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COMMUNITY FORUM
Share with others, ask questions, explore everything and anything about your program. Yes, even topics like chocolate and Fritos.
GROUPS
Work on your steps, get information on what to eat while running a marathon, ask about depression meds, learn how to do life. Groups are free and fun.
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CLASSES
I realized that we haven't done a series of the *brain* classes in a really long time. We have all these new people who have read the book but really haven't had a chance to learn about the neurochemistry in depth. We will be finishing up Serotonin before Ranch so we will get ready for Beta Endorphin the week after. We will plan to start on Thursday, May 29rd, so this will give you a chance to. plan ahead.
Beta Endorphin
Beta Endorphin is the brain chemical that helps us cope with physical and emotional pain. Being sugar sensitive means we have less of it. Learn how this chemical affects your self-esteem and why your capacity to cope may be directly related to your beta endorphin levels. A fascinating look at the part of the story that is most crucial to sugar sensitivity. This will be starting on Wednesday, the 29th.
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WORKING WITH KATHLEEN
Coaching is a special offering for people who are serious about enhancing their programs and would like to have ongoing coaching. We will do
individual assessments to sort out exactly where you are in the process. You will be guided in making your own individual plan. You can learn about journaling and adjusting your food for your own life needs – what to do when. You will be given tools and shown how to use them.
Apprentice coaching is geared for people who are on steps one – three.
Skilled Coaching is for people who are steady on step three and ready to move through
four-six. The small groups who stay together as they learn skills.
Signature Coaching is intensive 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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“Immediately pinpointed myself in numerous areas of your book. Have success- fully attended weddings, funerals, and parties without NEEDING any sweets. My self-esteem is coming back—I have tackled two part-time jobs and have inter- viewed for a new full-time one. Just two months ago I was curled up in my chair, fuming over what a failure in life I was (the first month or so was rough while my body adjusted). I still
have a way to go yet, but being able to wake up in the morning—and the first thoughts NOT being suicidal—is definitely a big boon. Your book has done for me in four months what my general practitioner and my homeopathic practitioner couldn’t do in three years.”
—S. M. T.
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This is a serendipitous recipe that just
popped from the ingredients in the refrigerator. I had a half a leftover rotisserie chicken from Costco. I ripped up the chicken meat into bite sized pieces. I was going to put grapes in it, but the CO-OP had no grapes. They are only doing *in season*. I had 5 huge strawberries, so I cut them up and threw them in the bowl with the chicken. I knew that pepper and strawberries have a nice taste, so I ground a liberal amount of pepper corns on the mixture. I added 2 cups of leftover cooked brown
rice. And then added about 1/3 of a cup of Hellman's Original mayonnaise. I mixed everything up and it was spectacular. I will make it again! I hope you don't mind my sharing an *informal* recipe. It was just so good.
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Last week at Ranch, I had someone ask me why I don't just tell people what to eat in order to lose weight. It really pushed me to think about what it is we are doing in YLD. The key concept is about LAST - this means the whole point is to get you to realize that diets are not the story. Diets = restriction which
is simply one more way of taking away power. YLD is all about *empowerment* which means it is slow, thoughtful and transformative. It can be a little disorienting since it is so different from what you are used to.
Chats, chats, chats. We just keep talking, reflecting, learning. You will learn about fat terror, about the myths of obesity, how dieting fosters *restriction* and what that means for your long term success. We add new science to help you understand why you do what you do.
“I just want to thank Dr. DesMaisons for breaking me free of my sugar bingeing cycle. For years I ate self-destructively, eating, hating myself for eating, and then eating again because I hated myself, and so on. Then my mom told me about the book—she has lost 20 pounds without any trouble! This sugar sensitivity information and simple program has changed my life. I no longer feel the constant
gnawing hunger and have been able to take control of my eating and from there my self-esteem. I have lost 12 pounds and am feeling better than ever. Just in time for my wedding, too!”
—E. B., Ithaca, NY
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That is a real rose in my neighbor's garden. I think she is in her 80's. There are more weeds than there used to be 10 years ago. but the flowers do not care. When people come for
Ranch, it feels as if the roses are blooming. This is hard to explain. We are regular people: we have been doing regular lives. There has been a lot of sorrow this year, and a lot of struggle with the chaos of a country in addiction. But each person came into breakfast, another perfect rose and just the *being* of it...people committed to recovery, to *doing the food* coming to be filled and restored.
I once visited the Rodin sculpture garden in Paris in the spring. It is filled with roses, so when you walk around you see the sculptures done in stone but look as if they are breathing. The rose fragrance is everywhere. Ranch is like this. The rose fragrance of recovery. And when we
did the first meditation, I added in a comment to notice the scent of the light drifting in. A number of people got a rose scent. Now, I think it was because we had some rose hand cream, but it was a sweet moment of serendipity.
Se we arrived, tired and stressed from traveling, and we quieted and went inside. Everything slowed down. We worked with colors and pictures and images. Even the people who don't get pictures had things happen that guided them. I have no idea how to share with you about this. It is
twenty years later. On Friday before Ranch started my editor at Simon & Schuster sent me the final proof of the new edition of Potatoes Not Prozac. Here is a bit of what I wrote at the beginning:
The vision of this book started many years ago with a group of men and women in Northern California who sat in a drunk driving treatment program as program failures. They had tried everything, felt terrible and were willing to think about healing in a new way. Their quest for recovery moved me to my own. The
shared journey started the reality of what has happened in the more than 20 years since Potatoes Not Prozac was first published.
As the first edition was published, I set out to develop an online healing community to allow people from all over the world to share with one another. Ten years later, I had read more than a half a million letters and emails from all over the world. Now twenty years later, that number is closer to a million
as the power of the original steps continues to change people’s lives. Many of the people who started their programs back then are still around, still showing up and helping new people.
Even more important, the healing continues.
A Golden Retriever in training still lies at my feet in the morning as your voices are woven into written words. The dialogue continues and the wisdom has grown. My gratitude is deep and wide.
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