My first time doing an extended juice cleanse was in the summer of 2019. I went for 30 days, and it completely changed my life. My husband introduced me to the idea of taking a “solid food vacation” when we met that year. At the time, I was dealing with severe anxiety — I was on the other side of a traumatic experience that had forced me to figure out who I was, but I had no foundation to drive the healing I so desperately needed, and so I was moving through the world uneasy and insecure, questioning God, burying myself in work and holing myself up inside my Harlem studio apartment.

“You know what you have to do,” he would say, having recently finished his own extended juice fast that helped him lose 100 pounds and begin the process toward healing his trauma. I was inspired by him, and even though I had never met his old 100-pound heavier self, I could visibly see the new light of peace that radiated from him. And now he was passing me the torch, inviting me to go inward and create a sacred space of healing for myself.

I was already familiar with the herbalist Dr. Sebi, so I understood that fasting was an important aspect of holistic healing and I was planning on doing a 3 day juice cleanse. But I didn’t know how deeply it would help me target physical, mental, emotional and spiritual trauma — especially dis-ease related to my divine femininity and womanhood. As the O.G. Queen Afua writes in her book Sacred Woman, “Toxic thoughts and attitudes are created by the poisons on our plate. The place where we heal all of our old afflictions is in the ‘old way,’ in the kitchen of our ancestors, where foods contained the power to nourish our bodies, minds, and spirits.”

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Those first 30 days raised my vibration. Not only did I have physical detox symptoms — having experienced invasive medical procedures from abnormal pap smears — but emotional and mental detoxing as well. I was forced to confront my fears. I found my power in having complete sovereignty of my own body, without an external entity (i.e., the medical industry) trying to govern me.

After my first extended cleanse, my body continued to detox, so I committed then and there to eating as clean as possible. I ate alkaline, in the footsteps of the O.G. Dr. Sebi, and tried to eat raw (even if it was just a salad with no cooked ingredients) as much as possible, a testament to another O.G. Aris Latham. It also became clear to me that extended juice cleanses were something I needed to keep in my annual schedule — my version of a regular check-up and tune-in.

When you cleanse and release the poisons of this society, you start to become more in tune with cosmic cycles. As raw chef Khepra Anu told me, “The whole art of fasting is to create [a] sensitivity. … When we are sensitive, your intuition becomes sensitive, your digestion, everything becomes awake.” Khepra is an advocate of “rhythmic fasting”: aligning periods of fasting with cosmic cycles, whether it’s a woman’s moon cycle or the seasonal cycles of the Earth.

In alignment, my husband and I started our 50-day cleanse last fall with the intention of only doing 14 days, but once we got in the swing of things, we had to go as far as our spirit told us to. (For juice recipes to sustain you through a cleanse, click here for a cantaloupe juice and here for a tasty pineapple green juice.) We ended 50 days, exactly on the New Moon and lunar eclipse on December 14, 2020 — you literally can’t make that up! But as the O.G. Dick Gregory once said, when you raise your vibration through fasting, the universe aligns with you effortlessly. In fact, when you go on your fasting journey, you will realize that you are an aspect of the Most High Creator — you have powers beyond comprehension, a true God in the flesh.

Two gallons of the Tropical Green Drink for a juice fast by The Alkaline Wav, enough for two people to drink for the day.

Many women allow worries about weight to get in the way of their healing. They worry about weight loss and no longer being “thick.” The truth is, you will never get any healing done if you are worried about vanity. All healing comes with an “ugly” period. If you’re scared to be uncomfortable or afraid to confront the raw, naked truth of who you are, you’ll never get to uncover the beauty within and without.

I lost 30 pounds on my first cleanse, and I was already slim. My weight dropped down to less than 120 pounds, so unsurprisingly, my family was worried for me. Thank the Creator I had the good sense to block their projected negative energy! Because here’s another truth: Once you go through a process of detox and recovery, you will settle at your natural weight. After that period of healing, and even through my second 50-day cleanse, I’ve now passed my pre-cleanse weight. My body is solid, supple, plant-based and healthy.

Juice cleansing is not just about vanity, though. Many women don’t realize that Womb Wellness is about more than going to the gynecologist to get checked out. You have to take your own feminine health into your hands. And Womb Wellness is a holistic, total-body endeavor. If your colon is not functioning properly due to dis-ease, the rest of your body’s organs don’t function properly, and that includes your most sacred organ: the womb. Solid food vacations are a beautiful way to address womb trauma — from sexual assault to birthing trauma to emotional issues connected to the Sacral Chakra located at the womb.

Your experience as a woman, like your womb, is all-encompassing. As Queen Afua writes, “Fasting benefits include spiritual peace, mental clarity, weight loss, more beautiful skin, burning up of cellulite, and greater womb wellness.” Don’t put your healing in the hands of anyone but yourself! Claim sovereignty of your body and your womanhood, one juice at a time.

For more information and guidance on juice cleansing for feminine health, please schedule a Womb Wellness consultation with me.

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The Secret of Juice Fasting for Womb Health and Reconnecting to Your Divine Feminine Energy

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