Coaching and online classes are the heart of our ongoing educational program. You get to interact with other sensitive people from across the globe and time zones. Both coaching and classes are conducted by email and you can interact when it is convenient for you. Most classes now run for four weeks. Signing up early will hold a place in the class. Check the schedule here. Coaching is available for intervals of 2-weeks.
Payment is due upon registration. If you find you cannot take the class at the time it is being offered, we will issue a credit for you to take another or the same class at a later date if we are notified within two days. After that, there will be no credits issued. Class and coaching fees are not refundable.
Shortly after you register and before a class begins, you will receive an autoresponder or an “invite” to join the Yahoo email group through which the class is being conducted. Please be sure to click on the link in the email to join the group.
Please read the Question and Answer Page for more information.
Ongoing Opportunity for Coaching
Radiant Coaching
This is a special offering for people who are serious about enhancing their programs and would like to have ongoing coaching. We will do individual assessments to sort out exactly where you are in the process. You will be guided in making your own individual plan. You can learn about journaling and adjusting your food for your own life needs – what to do when. You will be given tools and shown how to use them. This coaching is geared for people who are on steps one – three.
Radiant Coaching will be offered to small groups who stay together as they learn skills. There are options for small group coaching with Kathleen: apprentice and skilled. The fee is $20 per week billed at 2-week intervals. It is an unusual opportunity to work directly with Kathleen to maximize your skill in doing the steps.
Beta Endorphin
Learn how this chemical affects your self-esteem and why your capacity to cope may be directly related to your beta endorphin levels. A fascinating look at the part of the story that is most crucial to sugar sensitivity.
List of Online Classes
Using the Resources of the Community
This class will teach you all the ins and outs of the resources in the community. You will learn to navigate the community forum, learn how to use the resource center, check out Radiant Ranch, and learn your way around the website. You will be on your way with an invaluable resource in your pocket!
Radiant Step 1 Class
This is our core introduction class for those starting with the program. You will not only learn the basics of the 4 parts of Step One but will get expert guidance in adapting the parts to your own life, style, and readiness. This class will run for two weeks.
Radiant Step 2 Class
will teach you to learn how to choose the right journal, how to get motivated, what to include, how to know how you feel. You will confront shame and embarrassment, clear out old history and have fun in the process. This class is designed for those who are just getting started so you are not overwhelmed and can create a really fun tool for your recovery. This class will run for two weeks.
Radiant Step 2 Class: Level II
will teach you to be able to identify feelings and differentiate between physical and emotional feelings. This class is designed for those who have already gained skill in recording food. Most significantly, you will learn to make the connection between the food and the feelings. This class will run for two weeks.
What Else is Embedded in the Steps
This is a special class for all you newcomers who want to move on ahead quickly or for those of you who came to the program *already doing everything.* Find out what else is in the steps besides the food. You do not have to second guess anymore!! This particular class is one of our more special classes. Come and find the real treasure of the steps.
Serotonin
Learn all about the “just say no” chemical. Learn how your depression may be affected by your diet. Learn how to manipulate serotonin levels safely and with tenderness. A real hands-on lesson in feeling better.
Beta Endorphin
Learn how this chemical affects your self-esteem and why your capacity to cope may be directly related to your beta endorphin levels. A fascinating look at the part of the story that is most crucial to sugar sensitivity.
Dopamine
A first look at sugar sensitivity and dopamine. Learn about the fourth leg of the story and see if this is your missing piece.
Amygdala
A special class on brain function. Learn how your amygdala shapes your feelings and recovery. Learn how to transform fear, reactivity, and doom into joyfulness. Once again, Kathleen will take a very complex topic and make it fun and easy to understand.
Restoring Your Brain After Stimulant Abuse
A NEW class for those of you who come to the community with a history of drug use or abuse. You have stopped using and want to do the food, but it seems as if there is more to the story for you. There is. Drugs alter brain function and even after you stop, there are residuals that can have a huge effect on your life. We will look at drugs like amphetamines, marijuana, cocaine, opioids, and benzodiazepines. You will learn what neurotransmitters these affected, what the residuals are, and how to heal. Finally, you will be able to make sense of why you just can’t seem to get traction with your recovery.
Healing Insulin Resistance
Insulin resistance is a key component in gaining weight and being vulnerable to diabetes. I did a whole series on this a number of years ago, but have recently come across some very interesting new information about some foods that help to reverse insulin resistance. I went and read the original research articles and I was fascinated and thought you would LOVE hearing out this. You will learn what insulin resistance is, and very concrete specific things you can do and eat to reverse it. If weight loss or pre-diabetes is a concern for you, this will be a great class.
Radiant Reflux Healing
A special class to explore ways of healing reflux using dietary and behavioral change. Really understand your reflux and learn what you can do to help yourself and heal
Healing Grief
We will explore how to come to reconciliation about the loss of people or animals or places or things that are dear to us when we are choosing not to anesthetize ourselves. It will be about letting go, grieving deeply and letting the pain wash through us without having to ‘do’ or ‘take’ something. Come to learn about ‘complicated bereavement’ and how it relates to what many of us are going through right now. The class will go longer than 2 weeks…we will go slowly and take time for healing.
Self Care and the Art of Success in Doing the Steps
This is a very special class for people who are serious about their healing. We will explore the key factors in succeeding with the program. We will talk about the willingness and what that means in the fact of working with your food. We will talk about fear and resentments that get in the way of your progress. The class is geared for those who want it to work. It doesn’t matter what step you are on now. This is a great way to get mobilized.
Radiant Heart Care
This class will help you understand your *heart* story and how it relates to your food. It will give you a safe place to talk about your diagnoses, your medications and your relationship to your care providers. We will look at how to develop a healing plan that looks at your food, your exercise, supplements that might enhance your program and best ways of collaborating with the Health Professionals. I am particularly interested in the role of grief and sorrow in our heart stories. This class is part of the new design of class that will go for a month at a time and will be defined and developed by the needs of the people in the class.
Hormones
I have had a number of people talk to me about getting help with the great hormonal shift of menopause and peri-menopause. I spent a long time researching material for you and then distilled it into an understandable and clear curriculum. Come to do problem-solving and get great answers.
Radiant Reflections
A special class we do each year to remember what this time of year is about. It is a way for us to connect to the light in the darkness. I think this year, the practice and the message of this class is particularly appropriate. You are all invited to join regardless of your religious tradition or background. Love to have you. It is very settling.
The Addiction Amoeba
So you have gotten the food steady and are ready to take a look at the other stuff — gambling, debt, shopping, work, money, sex, you name it. A tender look at the biochemistry of these and how doing the food is going to help all of them.
Language of Recovery
A number of people in the Family and Friends group have asked me about doing a special class on the language of recovery. They have shared with me how useful it has been to work through complex family situations when they have practiced *recovery scripts* like, *I am sorry, that won’t work for me.* Here will be your opportunity to come and do case studies of weathering dysfunctional family patterns and finding new ways to deal with what seem to be entrenched interactions. This class will be highly interactive so make sure to get your place.
Clearing Clutter
A specialized support class to getting your soul clutter all cleaned up. TThis new class is for people who have already worked on physical *stuff* and are ready to tackle emotional and mental clutter- the unneeded things that take up space.This is an opportunity to face your stuff and be supported in letting it go.
Radiant Play
Learning how to play is a key part of recovery. Many of us lost this skill when we stepped into addictive behavior. Come to remember the joy of it.
Radiant Family and Friends
This is a class for members of the community who have family or friends who are alcoholic or dysfunctional. We will be dealing with finding healthy ways to support our loved ones, maintain our own sanity and be part of recovery in a healing way. This class is open to people who have been steady on step 3 for at least 6 months.
Radiant Introversion
A class which has grown out of your teachings. One year at ranch you sat with me and talked about what life is like for you. I have taken that material, added the brain component, and put together the implications for sugar sensitives.
Radiant Coaching/Skilled
This class is a new class which will be an ongoing skilled coaching class for people who are experienced with steps 6/7 and really want to amp up their programs. We will look at the magic bowl system, adjusting food for exercise, exercise, journaling, joy dots, and whatever else the *trainees* want. It is an opportunity to have Kathleen’s personal ongoing coaching in real time. Take the tidbits you get at chats and expand them into personal applications for YOUR program in real time. You get to choose how long you want to do this, and what use to make of your coach. This is a serious commitment to change. This class is not open to everyone, you will have to request participation and provide an application about why you are ready to take on this challenge.
Radiant Coaching Apprentice
This is a special offering for people who are serious about enhancing their programs and would like to have ongoing coaching. We will do individual assessments to sort out exactly where you are in the process. You will be guided in making your own individual plan. You can learn about journaling and adjusting your food for your own life needs – what to do when. You will be given tools and shown how to use them. This coaching is geared for people who are on steps one – three.
The fee is $20 per week billed at 2-week intervals. It is an unusual opportunity to work directly with Kathleen.
Radiant Coaching Return
is a specialized coaching group for members of the Radiant Recovery® community who have been on Step 7 and got distracted. This is a specialized coaching group that will work with Kathleen directly.
Periodically, classes will be offered to YLD members. If you are interested in joining the Radiant Your Last Diet Program, you can find information here. Then you will be able to join the radiantyourlastdiet support group through which the classes will be held.
The classes will be announced in the newsletter.