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September 1, 2014 Hi {!firstname_fix} September 1 has always been a wonderful time of new beginnings for me. I would include 2014 as one of those. Coming back to New Mexico from Maine has been settling. I can feel the light and the air changing into Fall. This morning I had to put on a sweatshirt, 5 am was chilly even though afternoons are warm. I am feeling energized about working with some program developments that I think you will love. You will be hearing more about them soon. While this is going on, we have chats, chats that are so moving I am rearranging my schedule to design a new class. The quiet time in Maine added to the reflections I will be sharing. I set up a new website for my old chevy truck that I plan to sell...Yes, I will give you the URL when it is ready, LOL. It is fun to think about actually personally doing the web design. Here we all are, doing life together. Doing the food propels us into something unexpected. Life unfolding with grace...and yes, we are not alone. (smile) These classes will begin Wednesday, September 3, 2014. Please click on the name of the class and it will take you to the registration page:
These classes will begin Wednesday, September 10, 2014. 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 ** Think of your food journal as your body's book. Your body needs a place to tell its own story. **********************************************************************
**Testimonial of the Week ** *Clothes shopping* with a more gentle appreciation of what my body actually looks like, not just what I wish it looked like. I spent way less money and came away with some new "favorite things" - a very different experience!! *Hugs from DD * as a reward for avoiding the internet zone-out trap, I have been taking a walk every afternoon. I feel so much better!! Gretchen **********************************************************************
**Technical Tips ** A number of you haveasked about how to change what name is displayed when you post to a list in Yahoo. Click here is how to change your groups message posting name: You may also want to set a sending name in your email account's preferences. For example, your email address may display your whole name but you would prefer to simply show a sending name on your emails messages to the yahoo group. Click here is a video that tells you how to change your sending name **********************************************************************
** Radiant Recovery® Store ** David manages the Radiant Recovery® Store. He is also Kathleen's oldest son.
Please send questions and suggestions. I love hearing from you and truly want to help you do your program better. **********************************************************************
**Radiant Kitchen ** This is a recipe I found in a book that was hidden on a back shelf of Second Hand Prose in Vinalhaven. It seems like musty books, but sometimes I find treasures. This is a cookbook from 1967 (so almost 50 years ago) with handwritten notes in it by someone who was older. It was before the time of gluten-free resources. I am having fun trying the recipes. Crepes with an Italian Accent
(if you have a crepe pan :), use that) Filling Remove casing from an uncooked 5-ounce hot italian sausage and saute until golden brown. Break it up. Drain the fat and stir in 1 small clove of garlic which has been pulverized. Cook 1 1/2 packages chopped frozen spinach. Press out all the liquid and add to the sausage, alternating with 1 cup cooked chopped chicken (LOL, I don't know where that came from), 3/4 cup grated parmesan cheese and a dash of onion salt. Melt 6 tablespoons of butter (ok, ok, you can use something else) and blend in 6 tablespoons of rice flour until a smooth paste is made. Add 3 cups of light cream, heat and stir until thickened. Add 2 cups of grated parmesan cheese, and 1/2 tsp onion juice. Heat and stir until the cheese melts and flavors are blended. Are you smiling? Doesn't it sound like how we cooked 50 years ago, LOL...so, I KNOW you guys will play with this and see how we can upgrade it a little, LOL. But I loved the idea of Marion wanting her husband (who was diagnosed celiac) to have some great food. For more great program-friendly recipes, check out our cookbook in the store and visit our online Radiant Recipes site. **********************************************************************
**Radiant YLD ** I know you think that YLD is just about weight loss and that is a reasonable idea. But really it is about sharing in miracles. Last week at chat someone casually mentioned that she felt inadequate about being *stuck.* She mentioned that she had been clean off drugs for 3 years but felt she just couldn't move forward. I asked her privately what drug and she said pot. I thought, of course, and smiled. She has had huge shame about this and never really shared it. I had this awakening about how much I know about these *other* things and how silly it is that we are not tapping that resource. This was unplanned and unexpected. But it reflects how much of what happens here in the community...it comes from the sharing, it comes from the listening. I keep telling you chat is a miracle...and besides that we do all this work on weight loss to boot! If you would like to join, come find us here **********************************************************************
**Radiant Living ** We have a new portal for the Radiant Living program. Come check it out here. And ditto for Radiant Living (smile). Same deal, just not food stuff. If you would like to join us, you can do that directly below. Join Radiant Living Now: click here - $99 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 ** On the Radiant Step 5 list we talk about the importance of browns, about the different grains available - how to choose, how to cook, how to serve. We explore why for some of us wheat may not be the best alternative or not a good one. Step 5 can be exciting and you can learn how to introduce new things to resistant family members. We also call it the 'coming out' step since it's at this step that when we 'eat out' we may seem different to those not familiar with our program. And for those of you who are working on gluten free, we will be talking about how to do that too. This list is a great resource list, you don't have to be on step 5 to join it. **********************************************************************
**Structure as Antidote ** Kathleen DesMaisons, Ph.D.
Many people come to Radiant Recovery saying they are already doing most of the steps and just need to add a potato. I often suggest they get a copy of the talk I did at ranch in 2007 about what else is embedded in the steps. That discussion goes through each step and outlines the biochemical changes encoded in each step. But there is another key issue – one I haven’t really talked about. Structure antidotes blind lurching. When we are in active addiction, it is as if we lose our center and we stop being grounded. We lurch from one thing to another. Maybe from diet to diet, job to job, person to person, place to place or interest to interest. We have 6 knitting and crafts projects going on. We present ourselves as creative and curious, liking to try new things. We collect little things like offices supplies or pens in case we need them. We lurch and resist being pinned down. We might say that structure ties us down, thwarts our creativity. Structure seems dull and old fashioned. It seems routine and boring and who would want to do that. Nowhere in our brain have we thought of our behavior as lurching. We never really thought that a little of this and a little of that might be saying something about our sugar addiction. Why is it that we dream big and stay small? Why is it that those sparks of insight and knowing sputter and fade rather than bursting into our passionate flame? My hunch is that we have avoided the gift of structure. We haven’t considered that structure, doing things in an intentional order might actually shape us. And it might change the lurching to intention. If you do this, you will get this result. Now think about that. For so many years, we have worked how to forget the consequence of our actions. We forget that if we eat sugar, or skip meals we get cranky and unpleasant. We forget that we lose direction and we lurch. We forget a lot. So when we have structure, we stop lurching and we do not lose direction. Even early on in the program, when we are still forgetting because of our biochemistry, the structure itself guides us. The steps, those funny steps, lead us into intention. They guide us with if you do this, you will change. If you do these steps, you will have a life you cannot imagine. Everything will shift. And it will shift in ways beyond anything you have considered. Now, many of you may feel that this is simply talk. It is not. We now have enough people who are doing the steps for a long enough time that it is really, really clear that there is a developmental pattern that emerges very predictably over time. The promises we make happen. The steps are bigger than the food. Don’t think of changing them. Do them, do them and get the miracle. 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. mosaic contributes to the Notes from the Forum column. ©2014 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 |
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