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Share with others, ask questions, explore everything and anything about your program.Yes, even topics like chocolate and Fritos.
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WORKING WITH KATHLEEN
I feel very strongly about offering you a 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.
Chats are offered 4 times weekly through the
Your Last Diet Program and the Radiant Living Program. We have talked about Adult Children of Alcoholic issues, Gaslighting, Problem Solving, among other things in the last month. I have been told this is one our most helpful offerings. Those who come to chat
flourish.
Signature Coaching is personalized and individual coaching geared to your specific situation. You may want to step out of the craziness of sugar addiction, return to steadiness and clarity after slipping away, slow down and focus on your recovery,
or deepen a steady rhythm of recovery.
This is a way to step out of feeling overwhelmed with where to start and what to do. Because it is so individualized, we can work on what is right for you at this point in your
journey. People tell me that coaching helps them feel safe and focused. We work with your style, your rhythm. We address your fear and let go of shame.
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"Can you take the risk of really living? Your healing is going to take you to a place you have never known. It may be scary, and it may change your life, but, my oh my, there is no turning back."
I know we often talk about the earlier steps on this list and how to get started doing the food with our children. I wanted to take some time to share about what step 7 - getting a life - looks like in our home.
So maybe a bit of history will help you have context. Before radiant recovery I was Dr. Jekyl's wife - moody, irritable, screaming at my kids, fatigued. I couldn't understand why I had everything I had ever dreamed of and was miserable.
The girls were prone to melt downs. In fact, I was laughing to myself this morning driving to work thinking about how I used to refer to 5pm as the bewitching hour - the little werewolves appeared - every day! Bedtime was a struggle, morning was even harder. The girls bickered often.
And I was a stay at home mom - by choice.
Here's a glimpse into yesterday - I came home from work (from a job I adore), my husband was on the computer or something - the girls were playing outside with a neighbor's child. They had rigged the sprinkler onto the slide to make a water slide. They were laughing and playing.
Eddie helped me to make some salsa. The girls came in and made grilled chicken pizza for dinner for themselves while Eddie and I grilled mahi mahi. The girls thought they were light on protein and added a piece of zucchini pie to their dinner. No arguments, just very matter of fact. After dinner I did email and a bit of laundry, Lindsey helped Eddie to build some new shelves, Kayla took a shower and curled up with a
book.
We giggled a lot last nite. Girls did their bedtime snack they have been pretty much doing cheerios every nite for a while now.
At bed time we made up a new family oath the Radiant Potato Spud Oath. I made Lindsey repeat after me - I, Lindsey, do solemnly swear by the radiant potato spud oath (and we did the sign letters rps) to get up in the morning without giving my Mommy a hard time! We were laughing so hard by the end that tears were streaming down for me!
Then I taught it to Kayla, who thinks I am nuts! And when Eddie tucked Lindsey in, she taught it to him!
No melt downs, no mood swings, no drama and trauma! And it's like that all the time :) This morning Lindsey got up on her own, made her bed, no fuss. She said, *well Mom, I took the oath last night.*
OK, so do breakfast with protein and you may very well end up creating silly oaths too :)
Anyone else want to tell us about step 7 in your home?
Gail
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Chats, chats, chats. They keep getting better. The topics are getting deeper. Now we are moving into the process of getting ready for weight loss. If you are a member, make sure to come and join us.
I don’t think I understood that this program is much more than weight loss until I got “stable”. Weight loss was the motivating factor for me in the beginning, so I understand why everyone is talking about it. It is so nice to be even-tempered and “radiant” that I would continue the program if I hadn’t lost weight, but it’s nice to know it can do both! One friend commented that I have such
willpower….nope…I wasn’t the slightest bit interested in it. Enjoying the people at a party instead of obsessing over the food, do I look fat, how much can I eat without people noticing…can you imagine? I find that miraculous!
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New Look at Meditation and Prayer
Kathleen DesMaisons, PhD
Those of you who have heard me speak at book signings or at Ranch know that I often include meditation and prayer as two of the best beta-endorphin raisers in the world. They are a key part of Step 7 and creating a life that is rich, full and loving. We have people in our community who come from many backgrounds with many ideas of prayer and meditation. And many folks who have been raised in more traditional
communities think of meditation as either some esoteric thing that has nothing to do with them, or some new age thing that feels strange.
Let me say a little about the context I am using when I refer to these. For me, neither is denominational or scary and both can do many things. I think the most important thing is to know why one prays or meditates. It is the *why* that gives the quality of the prayer or meditation and makes it of one order or another.
You may pray or meditate to open yourself up to the Divine Force, you may pray or meditate to reject ordinary awareness, you may pray or meditate to enter the depths of your being, you may pray or meditate to learn how to make sense of things and integrate all you are learning. You may pray or meditate for others.
You may pray or meditate to enter into peace and calm and silence - this is what most folks do, and often with little success. But you can pray or meditate to receive an energy that heals you, to see places in your heart that are asking to be healed, and to learn to see how you are progressing. You may pray or meditate for very practical reasons: when you hit a rough time, when you are looking for an answer, or when
you want some help in what choice to make.
I think all of us have our own mode of prayer or meditation. But if we want the prayer or meditation to be dynamic, we need to have an aspiration for progress as we sit in prayer or meditation. If we come to either with an open heart and ask that we be helped in our progress, profound change will emerge. Come to prayer or meditation with that sense of desire to grow, rather than wanting to escape.
And here is another idea, one that may sound strange. Ask for your body to be healed, this healing of our bodies is key. We need to see our bodies as having value, and we need to want to perfect them rather than ditch or run from them, or ignore them, or drug them with alcohol, sugar, caffeine or white stuff. If we see our bodies as instruments to help in our process, then we see our doing the food, doing the process
of the 7 steps as part of that commitment. We do this, not to climb out of the hole of our addictions, but to discover this connection to what Star Wars called *the Force* - our healing power, a power that will nourish and sustain us.
Putting prayer and meditation into a healing body is a mighty tool for transformation - way beyond crawling through the day wishing just to stop hurting. Prayer and meditation create an inner silence of wonder, a beatitude and a way of being that is not possible in regular life. Both shape my day in a big way. It is the core of my step 7.
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