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April 7, 2014 Hi {!firstname_fix} My lilac bushes are covered in tiny, tight buds. I will give them all water this afternoon. The peacocks are choosing partners with a lot of noise about who is the most beautiful. The morning doves are calling from the ground as they gobble the fallen seed. Pepper and Ronan are sleeping in the sun. I have been writing out our materials for Ranch. I decided it would be fun to give you things that you cannot get anywhere else. That has been a delightful challenge. And now I am drafting it into coloring book form. For those of you who do not know, last year we discovered that the interactive, multi-colored pen/crayon activity book far surpassed a powerpoint. It was voted in as a permanent institution for ranch. LOOKING FOR A VOLUNTEER: I have a little administrative task that involves gathering some information. If you have a little time and like details, I sure could use your help. Email me at kathleen@radiantrecovery.com. These classes will begin Wednesday, April 9, 2014. Please click on the name of the class and it will take you to the registration page:
These classes will begin Wednesday, April 16, 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 ** When you feel your worst and can't cope with anything, just go back to breakfast with protein every day. **********************************************************************
**Testimonial of the Week ** Oh Yasmine, how well do I relate to your story! I was really clever at black coffee and delaying... wouldn't have breakfast as I felt less 'together' if I did, and the whole thing made me feel efficient. Reading PnP, though, I began to see the biochemical cascade that held me in that pattern. No breakfast = BE cushion to protect me. And a bit of a BE puppy.  I was extremely smart at manipulating that. Oh, and I also had step 12356 in
'already' so thought perfect wasn't so far off LOL ... I think it was the support here that enabled me to actually get my mind on breakfast.So breakfast and me was not a happy experiment at first.  I was a bit grumpy and probably only did it to prove it wouldn't work. Well that's not quite true because I recognised every word of PnP and YLD and just hoped some magic would happen.Well, it did  despite all my doubts, and me thinking I was the one person on the planet who it wouldn't help.What are you having for breakfast today? mosaic **********************************************************************
**Radiant Life ** I can tell you, I fought the "within an hour" part for a couple of YEARS (I'm not kidding.) I'd been meditating for 25 years, and the "rule" was you meditate before you eat anything. Then I finally decided I just wasn't getting the results from the food that I had hoped for so I thought ... well ... maybe I'll eat first. Lo and behold, my morning meditations were actually BETTER after breakfast. And *I* felt infinitely better. Honestly, eating within an hour of getting up makes such a difference! I now have a routine where I get up, go into the kitchen, feed the cats, put my breakfast in my steamers and on the stove, set my timers, then take a shower and dress, and breakfast is ready exactly when I am. I know people who put their breakfast cereal in the crockpot so it's ready as soon as they get up, which I've also tried. My elaborate little ritual amuses me, but I can simplify it when I need to. When I travel I do everything in one steamer. You'll find a routine that works for you! Camille **********************************************************************
**Radiant Ambassadors **  Ranch is just a month away!! How exciting is that?!! I won't be there this year but if you are lucky enough to be going to Albuquerque, I'd love to hear what you say to people to tell them about it. Do you say that you are going on a retreat? A conference on sugar addiction? Meeting with friends? A seminar? Learning from the world-leading authority on addictive nutrition? LOL - thinking about it it's actually all of that and much, much more! Have a wonderful, wonderful time, won't you? Selena selenas@blueyonder.co.uk Come join us if you are excited about spreading the news. **********************************************************************
**How I Found Radiant Recovery ** Hi. My name is Catherine from Texas. I read Potatoes Not Prozac about 15 years ago. My then 7 year old was the reason I read it and found myself in the book. I have 3 years in AA (wow, a common theme) and have used journaling (but not about food!) and meditation to calm my daily anxiety. - I guess I'm on step 1, which needs to have more protein in it, and taking a half hearted leap at step 2. All while trying to be kind to myself. Glad to be here! **********************************************************************
** Radiant Recovery® Store ** David manages the Radiant Recovery® Store. He is also Kathleen's oldest son. 
My daughter LOVES this cookbook because the recipes are so easy to make. I have to admit that I love it too and have been known to cook from it. I make those waffles, then make a sauce with melted butter and the maple flavoring from here. That is good, good. It's a nice treat for Sunday morning breakfast.
Please send questions and suggestions. I love hearing from you and truly want to help you do your program better. **********************************************************************
**Radiant Kitchen ** 
In another bowl mix together oatmilk, eggs and butter. Add wet ingredients to dry and cook in waffle iron. For more great program-friendly recipes, check out our cookbook in the store and visit our online Radiant Recipes site. **********************************************************************
**Radiant YLD ** In this week's chat I was reminded of my dieting history, which in it’s later years turned into a vicious circle of trying to lose weight with a very low calorie liquid diet. I had forgotten what a miserable and painful existence that was! Now, what I LOVE about Your Last Diet is that it is a process that means you will NEVER diet again. The program heals the reasons why you are overweight. It walks you through the process to lose weight permanently and totally stop the pattern of yo-yo dieting. My goodness, what a joy. Eating real food, I love to eat and still lose weight.....and feel amazing in the process, I couldn’t be happier! Steph x If you would like to join, come find us here **********************************************************************
**Radiant Conversations ** We have a new portal for the Conversations program. Come check it out here. I think since it is springtime we need to be talking about play again (smile)...a springtime play list is in the works. Bring your ideas. If you would like to join us, you can do that below. Join YLD Weight Loss Now: click here - $99 Join Conversations 2011 Now: click here - $99 Join Both YLD and Conversations Now: click here - $149 Current YLD members wish to Upgrade to Both, click here - $49 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 ** The Radiantdepression group is all about support for the person who is depressed and trying to work Kathleen's 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. **********************************************************************
**Changing the Food Changes Everything ** Kathleen DesMaisons, Ph.D.
Albuquerque has a mountain to the East. It rises more than 10,000 feet. I see it out my windows. I watch the light change on it all day, every day. In the morning, the sun rises over it, in the evening, the moon comes up. At dusk, the sun in the West casts a purple light that lasts just a short time. The mountains light up. Sometimes I just sit in a chair on the front porch and watch the light moving on the mountain at dusk. I have a poster that I have had since college. It says: The mountain moving day is coming. I say so, though others doubt. Only a while the mountain sleeps. In the past All mountains moved in fire. Yet you may not believe it. Oh friend, this alone believe, all sleeping women now will awake and move. Yosano Akiko I went to college in the late sixties. It was a time of great turmoil and awakening. Women at that time were breaking out of old expectations. When I started college, we wore girdles and white gloves and had dorm mothers. Half way through, in the summer of '68, we came back and nothing was the same. Many of my friends were angry and taking action. I was reading South American educational writing called the "Pedagogy of the Oppressed" that talked about teaching literacy in the context of meeting people where they are. Teaching through meaning. I was writing an honor thesis about awakening the spirit of the person yearning to be whole. I was not in the streets those years. I was at home with infants. I dropped out of school and did mother things. When my children were tiny, I was a single mom going back to school and working full time. I was sleeping still in the demands of regular life, learning how to manage raising children, having a new career in public health, thrashing about in creative sugar sensitivity. That would mean the same things you all struggle with - mood swings, bouts of angst, bouts of brilliance and hope countered by despair and inadequacy. Not knowing about the food shaped everything. I had framed that poster. I always had it in my bedroom. I never really knew why except that it comforted me about that time in my life when everything had seemed so, so possible. Then I came to New Mexico and the mountain was there. The deepest part of me was stirred and I said, *I need to be there* and arranged my life to make it happen. The mountain spoke to me with her majesty. I felt as if her roots went as deep as her peaks. This made no rational sense. I was a woman of the sea. There was no ocean here, just that big rooted mountain sitting over there to the East. So I just did regular life, sitting here at my computer facing the mountain, answering email, connecting with all of you. And our community started to root, down deep like the mountain. We learned to trust our recovery, to trust one another, to trust this life so different from the old one. A life of peace and wisdom and humor. A life that is funny and connected and caring. You came to an annual seminar here. We called it *ranch* and even though it was held in a regular life little chain hotel, the mountain magic stirred you too. People said, *Well, what is the agenda anyway?* and I would say the official things because I couldn't really say, *come and meet the mountain please.* The mountain moving energy is now breathing us. It is a like a big rock that does not move no matter how things change around it. I had wondered about sharing this with you. Wondered what it would be like to tell you the story the way I am living it. Do I share the inside part and let you see what is beneath the story of the author writing about potatoes? Do I reveal that the story is bigger than just what you eat? That changing the food changes everything? I think changing the food means we see mountains, we feel mountains, we become mountains. The mountain moving day has come. 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. Selena provides the weekly Ambassadors column. Steph provides the Your Last Diet 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 |
