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COMMUNITY FORUM Share with others, ask questions, explore everything and anything about your program without a charge. A great place for newcomers.
GROUPS Learn the steps, get fit safely, learn creative program cooking, learn about depression, learn with parents, share in local areas. There is no charge for groups.
CLASSES
Not starting anything new yet, but mountain moving is coming. WORKING WITH KATHLEEN
I feel very strongly about offering you a number of ways to work with me directly. I have set up a whole range of options for you to
do that - going from private coaching to being involved in small groups. This link will show you all the choices.
Coaching Apprentice is open to people on steps 1-3 who are starting their program. Coaching Skilled is for people who are on step 7 and want to look at other issues more in-depth. You have to apply to me directly to join this group. Signature Coaching is for those who want to work individually with me in an intensive 90-day process. Signature is the top of the line. All who have done it talk about their lives being
changed. This is not for the dabbler.
Another option is setting up a one
hour assessment and then making a decision based on that conversation. And you can always call 505-345-3737 and ask me about how each one works.
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"Doing the food opens a world of choice."
This is my
sense of how you get to step 7. When you start breakfast it is so overwhelming. I can't cook breakfast every morning, it is too much work, I don't have stuff in the house, I'm not awake enough within an hour, it will mess up my kitchen which is already messy, too much food, etc. But you put your energy into doing it and after a while it is easy. You don't think about it. If 2 years ago you'd told me that I would wake up and prepare a shake for myself, different shake for my 5 year old (and mommy
please clean out the blender because I don't like that banana flavor in mine), supervise my 8 year old making an omelet and oatmeal AND that I'd need to pack snacks for both and lunch for one (could I please have pasta in the thermos today and sorry, I forgot to clean it out yesterday.) AND that this would all have to be done in a timely manner, I'd have sat down and cried. But this is my daily life and I love it.
It is rare that we all eat the same breakfasts and yet it doesn't bother me. It is just what we do. Breakfast happens every day. I feed myself first and then I help my kids.
Similarly, I just naturally pick up my journal and note stuff down and meals happen on time and I habitually include enough protein and brown. I don't have to watch the clock, I don't have to think about it, it just happens. My kitchen ALWAYS has a meal available. I can throw things together (before if there wasn't a plan, it was fast food). We ate for almost 10 days without a grocery run last month while everyone was sick and we never missed a meal. It seems like my body generally gives me
clues about when it is time for potato. When I first started step 4 it seemed like such a pain and preparing food for lunch when I was home alone seemed like a waste of time. Now I happily cook for myself. Things just shift and it is no longer hard. There's no longer a struggle and hopefully there is joy.
Right now, it is taking a lot of my energy to not eat sugar, to think about coverts, to take care of myself, to attend to my grief. My sense is that as I work on this step, those things will become easier too and it will be like the other steps and they will just happen and so then I
would think I'll be ready for step 7.
I'm not really sure what step 7 is about. I think of it as
an adventure of discovery. I know that there is a different tone to the posts from people on step 7. There is patience, serenity, wisdom, joy, fun - regardless of personality or anything else, there is this essence that sort of oozes out of their posts. I think we get lots of glimmers of step 7 as we go along and the closer we get, the more glimmers. Breakfast brings a clarity to the morning, journaling helps you connect, step 3 brings steadiness and self care, step 4 brings happiness, step 5
(well, it sort of just happened so not sure on that one), and step 6 brings peace. I guess step 7 will be zest for life.
Emily, Step 6
This is David DesMaisons, your Radiant Recovery® Concierge
Come visit our STORE. Call 505-345-3737 if you have questions. David, the store manager, is always happy to help.
Here is a list of just some of what the cookbook offers. If you don't have this
resource, you NEED it. It is an incredible addition to your program working!
- How to build a variety of quick meals with the use of my simple baking mix
- How to use pancakes and waffles as a base for wonderful experimentation
- How to discover
the wonderful world of wraps (whole grain tortillas) to make all sorts of nifty, quick menus
- How to use marinades and dressings to dramatically change the taste of a few simple ingredients
- How to understand and use a variety of grains
- The
difference between sweet potatoes and yams
- How to use a quiche to create all sorts of healthy alternative meals
- How to make substitutes in your own sugar-filled recipes
- How to use wheat alternatives
- How to set up a vegetarian food plan
- How to convert your daily allotment of protein grams to ounces of food
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Make this for breakfast and serve with Greek Yogurt. You will want it every morning, I promise.
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Radiant Living is geared to looking at Step 7 life. I am in the process of the revision of Potatoes not Prozac and am adding a fair amount of information on *radiant living* which is
really Step 7. This is where we are looking at a Step 7 life with all its quirks. This means feelings, healing old trauma and remodeling our bodies. This is the time when our food is steps, our steps are solid and we want a life of recovery to guide us.
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I just want to lose weight. Is this the right place for me?
It is the best place in the world for you. You won't get this information anywhere else, I guarantee. Make sure to come to chat. I am going to expand what we are
doing in chat and will outline it in the article section below.
I am just starting the steps. Does it make sense to join now? Yes, it does. We have found that the people who come to chats do the best with the steps. The connection in chat is awesome. You get a chance to talk with the old timers, you can ask questions and I am right there to guide you, It really is an incredible opportunity.
SEPTEMBER: Insulin Resistance We are just finishing up insulin resistance
so bring the last of your questions and comments to chat this week.
If you are not a member yet, come and join us. If you are a current member and want to join us in the new chat room, come to the landing page. We will send you the pass words after you join.
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After my rather grim introduction, I went looking for an old article that might offer some respite and hope, #175 will suit the bill. Our own history can give us hope and joy.
I am sure that many of you have figured out that I read all sorts of interesting things besides brain stuff and nutrition and dogs. Last night I was reading a little book on what is called the implicit order. Basically, the author is building a scientific case for how all things are connected. Physicists and philosophers have been doing this for
many years. The mathematicians work things out in math, then the scientists build things that test them. I studied philosophy in college many years ago. Some of what I was reading were ancient Indian Vedic texts about how the world fits together. It is amazing to live in a time when science is now actually touching/feeling those very same things. Well they don't really touch it, because these little tiny little particles are very, very tiny.
This field is called quantum physics - the land of tiny, tiny things. Here is a wonderful quote:
The remarkable fact emerging from this sea of quantum mystery is that particles and atoms are not individual beasts. They are sociable entities,
and under conditions they are so thoroughly "entangled" with each other that they are not just here or there, but in all pertinent places at the same time.
Laszlo
Now you are probably wondering whatever can that mean so I thought I would offer my own little interpretation. I like to think that it means that we are all connected. What happens to me affects you and what happens to you affects me. So, let's say 15 radiant women in the UK have lunch. They are goofy and laughing. They are experiencing the "recognition" that comes when a group of us get together. Now according to quantum physics, that was not just an isolated lunch that those silly girls
across the sea did. It was our lunch. Their healing, their fun is ours as well.
| By now, you are probably thinking I have lost my marbles. But let me continue to play. Think of a net, one of those hairnets that the ladies in the school lunch program wore. The ones with little colored beads. Imagine now that the beads are actually little lights. And
when a couple of people in recovery get together, then the little bead lights up. |
This is sort of what happens when we do chat. We laugh and laugh and I feel connected. Sometimes we do roll callSouth Dakota, Florida, New Mexico, Australia, New Jersey, San Francisco, Toronto, Orcas Island, Northern Maine and there we all are just talking with one another. So chat feels like little beads lighting up all over the hairnet.
Something is happening. I can feel it. There is a lightness, a depth of connection to healing, clearing out, priorities and values are shifting. We have all different kinds of people here, people we would never know in our own circles.
People who live in flats in London, people who live in Western Australia, in tiny houses in southern Florida, in mansions in California, in duplexes in Virginia, in row houses in Scotland. We have men and women, people of color, gay and lesbians, old people, young people, fundamentalists, pagans, traditionalists, atheists, monks, nuns, wild women, fat people, skinny people, gorgeous people, plain people and we are all here drawn together by this fierce desire to heal.
In the book it says the little quanta are highly sociable: once they are in the same state, they remain linked
no matter how far they travel from each other. I say once you reach Step 7, you are never the same. Your cells will always remember. Your cells will hear their twins' voice even if you go mess around and think you are forgetting. Lunch in London affects us all. Ranch in Albuquerque sends a big bump of light through your hair net.
And if you thought it was hard to explain the program to your family and friends, think about trying to explain that your hairnet is pulsing with light.:).
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