The Atlantan May 2017

 Thank you to The Atlantan for including me and {SAMA} FOOD FOR BALANCE.  Ilsa bunny made it too.  See the digital issue here.  THE ATLANTAN

Conscious Coupling

Best of Atlanta 2012

Power couple Tim and Shannon Sliger (he’s an architect, she’s a yoga instructor) embraced modernist slickness—marble, green tile, smooth black counters on wooden stands—with their boutique Buckhead juice bar. -Atlanta Magazine 2012

The "power couple" is back at it. 

We started dcoop together.  We started dshop together.  We started dtox together.  We barely escaped dvorce during the process but we made it and I'm very proud of what Tim and I have accomplished without outside help or family in town.    We've done it all and we've done it together.  

I took the children while he built the stores and then I put in the 16 hour days delivering, working the store during the day and then preparing deliveries for the next morning for either Tim or me to deliver.  It was crazy.   Starting a new business is exciting and exhausting but we are ready to do it again.  

I am so thrilled to say that {SAMA} FOOD FOR BALANCE will open in early 2017 in Andrews Square in the old Czar Bar.  

{SAMA}, meaning balance in Sanskrit, will be a healthy cafe with a mix of all the foods and drinks that I love with an Ayurvedic twist.   I love delicious foods that help us to be proactive about health, wellness and beauty.  {SAMA} will also include a meditation studio.  Mental health is just as important as what we put in our bodies for longevity and wellness.    

I am beyond excited to share this new concept with Atlanta and to create a space for the community to #seekbalance around good food, education and meditation.  

Follow along as we ready the store to open and for news about the opening day.  Want to be invited to our pre-opening menu tastings, sign up here for emails.  

My hubby or my bodyguard or my grumpy architect?  In fairness, he had a tough client.  October 2011

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"CLEANSE" COMMON MISCONCEPTION #1

Cleanse can mean many things to different people.  A juice cleanse is NOT a colon cleanse.  There WILL NOT be a mass exodus of everything from your body.  In fact, you will get constipated if you don't have the correct herbs, teas, and juices to keep things moving NORMALLY.  Bathroom visits will be to urinate.   We WILL BE flooding our bodies with organic vitamins, minerals and nutrients and giving digestion energy a rest so that our bodies natural ability to DETOX can turn on to high.  Fiber is being removed from the juice for a short period of time, 1 day, 3 days, 5 days because that is when "cleansing" happens.  Cleansing meaning that toxins are being force from your cells and tissues for elimination through regular means.  During a juice cleanse, the body uses energy for healing rather than digesting fiber.  We are removing mercury, food additives, excess estrogen, any toxic matter that has been neutralized by our fat cells will be forced out for elimination. Toxins can get lodged in the fatty brain cells causing neurological disturbances.  You can be skinny and seemingly healthy and have a fatty liver which affects the performance of all the organs in the body. After a series of "cleanses", or healing periods of rest while focusing on organic nutrition, soups and clean eating included, you will find that aches and PAINS have ceased, headaches and MIGRAINES disappear, ALLERGIES are gone, brain fog has lifted, mood has improved, inflammation in the face and body has dissolved and general wellbeing has been elevated.  What you can't see is the reversal of dis-ease in the body that was yet unknown.  

I am a planner.  I am planning on getting cancer again.  To prevent hearing those words, I choose to help my body turn to a high DETOX mode daily.  It's a NO-BRAINER to ingest organic, pure forms of vitamins, minerals, nutrients, herbs, superfoods, and spices that have known anti-cancer benefits.  Juicing is NOT A WEIGHT LOSS plan.  It's a plan to be proactive about your health and wellness.  It's a way to keep inflammation at bay.  Inflammation is the beginning of dis-ease in the body.  Weight loss can be a side effect of juicing and clean eating. Once we remove toxins that have been neutralized by fat, the fat goes too.  

The magic number for a juice cleanse is 3 days.  This is because it takes 3 days to reset your bodies cravings for sugar and carbs.  Doing a one day is a great way to hit reset towards a clean eating plan.  

I'm super passionate about all of this because it works.  I want to educate and share with everyone the connection between food and mood, health and wellness.  

Learn this and SO MUCH MORE at Cleanse Camp.  

For more information about "CLEANSING", read CLEAN by Dr. Alejandro Junger.