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Conversations are grouped into topics so you can search for something you are interested in and join in, or you can start a new topic. This discussion is held on a list at our host service.
People are talking, bring your questions and ideas!.It is nice place to get started if you are new to the community and are wondering what to do. Join it now.
GROUPS
The groups list is up on the web site. Just sign up for the group you would like to join. Read about the group before you ask to join.
CLASSES
We do classes in several ways. Some classes are done right on the lists and there is no added charge for them. We are doing the Step One Class on the Step one list and the Obesity Myth Class on the YLD list.
They will both continue tomorrow.
This a time to learn how to the do the program in a way that you can get nowhere else. The dates will be May
15-16-17. If you go over to register and get confused that it says it is free, click on the drop down box to determine how to pay. Email me if you have any questions.
New people are welcome. And if you are local, you do not. need to stay at the hotel. Actually, no matter where you are from, you can stay wherever you like :)
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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. Kathleen personally runs the coaching groups.This is not a class but is a process to support your progress. We have added a special chat for people in coaching. It meets twice a week to accommodate those who are in Greenwich Mean Time and those who are in USA time.
Coaching includes several options now: Return to Radiance Coaching for those who have done the steps in the past and then drifted and would like to get back on track. Skilled Coaching is
for people who are steady on the steps and ready to work on Step 7 life skills.
I also provide individual intensive coaching called Signature
Coaching. It can help you 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 3 month process that includes doing an in-depth assessment of where you are in the process, designing an individual plan for you and then meeting once a week via phone or Skype to work on your progress.
This is the 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. This is a unique opportunity to release your fear and let go of shame.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. Signature coaching is also an excellent way to tackle any special needs you may have. like wanting to get sober, or dealing with insulin resistance, or special medical concerns.
Sign up for Signature Coaching
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"Remember that you are literally learning a new language. You are going to have to practice to become fluent in body talk."
This is my sense of how you get to step 7. When you start breakfast it is so overwhelming. I can't cook breakfast every morning, it is too much work, I don't have stuff in the house, I'm not awake enough within an hour, it will mess up my kitchen which is already messy, too much food, etc. But you put your energy into doing it and after a while it is easy. You don't think about it. If 2 years ago you'd told me that I
would wake up and prepare a shake for myself, different shake for my 5 year old (and mommy please clean out the blender because I don't like that banana flavor in mine), supervise my 8 year old making an omelet and oatmeal AND that I'd need to pack snacks for both and lunch for one (could I please have pasta in the thermos today and sorry, I forgot to clean it out yesterday.) AND that this would all have to be done in a timely manner, I'd have sat down and cried. But this is my daily life and I
love it.
It is rare that we all eat the same breakfasts and yet it doesn't bother me. It is just what we do. Breakfast happens every day. I feed myself first and then I help my kids. Similarly, I just naturally pick up my journal and note stuff down and meals happen on time and I habitually include enough protein and brown. I don't have to watch the clock, I don't have to think about it, it just happens. My kitchen ALWAYS has
a meal available. I can throw things together (before if there wasn't a plan, it was fast food). We ate for almost 10 days without a grocery run last month while everyone was sick and we never missed a meal. It seems like my body generally gives me clues about when it is time for potato. When I first started step 4 it seemed like such a pain and preparing food for lunch when I was home alone seemed like a waste of time. Now I happily cook for myself. Things just shift and it is no longer hard.
There's no longer a struggle and hopefully there is joy.
Right now, it is taking a lot of my energy to not eat sugar, to think about coverts, to take care of myself, to attend to my grief. My sense is that as I work on this step, those things will become easier too and it will be like the other steps and they will just happen and so then I would think I'll be ready for step 7.
I'm not really sure what step 7 is about. I think of it as an adventure of discovery. I know that there is a different tone to the posts from people on step 7. There is patience, serenity, wisdom, joy, fun - regardless of personality or anything else, there is this essence that sort of oozes out of their posts. I think we get lots of glimmers of step 7 as we go along and the closer we get, the more glimmers.
Breakfast brings a clarity to the morning, journaling helps you connect, step 3 brings steadiness and self care, step 4 brings happiness, step 5 (well, it sort of just happened so not sure on that one), and step 6 brings peace. I guess step 7 will be zest for life.
Emily, Step 6
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David, my oldest son, runs our store. He makes sure your orders go out quickly and works with you to find the best things suited to where you are in your process.
Please send questions and suggestions. I love hearing from you and truly want to help you do your program better. I am putting Restore in again because you got so excited about it.
Come visit our STORE. Call 505-345-3737.
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I am posting it again because several people said they were happy to hear about it.
Your Last Diet: More Than What You Think
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When should you join YLD? Anytime you want to be able to talk about losing weight. You DON'T have to be on step 7 to join us. We soon will be talking about the gene codes that determine whether you will be a slow loser or a fast loser and what to do about it. And ironically, it is NOT just for people who want to lose weight. It really is for
anyone wanting to real time connection and problem solving every week. Nothing like it!
There is a lifetime membership fee of $99 to join YLD. This means if you go away for 5 years to try all sorts of other things that don't work and come back, you still have a membership and a great welcome!
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Something is Happening
by Kathleen DesMaisons, PhD
I am sure that many of you have figured out that Kathleen reads all sorts of interesting things besides brain stuff and nutrition and dogs. Last night I was reading a little book on what is called the implicit order. Basically, the author is building a scientific case for how all things are connected. Physicists and philosophers have been doing this for many years. The mathematicians work things out in math, then the scientists build things that test them. I
studied philosophy in college many years ago. Some of what I was reading were ancient Indian Vedic texts about how the world fits together. It is amazing to live in a time when science is now actually touching/feeling those very same things. Well they don't really touch it, because these little tiny little particles are very, very tiny.
This field is called quantum physics - the land of tiny, tiny things. Here is a wonderful quote:
The remarkable fact emerging from this sea of quantum mystery is that particles and atoms are not individual beasts. They are sociable entities, and under conditions they are so thoroughly "entangled" with each other that they are not just here or there, but in all pertinent places at the same time.
Laszlo
Now you are probably wondering whatever can that mean (smile)so I thought I would offer my own little interpretation. I like to think that it means that we are all connected. What happens to me affects you and what happens to you affects me. So, let's say 15 radiant women in the UK have lunch. They are goofy and laughing. They are experiencing the "recognition" that comes when a group of us get together. Now according to quantum physics,
that was not just an isolated lunch that those silly girls across the sea did. It was our lunch. Their healing, their fun is ours as well.
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By now, you are probably thinking I have lost my marbles, heh heh. But let me continue to play. Think of a net, one of those hairnets that the ladies in the school lunch program wore. The ones with little colored beads. Imagine now that the beads are actually little lights. And when a couple of people in recovery get together, then the little bead lights up.
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This is sort of what happens when we do chat. We laugh and laugh and I feel connected. Sometimes we do roll callSouth Dakota, Florida, New Mexico, Australia, New Jersey, San Francisco, Toronto, Orcas Island, Northern Maine and there we all are just talking with one another. So chat feels like little beads lighting up all over the hairnet.
Something is happening this spring. I can feel it. There is a lightness, a depth of connection to healing, clearing out, priorities and values are shifting. We have all different kinds of people herepeople we would never know in our own circles. People who live in flats in London, people who live in Western Australia, in tiny houses in southern Florida, in mansions in California, in duplexes in Virginia, in row houses in Scotland. We have
men and women, people of color, gay and lesbians, old people, young people, fundamentalists, pagans, traditionalists, atheists, monks, nuns, wild women, fat people, skinny people, gorgeous people, plain peopleand we are all here drawn together by this fierce desire to heal.
And this is true even in hard times, even when we cannot make sense of what is on the outside, something is staring underneath.
In the book it says the little quanta are highly sociable: once they are in the same state, they remain linked no matter how far they travel from each other. I say once you reach Step 7, you are never the same. Your cells will always remember. Your cells will hear their twins' voice even if you go mess around and think you are forgetting. Lunch in London affects us all. Ranch in Albuquerque sends a big bump of light through your hair
net.
And if you thought it was hard to explain the program to your family and friends, think about trying to explain that your hairnet is pulsing with light. Heh heh.
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