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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
I have started the Step One Class on the Step one List. Join us if you like.
WORKING WITH KATHLEEN
I feel very strongly about offering you a number of ways 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. Coaching Skilled is for people who are on step 7 and want to look at other issues more in-depth. You have to apply to me directly to join this group.
Signature Coaching is for those who want to work individually with me in an intensive 90-day process. Signature is the top of the line. All who have done it talk about their lives being changed. This is not for the dabbler.
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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"The more you are able to observe and note your food and feelings, the easier it will be for you to make changes in them."
I've been taking a hiatus from the computer to take care of a shoulder injury, but i feel moved to share about my 4th anniversary on this program which is in March.
When I read SARP in March, it was the first time I had hope that I might not be permanently broken and un-fixable. I had been bingeing almost daily since I was 8 years old. I stole money from my mother's purse to buy food and hid my "empties" under my bed. Pounds and gallons and boxes and bags of food. I grew up feeling pretty much constant shame and inadequacy.
When I got older, I read everything I could about emotional eating, stress eating, fat as a feminist issue, eating to fill the "hole in the soul"...I thought I must have the biggest hole anyone had ever seen. No matter how much work I did on my emotional issues, the eating continued. I would always eat to the point where I felt stuffed and sick, and then I would wait until my fullness abated so I could cram some more in. I was overstuffed and undernourished all the time - it is impossible to experience pleasure from food in that state!
As I got older, I could only vaguely manage my weight by compulsively exercising (then I had 2 monkeys on my back - food and exercise). Still, I was always moody, always 20-50 pounds overweight, and could never stay at one weight for very long. I had no sense of what a balanced life might feel like.
In March, I began with breakfast. I did not set a timetable for my program, and I took extra time with step 3 and step 5. I just wanted to be out of the prison of compulsive eating.
Today, I am still a work in progress (of course!) but I no longer binge. I am no longer a compulsive exerciser. I am at a healthy weight. I no longer have multiple sizes of clothes in my wardrobe. These things didn't change my life, though. What changed my life was the biochemical healing that allows me to feel that I am living the life I am meant to live. There is ever-growing patience, kindness, gratitude, and happiness in my life. It all started with breakfast.
SB
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.
Maybe you will be traveling. Take Restore with you. It will help.
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Here is another recipe from Maggie. She is an incredible cook. I have made this and can tell you it is YUMMY. And I don't even like cauliflower!
- 1 head cauliflower
- 1.5 tsp dried tarragon
- 2-3 tbsp FRESH lemon juice (depending on how big the head of cauliflower is)
- 1 tbsp lemon zest
- olive oil
- salt
- pepper
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Preheat oven to 375. Line a jellyroll pan (cookie sheet with sides) with aluminum foil. Wash and break cauliflower into small florets (easy to do - just take the knife and split flowers at their base). Spread across pan. Drizzle generously with EXTRA VIRGIN olive oil and sprinkle with salt and pepper. Stir/toss carefully to coat the cauliflower. Roast in oven for about 25 minutes until it looks golden and feels tender when speared with a knife. Halfway through the cooking, stir/toss again so that there is even browning. While the cauliflower is roasting, use a lemon zester to scrape off the lemon zest into the serving bowl. Cut the lemon in half and squeeze in the lemon juice. You can also finely mince shallots and throw them in at this time (YUM). Put the tarragon in the palm of your hand and rub your hands together, letting the powdered tarragon fall into the bowl. Whisk in some olive oil (maybe a tbsp). When the cauliflower is done, add it to the serving bowl and turn the cauliflower over numerous times to blend the dressing and the caulflower. Salt and pepper to taste.
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Radiant Living is geared to looking at Step 7 life. 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. This is the time when our food is steps, our steps are solid and we want a life of recovery to guide us.
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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. You won't get this information anywhere else, I guarantee. Make sure to come to chat. I am going to expand what we are doing in chat and will outline it in the article section below.
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.
Reading through all of the information on the home page is what convinced me to join YLD. I read everything and then bought all of the books. I am an avid reader and I just couldn't soak up enough information. I felt like I had finally discovered the answer that I had been searching for. The site is easy to follow and contains a wealth of information. It's a great refresher site when I feel like my steps are getting a little "mushy". It's awesome!
Carol
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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Making Choices in a New Way
Kathleen DesMaisons, PhD
I have been thinking a lot about that whole discussion about Why am I still fat? I listened to a tape we made called Warrior Wellness. It was pretty prophetic. I thought it would be fun to share a few excerpts from that talk.
We came to this program and we learned how to do the food. Those of us who are on the chubby side began learning about weight loss. Some people have lost weight and it's been not an issue. They just do the program. Some people open the book and start to lose weight. And there are a group of people who get to step six and stop eating sugar, stop eating refined flour products, they lose weight with no effort. Some have to exercise not too seriously, but they get moving and they start losing weight.
And for some people not only do they have to do the seven steps really well and really diligently, and exercise really diligently, but they have to do all this other stuff. They say, OK, I'm doing step seven and I'm exercising and this is not budging. What is wrong with me?
The program is about being willing to find answers when we didn't know. We didn't know. Everything that we were taught everything, every single piece of it didn't work and people were still judged as being bad if they were still fat.
But something happened. Now we know what to do. Now we have CHOICES, We're going to talk about it. We're going to talk about it without shame. And we're going to say what we're doing collectively as a tribe is we're stepping into a different place of understanding there.
We're going to stand up and live as a community and say, number one, we're going to be healthy. That's number one. We're going to create a foundation in order to heal our bodies, and then we're going to make a choice about what we want and what level of work we're willing to do to get there.
We are going to clear out, literally on a body level, the old patterns of shame and hurt and anger, because we don't need that anymore. We do not need to carry that kind of burden around with who we are any more. It's time for that to go. And we need to have the freedom, whether we're fat or whether we're thin and not healthy or not in condition, to be able to say we don't have to look for answers anymore. You know how we've spent 20, 30, 40 years looking for another diet, another fitness plan, another teacher, whatever? We don't need to do that anymore. We have what we need. We have it. And we can choose to do it or not.
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