 Hi {!firstname_fix} This morning I was writing at my desk and Ronan was out in the yard barking and barking at the sky. So I went out and there was a beautiful rainbow colored balloon right over the house. And the sun was just up enough over the mountain to catch the colors in the balloon. The air is cool and clear, so clear. Morning balloons tell me that Fall is coming. Things have just shifted a bit. These classes will begin Wednesday, August 6, 2008. Please click on the name of the class you wish to join and it will take you to the registration page: Step 3: Three Meals (1 week) is one of our core classes. This is a skilled based class. If you want to learn the baby steps of a successful step 3, come join us. This class is ALWAYS fun. Using Radiant Resources (1 week) is for those of you who are brand new and would like to find your way around town. Come sit on the top of our double decker bus for a guided tour. And even if you are not brand new, this is a really fun class to reconnect with all the treats of the community. These classes will begin Wednesday, August 13, 2008. Please click on the name of the class you wish to join and it will take you to the registration page: Store Tour (1 week) is a free guided tour of the store. David will be leading this class so if you want to get to know the guy that makes it all work, come sign up. This is his first teaching experience, so you can show your support for the work he does to keep you happy. Step 1: The Art of Breakfast (1 week) is our foundation class to get you started. Learn all four parts of step 1 in a structured way. Learn how to progress through them with enjoyment. Let us support getting your program off to a fabulous start. YLD Weight Loss in Action (2 weeks) is the *let’s do it!* class for YLD members who are ready to rock on losing weight in a healthy and focused way. This class will not actually start until Sunday, the 17th. So when you sign up, remember we won't start for a few days. If you are on disability or low income (your household income is less that $1000 a month), you may take classes for free if you get certified. I have put the guidelines for certification on the class schedule page. The class schedule is on line. Click here to see what is planned. Please do not sign up for classes that are not yet scheduled. A number of you have asked me how the classes work. Check the class list page for more information on this. The classes are done online and you do not have to be at your computer at any set time. It does not matter whether you are in the US, Europe, the Far East or Australia, you simply respond on your own time. And although I advertise that the classes are one or two weeks, sometimes we are a little flexible and they may run longer. 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. Please feel free to pass this week's newsletter on to your friends and family. Don't forget to let me know what you like and would like to see me cover. Be sure to visit our Radiant Recovery¨ website and Community Forum regularly. Warmly, Kathleen **********************************************************************
August 4, 2008 ** Quote From Kathleen **
Don't forget the details. They will point the way to healing. *********************************************************************
** Testimonial for the Week**
For some reason your post sent me off into thinking of all the ways this program is Backwards Land. Everything we think is the problem, we don't work on. Binges a problem? Give it the silent treatment. Eat a different breakfast. Sugar a problem? Give it the silent treatment. Eat a different breakfast. Overweight? Give it the silent treatment. Eat a different breakfast. Learn maintenance first. Depressed? Give it the silent treatment. Eat a different breakfast. Psycho mood swings? Give it the silent treatment. Eat a different breakfast. Lethargic or fibro? Eat a different breakfast. How free-ing and fun really. Connie ********************************************************************
**Radiant Ambassadors** We are being tutored in how to write press releases. It is fun to be learning new skills. And even more fun to do it together. Come join us if you are excited about spreading the news. ********************************************************************
**Radiant Kitchen**
I LOVE picnics. This is one of my all time favorite recipes for picnic use. Before you start the chicken, set up your rice cooker to make 2 cups of brown rice. Start with a roasted chicken or 2 whole bone-in skin-on chicken breasts that you prebake. Then tear the cooked chicken into chunks. Now you add stuff you like. Some people use 2 medium ribs of celery (I don't like celery), 2 medium scallions, 1 medium granny smith apple, cut up, and 3/4 cup of nuts. I use almonds, some people use walnuts. Add 3/4 - 1 cup mayonnaise and 1 1/2 - 2 TBS of lemon juice. If you are not yet on step 6, you can add raisins. Mix everything together. Serve the chicken salad on the brown rice. kathleen
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**Your Last Diet: More Than What You Think**
YLDonline is a membership program run directly by Kathleen DesMaisons herself. Well the funny little class called *diethead* is continuing. Who would have thought that a class with such a strange name would be life-changing. Who would have thought that a weight-loss program would give birth to this kind of healing? I just want to give a public thanks for your wisdom, grace and willingness to share your healing with us in the class. If you are not a YLD member, come and join us. Click here if you are ready to change your life or just plain ole have fun. ********************************************************************
**Radiant Recovery Store **
David manages the Radiant Recovery Store. He is also Kathleen's oldest son.
Please send questions and suggestions. I love hearing from you and truly want to help you do your program better. ********************************************************************
**Our Online Groups**
Radiant Euro is an online support group for our members living in Europe. We have some folks in Italy, Cyprus, Slovenia, Germany, France and Holland and I thought it would been really fun to have a special list for you. Come join us and see what fun we are having. ********************************************************************
**Structure as Antidote**
Kathleen DesMaisons, Ph.D. Many people come to Radiant Recovery saying they are already doing most of the steps and just need to add a potato. I often suggest they get a copy of the talk I did at ranch in 2007 about what else is embedded in the steps. That discussion goes through each step and outlines the biochemical changes encoded in each step. But there is another key issue – one I haven’t really talked about. Structure antidotes blind lurching. When we are in active addiction, it is as if we lose our center and we stop being grounded. We lurch from one thing to another. Maybe from diet to diet, job to job, person to person, place to place or interest to interest. We have 6 knitting and crafts projects going on. We present ourselves as creative and curious, liking to try new things. We collect little things like offices supplies or pens in case we need them. We lurch and resist being pinned down. We might say that structure ties us down, thwarts our creativity. Structure seems dull and old fashioned. It seems routine and boring and who would want to do that. Nowhere in our brain have we thought of our behavior as lurching. We never really thought that a little of this and a little of that might be saying something about our sugar addiction. Why is it that we dream big and stay small? Why is it that those sparks of insight and knowing sputter and fade rather than bursting into our passionate flame? My hunch is that we have avoided the gift of structure. We haven’t considered that structure, doing things in an intentional order might actually shape us. And it might change the lurching to intention. If you do this, you will get this result. Now think about that. For so many years, we have worked how to forget the consequence of our actions. We forget that if we eat sugar, or skip meals we get cranky and unpleasant. We forget that we lose direction and we lurch. We forget a lot. So when we have structure, we stop lurching and we do not lose direction. Even early on in the program, when we are still forgetting because of our biochemistry, the structure itself guides us. The steps, those funny steps, lead us into intention. They guide us with if you do this, you will change. If you do these steps, you will have a life you cannot imagine. Everything will shift. And it will shift in ways beyond anything you have considered. Now, many of you may feel that this is simply talk. It is not. We now have enough people who are doing the steps for a long enough time that it is really, really clear that there is a developmental pattern that emerges very predictably over time. The promises we make happen. The steps are bigger than the food. Don’t think of changing them. Do them, do them and get the miracle. ©Kathleen DesMaisons 2008. Here are the folks who are helping put the newsletter together: Gretel, our webmaster, puts it all together David, who runs the Radiant Recovery¨ Store talks about what new products we have. 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.htm. ©2008 by 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 and use this attribution: "By Kathleen DesMaisons, Ph.D. of Radiant Recovery¨. Please visit Kathleen's website at http://www.radiantrecovery.com for additional resources on sugar sensitivity and healing addiction." Please notify me at kathleen@radiantrecovery.com to let me know where the material will appear. Banner Photograph by Geraint Smith |
