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June 2, 2014 Hi {!firstname_fix} We have had a whirlwind of activity. David put his house on the market, it sold in 5 days and they wanted a 2-week closing. Things moved along rapidly. I have a duplex and he will stay here for a while as he sorts out the best next directions. We are doing the *clutter* class in person as we make space for his stuff. We are doing a lot of freecycling and plan on a yard sale later in the month. It's actually kinda nice. These classes will begin Wednesday, June 4, 2014. Please click on the name of the class and it will take you to the registration page:
This class will begin Wednesday, June 11, 2014. Please click on the name of the class and it will take you to the registration page:
The class schedule is online. Click here to see what is planned. A number of you have asked me how the classes work. Check the class list page for more information on this. And please go read the questions and answers before you write to me. If you have trouble getting through the process, write the tech forum. Be sure to visit our Radiant Recovery website and Community Forum regularly. Warmly, Kathleen **********************************************************************
**Quote From Kathleen ** Beta-endorphin is immensely powerful. It can drive you inexorably toward deeper addiction - or raise your spirits to a level of health that you may never have known before. **********************************************************************
**Testimonial of the Week ** I think I am finally getting the hang of step 3. I might even dare to say that I am growing to love step 3! I've never experienced such steadiness in my life before. I've never been so happily consistent with food before. I'm beginning to experience hunger for the first time in my life and to really recognise when my body needs to eat and to feed it. I'm finding that 5 hrs between meals works fine for me. Step 4 (apart from the potato), 5 and 6 have just happened for me by accident while doing step 3 because my body is telling me what works for it and I am listening. Next week will be the first big test as I will be away on holiday for the week. I think if I plan well and bring food with me I should be fine. Thanks to everyone for all the support and learning I am getting here. Helen **********************************************************************
**Notes from the Forum ** by Allison
Another goal is to do some work on decluttering and cleaning my house. My original plan was to do at least 15 minutes a day. This week was crazy, and I didn't get 15 minutes most days. But instead of just giving up or postponing the way I would have before, I decided that even if I wasn't able to do 15 minutes, I would do something. The next project on my list was to clean the master bathroom. I had already done the toilet over the weekend. Tuesday night I didn't have 15 minutes, but before I went to bed I cleaned the tub. Wednesday morning I had a couple of spare minutes, so I cleaned the mirrors. Wednesday night I cleaned the counter and sink, and put stuff away so it's much neater. Voila, clean bathroom that doesn't make me unhappy when I look at it. I've also been dealing with little things, like moving things that are in the wrong place to the right place. This weekend I am going to dust everything on top of my bureau. (We live on a dirt road and have 5 dogs who spend the day in a dirt floored kennel, so we get a lot of dust.) Now that I'm breaking baby steps into even smaller baby steps, I think I might actually be able to make things neater. The other thing I am working on is living from a place of joy. Last night I had a joy adventure. When I got home, there was a pleasant, coolish breeze, and I decided to go for a walk. We have a trail that runs along an irrigation ditch, and that's where I usually walk when I'm at home. As I was walking, I heard loud rustling at the bottom of an embankment. I knew it was something bigger than a lizard, which is what I usually hear, so I stopped to see if I could see whatever was rustling. I could see something moving, but not really tell what it was. Then suddenly a black head with a white stripe down the middle popped out of the leaves. Uh oh, skunk! I decided to give him some space. As I walked to the other side of the trail, I saw a Cooper's Hawk flying with prey in his talons. There's a pair of Cooper's Hawks who nest somewhere along the trail every year. I had looked for this year's nest a few days ago, but they weren't using any of the existing nests I knew of. The male landed on a tree on the other side of the ditch and started calling, "kik, kik, kik." I knew he was calling the female to come get the food, so I watched to see what direction she would fly in from. As she landed, I crossed the ditch (conveniently, this happened near a bridge) and walked down the road she had come from. In the first yard on the road, there was a huge tree, and I could see a huge nest in it. Aha! I will be back with binoculars this weekend. In the area where I monitor nests, I have one mystery area where I keep seeing a male, but can't find a female in a nest. If only he would arrive with food when I was there, I could solve this mystery. Maybe sometime I'll just go there and sit for a while and see if I get lucky. **********************************************************************
** Radiant Recovery® Store ** David manages the Radiant Recovery® Store. He is also Kathleen's oldest son.
I thought it would be fun to hear Kate on journals. I have the black ones in stock and many blue ones. Please send questions and suggestions. I love hearing from you and truly want to help you do your program better. **********************************************************************
**Radiant Kitchen ** Yam Cakes #1 Cook up your sweet potatoes (yams are so much easier to say, but we don’t get true yams), and mush them up. Add some oil (I use coconut oil), and about the same amount of rolled oats as you have of yams. I’ll use a cup of yams as an example. So you take your cup of yams, cup of oats, blurp of oil, and about 1 tsp cinnamon, 1/2 tsp ginger, shredded coconut, and mix them all together. You want it to hold together, and be nice and sticky, so add water if you need to. I then use a scoop, and make little mounds, but flatten them with a fork. Bake at 400* for about 15 to 20 minutes. I freeze these, and take them out as needed…they are yummy cold and yummy hot, and they don’t crumble, and don’t get mushy, and travel well! Using peanut butter instead of the oil is yummy. And I bet you could experiment and use different spices…for variety. Enjoy! Colette Yam Cakes #2 I bake a bunch of large yams all at once, slip them out of the skins, and freeze in 3 Cup containers. (I use sweet potatoes a lot, LOL — not just for yam cakes!) When I’m ready to make yam cakes I thaw a 3-cup container of sweet potato, add a bit of water and warm slightly in the microwave, then mash them. I use a hand held potato masher, but you could use a food processor or whatever suits you. I add 3 cups of quick-cooking rolled oats, 1 cup of Restore protein powder and 1 cup of PB. I also add some more water, about 1/3-1/2 of a cup (I used a total of 1/2 cup of water), to get a sticky, goopy, but partly pourable consistency. Press into a lightly greased 9 X 13 pan and bake at 350 for 45 minutes. Cool and cut into 32 squares. Store in fridge or freezer. My math showed that 5 squares had about a one cup serving of brown and about 19 grams of protein. Elaine in CO For more great program-friendly recipes, check out our cookbook in the store and visit our online Radiant Recipes site. **********************************************************************
**Radiant YLD ** Our approach to weight loss is based on Kathleen DesMaisons’ groundbreaking book, Your Last Diet! This is weight loss for real people. Your last Diet! Is the only weight loss program especially for sugar sensitive people. It addresses YOUR unique body and brain. The first part of Your Last Diet works on healing the addiction to sugar by balancing your blood sugar, raising your serotonin and beta endorphin (brain chemicals associated with addiction) This extraordinary text describes a process that means you will NEVER diet again. The program heals the reasons why you are overweight. It walks you through four-phase process to lose weight permanently and totally stop the pattern of yo-yo dieting. The 4 phases are:
This lifetime membership gives you everything you need to succeed at weight loss. There is NO failure in this program. There is no pressure, no stress, no yelling in your face. We think of this as a program for The Biggest Winner! Your program will include:
If you would like to join, come find us here **********************************************************************
**Radiant Life ** The special membership program is all about support for learning how to *live* as you move towards radiance. The stability of your food and the steps will form a foundation to bring you into a new way of living. We will talk about emotional sobriety, finding passion in your life, disarming things that get in the way, program maturation and, of course, spirituality.When we are caught in addiction, we stop growing, we get stuck and stay stuck. Our commitment to doing life without addiction has catapulted us into something unexpected. Radiant Living will allow you to share a dialogue with others – people who are asking the same questions and exploring answers boldly and with the humility that comes with doing the food. These conversations will help you transform fear and give new tools for healing. We look at topics such as grief, crisis, trauma, emotional healing, revitalizing your program and stepping into your big self. So the dialogue will be about the big picture and the practical ideas for daily implementations of the changes you are seeking. The dialogue will meet you where you are and offer ideas that you may not have heard before. Let go of old thinking that growing up has to be hard or painful. This is about joy, discovery, fun and creativity. And, of course, LOTS of laughter. There is no step requirement to participate, only honesty, willingness and openness. This is a life time membership program with a one time fee of $99. Join Radiant Life Now: click here - $99 **********************************************************************
**Our Online Groups ** The Radiantdepression group is all about support for the person who is depressed and trying to work the 7-step program of recovery from sugar addiction. Many of us have struggled with severe depression for years without any hope of finding an end to it. But through doing the food we have found that hope returning and have found light where before there was only darkness. Some of us are taking anti-depressants while doing the food, so we talk about how the two are compatible and we also share about getting through the tough spots together, with support from each other. If you are feeling depressed please come join us. There is hope. **********************************************************************
**THE CALM ** Kathleen DesMaisons, Ph.D.
We have been talking a lot on the step six list on the time after detox. Often it feels “flat” because the spiky life that comes with addiction is quiet. Drama and chaos have faded. Regular life seems a little less exciting than expected. Sometimes people are startled by this. They define it as “boring”. Recently, someone name it THE CALM. That is a wonderful image. Seeking The CALM. I think a lot of radiance is about fostering the CALM and then being filled with a sense of hope and optimism. It definitely grows on you. Thanks for reading! If you know someone who could benefit from this, feel free to forward it to them. Not a subscriber yet? Like what you have read? Sign up to get future issues delivered straight to you: http://www.radiantrecovery.com Until next time!
Here are the folks who are helping put the newsletter together:
Gretel, our webmaster, puts it all together. David runs the Radiant Recovery® Store. Steph provides the Your Last Diet column. Allison contributes to the Notes from the Forum column. ©2014 Kathleen DesMaisons. All rights reserved. You are free to use or transmit this article to your ezine or website as long as you leave the content unaltered, use this attribution: "By Kathleen DesMaisons, Ph.D. of Radiant Recovery®", and notify kathleen@radiantrecovery.com of the location. Please visit the Radiant Recovery® website at http://www.radiantrecovery.com for additional resources on sugar sensitivity and healing addiction. You are getting the weekly newsletter from Radiant Recovery® in response to your signup. A copy of this newsletter may also be found posted on the web at http://www. radiantrecovery.com/weeklynewsletter |
I am really, really enjoying my "Your Body Speaks" journal. My tendency was
always to put pressure on myself to write waaaaay too much, but having the
structured pages has really helped. I'm actually noticing more now that
there is "less" information-- it helps the important stuff to jump right
out. I'm looking forward to working up to a journal review.
