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Dearest Shazzie,

I just heard your "debunking scientists" interview and I just wanted to tell you that I'm so, so amazed by you (even more than I previously was, which is saying a lot!) It makes me so happy that someone is strong enough to speak out about a way of life that isn't considered "mainstream" yet, and I only wish I'd heard it live and phoned in with some more support! Thank you for your strength and your beautiful soul.

Oh! As Christmas presents this year I gave my siblings copies of your books- and they all fell in love with them! (especially with "Evie's Kitchen"- which of course also has pride of place in my home!) So thank you for your words and inspiration.

Lots of love and hugs from Scotland,
Julia, USA

I just had to let you know how much your Happy New Year 2009 video touched my heart. I'm so very sad for your lose of Admmm. I cannot even imagine your pain. Please know you are thought of often. Thank you for sharing with us how important it is to live life to the fullest every day that we have together. You'll be together again some day...

I also have to commend you on speaking of green living with your eco home you will be moving to and getting back to basics by growing your own food, etc. Please continue to educate your many fans. I'll be waiting for photos of your new home with all the details. It's always been one of my dreams to have a green home as well.

Bless you and may 2009 bring joy, happiness and peace to us all.

Michelle
Wheeling, WV, USA

Shazzie,

Thank you so much for being the goddess that you are! I've been going through a few bumps in the road recently, and your website helped me remember that I can manifest anything that I choose to in my life. Your sassiness, creativity, and fearless dedication to the raw foods movement is such inspiration to me. Thank you, thank you, thank you. Keep going!!! I can't wait to use your newest book when I have a baby... You know he/she's going to be a raw vegan. Yum.

Jess, 21, Boulder CO, USA

You know what... I've been on a journey for many years... detoxing, fasting, yogaing, doing enema's, colonics, juices, smoothies, raw, 7 day diets... yet I get the most amazing inspiration from you Shazzie! You are a light darling and I would so love to hook up with you one day.

I had my first baby at 39 totally naturally and breastfeed her and feed her as well and i possible can... i adore her!

Thank you for all your goodies darling, they are the best most energizing, loving and necessary divine foods that in my book we all need! thank you for your continous messages and love...

I am totally in love with maca at the moment!!!!!!!! and my partner loves that :)))))

May your inspiration rub off on so many more darling and may we one day stand on our heads together whilst holding a coffee enema!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
xxx

Helena

Shazzie,

I am not raw. I am not a vegan. I am not even a vegetarian. Yet I find myself coming back to your site every spring, drawing inspiration and refocusing my nutritional awareness. Included in my healthy living library are several of your and David Wolfe's publications, and I find myself referring to them more often than many of my other resources.

After a winter full of heavy, starch/sugar/salt-laden processed foods, I'm feeling it is time to lighten up. After watching your superfoods videos on YouTube, I ran to the kitchen and made myself a pudding out of banana, avocado, raw chocolate, raw coconut oil, maca, Celtic gray sea salt, agave nectar, macadamia nuts, rice milk, and vanilla. In the time it took me to watch your interview on Channel 5, I had gobbled it all up (and you know that ain't long!), and even though it wasn't totally raw, the energy in those foods has got my head buzzing (in an ecstatic, enlightened sort of way -- not an anxious, artificial stimulant sort of way). Now I feel ready to do the workout I've been putting off all day!

Anyhow, just wanted to say thank you for all you do and let you know that you are making a difference, even to people whose diets are a far cry from your own.

Much love,
*A*

Hey crazy lady,

I found you about 11 days ago. I went from being fully meat and dairy-and-anything-that-looks-remotely-edible-eating, to vegan after just 2 flippin' days of reading! I am currently about 98% raw and doing it at my own pace.

This has been so far one of the easiest and most amazing lifestyle choices I have ever made and...I have lost half a stone...BUT THE WEIGHT IS COMING OFF IN DIFFERENT PLACES THAN WITH CONVENTIONAL DIETS, LIKE FROM MY CELLULITE RAVAGED LEGS BECAUSE I'M NOT LOSING JUST FAT I'M LOSING THOSE MONTROUS WESTERN-DIET-INDUCED TOXINS THAT HAVE BEEN BLOCKING MY CIRCULATION FOR SO LONG!!!

I can see a difference in my body shape; my skin is becoming smoother and I am now not having to look forward to a Western life of drudgery, trying to avoid cancer and middle-aged spread.

It hit me in the face how obvious it is that I haven't technically 'fed' myself for years and how my poor body has struggled heroically to survive with the pitiful rubbish I gave it...desperately searching for nutrients for all this time. I feel a sense of freedom. Life excites me again and your chocolate is nicer than anything I have tasted on the highstreet.

I have also freed myself from the endless binge dieting of destruction and kicking myself when I 'failed'. If I have to eat cooked now at all, I don't think anything of it. I just see it as part of the transition and my journey into 100% raw. Thankyou for being so open and thorough about your own personal journey, I am even thinking about my own blog entiteld 'Elaine's wannabe-Shazzie diary' Best wishes. xxx

Elaine

Hi Shazzie,

Just wanted to say "YOU ROCK" , by reading up on raw chocolate, I came across you on a YouTube video, you blew me away, not just with your good looks but the way you came across with your passion and your love to nature its self!! Found your web page so I'll check you out!!

Have a great Day !!

Phil

Shazzie

You are SO wonderful -- I love you to bits! You always make me laugh and feel uplifted when I check out your website. I LOVE your ecards. I'm madly sending them to everyone I can think of. THANK YOU for being you.

Loads of love, Angela

Hi Shazzie,

I loved your DURIASM video, I've showed it to all my friends, you are making raw foods hot! My boyfriend was drooling....maybe he'll convert now to raw, or maybe I'll buy a durian for us :)

You are the sexiest rawvolutionist!

Love,
Amanda

Hi Shazzie,

I just wanted to say a sincere thankyou to you, for giving me hope. I found your website a couple of weeks ago by sheer fluke, and couldn't resist buying a couple of raw chocolate bars. I decided to buy your book too, to find out what this raw food revolution is all about. I'm halfway through it now and it's so uplifting for me. I've suffered from obesity, dental problems, depression and many other general health problems for over a decade (I'm 21), and I'd almost given up hope of ever finding a solution that would work and keep working for life. After reading your book, watching your Youtube information videos and trying goji berries, maca powder and that delicious chocolate, for the first time in a long time I'm feeling positive and motivated about changing my life for good. I'm looking into incorporating colloidal silver, montmorillonite powder and raw wild foods into my diet, and taking up regular exercise. Thankyou again for being the inspiration behind this and sharing your wisdom with the world.

Sabina

Shazzie,

You really are special for helping to change (and save!) the lives of so many previously depressed/unhappy/overweight/dissolutioned... people. I'm 24 and have battled with my own issues for years, I came across your site by accident.

...by reading your journal and then about the raw food movement in general I became hooked, and now being 100% raw vegan for three months now I feel great and can't wait to feel more positive changes. I feel that it is all down to you and have to say a big THANK YOU for bringing raw food into the UK (and my life), sharing all your own thoughts, innovations, and experiences, and letting people in on some of nature's best kept secrets!

I've since read great stuff by David Wolfe, raw chefs...etc. but it was your amazing site and your shop "Detox Your World" that truly put me on the right path in the first place. I had known about the raw food diet for years, although NEVER considered it myself until I stumbled upon your site.

Also I've tried so many different brands of cacao and other superfoods and can honestly say that the quality of Rawcreation foods as well as the service, far outshines every other raw food distributor in the UK!! I firmly believe that if you eat food that's grown naturally/prepared/packed with love, then you will feel those positive forces within you, and vice versa. You're an inspiration to us all!

I hope I'm returning a little of the positive karma that you send out through all your sites and the work that you do. THANK YOU, and God Bless you and your adorable little 'un! XX

Dear Shazzie,

You are great. I thank you for your website, your journal, your honesty, your vision. It is very rare to find people who are willing to speak honestly and reveal their emotional 'selves.' I thank you for that. Because of your risking and stepping out, we can live better lives.

Thanks!

Kirsten

Your online diary will be missed, it really is an inspiration, but most of all very down to earth.

I fully understand your reasons for not continuing, can i just ask you add an update here and there or send out a newsletter?

We have all gone through various withdrawal symptoms with our diet changes and now we're gonna have Shazzie withdrawal symptoms!!!

Much love

Em

Shazzie,

You are truly an inspiration! Thank you for living your divine purpose.

Asia

Wether you realise it or not you are a positive inspiration to many, you live your life as George Berhnard Shaw did as if life were a flame. You carry a spectular burning torch. God bless you girl and all your kin and keep doing what your heart shouts loudly to you that others hear as a whisper.

The Cockney Sparra XXX

Dear Shazzie,

You are an ANGEL! I have been meat and gluten free for 2 years due to an illness (still unidentified) and became raw "by accident". Whilst looking for interesting fruit and veggie recipes I came upon your website. It is SO full of great information, inspiration and recipes! It is a happy place!

I purchase all your works and they arrived in just days. So quickly all the way to the U.S. How did you do that? Magic?

I'm not only eating Raw but eating up your book Detox Your World. It is so positive. I plan to share it with a dear friend who needs this information.
You are light itself! Big thanks to Valerie!

Love,
Apasara

I am not a vegan or even a vegetarian, but I have found that I am addicted to your site. It is absolutely wonderful.You are beautiful and I only wish I had the strength to be half the woman you appear to be.

Best Wishes
Erica,North Carolina, USA

Hello dear Shazzie,

Thankyou for your fab site. You have been and continue to be a major source of inspiration for me going RAW. You have the most profound way of writing. You are REAL, and just I LOVE IT, LOVE IT, LOVE IT!!! (Your book is INCREDIBLE too!) May you, little Evie and your dear family be blessed in every way possible.

Shazzie!

100% raw for two weeks now, my husband and I are feeling like superheros! We were fooling around on the net and found your site---woohoo, woman! What brilliant eyes, mind, and spirit you have!

We live in Yukon, Canada, and have not found one fellow raw foodist to share the joys and the fears with. But we will not be overcome! The urges to cook ourselves abate when we visit your site and find humour, inspiration, and recipes!
Thanks for being you.

Robyn (True North Strong and Free)

Shazzie,

I've been mulling over being raw for quite a while. After reading your 2000 raw journal I decided to go for it. I am weening myself onto raw foods. The only bad I have left is coffee, and am hoping to let go of that addiction this weekend so that I can sleep in,have headaches, and be a little unpleasant to be around. I gave it up once before and the first two days were the worst.

Anyhoo,thank you for being so honest and not being miss perfect "oh, it's the easiest thing in the world to go raw" pants. Thank you for being open with the obstacles that you have faced, both within yourself and socially. It's so human of you.

Had I not read your account of your raw journey, I think that I would feel too weak and too isolated as I am already the only vegetarian that I know (not even my boyfriend is), to do something about my health.

Right now, I am sort of an emotional wreck, but no one can tell. Everyone around me is convinced that I am able to cope with everything (a lot has happened). I am the patient level-headed one, but it is not really true. I internalize everything and I am getting grey hairs and unexplainable pains. I got my first grey hair at 20, now I am 31. My body-not sure what happened, but I think it has something to do with being cooked. Sort of hopeful but not happy-yet. Well, wish me luck.

You are truly inspiring in a real not-holier-than-thou type of way, and your little Evie is very lucky to have such smart and cool parents. I just wanted to say thank you for all of the good that you are doing, from the bottom of my heart, Thank You Shazzie.

Heather

Hello, Shazzie! Thank you for being you and for sharing your wonderful energy and love for life! You inspire me to be a better me!

Emy

Hi, Shazzie.

I've been looking at your site for a few years now, and it has helped me IMMENSELY on the long, slow road to recovery from cooked food addiction, obesity, and other degenerative health problems. I'm making my 3rd stab at raw and my first at 100% and it is just smashing.

The real reason I wanted to sign your guestbook is to say I think you and your family are absolutely lovely and I think it's wonderful you decided to share your life with us to help make the world a better, healthier place.

Was so excited about the birth of Tiny and I have to mention-- I absolutely KNEW you were having a girl. My friend Melodee and I were talking about it and we just kept saying, "Dude, Shazzie's totally gonna have a girl." And you did! And she's so completely gorgeous and we are absolutely thrilled to pieces for you!
I hope you continue to find joy and happiness- you truly deserve it.

All the best,
Kristen
Dallas, TX, USA

Thank you for making it all so clear, Shazzie! You're the only person who writes in a way I understand. I can tell you're not trying to impress anyone, you're just being you. You don't know how refreshing that is.

You're the best

Love to you and your Tiny!!!

Jane

It seems odd to thank someone for changing your life when you've never met them... but reading some of the other entries into your guestbook make me feel a bit less silly about it!

I came across your website a bit by accident -- I was in a vegan chatroom and someone mentioned raw foods. I was intrigued, so I checked around some internet sites. I bought your book (Detox Your World) two days later, and have been eating 90-100% raw ever since! I wanted to say thank you for your openness, honesty and for the love you show for the world and everything in it. Your journals kept me engrossed for days- I am so thankful to have someone else's experiences as a reference point for my own transition.

Thank you again, and I wish you all the luck and happiness in the world for the coming year (& new member of your family!)

xoxo
Julia