Going Green & Clean: Your 5-Day Summer Detox

If you instantly cringe at the word detox and feel tempted to scroll down and skip this read, sit tight and stay with me!

Whether it’s a ‘summer detox’, ‘post-holiday detox’ or ‘new year detox’, they all have the same thing in common.

• Having you start out with the best intention, even if many detox plans are designed to feel hard, miserable and doomed to fail

• They invoke feelings of fear and deprivation

I believe a good 1-5 day detox can be a great way to clean out, clear out and help reboot and recharge the system (that’s you!) on a physical, mental, emotional and spiritual level. But they don’t need to involve a step by step plan, overly restrictive rules or any unnecessary fads or trends.

When it comes to my own approach to detoxing, there are few questions I ask myself first and I encourage you to do the same.

1. Why do I feel the need to detox?

2. How many days do I feel I can and will likely commit to?

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