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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. This is a great place to get started when you are new.
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 will be catching up with Heart and BE this week.
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.
We are just starting a new group called Return to Radiance Coaching for those who have done the steps in the past and then drifted. Skilled Coaching is for people who are steady on step three and ready to move through four-six. The small groups stay together as they learn skills. And Special Coaching will be geared to people who have special considerations going on. If you want to sign up for Special,
put a note in the notes section so I have context.
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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"You are telling your body it is important. You are noticing what you are eating and what you are feeling."
I haven't posted in a while. Just wanted people to know I was doing well. A couple of wobbles, but basically, really good. I have been journalling (almost religiously) since I returned from Cuba. I missed a couple of entries, but other than that, doing very well. It is slowly becoming part of my active day.
I discovered this program more than 2 years ago and the other day I was reflecting on the changes I have made in my life. My breakfast has been steady for the better part of two years, with slight problems from time to time. I have been taking the 3 vitamins for more than a year now. I have been exercising 3 to 7 times per week for the better part of 2 years (this one is huge for me
becausse I classified myself as the world's biggest couch potato...I still can't believe I am doing this). I have changed from whites to browns and other than the odd wobble, I have eliminated sugar from my food plan.
Much of the short-temperedness I have experienced a good part of my life, has disappeared and for the most part I do feel radiant. I have also lost 75 lbs, slowly over the past 2 years. My life has changed so completely. I just feel so young and alive most of the time. I'm 51 and feel younger and more energetic now than I did 20 years ago. My arthritis rarely bothers me anymore. I do still
have some problems with acid reflux, so am unable to do the potato. I seem to be managing ok without it. The journal has been the most difficult for me to stay steady with. I have now made it a priority in my life. Ordering Katleen's journal has simplified the process for me. I really love it.
When I started looking back, I was amazed at how far I had actually come. It all started when I came across a picture of myself just before I found this program. I just saw so much pain in that picture, although I was smiling. I remembered so acutely, how I was feeling back then. Night and day!!! Thanks for the help and support I have received and for those of you who think, it's
impossible, know that I used to be plagued wtih those same feelings. Life can be and is beautiful. Take care and thanks for listening.
Carmel
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David, your Radiant Recovery® Concierge
Come visit our STORE. Call 505-345-3737 and leave a message.
David is still on vacation. He is in Maine playing volleyball with family and friends. He is eating steak tips at a bar in Chelsea and sleeping in a tent at a state park. They have turned 50, so maybe they are at a B&B, Don't order anything LOL. He is checking in everyday, so just call me with any questions and I will
replay them. He was tracking down a battered package last week LOL.
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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’m in my third year of recovery and THIS year is the worst roller coaster of trying to balance my protein/sugar/mood swings. Was at wit’s end, wondering where could I find a doctor who knew addiction recovery AND nutrition when my sis sent me a blurb on your book. Went to bookstore and the words leapt off the cover at me! I KNEW it was more than just blood sugar; I had been doing food combining, protein in the
a.m ., etc., for years, even before I quit drinking. You have saved my life and, more important, my peace of mind by filling in the blank spaces in my diet management. All I want is to feel normal after I eat! Even after I had the blood sugar thing down, I was still experiencing weird feelings, and there they were in the book: a column for beta-endorphin and one for serotonin! Thank you so much for giving me direction!! God bless you! I have been telling everyone about your
book.
—M. S.
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Because so many of you are starting to meditate, I am resending this article this week.
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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