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December 31, 2012 Hi {!firstname_fix} I have always loved this quiet time between Christmas and New Year's. The sleigh with the retriever in it and the reindeer are down from the roof, but I have kept the electronic candles in the windows. I have taken the tree down and in honor of the Clutter class, I bought new containers for all the ornaments. Everything is wrapped in tissue and good heavens, MARKED, before being put away. While my handyman was here for the reindeer, he also secured the front fence for Miss Marti Houdini. We have a running bet on how long it will take for her to master leaping over it. It is a time for much reflection. We are working on a special web edition for parents of troubled kids, a revision of YLD, and some upgrades on the website. My office has different color-coded stacks for each. You will see things rolling out as we go. This class will begin Wednesday, January 2, 2012. Please click on the name of the class and it will take you to the registration page:
These class will begin Wednesday, January 9, 2012. Please click on the name of the class and it will take you to the registration page:
This class will begin Wednesday, January 16, 2012. 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 ** Learning to recognize the subtlety of what your body has to say may take some time. **********************************************************************
**Testimonial of the Week ** I just posted on the step 2 list that today is my 12 year anniversary of doing the food. I bought 4 or 5 books on eliminating sugar from my diet and decided I'd better get to reading SARP on 12/28/00 as I only had a few days left before I was going to eliminate sugar on 1/2/01. LOL I devoured SARP and my chocolate stash and decided that I was ready for detox--I already kept a food log, I already ate breakfast everyday about 3 hours after I got up, I already ate 3 meals a day with protein (I was trying to do low carb, but couldn't stick to it) so I just needed to add in browns, I already took vitamins and could just add in the potato 3 hours after dinner, so voila, ready for detox, right? LOL Detox was so horrible I refused to go back to eating sugar. It took about 6 months for my biochemistry to catch up with my enthusiasm as I visited each step with beginner's mind. I spent a lot of that time angry, frustrated and irritated. I was envious of others who did the program slowly as written. I wore my detox as a badge of honor at my strength and a badge of shame that I didn't do it right. I would say it took me a lot longer than 6 months to learn what was embedded in each step and quite honestly I'm still learning. I so appreciate Kathleen and her work for giving me a life. I may not always know what to do with it, but at least now I know it's mine and it is not ruled by my biochemistry--at least not when I'm doing the food. Thank you to her and everyone in the community for helping me along my path. Terri **********************************************************************
**Radiant Ambassadors **  Have you ever wanted to talk about Radiant Recovery but weren't sure how? Well, you can always use a Radiant Recovery business card which are available free from the store... You can let them do the talking for you! Or you can put them inside books at the library. Or in a bookstore. Or on a pinboard in Whole Foods... Where would you put yours? Selena selenas@blueyonder.co.uk Come join us if you are excited about spreading the news. **********************************************************************
**How I Found Radiant Recovery ** Hello everybody! I am Norma and I live in Los Angeles, CA. I had connected with a diet coach online and she told me about the Potatoes Not Prozac book a couple of weeks ago. I am just trying to settle down and start the program now. The book really speaks to me, so I hope I just start listening! and I hope I am replying in the right place! **********************************************************************
** Radiant Recovery® Store ** David manages the Radiant Recovery® Store. He is also Kathleen's oldest son. My posting about our new special *double* tracking system for journaling a couple of weeks ago was so successful that I thought I would put it in again.
Gretel Please send questions and suggestions. I love hearing from you and truly want to help you do your program better. **********************************************************************
**Radiant Kitchen ** Humus Ingredients:
Combine all ingredients in a food processor, adding enough water to make a smooth paste. Cover and set aside. Tabouli Ingredients:
In a smaller bowl, squeeze the lemons and add as much olive oil as there is lemon juice. Add salt (another 1/2 to 1 t. or so) and fresh ground pepper (I like a lot). Stir it up and pour over the ingredients in the big bowl. Snap on the cover and shake like crazy; get everything really mixed up. To serve, spread some humus in a bowl and top with tabbouli. You can eat it right away (I always do), but it’s best after a few hours, when all the ingredients have had a chance to meet each other. Feel free to toy with the ingredient’s list until you’ve created your perfect dish. This recipe was contributed by Kris 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 ** OK, so hands up, whose thoughts have turned to New Year's resolutions already and thinking that they will be starting a new diet? Or maybe even revisiting one that you have been on before???? Well, if you are anything like me, that's what I did for virtually all of my adult life. I think I can safely say that I tried them all LOL! What about doing something different and giving yourself the gift of recovery in 2013? Your Last Diet means just that. If you want to stop the insanity of constant dieting, then come and chat with us why those diets haven't worked and learn about the importance of balancing that biochemistry first. I really hope to see you there! 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. Yes, we will be having conversations chats on Monday night (smile)…we will be talking about New Year's resolutions and how to make them come alive and be vibrant. I think it will be a really fun discussion. 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 Current YLD members who wish to Transfer to Conversations 2011 Only can do so for a $14.99 admin fee: click here 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. **********************************************************************
**The Law of Threes ** Kathleen DesMaisons, Ph.D.
I love posting this at New year's. I always use it to plan for the *new*… I have updated it for 2013. 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:
I majored in philosophy in college. It is easy for me to conceptualize global ideas. So even though there are only three goals, they still seemed to be pretty abstract. 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 do-able. So I got to pick three applications for my three goals. Here is what I chose:
I was getting closer. But what do "food, money and exercise" mean? Back to the drawing board I went. 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.
This wasn't cosmic. I just have to worry about three specific jobs: Weight loss food. Taxes on time. Do it. 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 my taxes on time. I have to remember to get everything up to date, enter the numbers in Quicken, run reports, and get over to my accountant. 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 badly, 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 real simple and real focused and see how it goes. 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. ©2012 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 |
