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Comments on: Picking Cherries, Part 2: The Power of Refusal https://fatfreevegan.com/slowmiracle/2013/04/16/picking-cherries-part-2-the-power-of-refusal/ Living Well with MS. Stories. Recipes. Hope. Fri, 27 Jun 2025 09:07:16 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.9.34 By: moonwatcher https://fatfreevegan.com/slowmiracle/2013/04/16/picking-cherries-part-2-the-power-of-refusal/#comment-9711 Thu, 18 Apr 2013 02:33:26 +0000 http://fatfreevegan.com/slowmiracle/?p=1439#comment-9711 Thank you, Deborah, and welcome! I am honored to share the words I live by with you.

]]> By: Deborah https://fatfreevegan.com/slowmiracle/2013/04/16/picking-cherries-part-2-the-power-of-refusal/#comment-9706 Thu, 18 Apr 2013 00:52:13 +0000 http://fatfreevegan.com/slowmiracle/?p=1439#comment-9706 Thanks Maria for writing and sharing.

I intend to borrow this from you: “I refuse to see these limitations as a deprivation. They have given me my life back” as it both fits me and uplifts me.

Blessings for us all in truth and honesty.

]]> By: moonwatcher https://fatfreevegan.com/slowmiracle/2013/04/16/picking-cherries-part-2-the-power-of-refusal/#comment-9690 Wed, 17 Apr 2013 15:30:01 +0000 http://fatfreevegan.com/slowmiracle/?p=1439#comment-9690 Welcome, Elizabeth, and thank you so much for your heartfelt comment. I couldn’t do this without amazing readers like you. Thanks!

]]> By: moonwatcher https://fatfreevegan.com/slowmiracle/2013/04/16/picking-cherries-part-2-the-power-of-refusal/#comment-9689 Wed, 17 Apr 2013 15:28:47 +0000 http://fatfreevegan.com/slowmiracle/?p=1439#comment-9689 Dearest Donna,

A happy and powerful 24th anniversary to you!! Once again, I am honored you share your own success here with us in these comments. It is inspiring to me, and holds me up in my efforts to write about what living this life is like. The wisdom and generosity of Dr. Swank are radical acts that have saved us, and many more. A gift of a lifetime that keeps on giving. A very happy anniversary to you. Having you read and comment means the world to me. hugs back, Maria

]]> By: Elizabeth B. https://fatfreevegan.com/slowmiracle/2013/04/16/picking-cherries-part-2-the-power-of-refusal/#comment-9686 Wed, 17 Apr 2013 12:39:17 +0000 http://fatfreevegan.com/slowmiracle/?p=1439#comment-9686 Beautiful, bravely honest, and very powerful. Thank you for sharing so much of your life and your healthy recipes with readers/fans. Love to you.

]]> By: Donna McFarland https://fatfreevegan.com/slowmiracle/2013/04/16/picking-cherries-part-2-the-power-of-refusal/#comment-9683 Wed, 17 Apr 2013 11:35:11 +0000 http://fatfreevegan.com/slowmiracle/?p=1439#comment-9683 p.s. yessss…it must have been terribly scary trying to put together Dr. Swank’s entire regimen, or understand the WHY of the diet, without seeing him. I’m almost completely vegan now, and just learning how to be gluten free, since learning i NEED to be, so the evolution of Dr. Swank’s work, for me, has led to this. I once asked him why he gave away EVERYTHING, in his book…people didnt HAVE to come see him. He said that was the point…he wanted his work to go to EVERYONE in the world who NEEDED it, not only those who could get to him directly. BRAVO …What a gift of a lifetime it was for me to find him. 🙂

]]> By: Donna McFarland https://fatfreevegan.com/slowmiracle/2013/04/16/picking-cherries-part-2-the-power-of-refusal/#comment-9682 Wed, 17 Apr 2013 11:07:33 +0000 http://fatfreevegan.com/slowmiracle/?p=1439#comment-9682 Dearest Maria,

Your writing style, so eloquent and deeply touching, has truly touched my heart today. Thank you! Today, I celebrate 24 years of being on the Swank diet ALONE. No drugs whatsoever. When I was dx’ed, “in the top third of the worst cases they’d seen” and given “three to five years, max.” I’d have walked to Istanbul if need be, to find what I needed to manage this. No matter how we come to Dr. Swank’s work,his lifesaving program, the end result is the same…success. As his patient for ten years, the tools learned were~ priceless, and to this day, my goal remains to share those lessons, with all who seek.

Thank you Maria again, for all that you do! Hugs to you!!

]]> By: moonwatcher https://fatfreevegan.com/slowmiracle/2013/04/16/picking-cherries-part-2-the-power-of-refusal/#comment-9672 Wed, 17 Apr 2013 05:33:12 +0000 http://fatfreevegan.com/slowmiracle/?p=1439#comment-9672 Thanks for the thought and the comment, Mimi 🙂

]]> By: moonwatcher https://fatfreevegan.com/slowmiracle/2013/04/16/picking-cherries-part-2-the-power-of-refusal/#comment-9671 Wed, 17 Apr 2013 05:32:11 +0000 http://fatfreevegan.com/slowmiracle/?p=1439#comment-9671 You’re so very welcome, Marsha!

]]> By: moonwatcher https://fatfreevegan.com/slowmiracle/2013/04/16/picking-cherries-part-2-the-power-of-refusal/#comment-9670 Wed, 17 Apr 2013 05:31:53 +0000 http://fatfreevegan.com/slowmiracle/?p=1439#comment-9670 dear angela, thanks for this wonderful comment, which I appreciate very much. I will keep on keeping on. I am lucky to have such great readers like you. Enjoy those cherries while you can!

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