About

Hi, I’m Michele L. Tune (aka Raw Juice Girl). Thanks so much for stopping by! Let me share a little about this site, and myself, with you…

About Healing with (Raw) Juices

HealingwithJuices.com is about healing the body and/or enhancing your health with raw foods, raw juices, and juice fasting. You’ll also find recipes and benefits for fruit and veggie juices and smoothies, motivation for embarking on, or continuing your health journey, reviews of some awesome products and foods, contests, and much more.

Why Raw? Why Juices? Why Fast?

The benefits of raw juices are amazing. Raw foods, juices, and smoothies are EXPLODING with living, vibrant, energizing enzymes, nutrients, vitamins, antioxidants, and more–all things that our bodies are craving desperately! There’s nothing–and I do mean NOTHING– like feeling those health benefits zip through your veins while you are drinking raw juices and smoothies. I refer to them as liquid gold! I’ve lost weight, improved my skin and hair, have experienced dramatic healing of my bladder and colon, and have managed to go from TONS of diabetic medication to NONE! I’ve especially found great healing and improved health due to my lengthier juice fasts.

Some topics you’ll find here are:

• why raw fruit and veggie juices are healing to our bodies
• raw fruit and veggie juice recipes
• raw fruit and veggie smoothie recipes
• snippets of my own journey from debilitating illness to healthy living
• books, websites, and any other products I enjoy and feel I should share with you

About Raw Juice Girl

I became a vegetarian over four years ago and have juice fasted extensively. Raw vegetable and fruit juices and smoothies are part of my every day life was a part of my every day life until I moved to an Amish farm (!!) and are very enjoyable to me. Some people find it hard to believe that I enjoy juice fasting to the extreme extent that I do. It’s true, though. As you follow the updates,  you’ll begin to understand why.

Besides being endlessly passionate about raw foods, juices, smoothies, juice fasting, and inspiring you to be healthier, I’m a freelance writer and blogger. Other than writing here, I have also written articles across the Web, and in print. Some of these publications include: Rural Missouri, The Prospect-News, Pure Inspiration Magazine, MedHunters Magazine, Uncle John’s Certified Organic Bathroom Reader, True Real Estate Stories, Raw People.com, eHow, Bukisa, and WritingtheCyberHighway.com. (You can also check out my portfolio.) And I’m a team writer at WRA (www.writersroundabout.com), a well-known writing-related site created by Australia’s very own Rebecca Laffar-Smith.

My Story

You’ll notice that I ‘m very passionate about raw foods, juices, smoothies, and improving health in general. Here’s why: Most of my 20′s were spent at doctors’ offices, in hospitals, and I was even housebound for a while. Between illness, medications, stress, and lack of mobility, my weight ballooned up to near 300 pounds and most of my hair fell out. Not only did I have to wear Depends, I endured a grueling recovery from a doctor accidentally puncturing my colon (during a laperoscopy)! Those were very difficult times for me.

Thank goodness I had a mother who had studied and used herbs and natural remedies for almost 20 years. I was very stubborn at first and didn’t want to listen. But when I finally did, my life began to transform. Fast forward to today and I’ve lost over 100 pounds, am no longer busting out of that size 3X (a size 10 is loose, thank you very much!), and my health and skin is the best it’s been in years – not to mention my healthier bladder and colon! I’m amazed at my progress.

Once I started heeding my mother’s advice, I began studying on my own to learn all I could about the body and natural healing. I discovered juice fasting and knew I had to try it. I’ve never looked back! It really has changed my life. When we juice fast, our digestive system has a chance to rest. Since it isn’t working to digest all the foods we eat every day, our body is able to take that energy it would normally put into digesting and use it to actually heal itself! Yes. The human body is an amazing thing. While juice fasting, you receive a ton of nutrients from the fresh, raw veggies and fruits. Most all of the combos are pleasing to the taste buds, too!

I hope you enjoy your visit to HealingwithJuices.com and I look forward to your return many times! Here’s to life, health, and healing with raw juices!