



I followed the vegan raw diet strictly for an entire year. I started with juicing and my skin cleared so quickly and dramatically that it eventually led me to eating raw for all of my meals. At the time I suffered with severe acne and after all the traditional acne treatments had failed me, I took the holistic route and finally made the skin/diet connection. I was first introduced to a raw food diet when I was in my early 20’s. “THE ESSENTIAL FOUNDATION OF BEAUTY IS HEALTH” - Dr Saulius Alkaitis When I saw Holly taking back her health and body at the start of the New Year, she inspired me, reminded me to jump back on that bandwagon and to come back here to find, define, and share the inner retreat of true health and beauty. So here I am again, delving into this knowledge to renew and reset. I had my own daily practices from juicing to sound therapy to making malas as a meditation, and they all helped me during that immensely complicated and stressful time but my world got absolutely turned upside down for reasons other than the pandemic. I knew at the start of the pandemic that at some point all of us, individually and as a collective, were going to need a whole lot of deep healing and a mental, physical and emotional reset. When we started the blog three years ago, this section was one that I was very excited to explore and I looked forward to collaborating with those that represent what ‘Inner Retreat’ means to me and embody the importance of cultivating this form of inner beauty.
