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Emotional Abuse: Part 2

by Dr. Randy Kamen Gredinger07.07.2010 Disorders
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Abuse is any behavior that is used to control or quash another human being with fear, humiliation, manipulation, intimidation, guilt, criticism etc. Emotional abuse employs verbal and psychological tactics rather than physical ones. Sometimes it can be blatant while other times it can be quite subtle and hard to detect. Chronic devaluing and shaming gradually [...]

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Emotional Abuse: Part 1

by Dr. Randy Kamen Gredinger07.02.2010 Emotional Abuse
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Emotional abuse is behavior that controls and manipulates another person through fear, humiliation, intimidation, guilt and coercion. The victim’s feelings, needs, thoughts and desires are trivialized and made to seem inconsequential in comparison to the needs of the abuser. Ellen’s husband, Mike, yelled obscenities at her after she forgot to pick up his dry cleaning. [...]

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Vibrant Nation: A Community of Women Comes Together

by Dr. Randy Kamen Gredinger06.16.2010 Friendship
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Women of all ages want and need to come together. When women discover the thread that connects them to each other, they are invariably strengthened and better armed for the challenges and transitions of life. Most women in their fifties have discovered the importance of friendships and support systems. They want to expand their horizons, [...]

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Mompreneurs: Mothers in Home-based Businesses

by Dr. Randy Kamen Gredinger06.02.2010 Life Lessons
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Most women seem born with the innate ability to juggle. It is no wonder that more than 10 million women-owned businesses in the United States generate close to three trillion dollars in annual revenue according to the Center for Women’s Business Research. Women are starting businesses at almost twice the rate of men with mothers [...]

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Eight Secrets to Motivation

by Dr. Randy Kamen Gredinger05.31.2010 Goals & Motivation
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Motivation moves us forward. Motivation shows up everywhere in our lives – from the execution of mundane tasks to inspired and visionary actions. Every one of us is driven by a unique set of life circumstances and genetics that propels us in one way or another. Some women are motivated most of the time whereas [...]

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Could Life Coaching be Right for You?

by Dr. Randy Kamen Gredinger05.25.2010 Coaching
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Coaching has come of age since its emergence in the late 1980s. The coaching profession evolved from a branch of psychology known as the field of “Positive Psychology.” Today the coaching field combines mentoring, training and motivation and is here to stay.

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Writing First e-Book and DrRKG.com Posts

by Dr. Randy Kamen Gredinger05.20.2010 Balance & Happiness
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Striving to create a meaningful website and blog, DrRKG: Gaining Balance and Strategies for Happiness, I write several posts each week. When the blog launched in January 2010, writing these posts felt like a daunting task. I labored over the composition of each one. Now several months and 70 posts later, I feel as though [...]

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The Profound Benefits of Keeping a Journal

by Dr. Randy Kamen Gredinger05.14.2010 Life Lessons
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Years ago the ritual of journal writing or keeping a diary was common. Today few people recognize the power and profound benefits behind this practice. In the field of psychology, journal writing is considered to be one of the key ingredients to making true behavioral change. It is often said that, “If you can track [...]

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Finding your Flow

by Dr. Randy Kamen Gredinger05.10.2010 Balance & Happiness
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Incorporating ‘flow activities‘ into your everyday life is one of the keys to gaining balance and happiness. Remember as a kid how you got lost building castles on the beach, swimming, roller skating with friends, play games – those are examples of flow activities. As adults when we spend time reading, writing, gardening, dancing, painting [...]

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Harvard’s Writing and Publishing Course: A Book Takes Form

by Dr. Randy Kamen Gredinger05.09.2010 Harvard Medical School
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Julie Silver, M.D., the inspiring director of Harvard Medical School’s compelling conference on Publishing Books, Memoirs and other Creative Nonfiction, encourages participants with their writing efforts and guides them down the path to becoming published authors. Networking opportunities with agents, publishers, editors, and fellow writers abound at this annual conference. My first time attending the [...]

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