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Learn To Feel Good Newsletter
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Volume I, Issue 1, May 2001
Editor: Maury Sheck, Psy.D., drsheck@learntofeelgood.com
http://www.learntofeelgood.com
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IN THIS ISSUE
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1. Welcome from Dr. Sheck!
2. Quotation of the Month
3. Feature Article: Get A Life!
4. Who is Dr. Sheck?
5. Classified Ads
6. Subscription Management
7. Contact Information
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1. Welcome from Dr. Sheck
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I am thrilled to welcome you to the premiere issue of the Learn To Feel Good Newsletter! As some of you may know, I have merged the “Ask Dr. Sheck” information/advice website and newsletter with “Learn To Feel Good” and placed it all under www.learntofeelgood.com.
The website and newsletter are truly beginning to reflect my “voice” and it is my intention for all my works to contribute to the well-being and highest good of all involved. My vision for these projects is becoming clearer and more developed, as is my “Get A Life” workshop series.
So, I’d like to welcome and thank all of my new subscribers as well as the people who have referred them. If you gain something from the website and the newsletter and find it valuable in some way, please pass it on to your friends, family and colleagues around the globe.
And it truly is an international community, as I have received feedback literally from all around the world! The Internet is truly one way to touch lives and contribute to others in a global way. My long-range goal is to increase my subscriber base to 50,000 members by the end of 2001. Please help me in this effort.
Again, thank you for your interest and support.
Maury Sheck, Psy.D.
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2. Quotation of the Month
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A hundred years form now it will not matter what my bank account was, the sort of house I lived in , or the kind of car I drove . . . but the world may be different because I was important in the life of a child.
-Simone Weil
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3. Feature Article:
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Get A Life! - Maury Sheck, Psy.D.
Get a life! It has become a new catch phrase, we hear around us. Get a life! And yet, most of us already have a life. In fact, we all do!
What we mean though, is, live your life! Make your life the life you want to live. Get off the couch, turn off the television. Live your life!
And how do we do that? We need to wake up! Get a life, is really a call to consciousness. How many of us consciously plan our lives? How many of us are living the life we dreamed about?
Not many of the people that walk into my office. At least not in all areas. And yet, without some conscious design, some planning, some intention, how do we “get” this life we want?
It doesn’t happen by accident. And, that’s not to say that we have total control over what our lives will look like, or the outcome. And yet, what are we doing to have the life we want? What are we struggling with?
Because, at the end of our days, what will we remember? What will we be proud of? What will we smile about? The latest episode of E.R. we viewed? Or the last person we said, “I love you” to?
So, what do you want your life to look like? How will you act when it looks that way? Why wait? Act that way now! Interact that way now!
Do you want to feel successful? Then start feeling that way now! You are the best you that you can be right now. You are as successful right now as you can be right now! Right now, you can’t be any more successful that you are, right now!
So appreciate that, right now! Feel your success, right now! Accept your success, right now! And hold yourself (mentally as well as physically) as that successful you, right now! Speak from your success! Interact from your success!
Do you want to feel “in love” right now? Do you want to feel “loved” right now? Well, right now, you are as “in love” as you can be, right now! And, right now, you are as “loved” as you can be, right now!
So, act from that love! Speak from that love! Live from that love! Right now! Experience your love, right now!
This moment is as good as it’s going to get! Until the next moment, which will be as good as it’s going to get.
These aren’t just words. I’m not trying to trick you, manipulate you, motivate you. This is the truth. Read these paragraphs again. And again. And again! Until you truly get it, until you truly feel it deep within your cells. Until you own it! That just what I am doing, right now!
And I’m feeling truly grateful (which is another newsletter topic) for being able to inspire myself, right now! And in future newsletters, I’ll detail ways for you to systematically move towards being who you want to be, towards expressing what you want to express in your life, on a daily basis.
And, I’ve also written the “Get A Life” all-day seminar, to give you an intense experience of this system (see my www.learntofeelgood.com website for seminar dates in Los Angeles).
In the meantime, what are you waiting for? Who are you waiting for? Why wait? You can be the person you want to be, right now!
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4. Who is Dr. Sheck?
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After countless years of personal psychotherapy, Dr. Maury A. Sheck entered the mental health field himself. His doctorate is in Clinical Psychology. A bit on the overeducated side, he also has degrees in Management and Engineering.
He is a licensed Clinical Psychologist (California License PSY15487) and Clinical Director of the Manhattan Counseling Center in Manhattan Beach, California. He is a Professor in the Department of Human Behavior at Ryokan College in Venice, California, teaching the two year core curriculum in psychology. In addition he supervises/trains psychology interns at the Airport Marina Counseling Center in Los Angeles, California.
Dr. Sheck works with individuals experiencing personal and/or career challenges. His special niche is working with "high-tech" and business professionals who are successful in business, yet need support in learning to interact successfully on deeper, more personal levels.
He also has a great deal of experience in career transition issues, having created a number of businesses. In addition to psychotherapy, Dr. Sheck conducts business and career “coaching” both face to face and by telephone. He is the creator of the “Get A Life” seminar series which provides tools for “systematically having the life you want.”
Dr. Sheck is currently President of the Southern California Association of Imago Relationship Therapists (SCAIRT). Imago Relationship Therapy (IRT), created by Harville Hendrix ("Getting The Love You Want"), is a very successful form of couples psychotherapy. Dr. Sheck finds it extremely satisfying to support couples in working through their conflicts and distress, and helping them to enhance their relationship.
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5. Classified Ads
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This issue of the Ask Dr. Sheck newsletter is sponsored by
Silverwork, which retails and wholesales incredible 925 sterling silver jewelry from Taxco, India and Thailand. Check out their beautiful website at: www.silverwork.org
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6. Subscription Management
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7. Contact Information
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