“Once we were in DC and we went on 2 subways and walked 2 miles to get my mom a juice, because she’s not quite herself till she’s done her practice and had her juice.”

So said Madison, our ten-year-old, when we were doing a raw food talk in the studio.

I do juice every day. We joke in our house that Mommy after she takes a sip of her green juice is like a chain smoker after they take their first hit off of a much-needed cigarette.*

If I clean my juicer right after I juice, it’s easy. Everything rinses off quickly, the way that butter melts effortlessly in a pan.

The longer I wait to clean it—minutes, hours—the harder it is to get that green stuff off.

If I upload the photos I take regularly (I take a lot of photos of my kids) and put them in my Shutterfly albums when I upload them, it takes two seconds. If I wait and they build up, it is overwhelming and not fun and takes what seems like a very long time.

So it is with our bodies and our minds.

Practice yoga daily and put good clean unprocessed organic food in your body daily. Breathe in and breathe out. Listen to your body and rest when it needs it. Speak your truth, with love. Do something nice for someone else without asking for—or expecting—anything in return.

Don’t wait till you have a crisis—a health crisis or an emotional or mental crisis to “clean house.”

Clean house daily.

And about those thoughts…

*I am advocating drinking green vegetable juice, not smoking cigarettes.