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COMMUNITY FORUM Share with others, ask questions, explore everything and anything about your program without a charge.
GROUPS Learn the steps, get fit safely, learn creative program cooking, learn about depression, learn with other men, learn with parents, share in local areas. There is no charge for groups.
CLASSES
I will be offering one 2 week class per month. Registration will be limited to 20 per class. If more sign up, I will open a second section. Classes are done by email, so there are no specific time constraints to be present.
If you are new to the community I strongly recommend you take the brain chemistry classes.
Starting Monday, March 19th
Serotonin
Learn all about the “Just Say No” chemical. Learn how your depression may be affected by your diet. Learn how to manipulate serotonin levels safely and with tenderness. A real hands-on lesson in feeling better. I will be adding a lot of the new things I have learned about ginger and serotonin, and referencing the serotonin/migraine connection. Even if you have taken this class before, this is a great opportunity for an update. Lots of NEW
information for you. If you haven't signed up, you can still slide in. 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. Please note that Coaching
Apprentice is open to people starting or restarting. Coaching Skilled is for people who are settled with their steps and want to look at other issues more in-depth. Signature Coaching is for those who want an individualized program support.
And you can always call 505-345-3737 and ask me about how each one works.
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"Doing the food will balance you, and you will know exactly what to do to heal yourself."
When I discovered Radiant Recovery in 2001, I was searching the internet for more information about depression. As a therapist, I knew all of the traditional ways to treat depression and had been through them all, never finding the key for my own depression. At radiantrecovery.com I read everything Kathleen had written, then bought the books, and jumped into the program by posting on the forum. I never looked
back and by the end of the first week I felt so much better I knew I was on the right track.
I discovered a new facet to addiction, sugar addiction. It finally dawned on me how I could have been born into the midst of a family of alcoholics and not be one myself. I was, instead, a sugar addict, and just as seriously affected by it as any other drug addict by their drug. I learned
that as a sugar addict not only did I compulsively eat sugar, but that I could not follow directions, respect authority, think clearly, share honestly, or trust others. After six months, I wouldn't have traded this program for all the gold in Fort Knox, because I had gained so much happiness and felt totally depression free. Although I still had much healing to do, I knew I had
found a program that really worked for me. No more empty promises and shattered dreams of enjoying life. This program gave me everything I was searching for and so much more. In my continuing years on this program I believe that I grow more deeply to be the me I was created to be. I feel alive, connected, focused and serene. Physically, all of my aches and pains went away and I feel as healthy now as years ago in my forties. Life is good!
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Finding A Safe Place Meditation CD
Come visit our STORE. Call 505-345-3737 if you have questions. David, the store manager, is always happy to help.
$12.95 / $11.95 (subscription)
I am putting the Safe Place CD in again this week because I have been listening to it and find it comforting.
Use this CD over and over to train a response that is immediate and fully relaxed. Teach your deepest self to be quiet and still.
Buckwheat and Brown Rice Flour Pancakes |
I want to be eating these for dinner :)
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I have changed the rules about Radiant Living and Your Last Diet Chats. If you are a member of either program, you may attend the chats for both Living and YLD. If you would like to attend 2 chats a week, you are more than welcome to do so. We are now using our new chat room. I have posted the logistics of getting into the room on the Living List and Steph posted them at YLD. Please go over and practice before chat. Read the room instructions and the guides for chatting. Begin at the landing page. But remember you will need the password to access the landing page. We will not cross post the transcripts though.
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Do I have to be on step 7 to join YLD?
No. In fact, it is great to join right at the beginning. YLD gives you a whole level of support you can't find anywhere else in the community.
I am ready to lose weight now! Is this the right place for me? Maybe, maybe not. Depends on whether you are willing to explore our philosophy which is to heal your biochemistry before you just start another diet.
I don't need to lose weight. Is there any point in joining?
Absolutely. The chats alone are worth the price of joining. It is where you can actively participate in shaping the vision of the
community, learn about the latest trends, and have a terrific time with other members from around the world.
If you are not a YLD member, 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. I will post the page chat words on the YLD list.
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Another Look at Learned Helplessness Kathleen DesMaisons, Ph.D.
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you get hurt as a child, you get a big beta-endorphin response to protect you. It literally kept you alive. And then as an adult you have intuitively found ways to recreate *safety* with sugar. Your body *remembers* that beta-endorphin means *safe* so you become very emotionally attached to your *comfort foods.* Sugar sensitive people are more attached to these foods, as we well know. And sugar sensitive people who have experienced childhood abuse are even more vulnerable.
But here is what is even more intriguing. The body is flooded with beta-endorphin in the time of trauma or inescapable stress. These can be bad things happening like an accident, a death, a horrid boss, abusive situations or even traumatic stimuli like having your utilities turned off or your credit taken away. If you experienced the protection of the beta-endorphin flooding when you were little, these later adult experiences will recreate that powerful feeling of safety even though on the outside it rationally seems as if these things are bad. You are drawn to them for the biochemical solace that comes with the release of beta endorphin.
Learned Helplessness So even the things that seem like they are really *bad* are actually hooking into a very old biochemical pattern of beta-endorphin protection. And if bad things happen enough, you will feel (just as it did when you were little) like there is no way out. You will feel overwhelmed, inadequate and
without options this is learned helplessness. The most incredible thing is that these feelings are biochemical. They are beta-endorphin mediated. When you use sugars, you are comforted for a little. Life seems more possible, options seems bigger. But you cant find your way out because the optimism and hopefulness only lasts for a little bit while the sugar induced
beta-endorphin lasts. Or goes away and when you are in beta-endorphin withdrawal, the helplessness gets worse.
A Way Out You stay in a downward spiral of hopelessness. The good news is that the
Radiant Recovery® plan can help you to get out of the destruction of learned helplessness. But in dealing with the bigger story, you have to make some adjustments. If you really want to be in the world in a new way, you will need to be very diligent about creating experiences to evoke the slow, healing beta-endorphin rather than the quick spikes that come from sugar. When you start getting better with the
food, you reduce the priming from sugar. This is a good start. But unless you *add in* emotional experiences to recreate beta-endorphin (like EXERCISE, prayer, meditation, dancing, puppies, kittens, good sex (relational intimacy), good food, etc.), your body will be seeking, seeking something to re-activate the beta-endorphin *safety* which you connect to being okay. You will drift back
to old patterns which mirror the trauma. So you will pick a fight with a cop ;-), your husband, partner or mother. You will *forget* to pay your bills on time, you will double book appointments, or not pay your taxes. This is NOT a function of being screwed up so much as an unconscious attempt to find solace and safety. Unless you reform the patterns, learned helplessness will follow you tenaciously. And you reform the brain patterns by changing the food. Take care of the food and the rest will take care of itself |
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