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July 19, 2010 Hi {!firstname_fix} I am on Long Island this week visiting my aunt and cousin who are the holders of the Irish family genealogy information. I have a little recorder and a scanner so I can gather some of the treasures for my ancestry.com activity. I have gone way far back with my mother's side of the family, and now want to start on my father's side. I am excited about this. This has been a week of a lot of settling. And that feels wonderful. This class will begin Wednesday, July 21, 2010. Please click on the name of the class you wish to join and it will take you to the registration page: Diabetes (2 weeks) is the class we do every so often for those of you who have diabetes as part of your story. If you want to learn how diabetes and sugar sensitivity go hand in hand, this is the class for you. This class will teach you about the numbers and the solution. We will have our community experts as teaching assistants so this is a wonderful opportunity to learn skills ideally suited for your recovery. These classes will begin Wednesday, July 28, 2010. Please click on the name of the class you wish to join and it will take you to the registration page: Radiant Step 1 (2 weeks) 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.  First Steps in Losing Weight (2 weeks) is a new and updated class for people who are interested in weight loss. This class will help you get focused, understand our process and outline the things you can be doing while you are in *readiness.*
The class schedule is online. Click here to see what is planned. Please wait to sign up for classes until a week or two before, and 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. 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 ** The wonderful thing is that you do not have to work on all those behavior things individually. You do not have to master your blood sugar and your serotonin and your beta-endorphin, you just “do the food.” When you do the food, your body and your process take care of the rest. **********************************************************************
** Testimonial of the Week ** Oh sure, Kath, I have plenty of things I can carry the spud in! I've been thinking about step 4 today and I think the thing that is so great about it is that it strengthens step 3 which strengthens step 2 which strengthens step 1. I think due to the increased serotonin and better sleep, impulse control and steadiness that the potato affords, my whole program is better. Only those with severe sleep disturbance can understand, being able to get a restful sleep is life changing! When I am in bed asleep for over 8 hours sometimes, I just revel in it! And to be able to do it so naturally is totally in line with my core belief system. I am a happy step-4 camper! :-) Jan **********************************************************************
** Radiant Ambassadors ** 
What’s your reaction to the following word? Wait for it! Here it is….Halloween. Now did that fill you with dread at the sugar laden ‘treats’ available or optimism about being able to choose to do Halloween differently this year?I know it’s not October yet, but it’s never too early to think about alternatives to the annual sugarfest. As we speak, Kat is hard at work discovering what information we plan to send to newspapers about alternative ways of celebrating Halloween. Do you fancy joining in the fun? What are your favourite non-sugar ways of celebrating Halloween? Selena Selenas@blueyonder.co.uk Come join us if you are excited about spreading the news. **********************************************************************
** How I Found Radiant Recovery ** I found out about Kathleen's work and PNP in Christiane Northrup's book Women's Bodies, Women's Wisdom. I read about it in the chapter on Food and thought, "Whoa! There may be something there I need to read!" I ran, not walked, the next day to the library and took the book out, and read it at one go - and felt like my life was between the covers of that book. THANK YOU SO MUCH, KATHLEEN!!!! Di **********************************************************************
** Radiant Kitchen ** And of course I put them into fried taco-shaped corn tortillas. :) But I know you can get brown rice tortillas that are larger like a flour -looking tortilla (usually found in the freezer section of your health food store).
And I put toppings into my taco’s that I like:
Patti For more great program-friendly recipes, check out our cookbook in the store. **********************************************************************
** Radiant Conversations ** We are having fun exploring the newsletter topics. We are also playing. Last week, I conducted chat from the picnic area of the Santa Fe Opera. We did *open mike* and, no surprise, we talked about MUSIC and discovered how many of us love it. Jim volunteered to set up a special web chat with audio for the people who want to share about their music. He is posting on the list about the plans. **********************************************************************
** Radiant Recovery® Store ** David manages the Radiant Recovery® Store. He is also Kathleen's oldest son.
We carry Cetyl M products for people, dogs and horses. It is really fabulous. Kathleen first learned about this product when she attended a national Golden Retriever show and saw a video about a dog who was crippled and returned to mobility with this product. I gave it to my arthritic dog, Pippen, and it transformed him We have carried it ever since. It is a great product. And the the material below is from: http://responseproducts.com/page.php?pageID=26&catID=10 I thought you might like to know a little more about the story behind this product: How this MIGHTY mouse opened a NEW door to joint health  Cetyl myristoleate—and its unique joint health properties—were first discovered by Dr. Harry Diehl, a research chemist at the National Institute of Health (NIH). It was during his research that Diehl discovered a family of Swiss albino mice with remarkably healthy joints and a surprising resistance to joint stress. He theorized that the mice carried a special trait and, ultimately, discovered the secret—their unique ability to synthesize cetyl myristoleate.In 1998, Dori and Gary Simonton of Response Products began a similar quest for joint health in people and their companion animals, most notably dogs and horses. Building on Diehl’s groundbreaking work with cetyl myristoleate, at long last they developed a new and better way to support joint health and function for people and their pets. Today, you and your companion animals can enjoy the benefits of cetyl myristoleate in a unique family of innovative joint action formulas specially designed for people, dogs and horses. This terrific story of joint health is playing out every day for tens of thousands of people, dogs and horses around the world. And to think it all started with a mouse! Unique Molecular Structure Makes the Difference Cetyl Myristoleate is a unique esterified fatty acid derived from myristoleic acid. Most animals—including people, dogs and horses—cannot make cetyl myristoleate on their own. To benefit from its unique joint health properties, it must be synthesized from myristoleic acid and administered orally or as a topical cream. In its raw, pre-synthesized form, cetyl myristoleate is found only in African Kombo Nut butter, whale fat and beef tallow. Please send questions and suggestions. I love hearing from you and truly want to help you do your program better. **********************************************************************
** 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. And we are discussing how to be gluten free on the program. All are welcome to join, no matter what other step you are on! **********************************************************************
**Sleeping Your Way to Radiance ** Kathleen DesMaisons, Ph.D.
When I first started doing my own plan, I thought that "getting" the program meant doing it fully, being diligent, following the instructions and not messing with it. I still held the belief that being disciplined and focused were the only ways to go. Now I am not so sure that these are the criteria for succeeding with the program. Now I am convinced that something else is operating, something a little more subtle and unexpected. I believe that showing up and being in relationship to your body will help you more than being tough on yourself. Let me outline how I got to thinking this way. I used to lead a ten-week guided imagery series called “Finding Healing From Within.” Each week, we would do a guided meditation. After the meditation, the participants would draw what they experienced, and the group would share their feelings. Sometimes a group member would sleep through every single meditation and make up a drawing because they had no memory of anything in the meditation. This made me really uncomfortable. Was I failing these people? Were they failing the group? Were they in denial? How could they sleep through my wonderful imagery? At the end of ten weeks, we reviewed the progress of everyone in the group. How had they changed? How did they feel? Surprisingly, time and time again, the sleepers would have as remarkable a change as the doers. Not once, not twice, but every single time. Ten weeks of sleeping through what I thought was the healing part of the work and they would report a profound sense of inner healing. They didn't work it. They slept through the meditation -- at least on a conscious level. But they were there. They showed up and they drew the pictures and they talked about their process. This experience taught me something. The act of showing up creates change. In fact, it creates powerful change even if on the outside it may not seem so. Making a commitment to healing starts a process -- a chain of events that is much deeper than we may think. When you vow, "I will get better," when you begin to hold the idea of being willing to do whatever it takes, then something starts to shift. Given this experience with my “sleepers,” I looked again at the effect that dalliance vs. diligence might have on the seven steps of healing sugar sensitivity. I started looking at my personal process of doing the steps. What was happening when I was playing around with them a little instead of being diligent? Could those times be like the sleeping times in my guided imagery class? Could change be happening in spite of what seemed to be my own inattention? I looked in my food journal and discovered something astounding. When I was attending to the steps, listening to my body, writing in my journal, even if I wasn't doing the food plan perfectly, change was happening. I was making progress even when I was being kinda sloppy. Think about those sleepers. The sleepers were there in the room with the rest of the group. Every week. They woke up, drew pictures with the group, and talked about sleeping. And when I showed up, kept my food journal, and wrote about sleeping through my food plan, I was still engaged with my body and working the steps. I was talking with myself about what was happening. I was not criticizing myself for food sleeping. I was simply noticing. And I kept coming back to the journal. I kept coming back to my body and my healing. The nature of the sugar-sensitive person is to give in when things get difficult. Like the C57 mice, you crouch in the corner and think you can't stick to your plan. Your biochemistry and your coping behaviors have supported learned helplessness. You hit hard stuff and you felt overwhelmed, unable to follow through the way you hoped. A thousand failed diets from the past reinforced these feelings. As soon as you catch yourself "sleeping," you say to yourself, "See, you did it again!" So you run away from the program, run away from yourself. You crouch and hide -- and then you abandon everything you have learned. This time it will be different, because knowing you are sugar sensitive lets you finally, finally understand the nature of who you are. Knowing you are sugar sensitive lets you shift the perspective from feeling bad about a thousand "failed" diets to being open to a solution. Think about that. You are tenacious. You keep going, you search and continue. You may be impulsive and impatient, but you can be and are committed to finding a solution. This program helps you use your tenacity in a new way. Because you finally understand why other diets haven't worked, you can start to make choices. You can change the voices that say, "I know this won't really work" into "Hmmmm, let's sort this out," "Why am I bored?" "Why don't I like doing the journal?" "Why do I sabotage my efforts?" Asking these questions becomes a part of your healing. They are not the same old tapes you have run about your inadequacy. They may be the same questions, but they are asked from a different perspective. Say to yourself, "I will do whatever it takes to heal this. I will give it time, money, energy, whatever it takes. Taking care of my food will be at the top of my list, not after my job, or after my family, or maybe when I get to it. But at the top of my list every day." You have made these affirmations a thousand times. But generally you make them in your head. You think about your affirmations, but you do not usually put the affirmations into action. What would it really mean to "do whatever it takes?" Here are the folks who are helping put the newsletter together:
Gretel, our webmaster, puts it all together. David runs the Radiant Recovery® Store. Selena provides the weekly Ambassadors column. ©2010 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/ |
