By Lisa Schick

Walker kicks-off daffodil season

Feb 2, 2011 | 5:21 AM

The Cuelenaere public library had a special guest on Tuesday at noon.

Kelly Walker, musician, psychiatrist and speaker, gave a talk about learning from, and growing out of, dark times in life.

“It’s normal to go through dark times, winter times, and it’s not just a sad unfortunate thing that happens to us, it’s what happens to humans,” he said.

He made sure everyone there knew, that everyone goes through periods of depression and that there

is nothing wrong with it.

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He compared bad periods in life with the seasons — describing depression as winters and the point at which you come out of depression as spring.

Walker said that as long as people can understand dark times and learn from them, then they can come out of them into a spring having grown in ways they couldn’t have imagined before.

The talk used music and humour to engage the audience and then Walker used his own experiences with depression and his diagnosis and battle with cancer to show how people can come out of dark times as different, better people.

Walker was brought to Prince Albert by the Canadian Cancer Society for the kick-off of the 2011 daffodil season.

Laurie Dent with the Prince Albert chapter of the cancer society said Walker was inspiring for the audience, many of whom have lived with or are living with cancer right now.

“I think it’s very inspiring for them … because they’ve done what he is talking about, they’ve done that for many years,” she said.

The daffodil campaign runs from February through April when the society will promote Apr. 27 as daffodil day – a day for people to go out and do something for someone affected by cancer.

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