impRAWvise 

Yes, this month is time for celebrating not only the new year, but also 8 years of impRAWvise, 8 years since I started sharing my own raw vegan journey on the blog and exploring at the same time, not only lifestyle ideas and recipes, but also amazing ways of sharing and caring for myself as well as for everything else that is somehow related to this ideea of living a vegan, mostly raw vegan life and thriving as a result of it. It has not been always easy, there have been times, seasons in my life when I neglected the blog, and you know what, there have also been times when it got even worse, I neglected myself, and those are the times that were trully and fully the hardest to navigate through, because when we are not caring for ourselves, not taking proper care of ourselves, we can not really show up for anything else. Sure we can kind of do it for a while but it is unfullfilling and sad, it makes us question ourselves, our journeys and even having a direction or a purpose in life. We can not really be taking care of anything else out there in the world unless we take care of ourselves first. The blog, and my amazing raw vegan lifestyle has constantly reminded me of that. Whenever I come back, to this place, to myself, I feel safe, I feel home, I am reminded of taking care of myself first so that I can then also be able to serve and help others too. Even though there have been challenges and though times, or even if sometimes I did not write for the blog as often as I expected myself to, in the last few years, I tried to understand myself better, be indulgent with myself and listen to myself, understand my own boundaries as well as my fears and inner blocks.

Still, this blog, is always there for me, no matter if a miss a week or two or a month or two, I know I will always come back and I am always coming back, because in the end, it is my home, my space, my place, a reflection of a lifestyle that I love and that I keep coming back to no matter what unfolds in my life. In the last few months I have been questioning a lot of things, perhaps it has been because I reached my 30s last year, or perhaps its a good thing to reflect from time to time, and even question if we are doing the right thing still for ourselves. Perhaps something that worked 10 years ago, or 10 months ago, or 10 weeks or days ago, is still working or is no longer working as it used to be, perhaps it is no longer serving us, or maybe is bringing us still closer and closer to our own unique truth. I have been having my ups and down with this vegan and raw vegan lifestyle, but for now, it is still the right choice for me, the right way to be and to do things in life. It still reflects my values and even though there have been times when I needed to focus more on vegan, processed foods than on raw vegan, unprocessed foods, overall it is still helping live and love life to its fullest. Things are changing, and perhaps so is my own eating style, but over all, the vegan lifestyle still fits me pretty well, so that is why, I just want to keep sharing and caring for this lifestyle, perhaps with a small twist, I might be focusing more on the vegan side for the year to come, but for me being true to myself and my values is all that matters and for that I am trully and fully grateful.