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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
Radiant Reflections
A special class we do each year to remember what this time of year is about. It is a way for us to connect to the light in the darkness. I think this year, the practice and the message of this class is particularly appropriate. You are all invited to join regardless of your religious tradition or background.
Love to have you. It is very settling.
If you joined last year, you do not need to sign up again.
Join this class
WORKING WITH KATHLEEN
I feel very strongly about offering you a way 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.
Signature Coaching is for those who want to work individually with Kathleen in a 90-day process. Signature is the top of the line. All who have done it talk about their lives being changed.
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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"Eating at regular intervals, whether you are hungry or not, will ensure that your blood sugar doesn't drop to crisis point."
This morning i had 2 French toast with 2 eggs, 1/2 cup cottage cheese/banana and a protein shake made with almond milk and chocolate powder. With only 22 days of breakfasting behind me, I'm amazed at all the changes: I sleep better; I eat less; My self esteem has gone way up; I'm more focused; I'm exercising
again; I'm drinking more water; and I feel happier and less depressed. It's truly amazing! I love the process, too. My SS brain gets to have the sugar it craves while my body is slowly changing and healing. What a plan!
Diane
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.
Gretel emailed me that they had run low on Shake because her husband was drinking it too. She said she tried getting a couple options at the store so they could just wait for their subscription to arrive. Her husband said, *Gretel, call David, this stuff is not good!* So she did, and David sent it right off! It's the best there is.
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- Yes, it is yummy. Dairy free, Sugar free.
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Radiant Living is geared to looking at Step 7 issues. 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.
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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. Most important, we will help with what we call *fat terror* that pervades every part of who you are. I referred to fat terror in the new book. My editor asked me to define it.
Fat terror is a profound cellular fear about becoming fat, staying fat, getting fatter or always being fat. This is not about wanting to lose a few pounds or to be slimmer for the sake of vanity. It runs way deeper than that. It is about being told you are bad, inadequate, less than because of your body shape.
It is about being made invisible because of your body size. Or being discounted out of hand regardless of how smart, creative or brilliant you are. When fat terror is added to an out of balance sugar sensitive body, it becomes a deadly motivator about the determinant of success. Much of what the steps do is designed to end the reign of fat terror and then unleash the creative heart before the weight loss.
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.
We are having a great time in chat. During December we will talk about staying steady during the holidays. If you haven't come to chat, look in the YLD files for the guide to getting there. We would love to see you.
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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Radiant Ranch
Kathleen DesMaisons, PhD
It's getting to be that time of year again. People ask me *so what do you do at ranch?*. The question always makes me smile. I thought I might give you some history. Ranch started in the early years of the program at Ghost Ranch. You can check that link to see how beautiful it is. It is in northern NM and is one of the most
beautiful places in the world.
At out first ranch, we had 20 newbies and me. It was an event to be remembered. The following year, we had some returning folks who had more experience with the program. I began to see ranch as a time for leadership to come together and explore our vision and hope for the community. The times at Ghost Ranch were powerful. We had a small group and worked out of the arts center. The light on the mountains was surreal,
it was so beautiful. We put up with more rustic accommodations, laughed when we found a dead mouse in the heater, coped with communal bathrooms and balky weather. The starlit nights and sharing were worth it. We worked with the staff on the food and developed a wonderful relationship. Then Ghost Ranch got new management. They didn't want to do food accommodation. So we were in a bind. We loved the place, but could not work with institutional whites and sugar. So we brought ranch down to the
city.
The first year in Albuquerque we went to Los Poblanos. It was beautiful. We catered our own food. As we planned for the next year, they said they would have to provide catering, and this would have meant a $900 ranch. It wasn't what I wanted.
So we tried a few different places. Last year we went to Adobe Gardens and felt as if we were ^home*. The surroundings suited our energy. Great food, comfortable accommodations, clean, quiet and the right place for renewal.
The actual program was a combination of my sharing new information in lectures and working in small groups to make sense of program skills. We learned a rhythm...not so much information and more relaxing and connecting. And something happened. The power of being together, of people who are sugar sensitive being together without having to worry about food or being accepted, started weaving its way into out hearts.
Ranch has a quality all its own. In the pool, at the tables outside. In the rooms late at night, over breakfast, over coffee at Starbucks. I think it is community. It feels as if Ranch is our heart beating. We reconvene to drink from the well. New people are welcomed, old people remembered. We watch our growth, celebrate our steadiness, and laugh and play and be goofy.
How do we explain this? How do I give you an agenda that tells you the serendipity. I plan a wild card based on the people. One year it was about eating disorders. It surprised us all. The questions took us into a place none of us expected. We remember the hair on the backs of our neck standing up. We remember the seeds that get planted at Ranch. A topic, an experience, an event. Ranch has grown to fit our own
maturation.
I think perhaps Ranch is undefinable in the last analysis. Every ranch is different. Every year a joy. Sort of like the program!
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