The Clean Life Method™: A Complete Methodology for Whole-Body Healing
Your body isn't broken. It's speaking a language you haven't learned yet.
The Clean Life Method™ teaches you how to listen, and gives you the tools to respond.
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If you've been trying to heal and nothing seems to work, you're not alone. And more importantly, you're not broken.
What if I told you that your symptoms - the fatigue, the brain fog, the digestive issues, the sensitivities, the pain - aren't random? What if they're actually your body's intelligent way of communicating that something needs to change?
The Clean Life Method™ is not another health protocol. It's not a detox program or a supplement regimen or a 30-day challenge.
It's a complete methodology built on non-negotiable truths about how the body heals - addressing body, mind, and spirit in the order YOUR body needs.
This methodology governs every program I offer, every consultation I conduct, and every tool I teach. It's the framework that took me from being allergic to 69 out of 72 things, unable to drive, told I had early-onset dementia at 39 years old, to thriving today.
And today, I'm going to share it with you.
Part 1: Understanding Glass Theory
Why You're Stuck
Before we dive into The Clean Life Method™ itself, you need to understand the foundational concept that makes everything else make sense: Glass Theory.
(Prefer video? Watch my full Glass Theory explanation here.)
The Cup Metaphor
Think of a child in a bathtub with a cup under the faucet. The child quickly learns that the cup can only hold so much water before it overflows.
This is exactly how I look at our health. You are the cup. The toxic burdens, everything that stresses your body, mind, and spirit, that's the water.
We can only hold so much before we start to overflow. And when we overflow? That's when disease sets in. Or as I like to say, dis-ease.
Your body is no longer working as it was designed to. It becomes less resilient. Your reserves are depleted. You're tapped out.
And here's what's critical to understand: at that point, even the addition of one single, tiny drop can cause overflow.
Even if that drop is technically "good" for you.
A healthy food you've never reacted to before. A supplement everyone says is amazing. A workout routine. Stress that doesn't seem like that big a deal.
This is what happens when your glass is full. Your body becomes sensitive to everything because there's simply no room left.
This was me in 2018 and 2019. My glass was overflowing, and my body had become sensitive to absolutely everything.
What Fills Your Glass
Your glass is filled by everything you put "in" your body, and I mean that in the biggest sense possible. Physically, mentally, emotionally, and spiritually. It all adds up.
Physical Burdens:
Food and water quality
Environmental exposures: mold, pesticides, fungicides, VOCs, EMFs
Heavy metals: found in pharmaceuticals, deodorant, cooking materials
Toxins and chemicals: in food, water, cleaning products, personal care products
Radiation, EMF, and radioactive elements
Pathogens: parasites, Lyme disease, bacteria, viruses, mold and fungus’ (candida and yeast)
Mental & Emotional Burdens:
Chronic stress: nervous system stuck in fight-or-flight mode
Trauma: especially childhood trauma, but any experience the body doesn't know how to regulate
Trapped emotions: unprocessed feelings lingering in the subconscious mind
Spiritual Burdens:
Disconnection from self: losing touch with your inner knowing and intuition
Disconnection from God/Source: feeling separated from spiritual guidance
Disconnection from purpose: not living in alignment with your calling
Disconnection from creation: feeling isolated from nature and the world around you
Spiritual emptiness: the sense that something essential is missing
We all have a limit of what we can hold, and we were all made differently. The size of your glass and your ability to drain it is related to your genetics. But what you put in your glass? That is all on you.
This is why lifestyle is the major factor in your health, not genetics.
Why Everything You've Tried Hasn't Worked
If you've been trying to heal and nothing seems to work, here's what's likely happening:
Mistake #1: The Faucet Is Still Running
You're trying to bail water out of your glass while the faucet is still on full blast. Taking supplements to detox while still exposed to mold. Doing a cleanse while your nervous system is in complete fight-or-flight mode.
You cannot empty your glass faster than you're filling it up if you don't address what's coming IN.
Mistake #2: Only Addressing One Type of Water
Traditional medicine only looks at the physical body—and usually just suppresses symptoms. That's like putting a lid on the glass. The water's still there, you just can't see it overflow anymore.
Or you work on mindset and emotional healing but never address the mold in your home or the parasites in your gut.
You have to address body, mind, AND spirit. All three. Not one. Not two. All three.
Mistake #3: Not Opening Drainage First
Most practitioners will start you on a detox protocol or give you supplements to "kill" things - parasites, mold, bacteria, whatever.
But if your drainage pathways aren't open first, where does all that stuff go? Nowhere. It just recirculates in your body.
You have to open drainage pathways FIRST - your colon, kidneys, liver, lymphatic system. Then you can safely detox.
Mistake #4: Ignoring the Nervous System
This is the biggest one, the one that changes everything:
Your body can only heal as much as your nervous system will allow.
When your nervous system is stuck in survival mode (in fight, flight, or freeze) your body will hold onto toxins to protect you.
Even if you're doing all the right protocols, taking all the right supplements, your body won't release what it's holding if your nervous system doesn't feel safe.
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Part 2: The Clean Life Method™
The Solution Built on the Glass Theory
The Clean Life Method™ is the complete framework built on Glass Theory principles. It's how we systematically lower your glass, address what's filling it, and teach your body to heal itself - body, mind, and spirit.
The Non-Negotiable Truths
This methodology is built on truths I learned through lived experience, clinical training, and thousands of hours working with clients:
The body is intelligent and designed to heal when given the right conditions
Symptoms are signals, not the problem itself
The nervous system determines healing capacity
Drainage must be opened before detoxing
Readiness matters more than intensity
Healing must be sustainable and embodied to last
Body, Mind, and Spirit must all be addressed, in the order YOUR body needs
The Three Pillars of The Clean Life Method™
All three pillars must be addressed. The order depends on where YOU are, as determined through muscle testing or clinical assessment.
Pillar 1: Body - Physical Clearing & Restoration
Most people think healing the body is just about taking supplements or doing a detox. But there's a specific order that makes healing actually work, and it starts with the foundations everyone skips.
Step 1: The Foundations of Health (What Everyone Skips)
Before you add one more supplement or try one more protocol, you need the basics in place:
Proper hydration and mineral balance - not just drinking water, but drinking the RIGHT water at the RIGHT times
Supporting natural detox pathways - are you actually eliminating properly every single day?
Eating in a state that allows digestion - you can eat the cleanest food in the world, but if you're eating while stressed, your body can't digest it
Sleep that actually restores - not just being in bed, but actual restorative sleep
Daily rhythms and circadian alignment - morning sunlight, limiting light at night
Basic movement and lymphatic flow
Daily body awareness - learning to listen to your body's signals
This is so foundational that I created an entire program just for this: ReNew Foundations - a 30-day body-mind-spirit lifestyle reset that teaches the basics everyone skips.
Without these foundations, nothing else will hold. This is why people can do all the "right" protocols and still not heal.
Step 2: Open Drainage Pathways
Before we do any detoxing, we support your body's ability to move things OUT:
Colon support - proper elimination is non-negotiable
Kidney support - keeping filtration pathways clear
Liver support - your body's primary detox organ
Lymphatic drainage - moving waste through your system
This creates the foundation so detoxing can actually work without making you feel terrible.
Step 3: Address Toxins AND Parasites Together
Here's what most practitioners get wrong: they either focus on toxins OR parasites. But you have to address them TOGETHER.
Why? Because parasites feed on the toxins in your system. If you just kill parasites but don't remove toxins, the parasites keep growing. And if you just remove toxins but don't address parasites, the toxins stay in circulation because the parasites are holding onto them.
What we address:
Mold and mycotoxins
Parasites (often the most overlooked burden)
Bacteria and viruses
Heavy metals: mercury, lead, aluminum
Chemical toxins: pesticides, glyphosate, radiation
Digestive restoration and nutrient absorption
The goal: Clear the physical body of toxins and pathogens that block it from working as it was designed to work.
This physical clearing work is exactly what ReNew Cleanse, ReNew You, and ReNew Complete were designed to do in sequenced detox programs that open your drainage pathways first, then systematically clears toxins and pathogens at a pace your body can actually handle.
But here's the thing, you can do ALL of that perfectly, and if you haven't addressed the mind and spirit, you'll still stay stuck.
Pillar 2: Mind - Nervous System Regulation & Pattern Release
This is the piece that changed everything for me. And it's the piece that most practitioners either ignore completely or address superficially.
Your Nervous System Determines Everything
Your nervous system is the gatekeeper to all healing. When it's in survival mode (fight, flight, or freeze) your body HOLDS onto toxins to protect you.
Even if you're doing all the right protocols, taking all the right supplements, your body won't release what it's holding if your nervous system doesn't feel safe.
But here's what's crucial to understand: stress isn't about YOUR perception. It's about what your NERVOUS SYSTEM perceives.
In 2020, when my functional medicine doctor told me to "work on stress," I was confused. My conscious mind didn't think I was stressed. I was a stay-at-home mom living what I thought was my best life.
But when COVID shut everything down and I was forced to stop—no more carpools, no more volunteering everywhere, no more constant showing up, I felt SO much better.
That's when I realized: my nervous system had been in overdrive the entire time. My body was experiencing massive stress even though my mind thought everything was fine.
But Regulation Isn't Enough
Most people stop at nervous system regulation techniques - breathing exercises, vagal toning, meditation. And those are important.
But you also have to address the SUBCONSCIOUS PATTERNS that keep triggering your nervous system back into survival mode.
These are the loops running in the background:
Beliefs you absorbed in childhood
Trauma your body stored but your mind forgot
Patterns that made you feel safe once but now keep you stuck
Emotions that got trapped in your tissues because you couldn't process them at the time
I use a modality called Mind Body Spirit Release™ (MBSR) to help people identify and release these patterns. But there are other ways too.
The point is: you can't just regulate your nervous system in the moment. You have to REWIRE the patterns that keep dysregulating it.
What we address in the MIND pillar:
Nervous system regulation - moving from survival mode to safety
Subconscious rewiring - releasing patterns that no longer serve
Emotional mastery - processing stored emotions
Trauma resolution - healing historical imprints
Stress resilience - building capacity for life's demands
The goal: Teach the mind and nervous system what safety feels like so they can get out of survival mode and into healing mode.
This nervous system and subconscious work is exactly what ReNew ReSet was built for - practitioner-guided nervous system regulation, subconscious pattern release, and building the deep foundation of safety your body needs to heal.
Only then can your body actually receive and use the physical healing work you're doing.
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Pillar 3: Spirit - Reconnection & Alignment
This is the piece that gets completely ignored in conventional medicine, glossed over in functional medicine, and sometimes bypassed even in alternative healing.
But I'm going to be really honest with you: spiritual alignment isn't optional. It's not just a nice add-on after you've healed physically.
When you're disconnected from your purpose, from your intuition, from your relationship with God or Source, your body feels it. Your nervous system feels it. You stay in survival mode because you're not anchored to anything larger than the stress you're experiencing.
Back in 2019, at my absolute lowest point, I made a covenant with God. I was lying in a hotel room bed, unable to open my eyes from pain, focusing only on my breath. And I said: "If you let me keep breathing, I will figure this out. I will heal myself, I will heal my son, and I will go back to school to heal other people."
That covenant is why I'm doing this work. It's why I go against mainstream medicine, why I challenge conventional thinking, why I'm willing to stand in my truth even when it costs me relationships.
What Spiritual Alignment Provides
When you reconnect spiritually, when you align with your purpose and learn to trust your inner knowing… everything else becomes easier.
You stop outsourcing your power to practitioners who don't have all the answers.
You start recognizing what's good for you and what's not.
You build the resilience to make hard choices that support your healing.
You find the courage to change your life in ways you never thought possible.
What we address in the SPIRIT pillar:
Reconnection to God and spiritual guidance
Purpose alignment - living in accordance with your calling
Intuition - strengthening your inner knowing
Inner peace - finding stillness and clarity
The goal: When you're aligned spiritually, it becomes so much easier to recognize what's good for you and what's not. You stop outsourcing your power and start trusting your body's wisdom.
This is where muscle testing comes in for me. It became my direct line to divine wisdom, not so I need someone else to tell me what's right, but so I can ask my own body, my own soul, what I need.
If you're ready to begin developing this connection right now, the Muscle Testing Simplified courses are the place to start - self-paced trainings designed to help you access your body's wisdom, strengthen your intuition, and partner with God's guidance in your everyday life.
If you're ready for a comprehensive program that integrates body, mind, AND spirit healing together, ReNew You and ReNew Complete are built for exactly that - addressing all three pillars in the depth and order your body needs.
Learn Muscle Testing → www.CleanLifeRealWorld.com/courses
The Body's Wisdom Wheel:
Understanding Your Healing Journey
The Body's Wisdom Wheel is a visual model that shows the path of disease on the right and the path of healing on the left. You can watch my video about it here:
The Path to Disease (Right Side)
When your glass overflows and your body is burdened beyond capacity, you move through these stages:
TOXICITY → Your body accumulates more toxins than it can eliminate. The glass is filling up.
INFLAMMATION → Your immune system responds to the toxic burden. This is your body's alarm system—trying to protect you.
SYMPTOMS → The body's way of communicating. Fatigue, pain, brain fog, digestive issues—these are not failures. They're signals.
DISEASE (Dis-ease) → When the glass has been overflowing too long, the body can no longer work as designed. This is where diagnoses happen.
The Path to Vibrant Health (Left Side)
When you lower your glass and address the root causes, you move back through these stages toward healing:
CLEANSE → Remove what's filling your glass. Open drainage pathways. Address physical toxins, emotional burdens, and spiritual disconnection.
REPAIR → Once the burden is lifted, the body begins to repair itself. Cellular regeneration. Tissue healing. Nervous system regulation.
RESTORE → Systems come back online. Energy returns. Mental clarity improves. Resilience builds.
VIBRANT HEALTH → Not just the absence of disease—true vitality. The body working as it was designed to work.
The Center: Mitochondria & Cellular Function
At the center of the wheel is mitochondrial and cellular function, the foundation of all healing.
When your cells can't produce energy efficiently, nothing else works right. This is why drainage and detoxification are so critical, we have to restore cellular function first.
The Clean Life Method™ guides you from the right side of the wheel (disease) back to the left side (vibrant health) by addressing body, mind, and spirit systematically.
Part 3: How to Lower Your Glass
The Step-by-Step Process
Now that you understand Glass Theory and the three pillars, here's how we actually lower your glass:
Step 1: Limit Your Exposures
We have to slow the rate that you're filling your glass. This means looking at everything coming IN:
Switching to organic, clean foods
Removing toxins from your home: cleaning products, personal care products
Addressing environmental issues like mold
Reducing unnecessary stress where you can
Step 2: Open Your Drainage Pathways
Before we do any detoxing, we support your colon, kidneys, liver, and lymphatic system. We make sure your body has the ability to move things OUT.
Simple practices like:
Proper hydration and mineral balance
Supporting regular bowel movements
Lymphatic drainage support (dry brushing, movement)
Liver and kidney support (castor oil packs, coffee enemas, targeted nutrition)
This creates the foundation so detoxing can actually work.
Step 3: Drain the Toxins - Body, Mind, and Spirit
Now we systematically clear, but we do it in the right order, with your drainage open, at a pace your body can handle.
For the Body: We address physical burdens—mold, mycotoxins, parasites, bacteria, viruses, heavy metals, chemicals. We use targeted supplements, muscle-tested for your specific needs.
For the Mind: We work on nervous system regulation. We address stored emotions, trauma, subconscious beliefs, stress patterns. We teach your mind and body what safety feels like.
For the Spirit: We reconnect you with your purpose, your intuition, your inner guidance. When you're aligned spiritually, everything else becomes clearer.
Step 4: Keep the Glass Low
This isn't a one-and-done thing. We live in a toxic world. You'll continue to be exposed to things. Life will continue to be stressful at times.
The goal is to give you the skills to recognize when your glass is getting full and know what to do about it. To empower you to be your own healer, not dependent on any practitioner forever.
Part 4: The ReNew Healing Ecosystem
How This Shows Up in Practice
The Clean Life Method™ isn't just theory. It's applied through the ReNew Healing Ecosystem, a readiness-based pathway that meets you where you are.
Every program in the ecosystem is built on Glass Theory and The Clean Life Method™ principles.
ReNew Foundations: Building Awareness
30-Day Body-Mind-Spirit Lifestyle Reset
30 days of foundational lifestyle practices covering body, mind, and spirit. This is where many people start - learning what fills their glass and beginning to make sustainable changes.
No supplements. No rigid protocols. Just the foundational practices that create the conditions for healing to actually happen.
Investment: $497
Learn More About ReNew Foundations
ReNew Cleanse: Physical Detox & Foundation Clearing
4-Month Self-Guided Physical Detox & Cleanse
You can't add healing to a toxic foundation. Before the deeper work can hold, the body needs to be cleared.
ReNew Cleanse is a sequenced, body-led detoxification program that follows Elena's clinical teaching, Glass Theory framework, and muscle testing integration throughout every step. Not a crash cleanse. Not a 10-day fast. Not a one-size-fits-all detox kit.
What's covered across 4 months:
Month 1 - Drainage & Mitochondrial Support: Opening the body's lower drainage pathways (liver, kidneys, colon) and supporting cellular energy production. You can't detox what can't drain.
Month 2 - Gut & Immune Support: Targeting parasites, pathogens, and intestinal buildup that disrupt digestion, immunity, and every system downstream.
Month 3 - Whole Body Cleansing: Expanding detox beyond the gut to the brain, nervous system, liver, and deeper tissues. The most powerful month, ideally guided by muscle testing, which you learn how to do for yourself.
Month 4 - Systemic Detoxification: The deepest layer. Heavy metals, environmental toxins, and full lymphatic system activation.
Ongoing - Full Moon Maintenance Protocol: A simple quarterly rhythm to keep your body clear for life.
Muscle Testing Simplified: Basics is included so you can personalize your dosing from day one. Every month you receive a teaching video from Elena, protocol charts, dosing guides, troubleshooting support, and weekly check-in prompts. You move at your body's pace.
Investment: $1,995
NOTE: includes Muscle Testing Simplified: Basics, a $249 value. Supplements purchased separately, estimated $1,200–$1,500 over the 4 months.
Learn More About ReNew Cleanse
ReNew ReSet: Nervous System Regulation & Subconscious Repatterning
Deep Nervous System Work & Capacity Building
This is the preparation that makes physical detoxing actually work - and the work that creates lasting change when the physical burden has been cleared.
Practitioner-guided nervous system regulation, subconscious pattern release, and building the foundation of safety your body needs to heal.
Investment: $2,997
NOTE: Include ReNew Foundations, a $497 value
Learn More About ReNew ReSet
ReNew You: Full Healing & Integration
Six (6) months of comprehensive body-mind-spirit healing. Physical clearing with supplements (muscle tested), monthly group coaching, and full integration work.
This is where healing becomes sustainable.
Investment: $10,000
NOTE: includes Muscle Testing Simplified: Mastery, a $995 value. Supplements purchased separately, estimated $2,000–$2,500 over 6 months, varies by individual.
Learn More About ReNew You → email info@cleanliferealworld.com
ReNew Complete: Premium Customization
Nine (9) months of 1:1 work where everything is customized to your body's pace and readiness. Weekly consultations as needed, subconscious repatterning, MBSR sessions included, and all supplements included.
The flagship experience for those who want or need completely personalized guidance.
Investment: $24,000
NOTE: includes all supplements for 9 months, Muscle Testing Simplified: Mastery, a $995 value, and ReNew Foundations, a $497 value.
Learn More About ReNew Complete → email: info@cleanliferealworld.com
Muscle Testing: The Bridge to Your Body's Wisdom
Throughout all my work, muscle testing is the bridge between your body's intelligence and your conscious awareness.
It bypasses the conscious mind and reveals exactly what your body needs. This is how we personalize The Clean Life Method™ to YOUR specific glass.
I teach muscle testing because YOU should be the expert on YOUR body.
When you learn to muscle test, you:
Stop outsourcing your power to practitioners
Reconnect with your body's innate wisdom
Make decisions from inner knowing, not external authority
Build unshakeable self-trust
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Your Body's Wisdom
Your symptoms are not random. They're not a mystery. They're not evidence that you're broken or doing something wrong.
Your symptoms are your body's intelligent communication that your glass is full.
And when you understand that, when you stop trying to suppress the symptoms and instead start listening to what they're telling you… everything changes.
You stop forcing healing and start restoring alignment.
You stop chasing protocols and start trusting your body.
You stop outsourcing your power and start reclaiming your sovereignty.
The Clean Life Method™ exists to help you understand your glass, lower your glass, and keep it low for the rest of your life.
Ready to Apply The Clean Life Method™ to Your Healing?
You have three options to get started:
Option 1: Start with Education
Download my free guide: "5 Signs Your Body Is Trying To Tell You Something (and what to do about it)"
This guide will help you identify where your body is signaling that your glass is getting full, before it becomes a crisis.
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Option 2: Explore the ReNew Healing Ecosystem
Choose the program that matches where you are in your healing journey:
ReNew Foundations → Start with the basics everyone skips - www.cleanliferealworld.com/programs/renew-foundations
ReNew Cleanse → Foundational physical detox & cleanse - www.cleanliferealworld.com/programs/renew-cleanse
ReNew ReSet → Deep nervous system regulation & subconscious repatterning - www.CleanLifeRealWorld.com/programs/renew-reset
ReNew You → Full body-mind-spirit healing & integration - email info@cleanliferealworld.com
ReNew Complete → Premium comprehensive 1:1 customization - email info@cleanliferealworld.com
Option 3: Book an Integrative Health Consultation
Not sure where to start? Let's muscle test your priorities and create a clear path forward.
Investment: $600
Book Your Consultation → www.CleanlifeRealWorld.com/consultation
Let's find where you are and what comes next.
Are you ready?
With gratitude, love, and purpose,
Elena B. Peden, BCND, FMCHC, MBSR-P
Board Certified Naturopathic Doctor
Clean Life Real World
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About:
Elena B. Peden is a Board Certified Naturopathic Doctor (BCND), Functional Medicine Certified Health Coach (FMCHC), and Mind Body Spirit Release Practitioner (MBSR-P) based in Houston, Texas. After investing over $100,000 in her own healing journey through mold toxicity and Lyme disease, she now teaches women to access their body's innate wisdom and reclaim their health sovereignty. She offers virtual consultations and online courses through Clean Life Real World.
Disclaimer:
Muscle testing is a form of biofeedback and is not meant to diagnose, treat, or cure any medical condition. It is a tool for personal empowerment and should complement, not replace, professional medical advice. Always consult your healthcare provider before making changes to your health protocol.