Benefits of Detox 5
Steps to Detox
1 - Your Why is Your Motivation 6
Listen to your body
Symptoms, signs and inner cues
Set your intention
2 - Become Aware of the Cause 8
Toxic overload
pH balance
3 - Allow Your Body to Cleanse 12
Food as medicine
Foods to avoid
Foods to include
Food combining
Produce picks
Guidelines
Things to remember
4 - Self-Healing Practices 22
Detox products, practices and therapies
Recommended resources
5 - Design Your Personal Plan 25
Discover what is causing you stress
What are you now releasing and embracing
Visualization and commitment
Next Steps 27
Free Assessment at http://eliciamiller.com
Elicia’s Comprehensive Approach to Healing Systemic Candida
Holistic Health 28
Use this book as a starting place when you want to change some-
thing--whether it’s a health condition, emotional state, or a
desire to detox and transform your entire life. Retreat yourself at
home, discover and release the root causes of your health condi-
tion, stuck-ness and stress to change your body and life.
Follow these 5 steps as a smart way to cleanse with food and also
to properly prepare for a deeper cleanse using juice/water fast-
ing and emotional healing. This is a guidebook for you to detox
with awareness, including exercises and recommended resources
for holistic detoxification and self-
discovery. Remember to enjoy the
journey--there is no destination, and
you never know what gifts you’ll find
along the way.
Elicia Miller
Inner Cues
Write in your journal all of the signals and inner cues of discom-
fort in your body. Below are some signs of physical, mental, and
emotional stress for you to reference:
• Stressed/depressed/angry/anxiety/worry
• Addictions (food/sugar, drug, cigarettes, alcohol)
• Food allergies
• Sensitive stomach
• Tired/sluggish/lethargy/low energy
• Insomnia/very heavy sleep
• Mental fogginess
• Puffy swollen eyes
• Skin break-outs
• Gas/bloated/swollen belly
• Constipation/diarrhea
• Sluggish/slow digestion
• Gas/Bloating
Toxic Overload
Health conditions are a result of a toxic overload, and symptoms
are expressing that they need your help. No doctor, medicine, de-
tox program or healing center can cure you, only you can assist
your body in reducing and releasing your toxic stress in order to
allow it to heal.
First you must identify what has caused, and is still contribut-
ing to, your symptoms and condition in all areas of your body and
life. By identifying and removing these blocks to health, you are
allowing your body to cleanse and heal. This is not accomplished
through a 2 week cleanse, juice fast, taking detox supplements or
getting treatments alone. It involves conscious choices, on a daily
basis, of what you are feeding your body and mind.
Your body protects you from toxins by storing them in your fat
cells, and in order to allow your body to lose excess weight, you
must reduce the intake of toxins (such as pesticides, chemicals,
drugs, artificial sweeteners, high fructose corn syrup, partially-
hydrogenated oil and substances found in processed food). These
pH Balance
In his book on detoxification, Cleanse and Purify Thyself, Dr. Rich-
ard Anderson states that the body always strives to maintain a
proper acid/alkaline balance; the more you help it along by eating
the right balance of foods, the less wear and tear on the system.
If an acid condition persists, however, the body will draw minerals
from other areas to try to neutralize the situation.
When you eat, drink and take too many acid-forming substances
(including thoughts and emotions) the body signals to form mucus
in your stomach, small intestine, and colon as a way to protect
and maintain the alkaline pH balance needed for it to function
properly. When this happens often, the mucus keeps coming and
layering on top of itself, impacting old waste, while trapping the
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toxic substances like drugs, chemicals and negative emotions. This
new toxic environment feeds, or rather depletes, the blood and
cells.
When what you digest is overly acidic, the body has to deplete its
own alkaline reserves (also needed for exercise, illness and stress)
to handle these acids.
Dairy Products
• Milk
• Cheese
• Cottage cheese
• Sour cream
• Yogurt and kefir
• Butter
• Ice cream and frozen yogurt
Wheat
Sweeteners
• Refined sugar
• Any white or brown sugar
• High-fructose corn syrup
• Evaporated cane juice
• Artificial sweeteners
Gluten
• Quinoa
• Brown, wild rice
• Buckwheat
• Millet
• Amaranth
* Whole grains are preferred,
but products made from
the above may be allowed,
such as brown rice pasta,
pure buckwheat noodles,
rice crackers, and bread
• Almonds
• Walnuts
• Sunflower seeds
• Pumpkin seeds
• Sesame seeds, tahini
• Chia seeds
• Hemp seeds, hemp nuts
• Coconut, especially young coconuts
• Nut and butters made only with
allowed ingredients
Beverages
• Stevia
• Real maple syrup,
black strap molasses,
raw honey
• Organic turkey
• Organic chicken, preferably pastured
• Wild, cold-water fish, such as Alaskan salmon
• Lamb
• Wild game, such as venison, buffalo, ostrich
Oils
Guidelines
Drink a minimum of 8 glasses of room
temperature water per day in between
meals.
Take the time to chew food well without distractions, be with the
taste and nutrition of the food, in gratitude.
Include foods that create balance and support the body and
mind:
Your stomach doesn’t have teeth, so make sure to chew your food
until it’s liquid. Chewing also lets the stomach know what to get
ready for. That is why some (green) smoothies create a lot of
work for your stomach and sometimes burden the body to assimi-
late more food than you could chew at one time.
Eat until you are satisfied, not full, to leave room for digestion.
Your body cleanses the most when you sleep so when you wake up
scrape your tongue. You are also the most acidic in the morning
and the best way to alkalize is to drink a liter of lime/lemon wa-
ter (warm or room temperature is the best) right away.
Things to Remember
Choose a day to begin your cleanse, commit to a 14, 21 or 30 day
period using the detox herbs recommended on Page 25 while fol-
lowing the cleansing food guidelines. Remember, if you drink wine
and/or eat bread while taking the detox herbs, they will be coun-
teracting each other and you won’t be cleansing your body. Keep
in mind your why and look at each choice as either feeding your
symptoms (keeping you where you are) or moving you towards
your healthy vision.
Detoxification Symptoms
• Fatigue
• Headaches during the first three days
• Offensive body odor
• Sleep problems (insomnia or sleeping too much)
• Hunger
• Increased gas from extra vegetable fiber
• Bad breath
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• Itchy skin
• Irritability
During your detox: circulate, move and release the toxins, as well
as, blocked energy and repressed emotions, through your breath,
blood, lymphatic system, kidneys, skin, liver and colon.
Daily
As Needed
List all of the things that you are ready to let go of on the left and
then list all of the things you are ready to bring into your life on
the right.
Visualization
Write out your ideal day; how do you feel when you wake up,
what is the first thing you do and say to yourself, what are you
eating, what are you doing to nurture, listen to and support your-
self?
Commitment
“I have NEVER felt better, both physically and emotionally. Yes I lost weight,
toned my body and eliminated ALL prescription medications (as they were no
longer necessary). More importantly I have a new sense of peace and content-
ment with who I am and where I am going. I am not afraid to “speak my truth”,
to choose my life fully. This was a direct result of working with Elicia.
I am and will forever be grateful for her service and could not have made these
changes without her expert guidance, support and resources! Worth ten times
the rather modest investment.”
- Richard H. Ross
Share your detox experience with others--Like the Detox 101 eBook FB Page and
add your review of Detox 101 on Amazon. Email Elicia with any questions.
My Business Path
A big shout out “You Rock!” to my first business mentor, Jeffery Gitomer,
who always believed in me and encouraged me to write, even though it
took me 10 years to finally do it. Gratitude to my parents and brother who
asked me for four years when I was going to “get a job” after I left my
successful corporate sales career to teach journaling and detox practices;
which in turn helped me to grow strong in believing in and listening to
myself to follow my heart to Thailand. I know you did it out of love, and
look--I finally have my “shit together”! Thank you to HigherAwareness.com
for your journaling facilitator course in 2007; journaling has remained the
cornerstone of my work and personal transformation.
My Healing Path
This book was a result of all of the juice fasting detox retreat programs I
experienced in Thailand and what I discovered was missing and needed to
support individuals for lasting health and happiness.
Thank you body. Thank you for everything that you do for me, for dialogu-
ing with me, for being so wise. Thank you for always letting me know ex-
actly what I need to know to grow and develop. Thank you for allowing me
to grow. Thank you for doing so much - going through so much - so that I
may grow. Body, you are so smart, my greatest ally. Thank you for every-
thing that you show me. I love you, body. Thank you, body.
Thank you Universe for communicating through many people along the
way who suggested that I create my own personalized detox programs, re-
treats and holistic directory instead of recommending and promoting oth-
ers.