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** Quote From Kathleen ** Beta-endorphin is immensely powerful. It can drive you inexorably toward deeper addiction - or raise your spirits to a level of health that you may never have known before. **********************************************************************
** Testimonial of the Week ** I have spent a lot of time in the quest for ultimate knowledge and understanding, only to find that my thinking was convoluted beyond any prospect of a definitive answer being circuitous and tortured. Simplicity really is key for me now. However expansive Kathleen or anyone gets the message is the same once you can hear it. I might agonize through the intellectual contortions we are prone to and I'd produce a long and deep and heartfelt post only to get a brief reply cutting through all my largely tangential concerns. Believe me, the *stuff* that makes up the majority of any of my lengthy expositions is resistance. It's *yeah but yeah but* all the way and the words smother and comfort in their poetic validations. *Just do breakfast* doesn't quite do us justice. It's too easy for us. We want to go into fantasies about it and set up adversaries including ourselves to do battle over it. The struggle ends as soon as we get the oneliners. Honestly! Mel PS: Have you heard the *What Else is Embedded CD?* - it's hilarious on this point. **********************************************************************
** Radiant Ambassadors ** What do we do on the Ambassador's list anyway? It differs from week to week. Some people are involved in checking out online blogs and mentioning Radiant Recovery where appropriate. Others are writing to sugar-sensitive celebrities and sending them copies of Potatoes not Prozac. Most of us carry RR business cards to hand out when an opportunity arises! One of our most exciting projects to date is being overseen by Kathleen and Kat. They have been fine-tuning a script and video images for the first Radiant Recovery video to be put onto YouTube. Watch this space - I'll let you know when it's aired! Selena Come join us if you are excited about spreading the news. **********************************************************************
** Radiant Kitchen ** Another stir fry I love is a mix of peanut butter, about 1/4 cup, with 1/2 cup dessicated/shredded coconut and a cup of water. Whizz the water with the peanut butter and shredded coconut and a tablespoon of soy sauce (I'll add that to anything, lol) and mix into a stir fry for a lovely nutty taste! Great with beef and veggies. Karen
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** Your Last Diet - More Than What You Think ** Several people have said, "I thought we couldn't do YLD till we were on step 7." I thought it would be good to clarify some things. If you are concerned about your weight, join YLD as soon as you are able. The support is incredible and it will help you work your steps with an eye to your weight-loss plan. YLD offers a special sequence that gets you ready for success. We teach you the art of maintenance while you heal your addiction. We teach you new skills and new language. And, best of all, you get to come online once a week and talk in real time with other people who are doing the program. We hold one chat for people in the USA and West (like Australia and Japan) and one chat for people in Europe. And we do a whole series of special classes that are only open to YLD members. We will be starting a Weight Loss Readiness class next week. So if you join today, we can accommodate you in the winter session. Love to have you with us! If you are not a YLD member, come and join us. Click here if you are ready to change your life or just have some plain ol' fun! **********************************************************************
** Radiant Recovery® Store ** David manages the Radiant Recovery® Store. He is also Kathleen's oldest son. Here is a little quote about the store and David. Special thanks for all you do, David! Total agreement. I've never been unhappy with anything from the store, never had a single problem, and think David is wonderful. The store is a real service to those of us with SS, it makes things that make the program easier available to us all. I too am very grateful for it. Please send questions and suggestions. I love hearing from you and truly want to help you do your program better. **********************************************************************
** Our Online Groups ** The Radiant Depression group is all about support for the person who is depressed and trying to work Kathleen's 7-step program of recovery from sugar addiction. Many of us have struggled with severe depression for years without any hope of finding an end to it. But through doing the food we have found hope returning and have found light where before there was only darkness. Some of us are taking anti-depressants while doing the food, so we talk about how the two are compatible and we also share about getting through the tough spots together, with support from each other. If you are feeling depressed please come join us. There is hope. Or come to the group page to find the one that will best support your program: http://www.radiantrecovery.com/list_serves.htm **********************************************************************
** The Law of Threes ** Kathleen DesMaisons, Ph.D.
I wrote this a couple of years ago. It is still my favorite for New Year's. I will tell you at the end my goals for 2009. I have often been asked why I don't provide a whole list of supplements. "Why only three, Kathleen?" I operate under The Law of Threes. (I made it up.) I firmly believe that we sugar-sensitive people have "mush brains." We are smart and intuitive but we have a very hard time "remembering" what we are supposed to do. However, I have found that I can easily remember three things. Three key issues (blood sugar, serotonin, beta endorphin), three meals, three vitamins. I thought it would be a good idea to put The Law of Threes to use. Every year between my birthday in late November and Christmas, I begin thinking about the year completed and the year to come. Where have I been, where do I want to grow and what will it take to get there? In the past, I would write out many goals. Once I even bought one of those expensive planning systems which provided space in my appointment book to see how I was progressing with each goal. I think we had seven areas to work with. But after about two weeks, my enthusiasm petered out. I couldn't remember everything I was supposed to be doing, so I simply stopped doing any of it. Sounds like a sugar-sensitive person, don't you think? Then I started working with The Law of Threes. I could remember three things. The idea grew with me. It simplifies and focuses my direction. My goals:
So I said, "Okay, Kathleen, what do you mean? Let's get concrete and specific, here." It was fun to tag each goal to a very specific area - making it doable. So I got to pick three applications for my three goals. Here is what I chose:
Remember now, I was still working with The Law of Threes, so I didn't let myself start making up lists. Oh, I wanted to. I wanted lists big time. All the things I would do with my food, all the strategies with money, and many, many options for exercise. But I held my pen and worked on holding my brain. I admit that I kept wanting to drift off in wild reflection... "Well, you could do this...." "Three, you get to choose three," I told myself. So I went back to my little grid (you know I love those grids)! It made me laugh.
Of course there will be other things I have to figure out in order to manage these three. I will have to watch the time, go grocery shopping, decide what to cook when, what to eat. But I can just keep the focus on the end task - eat three meals every day. The same is true for paying the bills on time. I have to remember to bring the mail in, to open it, to register that it is a bill, to note the day it is due, to make sure the money is in the right account. You know the drill. We tend to drift and then we get in trouble. La-La land I call this. In the past, when I hit La-La land, I would get upset and feel bad, and then would have to avoid those feelings by not doing anything. Now my pattern is to stay focused on what is manageable. Pay the bills on time. Eat three meals. Exercise. The end of the story? If I do my three things, I will get to my goals. See if you can boil down what you want for next year into three things. Get really simple and really focused and see how it goes. My goals for 2009:
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. The banner photograph is by Patti Holden. ©2008 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.htm. |
