Archive for February, 2011
“It’s Valentine’s Day, eh?” ~ Doc Meek
February 14th, 2011 | 
Author: Monday, February 14, 2011. Today I am grateful for my romantic sweetheart, my spouse, Jeannette! ~ Doc Meek
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Image from: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Affection
Valentine’s Day
| Victorian Valentine’s Card | |
| Also called | Saint Valentine‘s Day Valentine’s |
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| Observed by | Many countries |
| Type | Cultural, Christian, commercial |
| Significance | Love and affection celebrated between lovers |
| Date | February 14 |
| Observances | Sending greeting cards and gifts, dating |
Image/text above from: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valentine’s_Day
Doc Meek, Mon, Feb 14, 2011, Sherwood Park, Alberta, CANADA
P.S. “Get Happy” Video, with a “Celestial” Valentine Heart at the end. 😮
| From Abraham-Hicks Publications |
 Get Happy |
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“Learn ‘Girl Up’ by the UN Foundation.” ~ Doc Meek
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Friday, February 11, 2011. Today I am grateful for people who are engaged in helping girls, not just complaining about their plight. Such a one is Kathy Calvin, CEO of the United Nations Foundation, from whom I received the following email recently.
Whole classrooms and whole schools could add their support to this UNF “Girl Up” project:
DEAR DR. MEEK,
The United Nations Foundation’s “Girl Up” campaign is a growing movement that is helping shine light on the needs of adolescent girls around the world. We were honored that TIME Magazine chose to highlight “Girl Up” in the February 14th issue, which is out [early]! The article addresses the need to focus more development aid on girls and recognizes those who are empowering teen girls to give back to the global community.
Advocating for women and girls has always been one of the United Nations Foundation’s top priorities. We believe that helping girls succeed is essential in the global drive to eliminate poverty and create a better, healthier, safer world. Studies have shown that an extra year of primary school boosts girls’ eventual wages by 10% to 20% and that an extra year of secondary school increases that statistic by 15% to 25% more. That’s why since our founding, we’ve donated more than $44 million to United Nations programs that support adolescent girls in the developing world, and why we launched the “Girl Up” campaign last year — a campaign that connects girls in the U.S. with their peers around the world.
I encourage you to read the article and share with friends, family and colleagues. And if you haven’t yet, sign our pledge at:
to lend your voice in uniting for girls around the world.
We’re not just investing in girls in other countries — we’re investing in girls in the U.S., too. Nancy Gibbs says it perfectly, “And one at a time, a rising generation of American girls helps create the next generation of leaders, for the coming quiet revolutions.”
Thank you for uniting with us,
Kathy Calvin, UN Foundation CEO
UNFoundation.org …………………………………………………………………………………………..
Thank you, Kathy Calvin, for reminding us that one of the best investments we can make worldwide is girls!
Doc Meek, Friday, February 11, 2011, Sherwood Park, Alberta, CANADA
P.S. I was delighted to sign the pledge to help girls worldwide. It cost me nothing: http://www.girlup.org/pledge
As mentioned above:
Whole classrooms and whole schools could add their support to this UNF “Girl Up” project!
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“Learn vital health data from Mike Adams” ~ Doc Meek
Thursday, February 10, 2011. Today I am grateful for Mike Adams. The reason I subscribe to his free health and wellness newsletter is that I can learn facts from an independent source who is honest and reliable. He is beholden to no special interests or advertisers.
| Mike Adams is the editor-in-chief of
He’s written thousands of natural health articles and product reviews and is read by millions around the world. Adams has been called “the best health and natural products writer on the scene today.” His work has been endorsed by Dr. Julian Whitaker, Michael T. Murray, Ronnie Cummins from the Organic Consumers Association and many more. |
Mike Adams also serves as the volunteer executive director of the non-profit
a nutrition outreach organization that awards grants to nutrition programs that assist low-income children and expectant mothers all over the world. You’ll hear more about the CWC’s success stories when you subscribe to our email newsletter. |
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Thank you, Mike Adams, for being a source of learning we can rely upon in these biased times!
Doc Meek, Thursday, February 10, 2011, Sherwood Park, Alberta, CANADA
P.S. NaturalNews.com logo and information:
- Location:
- Tucson, AZ
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- March 2004
- About:
- NaturalNews.com is an independent news resource that covers the natural health and wellness topics that empower individuals to make positive changes in their personal health. NaturalNews offers uncensored news that allows for healthier choice.
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“Talking vs doing.” ~ Doc Meek
| Wednesday, February 9, 2011. Today I am grateful for my colleague Corry Roach and her pioneering work using Therapeutic Art Methods. When I am helping children (or adults) overcome learning, behavioral, or emotional difficulties, I focus on the “head” and she focuses on the “heart.” The kids call her “the feelings lady.” |
“A registered nurse for more than thirty five years, Corry Roach continues to practise the therapy she pioneered as a result of her healing journey after her daughter Lindsay’s death.”
Image/text from: http://www.ByGraceofMourning.ca
Corry Roach once asked me if she should accept an invitation from a post-secondary institution to teach a course on her speciality: Therapeutic Art Methods. I suggested she ask the institution: “Do you want me to talk about my psychotherapeutic practice or do you want me to do my Therapeutic Art Methods (invite your students to experience my psychotherapeutic work for themselves, by actually doing it or trying it out in class)?
They wanted her to just talk about her Therapeutic Art Methods, NOT engage the students with the rich experience itself. She declined that particular assignment. Corry is clear: “You have to experience it to appreciate and understand it.”
I recently emailed Corry about a student who is taking an art therapy class. I asked Corry if I could refer this student to her so that the student could learn invaluable aspects of art therapy from her also. Here is Corry’s response:
“Collins, I am not an art therapist, per se. I am a nurse specializing in Therapeutic Art Methods, and I have integrated this with adjuncts into a pioneered practise of psychotherapy. The adjuncts are NLP (Neurolinguistic Programming), Therapeutic Touch, Senoi Indian Dream work, Jungian dream work, resonance in music therapy, the analysis of fairy tales, and psychodrama. As well, I use the work of the late Elisabeth Kubler Ross, M.D., in externalization work [helping the clients experience their deepest feelings/experiences by bringing them into conscious awareness].
“I was informed by my professional nursing association in 1986 that I was functioning at a doctorate level, but when one does pioneered work, there remain no degrees or letters behind one’s name. I have left it so by choice, although I’ve taught MDs, PhDs, social workers, nurses and teachers, as well as in institutions of learning (University of Alberta, Grant McEwan University, Red Deer College, Children’s hospital in Calgary).
“The difference between art therapy and my work of Therapeutic Art Methods is the analysis of the unconscious content in spontaneous drawings, which is also where the experiential adjuncts apply, i.e the picture work [created by the client on the spot] identifies the client’s issues, and the adjuncts are modalities that assist in the “working it through” of those issues. Together, they form a powerful healing tool that transcends boundaries [usually] found in other forms of therapy and healing work. Preverbal children and aphasics (those unable to speak) may also benefit. Historically, I have found it immensely rewarding through my work with dying patients and their families, children and those seeking support on their spiritual healing journey.
“Art therapists have told me many times that my work goes much deeper than art therapy, and from my experience of both modalities academically and experientially, I must agree this is so.
“I am delighted your [student] is taking the St Stephen’s [art therapy] program, as Dr Leslie Gardner teaches there and is a dear friend for many years, and is very familiar with my work. You may also wish to direct her to http://www.ByGraceofMourning.ca for more information on my work in the field of grief resolution. It is coming to my attention more these days that I should perhaps elaborate on my drawing therapy work [Therapeutic Art Methods] on the website.” ……………………………………………………………………………………..
Thank you, Corry Roach, for your pioneering work using Therapeutic Art Methods and its adjuncts, which has healed the hearts of a multitude of children (and adults)!
Doc Meek, Wednesday, February 9, 2011, Sherwood Park, Alberta, CANADA
P.S. Below are the front and back covers of the book entitled By Grace of Mourning, authored by Corry Roach:
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| ByGraceOfMourningBackCover.jpg 488K View Download |
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“Learning to really hear each other.” ~ Doc Meek
Tuesday, February 8, 2011. Today I am grateful for Dr. David Burns, who famously helped us to learn how to overcome clinical depression. Now he is helping us to overcome problems in relationships with others.
Bridging the Intimacy Gap
By Tim Jarvis
O, The Oprah Magazine | From the January 2009 issue
Photo: Courtesy Broadway Books
Image above and text below from: http://www.oprah.com/relationships/Intimacy-Boosters-How-to-Become-Closer-to-Your-Spouse
The psychiatrist who (literally) wrote the book on feeling good shares the one secret that can bring every couple closer.
There’s only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that’s your own self,” novelist Aldous Huxley once wrote. His words sum up the premise of a new book by psychiatrist David D. Burns, MD, a pioneer in cognitive behavioral therapy and adjunct clinical professor emeritus at the Stanford University School of Medicine..Feeling Good, Burns’ 1980 book about combating depression, was a best-seller. Now, based on new research involving more than 1,000 men and women and 25 years of clinical practice, he’s written a sequel—Feeling Good Together: The Secret to Making Troubled Relationships Work.
“You can heal a relationship quickly and dramatically, with mind-blowing effects,” Burns says. “But you must be willing to examine your own part in it and to see whether you are actually triggering the very problem you’ve been complaining about.” Not that this is easy. We don’t want to see ourselves as the cause of the problem, he says, “because it’s painful—it hurts tremendously. But we need to give up blaming the other person, and to focus all our energy on changing ourselves.” As extreme as it sounds, Burns insists that no matter how much at fault the other person is, you can’t fix him (or her); but in a healthy relationship, once you start changing yourself, your partner will change too.
In Feeling Good Together, Burns writes about a woman who is frustrated with her husband because he won’t do his share of the chores; worse, when she tries to get emotionally close to him, he pushes her away. It’s a classic case of she nags, he withdraws. One day, while he is making a potato casserole, she repeatedly suggests he use a food processor. He finally snaps, “Don’t be so pushy! Leave me alone.”
“Does it bother you when I suggest things that may make life a bit easier?” she retorts, stomping off in a huff. But what if, as Burns advises, she had said something like “Honey, it’s hard for me to hear you say I’m pushy; I know you’re right, and I’m sure it’s irritating. I really love you and want to hear more about how you’re feeling. But you just asked me to leave you alone, and I understand if you’re not in the mood to talk right now.” The simple—and courageous—act of finding the truth in what her husband is saying suddenly makes the wife appear neither bossy nor annoying. This truth-seeking skill is central to improving relationships, Burns says. “It’s really difficult to see things through the eyes of the other person, but when you do, it’s like seeing the Grand Canyon for the first time. You wonder how you could have been missing it all these years.” When the wife took Burns’s advice and realized she was the one pushing her husband away, she began to cry—a breakthrough that opened the way to intimacy.
Such powerful insights are available to everyone. “If you are willing to change yourself and have a real love for your partner,” says Burns, “you can both be reborn.”
Does your relationship need a tune-up? Try Dr. Burns’ exercises.
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Thank you once again, Dr. David Burns, for helping us feel good within ourselves, and also with others in our relationships!
Doc Meek, Tuesday, February 8, 2011, Sherwood Park, Alberta, CANADA
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“Learning to overcome depression cognitively.” ~ Doc Meek
Monday, February 7, 2011. Today I am grateful for Dr. David Burns, who many years ago now, helped teach me about the pathway for defeating deep depression, helping me to learn the pathway of healthier thinking. Now he has an updated version of his famous book, Feeling Good.
Image and text from: http://www.amazon.com/Feeling-Good-New-Mood-Therapy/dp/B00150FQAS/ref=sr_1_3?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1297064736&sr=1-3
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Thank you, David Burns, for leading us out of the wilderness of pain and into clearer cognitive light!
Doc Meek, Monday, February 7, 2011, Sherwood Park, Alberta, CANADA
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“When we move, Providence moves too.” ~ John Varney
Friday, February 4, 2011. Today I am grateful for people who organize themselves and don’t wait for government to step in. Such a one is Penny Gill, who started a cooking school in her own home for adults and adolescents with autism. Penny founded Autism/PDD* Family Alliance to encourage such services by volunteers. [*PDD = Pervasive Developmental Disorder]
Image/text below from: http://www.cookingwithautism.com/about-us/
ABOUT US: AUTISM/PDD FAMILY ALLIANCE
Autism/PDD Family Alliance began serving the needs of teenagers and adults with Aspergers and other forms of autism through innovative services in 2001 – offering specially designed programs for these individuals and their unique learning styles.
As a registered charity, AFA operates through a dedicated group of volunteers, who pride themselves on the fact that all of the charity’s funds go directly to services, not to overhead or administration.
Image/text above from: http://www.cookingwithautism.com/about-us/ …………………………………………………………………………………..
Thank you, Penny Gill and John Varney, for teaching us to be inclusive and to learn from each other!
Doc Meek, Friday, February 4, 2011, Sherwood Park, Alberta, CANADA
P.S. I learned of Penny Gill from an article entitled “Making it Matter: A Recipe for HOPE,” in the Reader’s Digest, February 2011, page 31.
I learned of John Varney from the internet:
Northern Leadership Academy: http://www.logovisual.com/articles/understanding_leadership_with_LVT.pdf
Leadership “Magic”: http://www.centreformanagementcreativity.com
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“Explore, dream, discover [learn].” ~ Mark Twain
Thursday, February 3, 2011. Today I am grateful for “dreamers” who lead us to better “lands,” in our minds and in our hearts. They help us keep learning.
Wooden Gaff-rigged Cutter; image from: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sailing
A Thistle running downwind with aspinnaker; image from: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sailing
“Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn’t do than by the ones you did. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover [learn].”
~ Mark Twain [Samuel Clemens] (1835-1910); author, humorist
From: Values.com (The Foundation for a Better Life)
Thank you, Samuel Clemens [Mark Twain] for pointing the way to learning through many means!
Doc Meek, Thursday, February 3, 2011, Sherwood Park, Alberta, CANADA
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“Learning to overcome depression without drugs.” ~ Doc Meek
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Wednesday, February 2, 2011. Today I am grateful for those who help us learn about overcoming depression without having to rely on drugs, or at least without having to rely on drugs solely and continuously. Today our gratitude goes out to Neil Kaufman and Lyte Kaufman of The Option Institute.
Receive a free copy of our introductory CD, along with our catalog of Option Institute Programs! They will give you detailed information about The Option Institute and all of our life-transforming per…
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Facing Challenges, Our Students Gained Self Reliance and A Positive Approach Wow! These live testimonials keep pouring in and they tell stories of overcoming real life challenges. What challenges are…
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The Option Institute is a not-for-profit educational organization founded in 1983 by best-selling author (Happiness Is A Choice) Barry Neil Kaufman and Samahria Lyte Kaufma…
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Thank you Neil Kaufman and Lyte Kaufman for working hard for our healing, and for having courage to be pioneers in the mental health world!
Doc Meek, Wednesday, February 2, 2011, Sherwood Park, Alberta, CANADA
P.S. Remind to post a future article about the value of SAMe, a natural product, which, when taken with prescribed antidepressants, has a reputation for being more effective than when using the antidepressant medication alone.
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“New month, new year, new brain.” ~ Doc Meek
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Tuesday, February 1, 2011. Today I am grateful for people who encourage us to exercise our brain to keep our cognitive functions sharp. Or to simply keep them, period. 😮 Lumosity.com does a good job I think.
Improve brain health and performance.
- Brain training produces real world benefits
- Enhance memory, attention and creativity
- Easy, web-based brain training program
Image and text from: http://www.lumosity.com/ ………………………………………………………………………….
I use Lumosity.com myself (sporadically; I should use it every day!) and I encourage all of you to give it a shot, for your brain’s sake!
Doc Meek, Tuesday, February 1, 2011, Sherwood Park, Alberta, CANADA
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