M.J. Domet Recently Published the Book "Waves of Blue Light"

By Cambridge Who’s Who Member and Contributing Author M.J. Domet

I attended a conference a few years ago called Humans Being More — not doing more, but being more. This concept was new to me at the time as I had grown up with the belief that the harder you worked, the more success for which you were destined.

As a society, we tend to equate more of anything — whether money, acquisitions or education — as a determinate for success in life. The problem with this outmoded perception is that many people are not happy, even with all they have. Achievement orientation can overtake the sense of self as a human being, resulting in deteriorated physical, emotional, mental and spiritual health.

Believing that options are limited in their pursuit to regain optimal wellness, many choose to take the well-travelled medical route. This is without realizing other choices exist, which may serve them better and get to the core of the issue rather than mask the symptoms that are causing distress. I am not saying that medical care is unnecessary; only that new information is available allowing us to become participants in our own healing process.

I have been greatly influenced by authors such as Bruce Lipton, author of “The Biology of Belief: Unleashing the Power of Consciousness, Matter and Miracles,” who has a scientific background as a cell biologist. Through deduction and experimentation, this scientist — and many others — have found that we are not a product of our genetics, but of our beliefs.

How empowering is that? We no longer have the excuse of being victims of our gene pool; we have the power to change our health by our thoughts. The old paradigm of blame no longer applies as each individual is accountable for the state of his or her own being. If you have acquired disempowering beliefs from your family or from society, you have the ability to change those ideas and take control of your own healthy future.

Just the thought of being in complete control of your life versus thinking things are out of your control can transform you. Realizing that healing comes from within rather than outside of you manifests a feeling of empowerment. You are truly your own healer. Changing your focus from believing you have to suffer to loving yourself unconditionally brings in the energy needed to solidify the understanding of your perfection.

These concepts are not entirely new but many people have yet to let go of their old beliefs to allow in the new truths. In accepting ownership of your health, the idea that you have to do more to be successful is replaced by the truth of who you really are — perfect in your being.

To learn more about M.J. Domet or the courses she offers, please visit the Expect to be Empowered website.

Biography

Alberta, Canada-based spiritual teacher M.J. Domet is on a mission to teach people that their strength lies within. As the owner of a company named The Gemini Potential, she conducts workshops to empower individuals through self-discovery and conscious realization techniques. These self-help tools help her clients to advance in their personal and professional lives so they can experience true strength, abundance, passion and purpose.

M.J. Domet, a Cambridge Who’s Who Lifetime member, provides personal development training for clients with a focus on Reiki, Deep Healing Emotional Energy and Awareness & Enlightenment. Her comprehensive Empowerment Series is made up of 11 three-hour classes designed to increase her clients’ self-awareness. Participants are challenged to reflect upon their lives and observe the precepts that rule over their daily activities, and find ways to change them.

She became involved in her profession after she attended self-development workshops, when she realized her desire to offer life-changing services to others. A mother of two and a grandmother of one, she leads a productive and joy-filled life. She enjoys reading, writing, teaching, learning new things, riding horses, traveling and spending time with her granddaughter.

While much of her time is spent inspiring others through classes and workshops, she is also a published author. Her first book, “Waves of Blue Light (Heal the Heart and Free the Soul),” merges prose, pictures, poetry and affirmations, juxtaposed to enlighten readers. The motivational read comes straight from M.J.’s heart, as she looked deep within herself to find empowering words of healing and encouragement.

“Waves of Blue Light (Heal the Heart and Free the Soul” is available by visiting M. J. Domet’s Xlibris Author Page. Additionally, paperback and Kindle versions may be purchased at Amazon.com.

Article(s) by M.J. Domet:

• Health Consciousness — Connection of Body, Mind and Soul

by Cambridge Who’s Who^® Member and Contributing Author Ines A. Hatch

An idea came to fruition in a small room in the Infomart in Dallas, Texas, in 2005. A few investors launched what has become an almost one billion dollar company in a $400 billion industry. The team recognized “Customers weren’t switching, so prices and services weren’t getting more competitive. But we had an idea for a new kind of electric retailer that would shake things up.”

This past Christmas season was no different than the last four. Again Ignite Associates were in full swing with their annual Christmas Toy Drive at all Ignite corporate office locations. In addition, the company provided exposure for a charitable organization that meets the needs of homeless children in the North Texas area. The sponsored Fireworks Extravaganza in Victory Park, in Dallas, Texas was followed by a commercial highlighting the work of the charitable organization, helping disadvantaged children in the community. It explained how companies and individuals can assist in making a difference for mothers and children in need.

On the energy front, Ignite has had significant growth even through the recession, helping ordinary people change their circumstances. Everyday people have the opportunity to get paid on hundreds, even thousands, of energy bills. Ignite gives people the opportunity to tap into the lucrative energy market. The “Keep it simple” plan and the “proven customer acquisition process” give those with ambition an avenue to change lives. Ignite associates believe that no one gets ahead if a new associate does not prosper. They pride themselves on providing servant leadership — putting customers’ and new associates’ needs first.

Ignite started national expansion with the Pennsylvania electricity market, effective Nov. 1, 2010. Its timed entrance into the Keystone State’s PECO service area coincided with the removal of utility price caps by the Public Service Commission, part of the Pennsylvania deregulation schedule.

Ignite, provides one-to-one education for customers, and has helped hundreds of thousands of Texans and Georgians find answers to their questions about deregulation from someone they know and trust. Since a keystone connects, Pennsylvania was the perfect choice to start expansion. Which state will be next?

Pennsylvanians, like Texans and Georgians, now have the opportunity to profit from deregulation with a retailer with a proven track record. The full-service networking approach has been alive and successful. What sets Ignite apart? 1) It is a private utility; 2) It utilizes a service that is already in use and budgeted for; and 3) It provides anyone with ambition to make a difference for themselves and others.

Ignite now has annual revenues exceeding $900 million with five years in operation, marketing electricity in Texas and Pennsylvania and natural gas in Georgia. The website contains many company accolades including other valuable information.

Ignite provides a recession-proof “Plan B.” Get paid every time you and others pay their energy bill. Start building true residual income. Your business is willable, trustable and sellable. Do you want to leave a legacy for your children? Visit ineshatch.igniteinc.biz for more information.

Cambridge Who's Who Member Ines A. Hatch

Biography

Cambridge Who’s Who^® member Ines A. Hatch received a Bachelor of Arts in communications and marketing in 1986 from King’s College. She has authored and published two books, which demonstrates her passion for reaching out to individuals who face overwhelming life challenges, and finding solutions to problems and issues.

In her first book, “Marsha’s Song: A Celebration of Life,” Ms. Hatch recounts the inspiring journey of a child who overcame severe physical trauma. Her second book, “The Adoption Eclipse: Choices Count,” examines the perspectives of adoption seen from the points-of-view of a birth mother and an adoptive mother. Both books are written with an authority and empathy that stems from the author’s personal experience — a childhood accident that left her in a coma for seven weeks. Ms. Hatch’s struggle to regain her motor skills, reclaim her ability to stand and walk, as well as confront social ridicule, enabled her to help others improve their lives. “With proper support and guidance, lives can be changed, handicap or not, ” noted Ms. Hatch.

Ms. Hatch has written several screenplays and manuscripts. In addition to writing, Ms. Hatch participates as a guest lecturer at hospitals, support groups, recovery centers and conferences. She has been featured in magazines and newspapers, and has been the subject of radio and television interviews. Ms. Hatch is on the team of producers at Papillon Productions working on the production of her first film.

Article(s) by Ines A. Hatch

• Benefitting From Deregulation New!

Winning Strategies for Creating a Stellar Résumé!
Tuesday, February 22, 2011 at 7:00 p.m. EST

“Winning Strategies for Creating a Stellar Résumé!” will be moderated by Donald Trump Jr., our executive director of global branding and networking, and is exclusively for Cambridge members.

You will discover:

• Compelling Strategies to Generate the Interest of Potential EmployersRésumé
• Résumé Enhancements that will Catch the Eyes of any Reviewer
• Top Five Mistakes to Avoid
• Effective Tactics for Setting out on the Job Search

We were only able to reserve 500 lines for the call. They will fill up quickly.

If you are interested to register for the webinar, we welcome you to call (866) 933-1555 or email us at seminars@cambridgeregistry.com with your first name, last name and member ID on the subject line.

Moderator

As the Cambridge Who’s Who Executive Director of Global Branding and Networking, Donald Trump Jr. serves as a high-level advisor and professional mentor to the company’s more than 400,000 members. Mr. Trump is a successful corporate figure, public speaker and real estate authority, who brings a wealth of business experience and knowledge to Cambridge Who’s Who.

Eldest son of renowned real estate development icon Donald J. Trump Sr., Donald Trump Jr. is the executive vice president of development and acquisitions for The Trump Organization, where he is responsible for expanding the company’s real estate interests on a global scale. He received a bachelor’s degree in finance and real estate from The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. In addition to his corporate responsibilities, Trump Jr. also stars in the popular NBC series, “The Celebrity Apprentice,” with his father and sister, Ivanka, and serves on the board of directors and as a Smile Ambassador for Operation Smile.

Speaker

With more than 25 years of combined experience in promoting personal and professional development for state and federal institutions, Lisa G. Parker is a Certified Professional Résumé Writer (CPRW) and Certified Employment Interview Professional. As owner of Parker-CPRW, Professional Résumé Presentations, Ms. Parker provides résumé-writing services for clients spanning a variety of career fields in both the private sector and government organizations, and around the world.

She currently serves as an evaluator of professionals pursuing the CPRW credential on the Professional Association of Résumé Writers & Career Coaches CPRW Certification Committee. Additionally, Ms. Parker is a contributing author to Cambridge Who’s Who.

Most recently, Ms. Parker was under contract to assist Bedford/St. Martin’s in editing the job search and résumé writing sections of the “The Business Writer’s Handbook” and the “Handbook of Technical Writing,” authored by Gerald J. Alred, Charles T. Brusaw and Walter E. Oliu. To learn more about Lisa Parker, visit her website: parkercprw.com.

By Cambridge Who’s Who^® Member Bruce Deitrick Price

For several years I’ve been slogging through the trenches of the “Reading Wars.” The battle, even after a century, still rages: how should six-year-olds be taught to read? Confusing claims fly through the air.

Here’s a disturbing aspect for me: the vast majority of people don’t understand what’s going on and don’t seem to care. Illiteracy? Dyslexia? What’s that got to do with them? They can read. Additionally, the media almost never touch this topic. There’s a great silence, leaving educators free to perpetuate bad ideas.

I’m always trying to find better ways to explain the reading wars to the millions of parents with children in harm’s way. Here I’ve reduced everything to a half-dozen main points:

1) There are two competing theories: one is phonics. As explained by Rudolf Flesch in two bestsellers, “Why Johnny Can’t Read: And What You Can Do about It,”  and “Why Johnny Still Can’t Read: A New Look at the Scandal of Our Schools,” a phonetic language such as English has to be learned phonetically. Common sense, wouldn’t you say?

On the other side is Whole Word, also called look-say, sight-reading, Whole Language, and Balanced Literacy. (The shifting names tell you a lot: as each name gained a bad reputation, a new marketing campaign had to be launched.) Whole Word says that English words must be learned like Chinese ideograms — as shapes or graphic designs — the same way we learn faces, logos, art objects, houses, cars, airplanes, electrical symbols, etc. (all objects without any intrinsic phonetic clues).

2)  Whole Word demands that children neither learn nor use phonetic clues. (Here’s one example of what kids can’t know: a word starting with an “s” is pronounced starting with an esss-sound.) Whole Word bizarrely insists that such information be kept secret. This approach guarantees that when a child sees a new word starting with the same letter, the child will have no idea how to pronounce or understand the word, just as you are probably helpless in understanding 生年月日.

3) Whole Word says that English can be memorized one word a time. This is plainly silly because English now consists of almost a million words and names.  A college graduate probably knows more than 100,000 words.

Memorizing English one word at a time is excruciatingly tedious and difficult. Even the educators pushing Whole Word aim for only 100-300 words a year, at most. Focus on that number. They’re aiming for 1,000 words MAX by fourth grade, 2000 words MAX by eighth grade. Children reach age 12 and can’t even read a newspaper. These are the “A”-students and they are effectively illiterate!

4) Whole Word places impossible demands on the memory. Think of something you are good at remembering — antiques, phone numbers, houses, cars, faces, famous paintings. Could you remember even 1,000 of them, and instantly recall their correct name or meaning at reading speed? How about 5,000? If you know only 5,000 English words, you are just starting.

Whole Word basically requires that you have a photographic memory. People with good memories might struggle through to an awkward, exhausting sort of literacy; they can read, sort of, but they will not read quickly or for pleasure.

People with ordinary mental powers or below are the real victims. Some of these children reach fourth or fifth grade, and they can’t remember even 500 words. They are categorized as “learning disabled.” They will be considered retarded by friends and family. They will probably drop out of school.

5) In fact, Whole Word messes up the brain. When a child learns to see SHAPES, not sounds, on the printed page, that child is on the road to dyslexia. The printed symbol was designed to convey information about sounds. When such content is foolishly ruled out of bounds, the brain is left with very little to work with. English words come in many confusing variations: lowercase, UPPERCASE, exotic typefaces, and script. All the little prickly shapes look so much alike.

(Note that in today’s method, called Balanced Literacy, kids are still made to memorize sight-words in first grade; doing this reduces the brain’s ability to read phonetically.)

6) Whole Word, pushed by liberals and progressives, is actually most harmful to the disadvantaged, the minorities, the children whose parents don’t know enough to protect them. The teachers say, “Go home. We know what we’re doing.”

Marva Collins, a famous educator, comments: “Our children and parents surrender themselves to those who are identified as protectors, but who actually destroy them.”

Bottom line: if you believe in leveling or “dumbing” down, Whole Word is a useful technique. Conversely, if you believe children should be helped to achieve their full potential, Whole Word is arguably child abuse.

Personally, I’m satisfied that Whole Word is one of the greatest scams of the 20th century. That our educators could pull this off will be marveled at for generations.

For more of this analysis, see “42: Reading Resources,” on Bruce Price’s education site Improve-Education.org.

As the owner of Parker-CPRW, Professional Résumé Presentations, Lisa G. Parker is a Certified Professional Résumé Writer and Certified Employment Interview Professional.

With more than 25 years of combined experience in promoting personal and professional development for both state and federal institutions, Ms. Parker is a retired U.S. Army First Sergeant, and has worked with the Georgia Department of Labor as both an Employment Service Specialist and a Disabled Veteran Outreach Program Specialist. As a facilitator and instructor, Ms. Parker has also provided the Transition Assistance Program Brief to transitioning service members and their families.

As a Career Development Professional, Ms. Parker provides résumé writing services for clients spanning a variety of career fields in both the private sector and government organizations, and around the world.

She currently serves as an evaluator of professionals pursuing the CPRW credential on the Professional Association of Résumé Writers and Career Coaches CPRW Certification Committee. Additionally, Ms. Parker is a contributing author to Cambridge Who’s Who.

Most recently, Ms. Parker was under contract to assist Bedford/St. Martin’s in efforts to edit the job search and résumé writing sections of the “The Business Writer’s Handbook” and the “Handbook of Technical Writing,” authored by Gerald J. Alred, Charles T. Brusaw and Walter E. Oliu.

Among her many recognitions, she received the Customer Service Award from the Georgia Department of Labor in 2007, and was honored with the International Association of Workforce Professional’s Writer Award for writing the nomination presentation for the Savannah Career Center Veteran Services Manager of the Year of 2008, which yielded international praise.
Ms. Parker maintains membership in many prestigious organizations, including:

The Professional Association of Résumé Writers & Career Coaches (PARW-CC)
International Association of Workforce Professionals (IAWP)
Cambridge Who’s Who – Lifetime Member
Disabled American Veterans – Lifetime Member
National Notary Association – Notary Public, GA
National Veterans’ Training Institute (NVTI) Alumni Association
Women In Military Service for America (WIMSA)
American Legion Post 283

Since 1979, Cambridge Who’s Who^® member Dan Budenz has pioneered and delivered high-quality mental health, alcohol, drug and behavioral rehab in hospital-based or affiliated settings. As owner and CEO of large comprehensive services, Dr. Budenz carried a nearly full caseload providing counseling to primary patients and their affected family members. Much of his delivery of care included medical or psychology interns completing their internships or rotations. He is a licensed psychotherapist, certified alcohol and drug counselor III – supervisory level, forensic therapist, and international addictions specialist, establishing treatment centers for top hospital systems, and working as the president and CEO of Budenz Medical Management Inc. and American Family Institute. He was recently recognized on camera by A&E as author, family advocate and investigative journalist on the Biography Channel’s production of “The Drew Peterson Biography.” Dr. Budenz’ hospital and community-based programs and Rehab Clinic & Equestrian Center have morphed into a first-of-its-kind Online Rehab Clinic (ORC). ORC officially launched during the annual, “International Week of Sobriety and Serenity” (Jan. 5 through 12). Additionally, Dr. Budenz has books, DVDs, films, wall charts and other products available for purchase in the ORC Shop to help clients, affected family members, students and professionals in residency.

Fashioning itself after such staple clinics as the Betty Ford Center and Hazelden (Dr. Budenz’ favorites), the Online Rehab Clinic offers highly individualized multi-tiered modalities advocating true recovery. Treatment programs are based on the family’s needs. The identified patient or any concerned individual can sign up for a one-month to yearlong duration. The longer options for the Online Rehab Clinic are recommended so that ORC can provide clients with a continued care regimen. The innovative relapse prevention and true recovery criteria for the whole family ensure ongoing success even if a client has completed rehab in another facility. “No more waiting lists for clients or interns is exhilarating,” states Dr. Budenz, who has dealt with long waiting lists throughout his career. Registrants have the opportunity to interact with staff and clients online, and to record their progress via daily journaling. They follow instructions to individualize their care in the community no matter where they are in the world. They may also visit the equestrian centers, located at 6441 Sun Valley Parkway, Belleville, WI, 53508, during designated times, to relax and enjoy the rolling countryside, surrounded, as seen online, with horses and other companion therapists — the theme of ORC.

Dr. Budenz discerns that the problems surrounding mental illness and addictions don’t merely affect the identified abuser — their friends and family are impinged upon as well. The clinic’s online treatment plans can yield measurable positive outcomes as long as Dr. Budenz and company gain the full cooperation of the patient and their families; they do not strive to replace any service provided by trained professionals or laypersons within the patient’s community. “In fact, we strongly make the case throughout ORC that each person or family needs to garner at least five additional support sources that will serve as members of their individualized treatment team,” states Dr. Budenz. “Doing rehab alone is foolish and nearly impossible — ‘the more the merrier’ is a good mantra for success — you are only as sick as your secrets.”

Finding a cure for substance abuse is akin to the search for the Holy Grail. Dr. Budenz clarifies that neither he — nor any “competent counselor or physician” — would ever determine a client to be recovered. Rather, their symptoms can be “arrested,” and this doesn’t occur until certain true recovery criteria are met. They include: 90 days total abstinence from all mood-altering substances; physician-approved medical stability; work with at least an initial recovery sponsor for a minimum of 90 days; an authentic devotion to maintain ongoing total abstinence one day at a time; and completion of a reasonable treatment plan that includes 12-step community or an acceptable alternative. “Run away from any program promising a cure, or not open to 12-step community or a reasonable alternative,” advises Dr. Budenz.

Dr. Budenz received a Ph.D. in Psychology from Union Institute & University, a Master of Arts in Counseling Psychology from Governors State University and a Bachelor of Science in Psychology from Northeastern Illinois University. He was a certified cognitive behavioral therapist when working with corrections clients, and completed internships in Chicago, as well as the professional in residency program at the Betty Ford Center. He sent all of his clinical staff at Saint John’s Hospital in Santa Monica through Betty Ford as well, “to tame their egos.” Most never knew the clinical director at Betty Ford at the time was a former student and staff member of Dr. Budenz’.

In 1987, he started the National Association for Affected Families (NAAF) as an intervention for those ill-equipped to deal with the situations of substance abuse on their own, and advocate for whole family treatment and recovery. Through NAAF, Dr. Budenz — along with his friends, and Hollywood special effects legends, Cliff and Carol Lynn Wagner — developed ACTT (Adolescent Creative Transitional Training), a series of films featuring troubled adolescents who left their involvement in gangs and drug use to help produce films and movies. In the long run, if they maintained abstinence and avoided gang involvement, they received on-screen credit for their contributions.

“Analyzing Monsters — Family Cures: The Drew Patterson Saga,” is the title of the newest book by Dr. Budenz, in which he shares secrets from many cases he worked on, investigated or went unresolved. The Drew Peterson saga covers 20 percent of the book, highlighting the story of the former police sergeant who awaits trial for the murder of his third wife. Dr. Budenz has spent more than 1,000 hours over separate decades analyzing and interacting with Drew Peterson and his family. He also makes comparisons to his work with mental health patients, substance abusers, and their families, in order to prepare readers for monsters and monstrous events threatening their own lives and other innocent people in society. “All our ‘modern’ systems are in dire need of rehab,” concludes the book and Dr. Budenz.

Dr. Budenz’ lifelong dedication to creating effective substance abuse interventions that give hope to both the abuser and those intimately associated with the abuser, lead him to accept a position on the board of Family Hope Charity (FHC), an American nonprofit organization. On a daily basis, FHC deals with victims of substance abuse and Kenya’s contemporary, un-rehabilitated systems. The director of Family Hope Charity, Thomas O’Hern, is a friend and high school seminary classmate of Dr. Budenz. Through their many conversations over the past several years, Dr. Budenz realized that the need for contextualized and interactive recovery programs, like those he has designed and managed in the United States, was the same need FHC was addressing in Nairobi, Kenya’s slums. Family Hope Charity works with young slum-dwellers whose emotional and psychological lives, as well as their capacity to earn a living, have been savaged by the unholy alliance of alcohol/drug addiction, political disenfranchisement, chronic destitution, HIV/Aids, and violence. Family Hope Charity designs and implements life skills training programs for youth and young, unattached mothers, who come from the most neglected segments of Kenya’s population. For more information about FHC’s work, and to learn what substance abuse recovery is like for poor HIV+ Kenyans, refer to Family Hope Charity’s Facebook fan page or Family Hope Charity BlogSpot. Help FHC bring the same message of hope and opportunity that Dr. Budenz’’s work has brought to so many addicts and affected families in the United States. As Dan says: “DON’T LET THEM DIE.” Donations, including tax-exempt contributions to support the work of Family Hope Charity, can be sent to FHC’s fiscal sponsor, Totus Tuus Ministries, c/o Jim Seghers, 17236 St. Gertrude Drive, Covington, LA 70435. Totus Tuus’ website, www.totustuus.com, also has a PayPal option that directs contributions to FHC.

One more impressive fact: 30-day use of ORC is only $195.00. If you know someone who needs alcohol, drug, food or thought addiction counseling, he or she can enroll in virtual rehab at a Wisconsin Equestrian Center in less than five minutes by visiting www.OnlineRehabClinic.com. In any event,
Don’t Let Them Die!

For more information and to correspond directly with Dan Budenz, please visit www.OnlineRehabClinic.com. You may also visit and friend the Online Rehab Clinic Facebook fan page.