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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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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. Right now, we are working on moving out of restrictive eating. 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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"Food will no longer be your enemy, but your support."
When you understand your sugar sensitivity, what has been an overwhelming mystery in your life becomes a fascinating journey in self-discovery.
Doing the food can change things like the "cranky" and the "overwhelm" and the "guilty" and even "being plain old tired" too, I think.
Overwhelmed was a word that appeared in my journal so often as I worked from step 3 to 6. Now - on step 7 - doing the food has taken me to a place where I can problem solve rather than simply putting up with things that might not be working. Doing the food has given me the ability to see clearly and work solutions out.
This week for example, I've been feeling overwhelmed - but this time it is specific - I can clearly see what I am overwhelmed about and yesterday after mediating I sat quietly and came up with some solutions.
I can remember doing step 3 and thinking and sharing that I would have to give up a contract because it didn't work for me. What happened in fact was that I did the food and found the contract worked really well for me. I don't think I will keep it for good because it is a lot of work, but right now I need the money and I think I'm learning stuff too and so I am sticking with it.
For me, one of the fun parts has been working out how to remain really steady on my food given the work challenges. I have learnt it is doable - some of my solutions I've shared here. And the steadier I am with my food, the easier the work is too. So I am thinking - if we focus on the food - a lot to the other stuff will work better too.
Karen
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If you are interested in ordering a copy of the new book, please preorder through Bookworks. If you do this, it registers in a different way on the *best seller* charts. If we can get everyone to buy their books at the same time, then the *books sold* algorithm picks it up in a very specific way. Pre-orders count. And pre-orders done through
your local independent bookstores count extra. Pre-orders done through my independent bookstore get even extra credit.
And I have negotiated a special deal that any orders from Bookworks will have free shipping.
People are still asking Kathleen whether it is worth it to get the new edition. And the answer is YES, YES, YES! The core is the same - the steps are there, but she has added a prequel about why you got to the place you did. She talks about what it was like for you as a child and how it was different from being a regular kid. And then has added several new chapters about what it is like AFTER you do the steps.
Come visit our STORE. Call 505-345-3737 and leave a message.
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I am leaving this same information up here in the YLD section because if you are not a member yet, I want you to READ it and join :). Things are getting exciting.
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.
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The special lifetime membership program is all about support for learning how to *live* as you move towards radiance. The stability of your food and the steps will form a foundation to bring you into a new way of living. We will talk about emotional sobriety, finding passion in your life, disarming things that get in the way, program maturation and, of course, spirituality. When we are caught in addiction, we stop growing, we get stuck and stay
stuck. Our commitment to doing life without addiction has catapulted us into something unexpected.
Radiant Living will allow you to share with others — people who are asking the same questions and exploring answers boldly and with the humility that comes with doing the food.
I am putting a picture of JOURNALS up there because yes, yes, yes I will continue to talk about the power of your journal, even if you ignore it, forget it, lose it or flee from it. :) We won't talk about it every week, I promise, but you will get to look at that picture forever.
Please note that we have reinstituted Radiant Living Chats on Monday at their usual times. We will be having topics and I will post that list at the Yahoo Living list on the web as well. I will give you a preview of a month's worth at a time so you don't get overwhelmed. That came from last week's chat. We had an incredible discussion about why you might not remember to journal. Chat topics for September:
- Abundance
- Seasonal tuning of your program
- Where feelings live
- The addiction amoeba
Now here is a funny thought. Can you come to Radiant Living if you are not on Step 7? The answer is yes, but you have to come as an auditor which means you can listen, but not speak. And if you don't understand why, or you don't like this, ask me on the forum and I will explain it to you, I promise. Radiant Living is a reward program.
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Reconnecting to my Program
Here is a note I got from someone. I thought you would like to share it.
I have recently changed my program in a dramatic way, I decided it was time to lose the pounds that crept in with menopause. I had the *data* but needed to think through a plan of action. Here are the things that really helped me:
- I was really clear about what I wanted. I stopped pussyfooting around and made a definitive commitment. A goal, a time, an outcome.
- I wrote down the way I would get to my goal - a process that suits me, my lifestyle and my rhythm. Some of this came out of our weight loss class. I actually did the exercises the class was doing.
- I committed to keep on even when I get discouraged. When my personal power runs out, I might say, *ah, enough already, I am tired.* This time, I want the outcome and I am willing to push through the wall and I am finding the beginning of something new, a new understanding, a new power and sense of possibility. I like it.
- When I get stuck and mad and think I want a life like everyone else's....I just sit in my quiet awareness and wait. I stop pouting and remember I am choosing these changes because I want the outcome. No one is making me, I am choosing. And then I feel just fine.
The most important thing is that I am willing to put into practice what I know on a different level. This means I do it, just do it over and over. And *it*? That would be doing the food. Doing the food as it works for weight loss.
Hope this makes sense. It sure is working for me.
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