What more can I say than best of fortune in your hernia adventure. Unfortunately it is no snip snip and hop off the operating table with your “normal life” rushing up to embrace you. Expect pain of some degree and disruption in your routine. It took me a month before I could bend over andContinue reading “RKS Health: The Great Hernia Adventure: Hoping You Avoid The Great Hernia Misadventure”
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RKS Health: The Great Hernia Adventure: Kindness, Compassion and Gratitude
If mindfulness encourages self compassion, it also is partial to you expressing compassion and kindness to all those suffering with hernias and who will undergo or recently have had completed some form of hernia surgery. Mindfulness would have you meditate transmitting positive and encouraging thoughts to these fellow human beings they experience as little anxiety,Continue reading “RKS Health: The Great Hernia Adventure: Kindness, Compassion and Gratitude”
RKS Health: The Great Hernia Adventure: Post Surgical Mindfulness
Being certified in mindfulness from both the University of Toronto and the University of Leiden I might venture to say I have both a North American and European perspective of mindfulness. Being frank there are some flaky elements to mindfulness but some concepts should (or could) be applied to your hernia adventure. There is moreContinue reading “RKS Health: The Great Hernia Adventure: Post Surgical Mindfulness”
The 27th Thessaloniki International Documentary Festival: “Sticks and Stones-Unmasking the Truth of Cyberbullying”
TIDF was a wrap on 16March2025 but I have a couple more documentaries left in my review basket such as “Sticks and Stones-Unmasking the Truth of Cyberbullying” from Australia and Greece. I can’t see this as a classic documentary but rather an educational video directed towards parents of children active on social media. Cyberbullying isContinue reading “The 27th Thessaloniki International Documentary Festival: “Sticks and Stones-Unmasking the Truth of Cyberbullying””
RKS 2025 CANADIAN Documentary Film: “Le Plein Potentiel” (Your Higher Self)
From Quebec the documentary “Le Plein Potentiel” a glimpse at the practice and business of “life coaching”. Having worked in the corporate sector for many years I am no stranger to “life coaching” where at one point it was a hot trend enabling executives to move up the ladder by being able to manipulate theContinue reading “RKS 2025 CANADIAN Documentary Film: “Le Plein Potentiel” (Your Higher Self)”
Post Trumpmatic Stress Syndrome Sweeping Canada
Spoof News Services: Niagara-on-the-Lake, Ontario: 6February2025: The Minister of Well Being of Canada, Dr. Hellbert Humdinger, announced today sporadic swells of a new physiological-psychiatric disease are rapidly spreading throughout the country. Scientists at the Psychiatric Centre for Canadian Mental Health in Hamilton, Ontario have identified the affliction as romanempoerosisbactilius. The cause has been preliminarily attributedContinue reading “Post Trumpmatic Stress Syndrome Sweeping Canada”
The Penniless Pensioner: Misaligned, Maligned but Marvellous (The Final Version): Chapter 53: Back to New York to Work with Bernie Maggot
These class actions arising from the “disturbances” at the Queen Fairy Hospital for Veterans and the Mugless Mental Hospital took two years to settle. The biggest victory was against the United States Government aka CIA for conducting covert LSD experimentation on certain Mugless patients. Could LSD be used to effectively interrogate “enemies of the state”.Continue reading “The Penniless Pensioner: Misaligned, Maligned but Marvellous (The Final Version): Chapter 53: Back to New York to Work with Bernie Maggot”
RKS 2024 Film: HOT DOCS 2024: “The Strike”: Memories of the East German Circus
Amidst great political and bureaucratic clapping the California Department of Corrections (CDC) opened the “state of the art” Pelican Bay State Prison’s Security Housing Unit (SHU) in 1989. Pelican Bay was designed for solitary confinement. Hundreds spent years in solitary confinement some as long as thirty years despite the United Nation’s maximum set at 15Continue reading “RKS 2024 Film: HOT DOCS 2024: “The Strike”: Memories of the East German Circus”
RKS 2024 Film: “Pure O”: Between an Educational Video and Imperfect Humanity in the Bingo Hall of Life
We encounter Cooper (Daniel Dorr) prior to the opening credits rolling. Is he a murderer of his fiancé Emily (Hope Lauren)? We are in high suspense throughout the movie waiting for confirmation Cooper sliced up Emily and for what reason. Cooper has been diagnosed with obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD) some labeling his OCD as PureContinue reading “RKS 2024 Film: “Pure O”: Between an Educational Video and Imperfect Humanity in the Bingo Hall of Life”
Reggie the Egyptian Rescue Dog : The Final Cut: Reggie Visits the Psychiatrist: Chapter Twenty Three (23)
My enthusiasm and zest for life really has diminished in these past few weeks. My thoughts have changed since the death of my dog friend Karim and after the dog attack by that mean German Shepherd Layla. I am not very hungry. I sleep less and the quality is poor. I am not excited aboutContinue reading “Reggie the Egyptian Rescue Dog : The Final Cut: Reggie Visits the Psychiatrist: Chapter Twenty Three (23)”
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