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June 27, 2011 Hi {!firstname_fix} It has been a time of profound inner work for me. The end of June and then July is always like this every year. This year, I can barely catch up to the pace. But I love having the skills and the steadiness to do it. Bless the food for that. I also have moved into writing mode big time. This always brings me close to my heart self. Now it is simply making the time. These classes will begin Wednesday, June 29, 2011. Please click on the name of the class and it will take you to the registration page: The Addiction Amoeba (2 weeks) - a specialized class to learn how other addictions are connected to sugar- and white-things- addiction. We have extended the sign up time a week for this to allow those of you who want to come in to catch up. 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. Radiant Step 5 (2 weeks) is one of our favorites. Learn the art of whole grains. Get lots of information that you won't find anywhere else. I picked the brains of one of the world's leading *brown* experts for this class. And remember you can enjoy learning about browns any time...you don't have to wait until you are on step 5. This class will begin Wednesday, July 6, 2011. Please click on the name of the class and it will take you to the registration page: Radiant Step 2: Skillful Use (2 weeks)is the next level of journaling. This is for those of you who know *how* and want to learn what to do with your data. This class shows you how to interpret what you have written in an exciting and pragmatic way. 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 ** Beta-endorphin is immensely powerful. It can drive you inexorably toward deeper addiction - or raise your spirits to a level of health that you may never have known before. **********************************************************************
** Testimonial of the Week ** Hi All, I've been doing all 4 parts of breakfast for 21 days.. and something happened this morning. I woke up and felt.. hmmm I don't even know how to put it into words.. maybe 'normal'? Like no headache or fog or something being not quite right.. just 'normal'! It felt gooood :) What I've noticed after 21 days...
Leeann **********************************************************************
** Radiant Ambassadors ** 
Every so often I have a look at Potatoes not Prozac on Amazon UK, just to see how well it is doing in the overall book rankings.Last week it had climbed to number 4 in the depression book section! Not only that, it was at number 23 in the medical sciences section and 39 in weight loss. Number 39 in weight loss is absolutely phenomenal - that's such a large section LOL! And - wait for it - it was at number 1,927 overall in the entire book section - there must be hundreds of thousands of books sold on the website - big yay!! Word is definitely getting out! Why not come on over to the ambassadors list and help us to explore more ways of spreading the word :) Selena selenas@blueyonder.co.uk Come join us if you are excited about spreading the news. **********************************************************************
** How I Found Radiant Recovery ** My therapist gave me a book to read, The Anxiety And Phobia Workbook by Edmund Bourne. It had one or two chapters about how nutrition affects moods, and some book recommendations. I went to check one of them, Sugar Blues, to Amazon uk, and saw PNP in the recommendations there. I almost always check the recommendations also, especially read the reviews. So I ended up ordering both Sugar Blues and PNP. This was some time before last Christmas. Then on Christmas holiday I read PNP, and of course it was like "BANG"! We got home from the holiday trip, and I came to check the forums, and joined step 1 list. LOL I still haven't read the Sugar Blues book! Sometimes it amazes me how many "random" things needed to happen so that I found this place. Sometimes it scares me. It was assertiveness that I was supposed to check in the anxiety book. The therapist had given me some copied pages earlier, but I wanted more, it wasn't all there was about assertiveness in that book. What if he had copied the rest of that part, and hadn't been lazy and told me to take the whole book? What if I hadn't just wanted to devour the rest of the book? What if I hadn't checked the Sugar Blues book? What if I hadn't seen the PNP recommendation? I'm so happy happy happy that I did all those things that led me here, this is a good place to be. -Outi **********************************************************************
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** Radiant Kitchen **
Mix crumbs, salt and pepper in bowl. Dip the chicken pieces first in either milk or egg and then dip them in the breadcrumbs to coat. Place chicken on an ungreased cookie sheet (or place on parchment paper for easier cleanup). Bake 7-9 minutes until cooked through, but not overcooked. These freeze very well so you can make larger batches and freeze packages of them for later. **Variation (Substitute for breadcrumbs): 1/3 cup cornflake crumbs 1/2 cup finely chopped pecans For more great program-friendly recipes, check out our cookbook in the store and visit our online Radiant Recipes site. **********************************************************************
** Radiant YLD ** Chats last week were intriguing. And the euro chat was so different from the US chat. Make sure to read both. We are facing the role of shame in our process. I think it is exciting and scary at the same time. But golly, what a gift to be getting down to the nuts and bolts of what gets in the way. Our story is hardly just about learning how to count calories. There is not a person in YLD who isn't an expert in that stuff. This is the *other* stuff that we never learned in weight watchers, LOL. I feel so blessed to be doing this with you. Make sure you check the new YLD portal and read the blog so you can see what chat will bring this week. If you would like to join, come find us here **********************************************************************
** Radiant Conversations ** And conversations, oh my oh my. We will be moving back to some of the other themes that circle around being our big selves. I love what is happening in the after-chat dialogues. I love how you are making sense of all of this, adding to it and enriching the story. And, like YLD, we have a new portal and a blog so you can learn about chat beforehand. The introverts can have time to reflect. 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 Current YLD members who wish to Transfer to Conversations 2011 Only can do so for a $14.99 admin fee: click here 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 ** Radiant Abundant Program on Less is a specialized group for people wanting to do the Radiant Recovery® program with limited funds. This list supports doing the program abundantly with learning to find creative resources and building skills that enable us to do much more with our programs, with less. We have some people in this group that are very skilled in doing a lot of program on a shoestring budget, that love sharing how it's done - while having fun in the process too. "When I first started the program it was with an extremely small amount of money for food; and I didn't think I could build a strong program and experience such deep healing without spending a lot, but then found that it truly can be that way.. and really doesn't have to be hard. I also had never imagined I could ever love what I eat so much or feel such abundance and richness on my table like I do!" Diane If you are afraid you can't do the program with a low income, would like to share in how to do more food with less, want to do some concrete problem solving and/or explore how to build the most powerful breakfast and program with limited funds, we will love to help. Please come join us. **********************************************************************
**The Power of Shame in our Healing ** Kathleen DesMaisons, Ph.D.
In one of our chats, I talked about the power of shame. I thought it would be fun to share a little of that with all of you again. I asked folks to think about the thing they were more ashamed of in their lives. Then I asked how that image made them feel. Almost everyone described feeling sick to her stomach. This is a big clue. A VERY big clue. If you have something that makes you feel sick to think of, it is a crucial part of your life. You spend a lot of energy to stay away from those feelings. Make a list of the things that are sitting there eating away at you. These things can be your debt, your unpaid bills, your credit report, the people you hurt, the affair you had, the things you took, being fat, bingeing, purging, compulsive sex, the way you hide food and eat it in the car so no one knows, computer porn, gambling and a thousand other things. Think of the points of shame as little black holes that suck your energy. And dealing with them seems impossible. They are too big, too bad, too horrible, horrible to even look at, let alone heal. Shame is about hiding. And when you hide, the energy flows into the black hole so you procrastinate. You put the bills in the drawer. You say I will start a diet on Monday or my birthday or the first of the year. You hide the feelings of your inadequacy. You never, ever tell the depth of the repulsion and disgust about how you look. You literally *suck it up* which means you pour your energy down into the black hole. Now there is a reason for this. Mostly you are around people who add to the shame. You KNOW that they will think badly of you. If you ever really knew....and you find the people or the institutions who reinforce that message so by the time you are grown ups, you are pretty well entrenched with the hiding. However, here is the irony. Whatever you think is the worst is usually the most shared. Think about the relief you felt when you connected with the community and discovered thousands of people who hid the candy wrappers under the top pile of the trash or who threw the empty vodka bottle on someone else’s lawn. We are able to talk about the shame of being fat or being out of control with the food. But we still hide the other stuff. However, it really is no different, comes from the same place. But old patterns get etched in. And they stay to reinforce your belief that at core you really are a bad person. You aren’t really a bad person at all, you may have some grimy stuff to clean out. But it is no different than a grimy barn. It just feels that way. SHAME=HIDING HIDING=PROCRASTINATION PROCRASTINATION=SHAME It is a circle that goes round and round. And there is a way out. ACCEPTANCE = DISCLOSURE DISCLOSURE = MOBILIZATION MOBILIZATION = ACTION When we talked about this in chat, several people wondered about how to know what appropriate disclosure might be. Part of being sugar sensitive is either never telling or telling way too much. As you do the food, you begin to share little bits in the right place. You share in places where you will not be judged or put down. You share with people who understand and do not reinforce your shame patterns. As you do this, something incredible happens. The energy that has been going into the black hole comes streaming into your life. Everything is different. And then the lightness you feel goes into the other places. Click, click, click one at a time, the places of shame can be healed. It may take a while to get the power of this. But once you do, nothing is the same. 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. ©2011 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/ |
