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The Clarity Cleanse: 12 Steps to Finding Renewed Energy, Spiritual Fulfillment, and Emotional Healing
The Clarity Cleanse is a personalized, 12-step approach to clearing out mental clutter to help us focus on the changes we need to make to live a more peaceful and happier life.
Based on the powerful mind-body strategy Dr. Habib Sadeghi developed to help himself recover from cancer more than twenty years ago, THE CLARITY CLEANSE will enable you to help your mind clear and your body heal. A regular GOOP contributor in health and spirituality, Dr. Sadeghi shows you how to turn obstacles into healing and energizing opportunities.
Because negative emotions actually do damage on the cellular level, THE CLARITY CLEANSE offers guidance for cleansing both your body and your mind. You will learn how to:
--Create clear intention
--Purge negative emotions
--Practice compassionate self-forgiveness
--Refocus negative energy to move beyond doubt and fear
--Ask the kind of questions that will help your relationships.
THE CLARITY CLEANSE includes Dr. Sadeghi's Intentional Unsaturation Diet, which helps support emotional cleansing by removing the residue of repressed negative emotions. The diet is designed to reduce congestion in the liver, gallbladder, lungs, kidneys, and pancreas-the organs most affected by feelings such as resentment and anger. Dr. Sadeghi's friends at GOOP have offered eighteen recipes to help make this cleanse delicious.
Following the twelve steps in this book will help you to achieve a sense of peace and control, raise your self-esteem, and assert yourself in new ways to achieve positive and lasting change. Then, finally, you will be able to express your true, authentic self.
Based on the powerful mind-body strategy Dr. Habib Sadeghi developed to help himself recover from cancer more than twenty years ago, THE CLARITY CLEANSE will enable you to help your mind clear and your body heal. A regular GOOP contributor in health and spirituality, Dr. Sadeghi shows you how to turn obstacles into healing and energizing opportunities.
Because negative emotions actually do damage on the cellular level, THE CLARITY CLEANSE offers guidance for cleansing both your body and your mind. You will learn how to:
--Create clear intention
--Purge negative emotions
--Practice compassionate self-forgiveness
--Refocus negative energy to move beyond doubt and fear
--Ask the kind of questions that will help your relationships.
THE CLARITY CLEANSE includes Dr. Sadeghi's Intentional Unsaturation Diet, which helps support emotional cleansing by removing the residue of repressed negative emotions. The diet is designed to reduce congestion in the liver, gallbladder, lungs, kidneys, and pancreas-the organs most affected by feelings such as resentment and anger. Dr. Sadeghi's friends at GOOP have offered eighteen recipes to help make this cleanse delicious.
Following the twelve steps in this book will help you to achieve a sense of peace and control, raise your self-esteem, and assert yourself in new ways to achieve positive and lasting change. Then, finally, you will be able to express your true, authentic self.
304 pages, Hardcover
First published December 1, 2017
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June 13, 2018
This book is just what I needed. It is the focus I needed for getting back on track to who I need to be: my self. 🤔☺️😉
I have felt really bogged down this year with life. This has been the kick in the pants I needed to be kinder to myself and make time for myself.
It focuses on what causes disease/dis-ease in our bodies. And focuses on the strong mind/body/soul connection we all have and need to be aware of to ward off disease and dis-ease in our bodies. I love it and all the examples that were given were fascinating and wonderful. The importance of our thoughts and getting rid of emotional waste were extremely helpful to hear about. I bought the book to go through the exercises because I listened to it first on audio and have to return it to the library.
I think everyone would benefit from reading this, for more self awareness, especially if you have any medical problems or traumas in relationships. I don’t have either strongly, but I’m doing it as a preventive action and a maintenance action as well as just to get centered and have clarity.
I’m not too sure how I feel about the cleansing diet but I’m willing to give it a try. 🙊
I have felt really bogged down this year with life. This has been the kick in the pants I needed to be kinder to myself and make time for myself.
It focuses on what causes disease/dis-ease in our bodies. And focuses on the strong mind/body/soul connection we all have and need to be aware of to ward off disease and dis-ease in our bodies. I love it and all the examples that were given were fascinating and wonderful. The importance of our thoughts and getting rid of emotional waste were extremely helpful to hear about. I bought the book to go through the exercises because I listened to it first on audio and have to return it to the library.
I think everyone would benefit from reading this, for more self awareness, especially if you have any medical problems or traumas in relationships. I don’t have either strongly, but I’m doing it as a preventive action and a maintenance action as well as just to get centered and have clarity.
I’m not too sure how I feel about the cleansing diet but I’m willing to give it a try. 🙊
August 12, 2018
Page 29 ~ "Gary listened as I unloaded ~then he said something that changed everything for me, "I don't know what God you believe in, but the God I believe in is a loving God. You're going to be okay. I don't know what that means exactly, but you're going to be okay." It was almost like magic, I believed him and the weight lifted from my chest. The conversation with Gary was a turning point for me." Page 19 ~ I needed clarity ~ I had to serve as my own container ~ how to create my own cup (the author uses making a cup of tea as an example). The basic idea behind Bion's theory is that in order for us to process out thoughts and feelings fully and effectively, we must first be able to contain them. This is the opposite of what most of us instinctively do with uncomfortable or unhappy feelings, which is to ignore, dismiss, or try to change or control them. Containing means being able to gather and hold what we're feeling, being present with it so that we consciously experience it in a non-judgemental and emphatic way. As we process it in this way, we enable it to pass through us. Ironically, in this containment, this act of holding, that allows us to move through our thoughts and emotions. It's a process that requires space and creates space"
January 22, 2021
Fue un regalo muy especial en un momento muy vulnerable de mi vida. Creo que cuando estamos más vulnerables nos abrimos más a escuchar, la esencia del libro me pareció increíble! Es un súper primer acercamiento para empezar a trabajar cuerpo-mente juntos! Me ayudo mucho a atravesar por una enfermedad muy difícil
May 4, 2018
Relatively quick read. Admittedly i picked it up because Lena Dunham gave it a shout out - but I've read a lot already along these lines - acknowledging mind and body connection, power of meditation and thinking on the body, eat whole foods, how our psychological traumas effect our physical health - so there wasn't much new here for me. For me I just like to read about this stuff and don't put it into practice enough - the fact that i was a little bored was good reminder to myself to start making my own practice!! This is a good one for those who need an introduction to these thoughts and ideas and who wouldn't know where to start integrating it into their lives. Simple and straightforward, would be a powerful introduction for someone used to western medicine.
liked his analogy with septic systems lol
liked his analogy with septic systems lol
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July 14, 2020this book was a curiosity-based decision that i made in a state of willingness to open up to something i do not understand or agree with. rating or reviewing it does not feel right to me, so please make up your own mind.
January 15, 2018
I won a copy of
The Clarity Cleanse: 12 Steps to Finding Renewed Energy, Spiritual Fulfillment, and Emotional Healing
from a Goodreads Giveaway.
In a nutshell, there is nothing new about this book. Dr. Sadeghi is basically saying what all self help books tell us we all need to do, flush all the bad, negative thoughts out of our lives and heads in order to become more emotionally, spiritually and mentally healthy.
What I did enjoy the most about this book is Dr. Sadeghi's personal experiences relating to his traumatic childhood, overcoming sexual abuse and bullying in school, adapting and acclimating to his new country when he emigrated here as a teenager and beating cancer when he was just a medical student.
His fervor and passion comes clear through his prose but like most, if not all, self-help books, he uses New Age-y words like imaginal realm and psycho-spiritual which I can do without. I understand what he's trying to get across but to me, its just noise.
I did like the easy to make, healthy recipes located in the back of the book, no surprise, since this book was published via Gywneth Paltrow's Goop Press.
This book is not dissimilar to many others like it on the market but Dr. Sadeghi's honesty, faith and understanding is reflected in his prose and makes it a better than average read.
In a nutshell, there is nothing new about this book. Dr. Sadeghi is basically saying what all self help books tell us we all need to do, flush all the bad, negative thoughts out of our lives and heads in order to become more emotionally, spiritually and mentally healthy.
What I did enjoy the most about this book is Dr. Sadeghi's personal experiences relating to his traumatic childhood, overcoming sexual abuse and bullying in school, adapting and acclimating to his new country when he emigrated here as a teenager and beating cancer when he was just a medical student.
His fervor and passion comes clear through his prose but like most, if not all, self-help books, he uses New Age-y words like imaginal realm and psycho-spiritual which I can do without. I understand what he's trying to get across but to me, its just noise.
I did like the easy to make, healthy recipes located in the back of the book, no surprise, since this book was published via Gywneth Paltrow's Goop Press.
This book is not dissimilar to many others like it on the market but Dr. Sadeghi's honesty, faith and understanding is reflected in his prose and makes it a better than average read.
October 22, 2020
I apparently wrote nearly 4k words of notes on this book (5.3k more characters than I can post here, or I would have). Few were positive. To summarise: this man believes the moon opposes the sun and rises and sets every night; that apples come in colours, not varieties, and eg all of the same colour have the same sugar content; that when cut apples brown it's because they are losing sugar and not vitamin c and other vitamins; and that everyone can be forgiven anything, so long as they're men doing things to women. He rails against the mind body split (correctly) and then promotes his own weird version of it.
The book is ridiculous. I bought it because of an excerpt on the goop website that implied it was about dealing with uncomfortable emotions. Very little is about that. It's mostly about eating sardines and how many rich and famous people the author knows. There's advice you've heard 1000 times like "take lavender and epsom salt baths" and "breathe and visualise the ocean" (but not even very much of that). This book is a mix of pointless and infuriating and I paid £12 for it.
Sadeghi has serious issues about women that seem to stem from not only the issues most men seem to have about being unable to give birth, but from having only one ball after testicular cancer. Though he occasionally denies it (and it's an odd thing to feel the need to deny), he wants to suffer and to make other people suffer because he thinks it makes him like a woman in some way. He talks a lot about cycles and blocked flow and nature's rhythms in a way that only a man with little regard for women could. This stuff is not new to any woman! And his opinions about childbirth and breastfeeding are so backwards. It's really annoying and I've decided both to not buy any more books recommended by goop and to not read any more self help books penned by men. I can't read every book so I might as well be discerning (though Sadeghi cautions that when people make judgements, or as I call it, think, it leads to cancer. He can do it though because... because... look, he can do it, okay! But women can't.)
Save your money! There's no clarity in this book.
The book is ridiculous. I bought it because of an excerpt on the goop website that implied it was about dealing with uncomfortable emotions. Very little is about that. It's mostly about eating sardines and how many rich and famous people the author knows. There's advice you've heard 1000 times like "take lavender and epsom salt baths" and "breathe and visualise the ocean" (but not even very much of that). This book is a mix of pointless and infuriating and I paid £12 for it.
Sadeghi has serious issues about women that seem to stem from not only the issues most men seem to have about being unable to give birth, but from having only one ball after testicular cancer. Though he occasionally denies it (and it's an odd thing to feel the need to deny), he wants to suffer and to make other people suffer because he thinks it makes him like a woman in some way. He talks a lot about cycles and blocked flow and nature's rhythms in a way that only a man with little regard for women could. This stuff is not new to any woman! And his opinions about childbirth and breastfeeding are so backwards. It's really annoying and I've decided both to not buy any more books recommended by goop and to not read any more self help books penned by men. I can't read every book so I might as well be discerning (though Sadeghi cautions that when people make judgements, or as I call it, think, it leads to cancer. He can do it though because... because... look, he can do it, okay! But women can't.)
Save your money! There's no clarity in this book.
March 2, 2020
Well, let's just say that the forward being written by Gwenyth Paltrow should have tipped me off that this book wouldn't contain any meat-and-potatoes medical information, but I wasn't quite prepared for the strange smattering of "health" and feel-good advice Sadeghi throws around in these pages.
Firstly, I would advise that anyone taking on a cleanse of this caliber consult their primary care physician first. I'm not gonna just off and cancel my entire diet, save browned apples and sardines, unless a doctor who knows me, my diet, my medications, and my needs, gives the all-clear first.
Secondly, Sadeghi has some good things to say about the mind-body connection, but I would instead refer readers to 'When the Body Says No' by Gabor Mate for more in-depth, thoroughly-researched content on the topic.
All in all, some good points-- but not couched in convincing enough science for this reader. Some unconventional advice is given without much foundation, and that makes me skeptical.
Firstly, I would advise that anyone taking on a cleanse of this caliber consult their primary care physician first. I'm not gonna just off and cancel my entire diet, save browned apples and sardines, unless a doctor who knows me, my diet, my medications, and my needs, gives the all-clear first.
Secondly, Sadeghi has some good things to say about the mind-body connection, but I would instead refer readers to 'When the Body Says No' by Gabor Mate for more in-depth, thoroughly-researched content on the topic.
All in all, some good points-- but not couched in convincing enough science for this reader. Some unconventional advice is given without much foundation, and that makes me skeptical.
January 31, 2021
📚 Overview: Dr Sadaghi explores how people can turn obstacles and past traumas into healing and energising opportunities through 12 steps. Many celebs rave about him including Gweneth Paltrow, Anne Hathaway and Penelope Cruz.
✅ Likes: Clear explanation of cleansing through 12 steps, real life stories throughout, practical and realistic
❌ Dislikes: I need to try the actual techniques of the book to see how I find them
👤 Recommend For: Health enthusiasts, anyone interested in emotional healing. This is definitely not for anyone skeptical of alternate healing!
📚 Overview of the 12 steps:
1️⃣ Take responsibility for your emotional waste
2️⃣ Cleanse the body
3️⃣ Cleanse the mind
4️⃣ Recognise the mechanisms of repression
5️⃣ Follow the signs
6️⃣ Dealing with doubt and fear
7️⃣ Embrace suffering
8️⃣ Give meaning to suffering
9️⃣ Forgive
1️⃣0️⃣ Restore your life force
1️⃣1️⃣ Mind and body, the complete clarity cleanse
1️⃣2️⃣ Clarity for life
✅ Likes: Clear explanation of cleansing through 12 steps, real life stories throughout, practical and realistic
❌ Dislikes: I need to try the actual techniques of the book to see how I find them
👤 Recommend For: Health enthusiasts, anyone interested in emotional healing. This is definitely not for anyone skeptical of alternate healing!
📚 Overview of the 12 steps:
1️⃣ Take responsibility for your emotional waste
2️⃣ Cleanse the body
3️⃣ Cleanse the mind
4️⃣ Recognise the mechanisms of repression
5️⃣ Follow the signs
6️⃣ Dealing with doubt and fear
7️⃣ Embrace suffering
8️⃣ Give meaning to suffering
9️⃣ Forgive
1️⃣0️⃣ Restore your life force
1️⃣1️⃣ Mind and body, the complete clarity cleanse
1️⃣2️⃣ Clarity for life
July 30, 2024
Je crois sincèrement qu'il y a des livres qui changent ta façon de voir le monde et celui ci en fait partie ! Il est riche en informations concrètes sur l'impact des émotions sur notre santé. Il donne des techniques pour éviter que les conséquences soient trop néfastes. Parfois c'est dur de se plonger dans un livre de non fiction mais celui ci est très facile à lire.
July 24, 2018
Some good reminders. Skimmed. I don’t like sardines!
September 3, 2019
Dr. Sadeghi (a physician) is someone I'd love to know. His advice on how to clear out emotional clutter in order to not just make room for positive energy but also to heal serious physical ailments was life-changing. Includes many cases of his own patients. The evidence is very convincing.
Dr. Sadeghi sounds wise, kind, and gentle; and I feel like a better person for reading his book. It's something I should re-read annually! There are fasts and diets that are not my thing so I took his advice a la carte. There are written and verbal exercises that I can pick up and use anytime when needed. Loved it!
P.S. Dr. Sadeghi is a consultant to Gwyneth Paltrow and her successful goop line.
Dr. Sadeghi sounds wise, kind, and gentle; and I feel like a better person for reading his book. It's something I should re-read annually! There are fasts and diets that are not my thing so I took his advice a la carte. There are written and verbal exercises that I can pick up and use anytime when needed. Loved it!
P.S. Dr. Sadeghi is a consultant to Gwyneth Paltrow and her successful goop line.
May 13, 2020
The Clarity Cleanse had me eating sardines for the first time. They weren't as bad as I thought they would be. Approach this with an open mind but do read with caution - the goop is strong with this one. Some topics were not exactly taught in my Biology lectures - like how illness is derived from judgment or emotional waste...and just by changing how you perceive things you can heal yourself. But it worked for Dr. Sadeghi so that was nice to hear. I'll probably take a look at a couple chapters again, from time to time, when I need a reminder of how to cleanse my negative feelings toward COVID-19.
February 7, 2019
I found this book to really give great examples of how dis ease in our minds can create disease in our bodies. Even though I have read a lot around positivity and medidation I found the examples and excercise in this book as a step by step guide easy to follow and action.
I will be re-reading and doing as much of this work as I can as I have already noticed a shift in my thoughts after just reading the book and doing the 5 day detox (very lightly).
I will be recommending this book to everyone who I think could be open to what is here and doing the tasks.
I will be re-reading and doing as much of this work as I can as I have already noticed a shift in my thoughts after just reading the book and doing the 5 day detox (very lightly).
I will be recommending this book to everyone who I think could be open to what is here and doing the tasks.
April 30, 2018
Unlike other self help books, Dr. Sadeghi helps us to confront our feelings rather than hide them behind positive mantras. He teaches us to really cleanse our minds and bodies with helpful steps, through lessons learned from his own personal healing and those of some of his patients.
I appreciate his total belief in the mind/body connection and will take from this book the practices I know can help me to deal with the stresses of life.
I appreciate his total belief in the mind/body connection and will take from this book the practices I know can help me to deal with the stresses of life.
February 20, 2019
What I enjoyed most about Dr. Sadeghi's book is his style of writing and advice giving. The words seemed to flow in a gentle way while trying to help us become less attached to the negative in ourselves and removing that "emotional waste" as he calls it, to live a more fulfilling, physically and mentally healthy life. It truly is about mindset. This book is one of the better "self-help" books that I've come across since reading Pema Chodron and Susan Salzberg.
April 25, 2023
I liked this book and many of the suggestions, but some were just not very feasible (ie asking a vegan to make an exception of their veganism to eat sardines, etc.) But there are a lot of good exercises, and the author does really well at giving the reader new perspectives and ways of looking at things. I also like the holistic perspective of looking at the mind and body as a whole instead of two seperate entities, and the stories of his patients were very inspiring.
April 6, 2022
There’s a lot of value in this book but I would say that it starts to decline towards the end. The whole vibe of the book and energy of his words change and become slightly more aggressive and preachy and it just doesn’t land the same way. I would still highly recommend this book to anyone interested in exploring the mind-body connection and looking for alternative ways to heal.
April 30, 2019
My favorite part of this book were the stories of others overcoming their emotional difficulties, especially the author himself. There were some handy nuggets of info in here, Some things are a bit hokey but I do very much agree with the author about the mind-body connection.
February 5, 2020
Brilliant... Brilliant.... Brilliant
Dr Habib has a natural gift to really get to the heart of the matter and then from there start to heal.
It's the best money and time you could invest in your life and wellbeing.
Dr Habib has a natural gift to really get to the heart of the matter and then from there start to heal.
It's the best money and time you could invest in your life and wellbeing.
March 7, 2020
Great insight into the mind body connection and how we can learn to successfully process both the positive and negatives emotions we encounter on this journey called life. Really appreciated the detailed exercises given in many of the chapters.
October 20, 2021
This book was recommended by my spiritual wellness coach for the 30 Day Soul Detox Program that I did. I loved it! It helped kickstart my first seven days in the program and help transform my life. The information in this book helped with the practicality of my Soul Detox. ****SOULDETOX.CA****
August 14, 2023
Even if you aren't a believer of the notion body-mind connection where treating the mind can help treat physical disease, the book still offers a solid framework for achieving mental health and general well-being. I think it's a step toward inner peace and life happiness.
December 18, 2024
Some good points in it, but the doet cleanse that he requires is ridiculous. I have never had sardines and do not intend to start eating them in the volumes the author suggested.
Just do not want to finish.
Just do not want to finish.
April 17, 2018
Same old....same old...
July 4, 2018
Good read. It provides some interesting views on how to gain a clearer perspective and release negative thoughts.
January 27, 2019
Really really great information and exercises for clearing out things that muck up your physical emotional and mental health. Will absolutely reference again!
March 12, 2019
Overall a good book with some good advice.
November 21, 2019
Inspires you to make some changes in your life sometimes not even described in the book
May 1, 2020
This is a book I’d have every person I know read.
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