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October 20, 2014 Hi {!firstname_fix} We have a few updates for today. The first is that I have resumed posting on my blog. Would love to have you come visit and offer your feedback. The second is that we have made the Facebook page a closed group. This means that posts will only be available to those who are members and not streamed out to everyone. The third is that we will be adjusting the times for eurochats for Radiant Living and YLD to an hour earlier to accommodate people who live further east in Europe. This will happen after all the time changes are settled so we don’t make ourselves crazy. We have been having some amazing chats. I will speak about that below. The fourth is that YLD and Radiant Living master chat memberships will be shifting from a lifetime to an annual membership on Nov 1st. If you have been thinking about joining, you may want to go ahead and do that now to take advantage of the lifetime option. The fifth is the introduction of a new skilled journaling class. This class is designed for people who know how to journal, are actively working the steps and just can’t quite get it together to actually do it. We will be working with an online model that will allow everyone to share their journaling in real time and get specific feedback from me and from a journal buddy. It is a model that I have used very successfully with some clients and I think you will be thrilled with it. Remember, this class is NOT for new journalers (smile)...you have to be certified as journal *resistant* to get in. These classes will begin Wednesday, October 22, 2014. Please click on the name of the class and it will take you to the registration page:
I am working on updating the Fall and Winter Schedule and expect it to be posted on Tuesday. Click here to see what is posted. 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 ** What you are trying to do is learn to notice and record. You do not have to sort it all out, nor make sense of the feelings. **********************************************************************
**Testimonial of the Week ** I've been there, too. Quit sugar cold-turkey because I was too scared to trust that I could do it the way Kathleen wrote it (not the greatest idea, LOL). Ran out of money before I ran out of month (Shredded Wheat and Restore whey protein work fine for breakfast). Wondered if I was ever going to be able to stay with it (I'll have 7 years in RR the first of January). Gained weight. Lost weight. Cried. Learned to laugh. Finally figured out that all of this doesn't have to be hard. I just kept eating breakfast. And I kept posting. The lists are so helpful. You're doing great, Kitty. Every part of every step that you put into place makes a difference. Keep it up! Jo M. **********************************************************************
**Technical Tips ** I am wanting to get a sense how Yahoo groups impacts the way we do business. I have set up a little survey to let you give us some feedback. Will you go here and take this little survey. **********************************************************************
**Notes from the Forum ** In Response To: Experimenting before Travel Hi SKL, Though I haven't been to Italy. I have travelled in a fair bit of Europe and browns are often tricky. Markets are often good for finding things rather than supermarkets. Often the only browns available have been potatoes or beans. Beans often in glass jars. Having the villa will be a real boon. In my Spanish and Greek villas I have had great success with microwaving or oven baking a potato, wrapping it in kitchen paper and carrying it in my bag to a restaurant. One thing I want to try one day (actually planning for next year) is Socca, Italian street food made of chickpea/gram/garbanzo flour like a wrap or pizza base. I do mine in a cast iron pan in the oven, but I really want to try the real thing. How exciting for you. Love your forward planning. Mosaic **********************************************************************
** Radiant Recovery® Store ** David manages the Radiant Recovery® Store. He is also Kathleen's oldest son. As many of you know, our new, reformulated George's® Restore arrived in June. I honestly have believed that Restore was the finest product on the market. Not only does it taste fabulous, it is now certified rBGH free - means no hormones were given to the cows that made the milk. rBGH (recombinant Bovine Growth Hormone) is a genetically engineered, potent variant of the natural growth hormone produced by cows. Manufactured by Monsanto, it is sold to dairy farmers under the trade name POSILAC. Injection of this hormone forces cows to increase their milk production by about 10%. Once I learned what it was, I made the decision to make sure that our product was certified to be free of it. Consumerslabs recently did an analysis of whey products. I wanted to share with you some of the ingredients of the other products. The last one is Slim Fast. Compare them to George's® Restore which includes ONLY: 
Whey Protein Isolate, milk protein concentrate, egg albumen, soy lethicin.That means a tiny bit of egg white, and the lethicin is an emulsifier that is sprayed on the dried whey to make it amalgamate (not clump). If I was proud of our product before reading this list, after it I am thrilled to bring you this quality!!!! Here are the ingredients of some of the other products on the market: Whey Protein Isolate, Super Recovery Blend, Natural and Artificial Flavors, Soy Lecithin, Cellulose Gum, Xanthan Gum, Acesulfame Potassium, Sucralose, Carrageenan, Annatto Color, Turmeric Color. Contains milk, soy and wheat ingredients. Whey Protein Concentrate (Whey Protein Concentrate, Soy Lecithin), Corn Maltodextrin, Cocoa Powder (Processed with Alkali), Natural And Artificial Flavor, Salt, Whey Protein Isolate, Carrageenan, Xanthan Gum, Acesulfame Potassium And Sucralose. Contains Milk And Soy Ingredients; Manufactured In A Facility That Processes Egg And Fish Ingredients. Protein Blend (Whey Protein Isolate, Hydrolyzed Whey), Cocoa (Processed with Alkali), Natural and Artificial Flavors, Polydextrose, Lecithin, Sucralose, Acesulfame Potassium. Contains: Milk and Soybeans. Whey Protein Blend (Whey Protein Concentrate, Whey Protein Isolate), Cocoa Powder (Dutch Process), Natural Flavors, Cellulose Gum, Lecithin, Xanthan Gum, Acesulfame Potassium, Sodium Chloride, Sucralose. No Artificial Colors, No Preservatives. Protein Blend (Micronized Whey Protein Concentrate, Whey Protein Concentrate, Whey Protein Isolate, Hydrolyzed Whey Peptides), Cocoa (Processed with Alkali), Sunfiber; Partially Hydrolyzed Guar Gum, Natural and Artificial Flavors, Lecithin, Polydextrose, Salt, Potassium Chloride, Acesulfame Potassium, Sucralose. Natural & Artificial Flavor (Cocoa), Maltodextrin, Xanthan Gum, Sucralose, Acesulfame Potassium. Contains: Milk & Soy. No: Eggs, Wheat, Nuts/Peanuts, Fish/Shellfish. Ultra-Premium Whey Protein Blend , maltodextrin, A cocoa powder, natural and artificial flavors, soy lecithin, Protein Digestive Enzyme Blend (papain, amylase), sucralose, flour salt, acesulfame-potassium. Contains milk, and soy ingredients. Processed in a facility that also processes egg, wheat and peanuts ingredients. Proprietary non-GMO protein blend (rice protein, pea protein and soy [isolated soy protein and fermented soy]), fructose, maltodextrin, tri-calcium phosphate, natural vanilla flavor, potassium citrate, magnesium oxide, guar gum, psyllium, oat bran, microcrystalline cellulose, spirulina, vitamin C, vitamin E (d-alpha tocopheryl acetate), choline bitartrate, inositol, apple pectin, bee pollen, niacinamide, vitamin A palmitate, zinc oxide, manganese sulfate, ferrous fumarate, calcium pantothenate, lecithin, lemon bioflavonoids, papaya, bromelain, chlorophyll, pyridoxine HCl, riboflavin, thiamine HCl, vitamin B12, vitamin D, folic acid, biotin, potassium iodide, chromium chloride, sodium selenite, sodium molybdate. Vegetarian, Yeast-Free Product. Whey protein concentrate, milk protein isolate, whey protein isolate, glycine, natural and artificial flavors, non dairy creamer (sunflower oil, corn syrup solids, sodium caseinate, dipotassium phosphate, mono and diglycerides, soy lecithin, silicon dioxide), cocoa, xanthan gum, guar gum, papain, bromelain, fructooligosaccharides, acesulfame potassium, sucralose, soy lecithin. Contains milk and soy. Sugar, Cocoa (Processed With Alkali), Maltodextrin, High Oleic Sunflower Oil, Buttermilk Powder, Gum Arabic, Cellulose Gel, Milk Protein Concentrate, Soy Fiber, Xanthan Gum, Soy Lecithin, Sodium Phosphate, Salt, Carrageenan, Dextrose, Potassium Phosphate, Artificial Flavor, Guar Gum, Acesulfame Potassium (Nonnutritive Sweetened), Aspartame, Vitamins And Minerals: Calcium Carbonate, Magnesium Oxide, Calcium Phosphate, Sodium Ascorbate, Vitamin E Acetate, Ferric Othophosphate, Niacinamide, Zinc Oxide, Calcium Pantothenate, Manganese Sulfate, Pyridoxine Hydrochloride, Thiamin Mononitrate, Vitamin A Palmitate, Chromium Chloride, Riboflavin, Biotin, Copper Gluconate, Folic Acid, Sodium Molybdate, Sodium Selenite, Phytonadione (Vitamin K1), Potassium Iodide, Cholecalciferol (Vitamin D3), And Cyanocobalamin (Vitamin B12). Sweetened With Nutritive Sweeteners And A Nonnutritive Sweetener. Contains Milk And Soy. May Contain Wheat. Phenylketonurics: Contains Phenylalanine. Please send questions and suggestions. I love hearing from you and truly want to help you do your program better. **********************************************************************
**Radiant Kitchen ** 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 ** We had a most interesting discussion last week about the role of chats in our recovery. We have shifted from thinking about chat as simply a *conversation* to a unique opportunity for a real-time Master’s interaction. Members were talking about what it means to them that they are able to work with me directly. Over time, the interaction has a pretty significant cumulative effect in making sense of the program. It was an amazing discussion and I think it clarified a lot for me. Like, what are we really doing here? At any rate, it is a nice opportunity. If you would like to join, come find us here **********************************************************************
**Radiant Living ** We have a new portal for the Radiant Living program. Come check it out here. The Radiant Living chats are geared for the topics other than *doing the food*...here is where we discuss things like clutter, families, going back to school, changing jobs, stepping in to big selves, counseling and a whole lot of other things. It is another *master* interaction where you get feedback from me, and from the senior members of the community. We ALWAYS have a wonderful time. If you would like to join us, you can do that directly below. Join Radiant Living Now: click here - $99 If you are not a member, come and join us if you want to be a part of the latest and greatest or just have some plain ol' fun! **********************************************************************
**Our Online Groups ** On the Radiant Step 5 list we talk about the importance of browns, about the different grains available - how to choose, how to cook, how to serve. We explore why for some of us wheat may not be the best alternative or not a good one. Step 5 can be exciting and you can learn how to introduce new things to resistant family members. We also call it the 'coming out' step since it's at this step that when we 'eat out' we may seem different to those not familiar with our program. **********************************************************************
**Building Clarity with Nanos on Stickies ** Kathleen DesMaisons, Ph.D.
In the past few months, it has seemed that I had so much to do that my head was spinning. All the conflicting demands of the things in my life just seemed to paralyze me. I got an idea of taking time to look at all of it systematically and see if I could understand why it felt so overwhelming. I had a planning pad that I had purchased for the New Year. It is kind of a huge sticky pad marked off in 5 columns. The whole right edge has a set of little 1 by 1 inch stickies in different colors. I figured I would do the opposite of the nano process by which we break a problem into smaller and smaller pieces. I would identify all the tiny small pieces, the nano's, and then put them into clumps so I could begin to see patterns.The use of the tiny stickies to write off the things I had to do was just like brainstorming today's “to do” lists. After about 20 minutes, I began to see patterns. So I put some column headers on the big pad: Golden Retriever Rescue, Radiant Recovery, The Store, Writing and Creative Things, Health and Fitness, Spirituality, Family, Play. Then I began to move the little stickies under the right columns. In 5 minutes, I saw that rescue needed a whole new sheet, so I moved all the rescue stickies to a 2nd big sheet. The same was true for the store and Radiant Recovery. As a moved all the stickies to the new sheets, I was floored at all the stickies everywhere. I thought, " Holy moley, Batman, no wonder you feel so paralyzed! This is way too much for you to be doing." I started to get brain fog. 
So I got up and did laundry, made lunch, went to the gym, took a nap. I came back to the big table with all the sheets. I took the rescue sheet first since it seems to have the least emotional charge. I decided on some columns: dog care dealing with potential adoptees, intake/placement, admin, finances, and legal. I moved all the stickies around until they were in the right place. I had a whole sheet covered with jobs and responsibilities. It was mind-boggling. I had to get up and walk around after that one. So I left it for a day and came back to the process the next day.
The next day I took on the task of sorting out all the stickies for the store. This included things like orders, fulfillment, admin, taxes, customer service, record keeping, and on and on and on I call it. I color-coded the stickies for the store into the things that David is responsible for and the things that I'm responsible for. And I sat and thought about this for a long time and then the next morning I asked David if he would like to go to lunch so that we could talk about all the stickies on this sheet. We had a wonderful time exploring what this sticky stuff meant. He added a few, I added a few. Then I asked him to rank his enjoyment and skill for each of them. We had one of the most interesting management conversations we've had in years. And I came away from that feeling as if the store is working just fine for the most part and I really could hand over to him and not be carrying all those cool stickies in my brain. By this time I had realized that I could mostly do the same thing for the rescue page. I could let things be quiet for a while, not take any new dogs and simply push the pause button for a while so that I could catch my breath.The energy that was flowing with all of this actually surprised me. All of a sudden I began to feel as if I had a set of manageable tasks, or at least parts that I could break down in such a way that they became manageable. Each time I handed over something or I took a sticky off, it freed up more and more energy for me. Then I looked at the columns on my process that were remaining. I saw that I had Radiant Recovery, my creative work, my spiritual practice, my health and fitness program, my friends and family, and play. By this time I was starting to laugh because it was really clear to me that part of my paralysis was a function of things being wholly distorted into my familiar overwork rather than having a balance of play, fun and working hard. I next spent some time with the health and fitness column. This actually is in pretty good shape. It includes things like doing the food, taking care of some minor health issues, and working my fitness program. So each of those stickies could get a check on them and then I was able to set that page aside. So now I had 3 pages that I had essentially taken off the grid and I could begin to turn my attention to the things that were left. 
In some ways it's hard to explain how joyful this process became. Originally I started doing it as a way to climb out of the hole that I felt I was in. But by combining my love of office supplies to help assess different colored stickies and find a pretty flexible and fluid way of looking at all the different pieces I discovered something that was incredibly fun. It was like doing a boardgame.I've included some pictures so that you can see what this looks like. Sometimes a visual is more helpful when we are presenting a new idea like this so you can see what the pages look like. I got the pad at my local office supply store. The stickies included with the original package were kind of useless because they kept falling off. So, of course,I had to go back to the store and buy some new brightly-colored stickies and a new gel pen in a different color so that everything would be color-coded. Anyway, it was a lot of fun. And in fact, the most exciting thing is that this entire article was written by transcription on my computer. This means that I set up my little microphone. Actually it's not so little it's called a snowball and is about the size of a softball and I can speak directly into it. The words get transmitted into a dictation program that writes out what I have said into text. And because my mother was in the theater and later became a speech teacher I learned at a very early age how to enunciate in a way that makes speech to text transcription very easy. And most exciting, it minimizes the number of typos made in the process. Ironic that Dragon Dictate types way better than Kathleen they may zone [Its only error, LOL. I left it for you to enjoy.] At any rate, you know that I love technology, you know that I love the art of making things that are tough simple, and most of all I love bringing joy dots into my life. 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!
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Gretel, our webmaster, puts it all together. David runs the Radiant Recovery® Store. mosaic 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 |
