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Finding your Purpose and Passion in 2011

by Dr. Randy Kamen Gredinger12.29.2010 Balance & Happiness
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As human beings we often dream of living better, more fulfilling lives. We wish to create lives for ourselves and our families that are happy, purposeful and passionate. We can not only dream about creating more gratifying lives, but we also possess the cognitive ability to strategize and plan to achieve

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At The Massachusetts Conference for Women Gloria Steinem Inspires Leadership

by Dr. Randy Kamen Gredinger12.20.2010 Leadership
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“We have to recover the art of making ourselves central,” said Gloria Steinem addressing more than 6,500 women at the 6th annual Massachusetts Conference for Women earlier this month. The keynote speakers included the renowned Gloria Steinem, Victoria Reggie Kennedy, Elizabeth Lesser, Judge Glenda Hatchett, Christy Turlington Burns and Tory Johnson. The focus was on [...]

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Tagged as: DrRKG, MA Women’s Conference, Relationships, Resilience, resilient women leaders, Self-esteem, Women and leadership

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Karen Siris, Ed.D. writes for DrRKG.com about: One School’s Plan to Ban Bullying

by Karen Siris12.06.2010 Bullying
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One school’s plan to ban bullying and create a caring community… Two boys, perspiring and smudged with playtime dirt, approach the main office of their elementary school. Seeming right at home, they rush past the secretary’s desk, making a beeline to the principal’s open door. The principal invites them in, and one at a time [...]

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Tagged as: Bullying, Loneliness, Resilience

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Bullying… now Cyberbullying and a boy named Spencer

by Dr. Randy Kamen Gredinger11.19.2010 Bullying
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Bullied for the first time during recess in second grade, Spencer recalls the kids laughing at him for being pale and skinny. I met Spencer shortly after his fifteenth birthday. He was released into my care after an unsuccessful suicide

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Teenage Cutting: Part 2

by Dr. Randy Kamen Gredinger11.17.2010 Life Lessons
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Cutting or self-injury (SI) is about scratching or cutting your body with a sharp object (scissor, razor blade, paper clip, glass, tweezers etc.) enough so that the skin is broken and bleeds. As was mentioned in Cutting Part 1, this behavior is not usually meant as a suicidal gesture. Every story regarding why an adolescent [...]

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Tagged as: Depression & Anxiety, Self-abuse, Support Systems

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Teenage Cutting: Rachel’s Story Part 1

by Dr. Randy Kamen Gredinger11.16.2010 Life Lessons
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We hear about cutting in the media when celebrities like Angelina Jolie, Princess Diana, and Courtney Love, to name a few, come forward. We may learn of instances of cutting in our communities, but it remains a poorly understood and difficult to treat behavior. Yet cutting is becoming more prevalent in young women. Rachel is [...]

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Women and Leadership: Who Me? Part 2

by Dr. Randy Kamen Gredinger11.10.2010 Leadership
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Leadership appears in our everyday lives when we engage with our children, spouses, friends and colleagues. Leadership is present when we attend social functions and do our jobs as homemakers, doctors, volunteers, lawyers, business women, or whatever roles we have. We do not have to define leadership as “dominant” or “superior.” Nor do we need [...]

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Tagged as: Breathing, compassion, DrRKG, Self-esteem, serving others, Visualization, Women and leadership, your "tribe"

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Women’s Conference 2010 Highlights

by Dr. Randy Kamen Gredinger11.07.2010 Inspiration

DrRKG on site at the Women’s Conference in Long Beach, California 2010.  Here are highlights with Maria Shriver at the helm of her final Women’s Conference in Long Beach, California. A dazzling event for over 30,000 women and a few men too!

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Tagged as: architects of change, Inspiration, Maria Shriver, The Women's Conference 2010

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Women and Leadership: Who Me? Part 1

by Dr. Randy Kamen Gredinger11.05.2010 Community
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Women are formally stepping into leadership roles more than ever before. But the truth is, women have been leaders in their families, communities, and businesses all along. According to Martha Beck, life coach and Oprah columnist, certain women are born with the natural tendencies of shamans. These “shaman-types” have historically

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Tagged as: caretakers, Community, DrRKG, shamans, successful leaders, Women and leadership

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Michele’s Dark Encounter with Seasonal Affective Disorder

by Dr. Randy Kamen Gredinger11.02.2010 Balance & Happiness
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Michele lapsed into feelings of despair and darkness every November. For years she did not particularly notice the change in her temperament or energy level, but it became strikingly apparent to her husband. She dragged herself out of bed in the morning and begrudgingly got the kids off to school and then herself to work. [...]

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