It’s January. I love it and I hate it. In one month I let go of things that no longer serve me, and with great enthusiasm, I commit to taking on new challenges – to be better, do better and to heal. I am a sensation scientist, and I am dedicated to researching sensation.

This year I’ve decided to take on the challenge to research a whole new kind of pleasure by paying attention to the things I put in my mouth. I’m cleaning myself up from the inside out, and I have my friend, Dr. Lissa Rankin, to thank.

Yes, I am committing to a juice cleanse! It’s three weeks long, and I’m hoping I have the strength to follow through. Here’s my plan: During week one, I’ll detox and reclaim the integrity I know my body naturally has waiting for me to embrace and enjoy. In week two, I’ll cleanse and get back to the feel-good, “I love my body and life” sensation. I seem to have lost it with all the celebration, champagne, and good food from the holidays! During week three, I’ll re-enter my life, hopefully with more awareness and new knowledge, having discovered what works for me – my body and my life. I’ll get cleaner, stronger, healthier, and connected to my new sensation of pleasure. I’ll look truth in the face and maybe come a bit closer to taking on even more responsibility for my health and well-being. 

Am I afraid I won’t follow through? Yes. But I have to stop thinking exercise will do it all – it won’t. And any time I begin to waver, I must go back to the conversation I had with Dr. Rankin. During our talk, she told me how she changed her body and life by changing her relationship with food. She shared her personal story in the most intimate, honest, and as always, real way. I think you’ll love it!  

Dr. Rankin is one of my favorite women. You may remember her as the author of the fabulous book, “What’s Up Down There? Questions You’d Only Ask Your Gynecologist If She Was Your Best Friend.” Dr. Rankin also happens to be the founder of OwningPink.com, the amazing online resource where she shares her Pink Medicine Revolutionary ideas. She was even recently listed on the Huffington Post’s Top 16 Health Experts to Follow On Twitter. Yeah, this girl has it going on.

Dr. Rankin is smart, creative and bold – a true mover and shaker. I personally love movers and shakers because they create real change, and I love change. I listen to Lissa because she’s dedicated to healthy change. We’re both healers who are interested in the kind of health that includes our body, our relationships, our sex life, our thoughts, our attitudes, our feelings, and oh yes, the food we put I our mouth.

And we walk our talk. We know that to help others, you first have to heal yourself­. We love to rock the world and we do it consciously. (I’ve always believed if you can rock a baby to sleep you can rock people awake!)

This is exactly why I’m committed to making 2012 the year I say, “yes” to a whole new kind of pleasure. I’m going to clean up my food act a bit more, clean out, and reconnect to a new sensation of pleasure. I know I hold in my body the sensation of heaven on earth, bliss, and euphoria. It’s all there for me, and it’s all in me. All I have to do is start, and you can too.

Yes, I might still sabotage myself and make an unhealthy choice or decision by having the second glass of wine or eating the cake. But I’ll do it less and less because the buck stops here, with me, now. This time I’m going to follow through because I’m not alone. I have Dr. Rankin, my relationship to my body, my dedication to becoming a Sensation Scientist, and my commitment to being a role model to you.

If you feel inspired to join me on my juice fast, start from the inside and work your way out. Sign up before you change your mind! 

Curious and have lots of questions floating in your head? Want to know more? There’s a one-time call that happened today, January 17, 2012 that you can listen to here.