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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
The groups list is up on the web site. If you want to try out the new system, it is super easy. You don't have to get a Yahoo email, you don't have to fuss.
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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. As we have been progressing with coaching, we have found that it really, really supports progress. We have added a special chat for people in coaching. It
meets twice a week to accommodate those who are in Greenwich Time and those who are in USA time.
We do individual assessments to sort out exactly where you are in the process and which coaching subgroup suits you best. 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 have a 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 the steps and ready to work on Step 7 life skills. Special Coaching is geared to people who have special considerations. Email me if you have any questions or concerns about the coaching
groups.
Signature Coaching is 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.
I actually have been profoundly touched by the level of change people go through in this process. When someone asks me what I think the biggest advantage is I say that the guidance can shorten and ease your process so that in 3 months you will do what you might take a year to do on your own. I am thinking I will put up some testimonials from people who have done it so you can hear their voices.
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"You cannot heal addiction in isolation."
I have gone to the Y 4 times both this week and last week. I have been swimming, walking, and kickboarding laps as well as participating in my aquatic wellness class and using an aquatics punchcard to participate in a couple of other classes when I can; aquacize and waterlates (pilates in the water). I am pleased that my balance is improving some in spite of my bad knees, and my body has much better muscle tone. My
weight has also started to move a bit again for which I am very greatful. My thyroid function is starting to improve with this 4th increase in my medication as well as my heart inflammation decreasing, so hope that the continued movement with help both to keep moving in the right direction.
I ordered and received a DVD called Healing Yoga for Aches and Pains which Val recommended to me, and a lot of the exercises can be done while sitting in a chair. I haven't been able to watch it yet but plan to soon. I had the opportunity to share this program with a couple of people at the Y this week which of course helps to reinforce my own. I am pleased that I have finally learned to really enjoy movement and
that I am willing to make myself get up and go when I don't feel like it as I can now see the benefits. Looks like everyone is doing well and are moving in a way that is meaningful to them. Let's keep on keeping on.
Carol
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David on Halloween. I heard Brody screaming in terror. He did not think the sloth was funny. I almost fell off my chair. He is a funny boy.
Come visit our STORE. Call 505-345-3737.
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This is one of the pictures we found from very long ago. These are 4 women who started doing the program in 1998. One has died, one has gone away, and two are still here, still doing breakfast and still in service to your healing. If there are any of you who might like to
be involved in doing some service, please email me and we can talk.
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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. And if you are a member, I want you to read it again and again, so you really, really GET what we are doing.
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. If what you care about is just losing weight, honestly you can
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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Many people ask me how they *know* that they are on step 7. Is it a date, hit detox, and then wham, there you are? Is it having a perfect program, every step clean and organized and sorted? How can someone on Step 7 muck around or be sloppy with the food journal? Do they have to revert? If they wobble, do they *lose* their status?
Now, what I am going to say here may surprise you. But step 7 is really about a state of being rather than a destination. Step 7 is affectionately called the *getting a life* step, but really, that hardly defines it. It is about how you meet the world and it is radically different from how the world was before you started the program. Let me walk you through the transformation.
I know from lots and lots of experience that the hallmarks of untreated sugar sensitivity are what I call entitlement and blame. We feel done unto. My husband, my boss, my mother, my children, my life, my stress, my health *made me*. You feel victimized by circumstance. It made you be this way. If he hadn't....I wouldn't be this way. You do not take responsibility for what happens around you because you do not feel empowered. You feel helpless in the
face of things happening. And you blame the outside world for things not working.
At the same time, because you feel victimized you feel you are entitled to things. Well, I deserve to be...because..they owe me. Often this is the company owes me because I am poor and work hard and they make lots of money. I hear this as I deserve to not have to pay for the program because I am poor and am entitled to it for free.
These feelings, are biochemically induced. Now, that sounds pretty outrageous doesn't it? However, these are the very feelings that change with the program. Working with your journals helps you to see connections, and something called consequence. If I eat this, this happens. No one does it to me. There is a connection between what I do and what happens. You start making little connections..and over time they grow. As you get more steady, you can make
more powerful connections.
"Yes, my husband is abusive, but I stay here." Things like that. You start seeing yourselves as players rather than victims. And even more striking, when people critique you, you have this remarkable detachment. You take what is real, own it and are even grateful for the feedback rather than being devastated by it. For example, early in the program, if I offer a suggestion, not even a critique, but a simple reflection that perhaps eating a potato the
size of a football might not be the best option, the person who started the program 3 days ago is either brushed or outraged that I do not understand their special situation and they go off in a huff or unsubscribe from the program for a year. If I say that to a person in balance, they say *Oh my, whatever was I thinking about. Thank you.*
I listen for this change. Sometimes it comes early. But most often it is the change that tells me most about Step 7 consciousness. One of my leadership people makes a mistake. We have a code for mistakes called the FANTASTIC! code. They say, *Oh fantastic, let me go clean that one up*. We laugh and it is no bigger than an error to be corrected. Or someone wobbles, and I say, *Hey, how about a sabbatical while you steady up there?* and they say...*yah,
yah, let me go catch my breath and tighten up my plan. My timing is off, I am eating out too much.* And they do. Now let me tell you, working and playing with people in this energy is beyond comparison.
You all feel it drifting through. Those of you on the more senior lists drink from the well. Those of you just starting know this is what you want. This is part of radiance, this humor, this joy, this resilience. It is way more than no longer yelling at your kids. It is getting a life. No more blame, lots of taking responsibility. No more entitlement, just humble willingness to work, show up and participate. Pretty nice from where I sit.
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