Hi {!firstname_fix}

My, my, you all decided that YLD was THE thing.. Nothing like getting frantic phone calls at 10 PM on Monday night. Do you think we are sugar sensitive or what!! I am thrilled to have all you newcomers and we are amping up to greet you.

Also, I took the abuse articles and made them into one. You are welcome to copy this and pass it around. Just make sure you give credit.

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.

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And be sure to visit our Radiant RecoveryŽ website and Community Forum regularly.

Warmly,
Kathleen

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September 5, 2004
** Quote From Kathleen **

All this work will create enormous gains for you. As you *do the food* you are going to reconnect with your birthright.

(I am leaving this one so you all can understand our testimonial)

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** Testimonial for the Week**

Hi folks.....in last weeks newsletter Kathleen's quote of the week says, "As you *do the food* you are going to reconnect with your birthright." Call me stupid, but I don't have a clue what reconnecting with your birthright means. I have a vague image what this might mean but I have to tell ya I'm really a bozo on this one. Could someone enlighten me....I might be missing something important here.........your bozo buddy ted

Hey Ted! Love your honesty.

Birthright! Ok...that is how we are before sugar, alcohol, drugs, work addiction get to us. Playful, funny, confident, supple, resilient, exploratory. Eat for the joy of it, want to learn everything. Life is a miracle. Think perhaps of a 3 year old next to a fountain. Mom having coffee with a good friend. Little one is safe, sitting on the terrace enchanted with the leaves floating in the water. That is all there is. The moment.

Perhaps you cannot imagine that for an adult. Here is another picture. Sitting on the porch in the early morning watching the sun rise over the mountains. The dogs are playing bite the head in the yard. The sky is blue. I am not fretting, do not feel fat, am not in angst over bills or what I have to be. Not concerned about whether my children are doing well with their lives. I am just there in that moment enjoying the light and the dogs.

It is not cosmic. But it is the food. If my program wobbles, I do not see blue sky or funny dogs. I see too much to do, not enough time, getting older, feeling creaky, worrying about money or retirement or whatever. Not the same.

Being, like the boy at the fountain.

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**Your Last Diet: More Than What You Think**

My, oh my are we having fun. Monday night chat was a hoot with lots of new people. We affectionately call it herding cats. But since Patti is a kitty expert, she was in her element. I just love the dialogues we have. You are vibrant, funny, willing and a joy to work with. All the YLD lists (Foundation, YLD Core, Step7, Weight loss and bbb) are rockin these days. Ah, you want to know what bbb is? Big, bad and beautiful is for folks on the larger end of the continuum. Man, you are funny!

Watch for our revised access page. I am working on it. In the meantime, members can access all resources by clicking on the YLD Members link on the Radiant Recovery home page. And don't forget to go browse the chat archives and see what fun gets reported there. Let me know if you have questions.

http://www.radiantrecovery.com/YLD_signup.htm

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**Radiant Ambassadors**

I had a chance to tell a friend tonight about LSA. She came over for a massage and we were talking about her kids -- her daughter (adopted) has major issues with anxiety, impulse control, and depression due to drug exposure in utero. I know the girl is on several meds and is doing pretty well overall, but she is 11 now, and the Hormone Fairy is arriving on little winged feet, and things are getting a little more unstable again.

Anyway I asked if they had tried nutritional approaches with the daughter. She said they had, somewhat, many years ago, but the girl's problems and issues seemed too big for whatever they tried at the time, and it was starting to become a real power struggle. "But", said the mom, "I'm getting worried, because she's showing signs of becoming a serious sugar addict." She'd given the girl a bowl of oatmeal the other morning, turned around and she'd put a "horrendously large" amount of brown sugar on it. She said she'd called the girl on it and her response was, "no, it's not too much, it's good this way"!!! My friend was just shuddering as she told me this.

"I have a book for you," I said. :-). As I pulled LSA out of my stack I started telling her about Kathleen's work. My friend was totally open to hearing what I told her, and seemed to think it made a great deal of sense. She's already convinced that sugar is a drug, very much understands the connection with the brain chemistry, and she was REALLY grateful that I sent her home with my copy of LSA (smile) Her comment was "hmmmm, looks like I came over here for more than a massage tonight!"

Val

If you love the program, consider joining the ambassador group. We are having a blast!

Come find us among the Online Groups

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**David's Corner **


Back to school time means you are thinking about your kids! Me too. Try our cheese snacks in backpacs.

If you don't have your kids on the children's DHA yet, it is a great product. Check out Nordic Naturals great newsletter on the DHA and how it can help your kids.


Please send questions and suggestions for items you might like to see in our store. YOU are building our store. Tell me what you want and we will sort it out.

Thanks
David

And of course, we have something for everybody in our store


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**Featured Topic**
Step 3 Musings
by Martha Carnahan

 I was thinking today about what Shazza said about Step 3 baby steps, and Holly's phrase "incremental substeps."

At the same time I was thinking of this, I was driving across town to a place I had never been before (aren't you all thrilled to know that I carry you around in my car with me?! LOL)

The woman had sent me directions, which of course I didn't read until I got into the car. As I'm pulling out of my street, I glance down at them and it is totally overwhelming. She must have named every cross street I was going to pass over, every landmark, every roadsign. Lots of detail, and there were lots of turns.

I'm pretty good with directions, but this was a bit too much for me to take in. I started to feel like this would be impossible, but then I thought... Okay, I know I need to go up I-75 and take Mt. Paran Rd. From my side of town, that will take me a good 20 minutes of driving and that is ALL I need to worry about for now.

So I did that, able to concentrate on driving, not worried about what would happen when I got to my exit. When I got to Mt. Paran, I took the exit and pulled into the first gas station I saw. I read through the next set of directions and got back on the road and followed those. Then, the last few turns were in a neighborhood, so I could go really really slow and read at the same time. I got there, didn't get lost once, was right on time, and was very calm and collected.

If I had stayed focused on ALL the directions at the beginning of my trip, I would have been driving with this "fretting" going on in the back of my mind. Putting me and other drivers at risk because I would be less attentive to the moment at hand. I probably would have gotten lost, because I my fretting brain would not have allowed me to stop and calmly review the last portion of the directions at that point in the drive.

And I would have been frazzled when I got there, and not as attentive to the business at hand. I would have distracted the other people I was meeting with with a tale of "getting lost."

SO! Whether we call it "baby steps" or "incremental substeps" or "turn-by-turn driving directions," the thing that my driving experience has in common with doing the food is: When we focus just on the step we are on, we can do it FULLY and we can move masterfully to the next step/turn, and when we get to the end we are not frazzled.

When we are at the beginning of step three, and already trying to get our heads around the final phases of this one step... We get distracted and frazzled, start to fret and forget to make the turn in front of us. We get lost.

There you go... Just wanted to share the musings that came up for me as I was driving to the other side of Atlanta today. :-)

Martha

ŠKathleen DesMaisons 2004.