Michelle Cehn and Allison Rivers Samson have spent over a year creating a 12-day program designed to wean participants off dairy – permanently.
In just a few minutes of poking around the Dairy Detox course, I was struck by the overwhelming beauty of it all: the well-designed website, the gorgeously lit and edited videos, the intuitive user experience, and most of all, the inner and outer radiance of the hosts.
I had a bunch of questions for Michelle and Allison. Like, why dairy? Why did you spend an entire year on this project? What software did you use so I can use it for my courses? And so on.
Michelle and Allison represent, for my money, the best face of the plant-based movement: science-based, compassionate, positive, joyful, welcoming, and damn smart. I hope you enjoy our conversation as much as I did.
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We covered:
- Michelle's strong-willed vegetarian childhood
- Allison's genetic “bad hand” and the family ailment-of-the-day conversations
- “I'll never give up cheese” vs cystic acne as a teenager
- inner emptiness and unmetabolized emotions
- the difference between consuming and metabolizing
- Allison's waves of sadness and grief when breastfeeding
- “What could be so sad in this perfect moment?”
- decoding the body's true wisdom from within the swirl of food cravings
- dairy as a linchpin food category
- the link between human motherhood and animal cruelty
- multiple detox routes – via vegan junk food, and the whole foods, homemade route
- “choose your own adventure”
- and much more…
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