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THE FIRST WAY TO MAKE THE FRIENDSHIP HABIT STICK - Have and inner and outer circle of friends.

1/6/11 1:41pm by Meg Meeker MD
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  Psychologists tell us that introverts feel drained by being with others while extroverts are energized by them. It would seem reasonable to conclude from this that some of us need many friends and others just a few.  In my experience, this is not true. Regardless on our personality type, every mother needs connection with women on different levels. We need and inner circle of friends and an outer circle of friends, if you will; women who satisfy our longing for intimate emotional connection and others who provide us comfort and affection on a lighter level.  Read more >

Food is Friendship! 10 Habits of Happy Mothers, Reclaiming Our Passion Purpose and Sanity!

1/5/11 8:17am by Meg Meeker MD
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Food is Friendship! 10 Habits of Happy Mothers, Reclaiming Our Passion, Purpose and Sanity!   My mother loves people by feeding them. She stuffs them with good food-meat, usually, with potatoes and dark gravy. The kind of gravy that has become a lost art, perhaps because we spend less time cooking, less time learning our cuts of meat, less time pushing food on loved ones.  Read more >

Mothers; Find Your Tribe!

1/4/11 1:07pm by Meg Meeker MD
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Mothers; Find Your Tribe!!Posted on January 3rd  Every woman needs a tribe. Again, I’ll mention my dear friend Marie Seiler. She knows. As one of three girls raised by a single mother, she watched her mother strengthened time and again by other mothers who listened to her when she was frustrated and loved her when she felt no one else did.  Read more >

Should a Married Woman Have a Man as Her Best Friend?

1/2/11 5:28pm by Meg Meeker MD
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                Should a Married Woman Have a Man as Her Best Friend?   Many married women (and married men) insist that having a best friend of the opposite sex is perfectly healthy. In fact, they say that opposite sex friends make better friends because they bring very different perspectives to the relationship. But let’s look at a few things here.  Read more >

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Meg Meeker
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                Meg is a pediatrician, who has practiced pediatric and adolescent medicine for 25 years. She is  the  author of five books including the best -selling Strong Fathers/Strong Daughters: Ten Secrets Every Father Should Know, Boys Should Be Boys and Your Kids At Risk. Her most recent book, The 10 Habits of Happy Mothers: Reclaiming Our Passion, Purpose and Sanity (Ballantine) will be released in the spring of 2011. She is a popular speaker on pediatric health issues and child-parent relationships.

                Meg is an Assistant Clinical Professor at Michigan State University College of Human Medicine and currently teaches medical students and physicians in residency training. She has been married to her husband, Walter for 29 years. They have shared a medical practice for 20 years. They have three daughters ages 26, 24 and 22 and a son who is 18. She lives in northern Michigan.

 

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