a week.

In another week I was done editing and sent it off for proof reading.

In two weeks total my book was ready for publication. Two weeks.

So far, folks I’ve given to read my book “Detoxxed” say it’s smashing.

Soon, it’ll be on sale right here on my website hannahviviers.com

Moral of the story: Buckle down- Get it done.

Another thing my friend said that kicked my booty into gear was: Someone’s DESTINY is tied to your work- You don’t get to procrastinate for as long as you want. The stakes are too high. GET GOING!!!!!

I could cite you the various stats on chronic illness, but I don’t have to.

Just think about how many people you know battling a chronic illness.

Recently, one of my Body Detox clients was telling me how autoimmune conditions have become so prevalent in her family, it’s fast becoming their main topic for conversation.

Not only did that shock me, but that we’ve become accustomed to chronic illness as “normal” is also bizarre.

I’ve never been a pill for every sniffle kind of person.

Mostly because chronic illness wasn’t as common when I was growing up.

I grew up in Zambia, in the 80’s (yep that old), and I knew two people with a chronic illness. My mom’s friend who had diabetes and eventually lost her life to it; And my Uncle who also had diabetes and later passed away from a heart attack.

Forgive me, actually three people, because we also had a neighbour who had High Blood Pressure.

And that was it. Three people I knew who had a chronic illness.

Before we moved to South Africa, I had never, not once, heard of cancer.

I know it’s hard to imagine- but by aged ten I hadn’t even heard there was such a disease.

It’s very different now.

Now, 10% of the people in my birth country, Zambia, have cancer.

Those numbers surprised me.

10% might not seem like much for most populations, but for Zambia- a country where cancer was almost unheard of- it was heartbreaking.

Today, in my own close circles, and by close I mean starting with my immediate family, every other person has a chronic illness- Including High Blood pressure, which by the way remains the number one killer among women in South Africa.

A friend in Nigeria told me, High Blood Pressure is the top killer in that country in both the male and female population.

When I spoke to him about some of the work I’d been doing in Natural Health, he said: “Hannah we need your message here. People are dying.”

He’d lost his own mom to cancer.

He went on to tell me that prostate cancer had become one of the top causes for death among men in Nigeria.

Such stats sadden me deeply because I believe they are so unnecessary and far easier to prevent than we think.

The lifestyle/disease connection

Around the world, more and more people are realising that there is a definite link between chronic illness and lifestyle.

I saw it in my own body after being terribly sick for five years.

I’d tried many different treatments and was eventually told I’d need chronic medication to have a somewhat “normal life.”

I was 27 at the time.

I thought it ridiculous that at such a young age this was to be my “normal.”

It didn’t feel right.

The sad part is that chronic medication is becoming the “norm” for younger and younger people.

At 27, I knew that constantly ill was not the life I wanted to live.

I believed there had to be a solution to get me healthy again.

I was determined to find it. And I did.

After two years of solid searching, I came across natural healing methods that I used to not only treat the chronic illness but beat the infertility I’d battled with too.

Now, I see it over and over- how people I work with are either significantly improving in a short amount of time or healing completely.

One of my clients, after more than 6 years of constant pain, (caused by an autoimmune condition), on day two of her Body Detoxing with me, sent me a message saying: “It feels so strange being in a body that doesn’t hurt.”

She’d been in pain so long she couldn’t remember what pain-free felt like.

Now, she’s experiencing firsthand how much what she eats impacts how her body feels.

So much so that she now tells me that what drives her food choices is: “Do I want to feel amazing or do I want to go back to terrible pain?”

I don’t treat illnesses, I never have.

But what I do know is that when we look after the body and feed it what it was designed to consume, it has the incredible ability to fix itself.

All over the world, including countries like Zambia, and even here in South Africa, there are voices in the natural health space who point to our fast food– can’t do without junk lifestyle as the main cause for the massive rise in chronic illness.

Alas few are heeding this voice.

I hope this changes because we can’t afford for it not to.

Being chronically ill is not normal.

It is so sad that it’s being made to be.

Please note: The recommendations here are never to replace medical advice. Recommendations and all accompanying material are intended only as information and education and should not be taken as medical advice.