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March 25, 2013 Hi {!firstname_fix} There is a small dog lying in my front yard. She is on a mound of dirt that is the same configuration as her dog bed. It is sunny and she looks as if she is sunbathing. Dogs are so in the moment. This weekend has been a blur of activity for the store. George's Original arrived on Friday at 2 PM. We got the boxes off the truck and into our shipping room. David had mailing labels ready, boxes ready, shipping peanuts set to go and we started an assembly line. Eighty percent of everything went out Friday afternoon, the rest on Saturday morning. I think the post office was confused since it was middle of the month activity. I am happy that our supply is back and thrilled at the improvements in both our products. Feels like the rest of life can get settled too. These classes will begin Wednesday, March 27, 2013. Please click on the name of the class and it will take you to the registration page:
These classes will begin Wednesday, April 3, 2013. Please click on the name of the class and it will take you to the registration page:
The class schedule is online. Click here to see what is planned. I will be adding the schedule for the rest of the year later this week. 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 ** Imagine a life of being healed rather than swirling. Breakfast starts it. The steps will create it. **********************************************************************
**Testimonial of the Week ** This week marks my 4th anniversary on this wonderful journey. All week I have been thinking about the many changes in my life since I began to "do the food." One of the biggest changes for me is that I am satisfied with just three meals and my spud. I no longer keep going back out to the kitchen to look for "something" to eat after dinner. I no longer get up in the middle of the night and go out to the kitchen to eat. Usually if I wake up I don't even go out for a drink of water. I have begun to keep a bottle of water beside my bed. I never eat between meals except on a rare occasion. That will happen if I for some reason I do not eat enough food at my meal. Then I will have a program friendly snack because I don't like feeling hungry. Last night I slept through for six and a half hours. This is happening more and more often. Before I began the steps I would wake up every forty-five minutes to make a trip to the bathroom. Many times I would then go out to the kitchen and have a snack. I have worked on the same job for over thirty years. For the last few years before starting the steps I hated my job. Now I wake up every morning excited to go to work. I love my job again and that makes me very happy. From the time I was twenty I took medicine for high blood pressure. For the last two plus years I have had normal blood pressure and I no longer take medication to control the pressure. I suffered for years with migraine headaches. Now I never even get a regular headache. I used to have swollen feet and ankles that just about brought me to tears. Sometimes my feet swell up a little. Usually they are fine now. I even have space between my toes. No longer do I suffer from backaches or IBS. Both of which I suffered with for many years. I am not cranky and my moods are very steady. All along I thought I was cranky because I was getting older. My choices in clothing colors has changed quite a bit over the last two years. Before starting on this journey I wore black all the time. I would have a black blouse with some color in it, but for the most part black was my color choice. Now I choose bright colors and pastels. I had some highlights put in my hair and doing that made me feel like a million dollars. For the most part I take care to dress and look my best. Of course I still have some days where I don't care so much how I look (smile). That is an indicator that I need more rest or more protein. I have energy and enjoy life. I love to get up in the morning and watch the sunrise. I find joy in the smallest of things. I socialize more than I did in many years. Life is good and as I work the steps, it keeps getting better. I laugh frequently and rarely cry. The total opposite of how I was before I began this journey. I can pass up dessert and not feel deprived. I can walk past a bakery and never even glance in the window. That is what I call freedom! When I was told all of these things were possible I didn't really believe it. I didn't really believe eating breakfast would make such a huge difference in my life. Every night I say a prayer of thanks that Kathleen has done this work and given us all a chance at radiance. Hugs, Ann **********************************************************************
**Radiant Ambassadors **  Can you remember what life was like before you started doing the food? The going round in circles looking for an answer but now knowing how? Yes? Me too! So do you tell people about how the program has changed things around for you? Well, Wendy sure has! She joined the ambassadors list recently and has already given a copy of Sugar Addicts Total Recovery Program to her family doctor and is also sharing Radiant Recovery business cards with people! How exciting! She told us that she wants everyone to have the freedom, confidence and health that she has gained from doing the program. So if you want to help spread the word - come on over! Selena selenas@blueyonder.co.uk Come join us if you are excited about spreading the news. **********************************************************************
**How I Found Radiant Recovery ** Hi, I'm Karen, I live in the South East corner of England in a small hamlet. I share the house with my partner, a large German Shepherd and two horses. I found the community some years ago, maybe 10 years ago. I remember eating a family-sized tub of ice cream for lunch and thinking there had to be a better way and later that day I saw mention of Sugar Addicts Total Recovery Program in a magazine and I bought the book there and began with step 1. I thought it would be so easy to do, just add protein for breakfast and do the spud and voila. It wasn't as easy at that and it took me a while to progress once I started and I remember thinking that I would get to step 5 and stop, what was there not to like about that LOL. Recovery seems to mean looking at more and more layers. Earlier this year I discovered how important to my healing the stories about the Amygdala and ACC are for me when I had some very clumsy interventions and I started looking at my programme in a totally different way. I had some fabulous one-to-one mentoring and got steady again. It has been a very healing year in many ways and that still continues. I hang out on the depression list for fun ...I love that list. It is one of the most healing and joyful lists. And I mentor the step 3 list which is a joy for me. I love that list too, it is a heart list for me. I enjoy helping out with the travels of those who pass through the list, perhaps because step 3 was one of the hardest steps for me to do. **********************************************************************
** Radiant Recovery® Store ** David manages the Radiant Recovery® Store. He is also Kathleen's oldest son. 
This is a long awaited update from Kathleen on what is happening with George's® Original Shake.First of all, I hope you will accept my sincere apologies for this horrendous delay. We started working with the new vendor in November of 2012. I have more than 100 emails in my file going back and forth to get all the details settled. Some of that was expected. We changed vendors, we changed the supplier for the vitamin/mineral mix, and we changed the type of soy. All of that had to be coordinated. Then we had to change the label which meant updated specs, new art art work and 100 tiny changes by quality control, LOL. The good news is that the shake is absolutely delicious. I have NEVER tasted any soy shake that has this flavor so I am pleased to have done the work to get the configuration right. The texture is finer, it mixes more easily, and the taste is delicate. It is certified non GMO protein, yea! I adjusted the vitamin and minerals to make it a wee bit *softer*…I think you are really going to be happy. The shake arrived here on Friday in the big truck, we unloaded it and it is now in our storage room. David unpacked, sorted, printed labels, packed, labeled and took all your orders to the post office. So everything should be there shortly. This product is a significant improvement for all of us. I know you will love it. I know that the process has tested my patience beyond what I could have imagined, but we are close, I promise. If you haven't tried it, put in your order now!!! Please send questions and suggestions. I love hearing from you and truly want to help you do your program better. **********************************************************************
**Radiant Kitchen ** Here is another recipe from Maggie. I have made this and can tell you it is YUMMY. And I don't even like cauliflower! ROASTED CAULIFLOWER
For more great program-friendly recipes, check out our cookbook in the store and visit our online Radiant Recipes site. **********************************************************************
**Radiant YLD ** Last week I was unwell with a stomach bug. Someone commented to me that I should 'come off my diet' while I got better. This is something I would have said to myself in the past. It made me smile. Being in recovery to me is like brushing my teeth everyday. I just do it! Steph If you would like to join, come find us here **********************************************************************
**Radiant Conversations ** We have a new portal for the Conversations program. Come check it out here. Conversations is like having tea in the drawing room (smile). (Can you tell I have been watching Downton Abbey?) So actually it is probably better since the topics are a little more exciting. In our conversations chats, we have a discussion of the article that appeared in the prior newsletter. This means that you get to chat with Kathleen in real time. You can ask questions, get special information, and learn from your friends who are doing the program as well. It is pretty exciting. Last week we talked about how to tell if something is an addiction or a passion. Now, THAT was an amazing discussion. 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 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 ** Perhaps you are steady on the first five steps and contemplating your sugar detox. Or you may already be on step six but struggling. You may be wondering why you are bored or restless, since sugar detox was supposed to solve everything--wasn’t it? Or maybe you’d like to share your excitement about reaching this milestone in your program. If so, come join us on the Step 6 list! We offer support and encouragement in achieving a successful sugar detox and in holding tight until everything settles down afterward. We are learning more all the time about this fascinating step and how profoundly it transforms our bodies and brains. **********************************************************************
**On The Mountain ** Kathleen DesMaisons, Ph.D.
I wrote this right after my 60th birthday. I still love it. Albuquerque has a mountain to the East. It rises more than 10,000 feet. I see it out my windows. I watch the light change on it all day, every day. In the morning, the sun rises over it, in the evening, the moon comes up. At dusk, the sun in the West casts a purple light that lasts just a short time. The mountains light up. Sometimes I just sit in a chair on the front porch and watch the light moving on the mountain at dusk. I have a poster that I have had since college. It says: The mountain moving day is coming. I say so, though others doubt. Only a while the mountain sleeps. In the past All mountains moved in fire. Yet you may not believe it. Oh friend, this alone believe, all sleeping women now will awake and move. Yosano Akiko I went to college in the late sixties. It was a time of great turmoil and awakening. Women at that time were breaking out of old expectations. When I started college, we wore girdles and white gloves and had dorm mothers. Half way through, in the summer of '68, we came back and nothing was the same. Many of my friends were angry and taking action. I was reading South American educational writing called the "Pedagogy of the Oppressed" that talked about teaching literacy in the context of meeting people where they are. Teaching through meaning. I was writing an honor thesis about awakening the spirit of the person yearning to be whole. I was not in the streets those years. I was at home with infants. I dropped out of school and did mother things. When my children were tiny, I was a single mom going back to school and working full time. I was sleeping still in the demands of regular life, learning how to manage raising children, having a new career in public health, thrashing about in creative sugar sensitivity. That would mean the same things you all struggle with - mood swings, bouts of angst, bouts of brilliance and hope countered by despair and inadequacy. Not knowing about the food shaped everything. I had framed that poster. I always had it in my bedroom. I never really knew why except that it comforted me about that time in my life when everything had seemed so, so possible. Then I came to New Mexico and the mountain was there. The deepest part of me was stirred and I said, *I need to be there* and arranged my life to make it happen. The mountain spoke to me with her majesty. I felt as if her roots went as deep as her peaks. This made no rational sense. I was a woman of the sea. There was no ocean here, just that big rooted mountain sitting over there to the East. So I just did regular life, sitting here at my computer facing the mountain, answering email, connecting with all of you. And our community started to root, down deep like the mountain. We learned to trust our recovery, to trust one another, to trust this life so different from the old one. A life of peace and wisdom and humor. A life that is funny and connected and caring. You came to an annual seminar here. We called it *ranch* and even though it was held in a regular life little chain hotel, the mountain magic stirred you too. People said, *Well, what is the agenda anyway?* and I would say the official things because I couldn't really say, *Come and meet the mountain please.* The mountain moving energy is now breathing us. It is a like a big rock that does not move no matter how things change around it. I had wondered about sharing this with you. Wondered what it would be like to tell you the story the way I am living it. Do I share the inside part and let you see what is beneath the story of the author writing about potatoes? Do I reveal that the story is bigger than just what you eat? That changing the food changes everything? I think changing the food means we see mountains, we feel mountains, we become mountains. Last week I wrote about being at the sea, being with my family, turning sixty. Yesterday I went to the movies and found out I am a senior and it is cheaper. Then I cam home and watched the light on the mountains, light on snow and thought, *No, Kathleen, it is not about senior, it is about elders.* The mountain moving day has come. Thanks for reading! If you know someone who could benefit from this, feel free to forward it to them. Not a subscriber yet? Like what you have read? Sign up to get future issues delivered straight to you: http://www.radiantrecovery.com Until next time!
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. Steph provides the Your Last Diet column. ©2013 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/weeklynewsletter |
