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August 12, 2013 Hi {!firstname_fix} Getting ready for my trip to Vinalhaven...and New England tomatoes and Maine tiny blueberries and of course LOBSTER on the deck. I guess someone has to do it. And every Golden Retriever in the state must have heard I am getting ready to go and decided to run away from home so my census is up to 6. It makes me laugh. I am maintaining a sense of humor and getting them adopted. And planning my trip...mail my watercolors and my protein powder ahead...pack my notes for the YLD revision...stuff for fog and quiet time. At least I have had enough watercolor lessons now that I won't be embarrassed to paint in front of my brother and SIL. I will stop on the way up for the tiny blues and fat tomatoes, LOL. The lobster is there waiting. Vinalhaven is a lobster port! Don't forget Euroranch is almost here. The acclamations are new and significantly less expensive. The material I am presenting is a preview of the revision of the YLD material. It blew away those who came in May and I know you will LOVE it. Would love to see you. And we are adding another half a day to make sure that new people are well taken care of. These classes will begin Wednesday, August 14, 2013. Please click on the name of the class and it will take you to the registration page:
This class will begin Wednesday, August 21, 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 ** There is NO failure in this plan, only more information to help you learn about your body and your self. **********************************************************************
**Testimonial of the Week ** ***getting my new bed delivered and putting on new sheets! ***having my very own refrigerator! ***watching the beautiful sunset from my apartment Breakfast shake on time this morning, and everything all set up for tomorrow. It's hard to express in words the gratitude I feel for my new apartment. Even tho it's small in terms of square footage, it feels like a palace to me...a benefit of having lived with other folks for 2+ years! I am truly blessed, and know my RA RA program will develop strong roots here... HA **********************************************************************
**Radiant Life ** Mel wrote: *** So many birds in the park *** playing in swings and slides *** All my family editing the 3.5 hours it took to get my medal from a really short race! Hi all I had a lovely if challenging day, and ended up having two snacks including scrambled eggs and a baked potato after a park run I only watched. I'm still waking up way too early, it's brighter here, and I'm used to blackout curtains at home is part of it, am hoping to adjust overnight as there is no early rush out tomorrow and i need the recovery. I've won medals in both my relatively short events so far, which goes to show that anyone can do anything, you just need to get older and do stuff. The older you get the easier if gets. I'm very grateful that my legs seem fine after a big of a warm up. It has been a very fun day with 3 generations along and not too much rain. Gretel responded: I think you are being way too modest, LOL!!!!! You won a silver and a gold, so I've heard LOL:). Do tell us how that felt!!!!! Mel answered: Not bad Gretel, not bad at all! I won another of each today too. Just two days of competition to go for me now, having an extra snack now after stretching and all. It was funny, my team mate and I were both booked in for massages and brought our own food, it's how we're going strong at this age. It's a party. **********************************************************************
**Radiant Ambassadors **  Did you know that you can not only leave reviews of Potatoes not Prozac on Amazon, but also reviews of The Sugar Addicts Total Recovery Program, Little Sugar Addicts, Your Last Diet and Your Body Speaks too? The more reviews a book has, the more Amazon is inclined to promote it. Therefore more people will hear about them. I so wish I had heard of Kathleen's work a lot earlier! Selena selenas@blueyonder.co.uk Come join us if you are excited about spreading the news. **********************************************************************
**How I Found Radiant Recovery ** Hi, I'm Kate. I found Potatoes not Prozac a few weeks ago when looking through websites on using Feng Shui to help with depression and anxiety. It was in a comment by someone on a webpage and I am so glad that they wrote it! I'm working mostly step by step, though I am thinking of beginning to journal now with step 1 because the emotional component of my relationship with food is one I like to ignore. I've always been good with breakfast, during the week anyway, and snack and lunch are set at regular times because I'm a teacher. Monday through Friday at least, I get those three meals. Dinner is a different story and meals on weekends have been a trainwreck. I am just focused on getting 30g of protein at breakfast at the minute and eating it within an hour of getting up. I used to take my breakfast to school and eat it there, so this is a huge shift in my routine for me. I've tried so many other Ways of Eating before, that in some ways I can't see how this one can possibly be different. But the fact that oatmeal and quinoa and brown rice are encouraged makes me happy. I look forward to learning with everyone. I am very slow, but I'll get there in the end. All the best, Kate **********************************************************************
** Radiant Recovery® Store ** David manages the Radiant Recovery® Store. He is also Kathleen's oldest son. 
I have the cookbook and it is tattered and dog eared from so much use. There are many great recipes in it that have become part of my standards (Kathleen's lasagna has never been matched, in my opinion), and it is also a very good little reference book. There are also spaces where I have written a few of my own in.
The recipe for Kathleen's baking mix is in the book, and I use that too, it is quick and easy. - VerlaI love getting these emails...yah the Cookbook is awesome. Even Madison is using it now. And Kathleen’s baking mix is way better than Bisquick!! Get a cookbook if you don’t have one yet. You won’t be sorry. Please send questions and suggestions. I love hearing from you and truly want to help you do your program better. **********************************************************************
**Radiant Kitchen ** Mock Shepherd's Pie Begin by making a batch of skin-on mashed potatoes with chopped scallions added at time of mashing. Sauté in olive oil until crispy tender:
Season with pepper and Mrs. Dash garlic & herb, set aside and add 1 medium can of tomatoes (I used whole canned tomatoes that I had cut up a bit). Next fry about 1 pound of ground beef, crumbled, until medium doneness. Drain fat, and then return the veggie mixture to the beef and heat through to simmering. Transfer mixture to baking dish, top with grated/shredded cheese of choice (I used mixture of Cheddar and Mozzarella.) Spread the potatoes over the cheese and bake about 15 - 20 minutes until bubbly & potatoes begin to brown. This recipe was contributed by Liz SR from the Radiant Recovery Community Forum. For more great program-friendly recipes, check out our cookbook in the store and visit our online Radiant Recipes site. **********************************************************************
**Radiant YLD ** One of the joys of YLD has certainly been the discovery of my love of veggies. The veggie class sparked something in me! I used to avoid prepping them as it was really too much like hard work, but now I find chopping veggies very calming and enjoyable. Getting a sharp knife played a big part, it makes the job so much easier and fun! This week we have been talking about blending and juicing veggies :) It's been so interesting working out which ones go well together in a smoothie and creating my own personal favourites! Delicious and soooo easy! 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. We are going to be talking about the spirituality of recovery - why doing the food has such an impact on us. 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 ** 
Have you been sitting on the couch a lot lately, suffering from being inside too much, and thinking about a wee bit of movement? We would love to have you join us in exploring new ways of moving on the Movement List. Even if you can only walk to the end of the driveway, you are welcome. We have a new team to support you and we are planning LOTS of fun.The Movement list is for people who want to start moving again and to baby step into a regular exercise program. If you can remember how much fun it was to move when you were a child and you've lost that, the Movement list is the perfect place for you. And, if you don't remember, we'll help you rediscover it. There are some wonderful people on the list who will share their stories and help you explore different options to form a movement plan that works for you.. We are enthusiastic about our own exercise, but we also understand first hand how hard it was to start and to baby step into regular movement. It's a great list; come join us. **********************************************************************
**Misery Calls More Than We Realize ** Kathleen DesMaisons, Ph.D.
I have often reflected on why some people stay stuck in being miserable. No matter what life presented them, they would pick out certain variables to show that once again life was against them. This pattern went beyond your basic garden negativity. It was more like “I will continue my attachment to misery no matter what. It doesn’t matter what good comes to me, I know it is not real.” This pattern defied logic to me. Why would perfectly thoughtful, intelligent people want to live this way? My first clue in sorting this out came when I noticed my own physical response. I withdrew energy, disengaged and did not want to hang with misery or the miserable. When I realized that nothing I did or said changed anything, I just backed off. One day, in the shower, I had an incredible thought. My body was responding to les miserables just the way it does around active alcoholics and addicts. If someone commits to change, asks for help, listens and moves, I am there in a flash. But stay stuck, go round and round, whine, stay miserable no matter what, I just don’t want to spend time on the boat with it. The more I have healed my own codependency the less I can do rescuing. As I was rinsing the shampoo, I thought, “what if we can be addicted to misery?” As soon as that thought passed through, I knew it was true. It would explain the tenacious holding on, the energy, the devotion to it. So then I trundled off to do some research on this. My books, google and PubMed all gave clues. Yep, misery evokes beta-endorphin. Misery evokes the same brain chemical activated by alcohol, heroin, morphine and sugar. When we are miserable, our brains release BE so we feel better. It soothes us until it wears off and then we have to go back for more. We become attached to it. We get romantic and intense about all the bad things that have happened to us. We do “woe is me!”. And…significantly, we become tolerant to it, just like with any drug. Then we need bigger misery. More, more. We amp up the feeling of less than, not good enough, poor, not smart enough, not rich enough, not educated enough. And if life does not cooperate by offering enough brutal events, we create them in our minds. We need to feel worse to feel ok. We create catastrophe in our minds, we exaggerate, we munch to create drama and perpetuate the BE feelings. The increasing tolerance creates immunity to the little negatives, so we need more misery. We then take neutral events and shape them into desperate drama. For example. Perhaps you live on little money. You feel bad because you are poor. And you have low BE because you are sugar sensitive. So you overdraft your account, you pay late, you skip your taxes. And your tolerance grows so things get worse and worse. And when you try to change this pattern, you actually go into withdrawal. So you need to find other misery to grow. You stay in a horrible job, an abusive marriage, a bad apartment. You go round and round and misery becomes your way to being in the world. When you first hear this, it may be confusing. You don’t feel you are seeking it; you aren’t looking for a "high”. But think of it another way. BE is a painkiller. When life is hard, your natural tendency is to look for ways to soothe the pain. You unconsciously turn to things that do that, and then you get hooked. You didn’t know. Just like you didn’t know sugar was a drug until you were way in. Les miserables is a hard one to face. You might feel shame at first and think, “oh dear gawd, not more!” But the joy of healing is that now you understand. Now you have a name for what you thought was just circumstance. Now you can make sense and take action. You start to laugh at yourself. You get amazed at the skill your little inside addict has…it can find ANYTHING and EVERYTHING to make you feel ok. It has a good heart, it is trying its best to have you not feel pain. It is just a little misguided and now, in your recovery, you will do something a little different. You will kiss it on its little black nose, and say “ah, nice try, baby, but we aren’t doing that anymore…..” You will see that you do not want a life of les miserables. You are ready for something different. You can go to school, you can find ways to work with little money, you can leave abusive relationships, you can find a life of joy. This is what recovery is about. When you do the food, you do way more than give up sugar. You are HEALING addiction on a cellular level. Healing is real and it is yours for the doing. 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 |
