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Denny Meek is an author, speaker, and a fighter.
Her book, Still Standing: A Mother’s Raw
Journey from the Shadows of Loss to the
Dawning of Hope, received an award as a MMH
Press Book Award finalist. It is a stirring memoir
that raises awareness about several issues,
including: domestic violence, infant loss, anorexia
nervosa, teen suicide, and grief. The book is being
used at three Australian universities to inform
undergrad and post-grad students in health
sciences, social work, psychology, education, and
nursing.
She raised her children primarily as a single mom.
Of her four children, three are deceased. One was
lost to a rare heart disease as an infant, and two
others committed suicide as teenagers on separate
occasions. Denny was in two main relationships that subjected her to domestic abuse. She
has had to confront many losses, pains, and challenging situations, but through it all, she has
endured, survived, and learned to live again.
Her fulltime mothering was supplemented by a series of odd jobs, from unemployment
project officer to bar staffer, from photographer to professional tarot reader, from video editor
to teacher’s special aide.
Born in Moree, outback NSW, Australia, Denny was raised in country town Northern NSW,
near Queensland’s Gold Coast. She earned a psychology degree from Macquarie University,
Sydney NSW, and later a diploma of freelance journalism by correspondence. She’s lived in
Tasmania, Melbourne Victoria, Gympie Queensland, Coffs Harbour New South Wales, and
now on 12 acres, on the southern Gold Coast with her adult son.
On her property lives the world’s second deadliest snake – the Eastern Brown – which was
spotted and filmed in ritual combat by Denny – and received over 200,000 views on You
Tube.
For more information, please consult:
www.dennymeek.com.au
www.dennymeek.com
Facebook Business: https://www.facebook.com/stillstandingdenny
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/denny-m-1a360997/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/meek_and_wild/

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