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June 3, 2013 Hi {!firstname_fix} I expected I would be in Florida today helping my brother and his wife move to their new home. However, there was a glitch in the closing, so it will be a few more days before I leave. I am using the time as a gift to catch up on things I normally never get to. 
The break in our water main is fixed. Here is a picture of the work close to being done. I have been taking videos of the process. I am hoping to make a little movie of the whole thing. It just sort of touched me...the reality of what tax dollars support. After all the politics and whining and power struggles and all of city government, here is regular life. Somehow it comforts me.
Not leaving for FL has worked out well, we have a new scrawny puppy arriving this afternoon. Thankfully, I have a chunky loving girl dog out in a pen who will LOVE taking care of a baby dog, LOL. Ah, the life of Golden Retriever Rescue continues. Come over to www.grrnm.com for an update on all three later this evening when I post pictures of everyone.
This class will begin Wednesday, June 5, 2013. Please click on the name of the class and it will take you to the registration page:
These classes will begin Wednesday, June 12, 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. 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 ** Doing the food creates a steady bowl to hold your life experience. As it fills, the connection deepens inside and outside. **********************************************************************
**Testimonial of the Week ** *birdsong outside my office window after the rain *celebrating their 30th birthday with my twin daughters I think I am finally getting the hang of step 3. I might even dare to say that I am growing to love step 3! I've never experienced such steadiness in my life before. I've never been so happily consistent with food before. I'm beginning to experience hunger for the first time in my life and to really recognise when my body needs to eat and to feed it. I'm finding that 5 hrs between meals works fine for me. Step 4 (apart from the potato), 5 and 6 have just happened for me by accident while doing step 3 because my body is telling me what works for it and I am listening. Next week will be the first big test as I will be away on holiday for the week. I think if I plan well and bring food with me I should be fine. Thanks to everyone for all the support and learning I am getting here. Helen **********************************************************************
**Radiant Ambassadors **  Hi all This week John shared with the ambassadors' list how he dealt with questions about Ranch and the program: "Hi- "So after getting back from Ranch and answering the inevitable, 'So where did you go? And what did you do?' questions, instead of being evasive I actually talked about my experience. Of course I couldn't get into the nitty gritty b/c even I don't understand really what happened there, but I was able to generally describe what the program is about and what it's done for me. I think it was the first time where I felt I could articulate RR in a clear and somewhat thorough way. "And there was no charge around whether these folks would 'get' what I was saying. I was just happy and grateful to have the opportunity to share about something that has changed my life. :) -John" Wonderful, isn't it? Selena selenas@blueyonder.co.uk Come join us if you are excited about spreading the news. **********************************************************************
**How I Found Radiant Recovery ** Hi, my name is Gina, I live in Southern California. I came across the book Potatoes not Prozac about a month ago. As I read it, I felt as though the book was telling me all about me! I have struggled with depression all my life. I have started step one and I look forward to learning about the program. **********************************************************************
** Radiant Recovery® Store ** David manages the Radiant Recovery® Store. He is also Kathleen's oldest son. I just wanted to talk about our Prime membership service. I am glad you are liking it. If you glossed over it, come see what you are missing. PRIME status means that you will receive a preferred price on many of the items we carry in our store. The store will offer many items at two prices, a regular price and a PRIME price (right below, in red). The PRIME price is close to 10% off a large number of the items we carry. Not all items have a PRIME price. If you have an "ACTIVE" subscription (not on hold or canceled), you will qualify for the PRIME prices at any time you make a purchase. You will also notice that we have lowered some subscription prices as well. If you select the PRIME price and are not an ACTIVE subscriber, you will be charged the regular price at the time your order is processed. The PRIME member will not need to remember a discount code or password to get the benefits of being a subscriber/PRIME member. Please send questions and suggestions. I love hearing from you and truly want to help you do your program better. **********************************************************************
**Radiant Kitchen ** Yam Cakes #1 Cook up your sweet potatoes (yams are so much easier to say, but we don’t get true yams), and mush them up. Add some oil (I use coconut oil), and about the same amount of rolled oats as you have of yams. I’ll use a cup of yams as an example. So you take your cup of yams, cup of oats, blurp of oil, and about 1 tsp cinnamon, 1/2 tsp ginger, shredded coconut, and mix them all together. You want it to hold together, and be nice and sticky, so add water if you need to. I then use a scoop, and make little mounds, but flatten them with a fork. Bake at 400* for about 15 to 20 minutes. I freeze these, and take them out as needed…they are yummy cold and yummy hot, and they don’t crumble, and don’t get mushy, and travel well! Using peanut butter instead of the oil is yummy. And I bet you could experiment and use different spices…for variety. Enjoy! Colette Yam Cakes #2 I bake a bunch of large yams all at once, slip them out of the skins, and freeze in 3 Cup containers. (I use sweet potatoes a lot, LOL — not just for yam cakes!) When I’m ready to make yam cakes I thaw a 3-cup container of sweet potato, add a bit of water and warm slightly in the microwave, then mash them. I use a hand held potato masher, but you could use a food processor or whatever suits you. I add 3 cups of quick-cooking rolled oats, 1 cup of Restore protein powder and 1 cup of PB. I also add some more water, about 1/3-1/2 of a cup (I used a total of 1/2 cup of water), to get a sticky, goopy, but partly pourable consistency. Press into a lightly greased 9 X 13 pan and bake at 350 for 45 minutes. Cool and cut into 32 squares. Store in fridge or freezer. My math showed that 5 squares had about a one cup serving of brown and about 19 grams of protein. Elaine in CO For more great program-friendly recipes, check out our cookbook in the store and visit our online Radiant Recipes site. **********************************************************************
**Radiant YLD ** So, following on from our conversations about the importance of having a steady program before embarking on weight loss, we are reviewing our steps. Starting with step one (smile) we are already learning how paying attention to the details can have a big impact on our program. Also, as a note...one of our members volunteered to get the prior years' chats organized. A master of detail, they are all now in folders for the right years, Yea! So if you want to read old chats, it will be way easier. And make sure to read the Euro and USA chats for the same week, it is really fun to get a sense of differences and joys. 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 asks questions that are about living a life of recovery - how do we take care of negative thoughts, how do we transform fear, what is equanimity, how does silence heal, and how can we grow our programs. Last week we talked about cravings, what they are, where they come from and how to stop them. We all laughed a lot and really enjoyed the discussion. Now we are talking about the art of *flipping* irks into joy dots. It is a pretty fascinating concept. This is life on step 7 asking these funny questions. 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 ** The radiantrecovery list was set up as a support for people who are in recovery for alcohol and/or drugs and would like to add the Radiant Recovery nutritional piece to their healing. Our approach to recovery encourages the use of 12-step programs and Radiant Recovery. I have heard from a lot of people who have many years of sobriety in AA but have just recently come across Radiant Recovery. Won't you come and join us over on the recovery list to learn how to integrate sobriety and doing the food steps? If you want the promises to come in a way you have not imagined, it is a great time to come over. And if you aren't sure, but think alcohol might be a problem for you, we are here to support that exploration as well. The folks on the list are warm, compassionate, caring and straightforward. So we would love to have you come join us. **********************************************************************
**Entitlement and Blame ** Kathleen DesMaisons, Ph.D.
Many people ask me how they *know* that they are on Step 7. Is it a date, hit detox, and then wham, there you are? Is it having a perfect program, every step clean and organized and sorted? How can someone on Step 7 muck around or be sloppy with the food journal? Do they have to revert? If they wobble, do they *lose* their status? Now, what I am going to say here may surprise you. But Step 7 is really about a state of being rather than a destination. Step 7 is affectionately called the *getting a life* step, but really, that hardly defines it. It is about how you meet the world, and it is radically different from how the world was before you started the program. Let me walk you through the transformation. I know from lots and lots of experience that the hallmarks of untreated sugar sensitivity are what I call entitlement and blame. We feel done unto. My husband, my boss, my mother, my children, my life, my stress, my health *made me*. You feel victimized by circumstance. It made you be this way. If he hadn't....I wouldn't be this way. You do not take responsibility for what happens around you because you do not feel empowered. You feel helpless in the face of things happening. And you blame the outside world for things not working. At the same time, because you feel victimized you feel you are entitled to things. Well, I deserve to be...because..they owe me. Often this is the company owes me because I am poor and work hard and they make lots of money. I hear this as I deserve to not have to pay for the program because I am poor and am entitled to it for free. These feelings, are biochemically induced. Now, that sounds pretty outrageous doesn't it? However, these are the very feelings that change with the program. Working with your journals helps you to see connections, and something called consequence. If I eat this, this happens. No one does it to me. There is a connection between what I do and what happens. You start making little connections..and over time they grow. As you get more steady, you can make more powerful connections. Yes, my husband is abusive, but I stay here. Things like that. You start seeing yourselves as players rather than victims. And even more striking, when people critique you, you have this remarkable detachment. You take what is real, own it and are even grateful for the feedback rather than being devastated by it. For example, early in the program, if I offer a suggestion, not even a critique, but a simple reflection that perhaps eating a potato the size of a football might not be the best option, the person who started the program 3 days ago is either crushed or outraged that I do not understand their special situation and they go off in a huff or unsubscribe from the program for a year. If I say that to a person in balance, they say *Oh my, whatever was I thinking about. Thank you.* I listen for this change. Sometimes it comes early. But most often it is the change that tells me most about Step 7 consciousness. One of my leadership people makes a mistake. We have a code for mistakes called the FANTASTIC! code. They say, *Oh fantastic, let me go clean that one up.* We laugh and it is no bigger than an error to be corrected. Or someone wobbles, and I say, *Hey, how about a sabbatical while you steady up there?* and they say...*Yah, yah, let me go catch my breath and tighten up my plan. My timing is off, I am eating out too much.* And they do. Now let me tell you, working and playing with people in this energy is beyond comparison. You all feel it drifting through. Those of you on the more senior lists drink from the well. Those of you just starting know this is what you want. This is part of radiance, this humor, this joy, this resilience. It is way more than no longer yelling at your kids. It is getting a life. No more blame, lots of taking responsibility. No more entitlement, just humble willingness to work, show up and participate. Pretty nice from where I sit. 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!
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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 |
