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<description><![CDATA[Margaret Paul, Ph.D. is the co-creator of Inner Bonding, a transformational six-step spiritual healing process. She is a best- selling author, noted public speaker, workshop leader, chaplain, educator, humanitarian, consultant, and Inner Bonding facilitator. She has been leading groups, teaching classes and workshops, and working with individuals, couples, partnerships and businesses since 1973. Margaret is passionate about evolving and teaching the process of Inner Bonding. Margaret is the co-author of Do I Have To Give Up Me To Be Loved By You? (over 1,000,000 copies sold), Free to Love, Do I Have To Give Up Me To Be Loved By ... ]]></description>
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<title>What Is Enlightenment?</title>
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<description><![CDATA["If I could define enlightenment briefly I would say it is the quiet acceptance of what is." - Dr. Wayne Dyer As simple as this definition seems to be, how often do you quietly accept what is?]]></description>
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<title>When You Love Yourself, You Let Others Off the Hook</title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 23 Jan 2012 09:58:57 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Do you believe that loving yourself is selfish? Discover why this is not true!]]></description>
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<title>What Will Love Give You?</title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 11 Jan 2012 11:21:10 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[What are your beliefs about what another's love will give to you? Did you grow up believing that if only someone REALLY loved you in the way you needed to be loved, then you would feel happy, safe, lovable and worthy?]]></description>
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<title>What Does Having Sex Mean to You?</title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 05 Jan 2012 10:03:46 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Sex means different things to different people. What it means to you might be having a big effect on your relationship.]]></description>
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<title>Persistence: Playing a Poor Hand Well</title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 05 Jan 2012 10:03:18 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Are you allowing the hand you were dealt to determine what you do in life, or are you willing to make the best of a poor hand? You can turn your life around.]]></description>
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<title>Are You Inspiring or Gloomy?</title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 22 Dec 2011 12:57:51 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Do you inspire others with your caring energy, or do you bring others down with your misery? What is your primary intention with others - to share uplifting, caring energy, or to get sympathy?]]></description>
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<title>Will Your Next Marriage Be Better?</title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 08 Dec 2011 13:51:30 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA["It's time for me to move on. I've learned so much - I just know that next time it will be better." "Our new relationship has a great chance, because we've both been married before and have learned a lot.]]></description>
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<title>How to Connect With Others</title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 06 Dec 2011 15:26:37 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[We are inherently social beings, and feeling emotionally connected with another is one of the great joys in life. Yet, all too often, we feel lonely around another or others, wanting to connect and not knowing how. We may have learned numerous dysfunctional or unsatisfying ways of connecting, and wonder why we still feel lonely around someone when we are trying so hard to connect.]]></description>
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<title>Stop Taking the Bait of Projection!</title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 22 Nov 2011 11:19:39 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Do you know how to take care of yourself when you are at the other end of projection? Projections are very different than someone offering you gifts of valuable information about you. Projections are often angrily hurled as an attack, while valuable information about you is generally offered with kindness.]]></description>
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<title>Do You Isolate?</title>
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<pubDate>Fri, 18 Nov 2011 10:27:32 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[I often have clients who tend to isolate as a way of protecting against their fears - especially their fears of rejection and engulfment. They are so afraid of being disliked, disapproved of, attacked or having demands made on them, that they choose to avoid relationships, rather than learn how to deal with these challenging situations. These people have never developed a loving Adult self, who knows how to take loving care of them when others are angry, rejecting or demanding.]]></description>
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<title>Blaming Others Can Ruin Your Health</title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 03 Nov 2011 17:39:28 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Do you know that blaming others hurts you more than it hurts the ones you are blaming? Discover how to release blame.]]></description>
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<title>Self-Pity or Self-Compassion</title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 26 Oct 2011 11:01:39 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[There is a vast difference between feeling sorry for yourself and feeling kindness toward yourself. Self-pity comes from the intent to avoid/control, while self-compassion comes from the intent to be loving to yourself.]]></description>
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<title>Caretaking: A Covert Form of Narcissism</title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 19 Oct 2011 11:14:33 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[I used to think that caretaking was the opposite of narcissism. I thought that narcissists were people who demanded that others give themselves up to care-take the narcissist. I thought that caretakers were people who were programmed to take care of others instead of themselves.]]></description>
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<title>The Vital Importance of Community</title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 19 Oct 2011 11:14:11 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[I've been reading in many different sources about the research involving community and well being. In his best-selling book,"Outliers," Malcolm Gladwell opens with a study done in a small Pennsylvania town called Roseto. In 1882, Italians who lived in a town of the same name, Roseto, started to come to the U.S.]]></description>
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<title>Does Crying Make You Feel Better?</title>
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<pubDate>Fri, 07 Oct 2011 12:37:39 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[A recent study indicates that crying does not make people feel better. But there is a problem with this study. The study indicates that: "Shedding tears only improved mood in one-third of criers who kept tabs of their bawling behaviors, finds recent research.]]></description>
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<title>The Challenge of Accepting Our Helplessness Over Others</title>
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<pubDate>Fri, 07 Oct 2011 12:36:39 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[What do you do when you feel helpless over another's choices? What is the result? Are you happy with how you manage this feeling?]]></description>
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<title>Life: Security or a Daring Adventure?</title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 27 Sep 2011 08:45:48 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Do you believe it's possible to have control over being safe on this planet? What do you do to create the illusion of safety and security?]]></description>
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<title>A Problem With Today's Parenting</title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 19 Sep 2011 15:15:58 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Many parents try to be far better parents than their parents were, yet their children grow up feeling lost and empty. Discover why in this article.]]></description>
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<title>Why Do We Seek Approval?</title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 08 Sep 2011 14:54:44 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[As I became more and more aware of how often and how harshly I judged myself, I finally made the connection: disapproving of myself led to needing others' approval. If you are addicted to seeking others' approval, this article is for you!]]></description>
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<title>The Devastation of Inner Emptiness</title>
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<pubDate>Fri, 02 Sep 2011 13:11:35 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[The news stories of sexual addiction lead us to ask "Why?" One of the sad truths in our society is how empty many people feel, and the devastation their emptiness causes others through their resulting addictive behavior.]]></description>
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<title>Burned by Coffee or Burned by Heartbreak - They Feel the Same</title>
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<pubDate>Fri, 26 Aug 2011 15:10:45 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Did you know that heartbreak hurts as much as a coffee burn? Learn to embrace and release this pain rather than getting stuck in suffering.]]></description>
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<title>Are You or Your Partner Possessive?</title>
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<pubDate>Fri, 12 Aug 2011 15:40:04 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Are you and your partner operating in a relationship system that is based on possessiveness? Find out how you can end this cycle.]]></description>
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<title>Feeling Disconnected From Your Partner?</title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 09 Aug 2011 11:16:43 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Do you often feel disconnected from your partner? Discover what creates this disconnection and how to re-connect.]]></description>
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<title>Why Don't You Speak Up For Yourself?</title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 01 Aug 2011 10:05:27 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[My counseling clients often complain to me about interactions they had with a partner, friend, parents or co-worker. When I asked the question, "Why didn't you speak up for yourself?" here are the most common answers I receive: "I want to keep the peace."...]]></description>
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<title>Discover Your Level of Narcissism</title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 01 Aug 2011 10:04:35 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[The ego wounded self in all of us exhibits some degree of narcissism. Discovering where you fall on this continuum can lead to deeper learning and healing.]]></description>
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<title>What to Do When You Can't Communicate</title>
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<pubDate>Fri, 15 Jul 2011 11:02:35 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Do you know a healthy way of behaving when you are stuck and unable to communicate with someone? Learn how in this article.]]></description>
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<title>I Feel Trapped</title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 07 Jul 2011 14:07:07 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Do you feel trapped by numerous situations in your life and find yourself going into resistance? Discover a way out of procrastination and resistance.]]></description>
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<title>No One Appreciates Me</title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 30 Jun 2011 11:38:00 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Do you frequently feel that you do so much for others, yet end up feeling unappreciated by others? Learn to appreciate yourself, first. Others will follow.]]></description>
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<title>Unconditional Love For Yourself</title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 20 Jun 2011 15:13:42 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Do you believe that God is a judgmental man in the sky? Is this belief serving you well?]]></description>
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<title>I Can't Do It</title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 20 Jun 2011 14:19:02 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA["He can who thinks he can, and he can't who thinks he can't. This is an indisputable law." - Henry Ford. Have you ever noticed how often you say, "I can't"?]]></description>
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<title>Relationships: Attract at Your Common Level of Self-Love</title>
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<pubDate>Fri, 03 Jun 2011 07:38:14 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Learn to attract people at your common level of self-love, rather than at your common level of self-abandonment. Attracting at your common level of emotional health means that you have done the inner work necessary to heal your feelings of shame and insecurity. It means that you know how to fill yourself with love and share your love with others.]]></description>
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<title>5 Reasons Why You Might Want to End Your Relationship</title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 26 May 2011 10:29:14 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[When I married my ex-husband in 1963, I was determined to create a stable, loving relationship. I wanted an intact family where we could raise our children and share the joys of our grandchildren. We did raise our children together, but ended the marriage after 30 years.]]></description>
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<title>I Don't Deserve to Be Loved</title>
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<pubDate>Fri, 20 May 2011 10:39:16 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Have you ever looked inside to discover why you might not be loving to yourself and answered with, "I'm not worthy of love"? I hear this all the time - it is often one of the major false beliefs of the ego wounded self.]]></description>
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<title>The Myth of Explaining and Defending</title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 12 May 2011 13:24:15 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Do you believe that explaining and defending will convince the other person to see things your way? Has this ever worked?]]></description>
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<title>Others Treat Us The Way We Treat Ourselves</title>
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<pubDate>Fri, 06 May 2011 11:45:39 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Everybody is like a magnet. You attract to yourself reflections of that which you are. Discover how to love the unlovable in yourself and transform how others treat you.]]></description>
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<title>Trying to Control Makes Us Miserable</title>
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<pubDate>Fri, 22 Apr 2011 08:30:17 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Have you ever noticed how bad you feel when you try to control things you can't control - such as others and outcomes? Are you aware that trying to control what you can't control makes you feel anxious and unhappy?]]></description>
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<title>Do You Believe What You Perceive?</title>
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<pubDate>Fri, 15 Apr 2011 09:12:04 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Our perception is a mirror of our state of mind. Our state of mind determines many of our feelings, as well as much of our experience. What we perceive and experience changes as we change our state of mind. If you want to change your feelings and your experience of life, then change your state of mind.]]></description>
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<title>Relationships: Do You Have the Same Conflicts Over and Over?</title>
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<pubDate>Fri, 15 Apr 2011 08:59:26 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Kari and Rudy consulted with me because they kept having conflicts over the same issues over and over - primarily money, chores, and child-rearing. They were nearing the decision to separate, believing that they were incompatible. I asked them to pick one of the issues and they picked a recent conflict regarding setting limits for their children.]]></description>
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<title>Nothing Has Meaning Without Love and Connection</title>
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<pubDate>Fri, 15 Apr 2011 08:09:23 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Gretchen is typical of many of the clients that I work with. In our first session she said: I've been depressed on and off throughout my life. Medication helped for a while, but now all it does is make me feel more flat and empty.]]></description>
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<title>Are You Making These 4 Mistakes?</title>
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<pubDate>Fri, 01 Apr 2011 15:30:53 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[I, like many of you, was brought up and programmed to believe in a number of ideas that have turned out to be untrue. These false beliefs led me to make various life and relationship mistakes. I didn't like making mistakes any more than you do, but it is from my mistakes that I've learned so much.]]></description>
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<title>The Law of Attraction - It's About Frequency</title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 29 Mar 2011 13:57:50 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Many of us have heard of the Law of Attraction - that like attracts like. However, many are confused about what this really means. In my experience, like attracts like means that like frequency attracts like frequency. My high frequency attracts the things I want and my low frequency attracts the things I don't want.]]></description>
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<title>The Need for Touch</title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 09 Mar 2011 14:13:46 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[We are born with the need to touch and be touched, skin-to-skin. If you were not held and touched with love as you were growing up, then this might be a very deep need for you. But even if you were held and touched with love, you still need it today.]]></description>
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<title>Self-Validation - How to Validate Yourself</title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 23 Feb 2011 14:02:25 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Do you now how to validate yourself or are you dependent for your sense of worth on others approval and validation? Learn how now!]]></description>
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<title>Holding Your Heart Through Sadness and Heartbreak</title>
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<pubDate>Fri, 18 Feb 2011 11:23:37 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA["I've finally learned how to lovingly hold my heart when my heart hurts from the pain of disconnection with loved ones," said Meagan in our phone session. "I've discovered that it's possible to feel peaceful even in the midst of loneliness and heartbreak." Does it seem like a paradox to you to feel both peaceful and sad at the same time?]]></description>
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<title>If I'm Perfect, No One Will Reject Me - Healing Perfectionism</title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 14 Feb 2011 07:34:04 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Do you believe that being "perfect" gives you control over how people feel about you?" If you do, then you are coming from 3 big false beliefs that are causing you much unhappiness. False Belief #1 "I can have control over how people feel about me.]]></description>
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<title>Relationships and Emotional Connection</title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 31 Jan 2011 21:47:34 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Do you want emotional connection but can't seem to create it in your relationships? Learn how in this article!]]></description>
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<title>When You Feel Hurt By Your Partner</title>
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<pubDate>Fri, 28 Jan 2011 15:36:50 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[This article explores two kinds of relationship hurt. Hurt that comes from another's uncaring behavior, and hurt that comes from the lies we may tell ourselves about the other person.]]></description>
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<title>Do You Feel Loved or Unloved?</title>
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<pubDate>Fri, 21 Jan 2011 13:38:42 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[We all need to feel loved, but often we don't - both within ourselves and with others. Discover what you need to feel loved.]]></description>
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<title>Taking the Risk of Loving</title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 12 Jan 2011 19:20:50 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[If you feel some emptiness in your life, it is likely because you are allowing fear of loss to stop you from loving fully. It's better to have loved and lost than never loved at all.]]></description>
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<title>When Should You Take It Personally?</title>
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<pubDate>Sat, 08 Jan 2011 08:26:39 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[There are times when it is very important to not take another's behavior personally, and times when it is personal. Learn the difference in this article.]]></description>
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<title>The Crazymaking Trap: Proving Your Worth Over and Over</title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 05 Jan 2011 09:18:29 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Are you stuck in a trap trying over and over to prove your worth? Are you stuck making another person your Higher Power? You CAN get out of this crazymaking trap!]]></description>
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<title>I Just Want to Be Understood</title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 22 Dec 2010 16:25:30 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Have you ever yearned to be listened to and seen and understood by someone? Discover the real source of this yearning and how to heal it.]]></description>
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<title>What Are They Thinking About Me?</title>
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<description><![CDATA["You wouldn't worry so much about what others think of you if you realized how seldom they do." --Eleanor Roosevelt. Why should most people be thinking about you? They are far more concerned with what you are thinking about them to spend time thinking about you!]]></description>
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<title>Are Kindness and Tenderness Signs of Weakness?</title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 07 Dec 2010 12:44:12 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Are you confusing gentleness and kindness with weakness? Discover what weakness really is and how to acquire the strength to be kind and gentle.]]></description>
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<title>The Happiness Choice</title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 01 Dec 2010 11:45:14 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Do you know what major choice you can make that creates either happiness or misery? Discover that choice in this article!]]></description>
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<title>Fear of Anger - Yours and Others</title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 30 Nov 2010 08:54:44 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Does your own and others' anger terrify you? Discover how to move beyond your fear of anger.]]></description>
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<title>Addiction to Gossip</title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 10 Nov 2010 16:25:01 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Are you addicted to gossiping about others or do you know others who gossip? Discover the underlying cause of gossiping.]]></description>
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<title>Enmeshed Parenting</title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 04 Nov 2010 13:27:27 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Are you an enmeshed parent? Discover if you are and what you can begin to do about it in this article.]]></description>
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<title>There's Too Much To Do</title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 28 Oct 2010 12:53:04 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Do you ever feel stressed that there will never be enough time to get everything done? Listen to a conversation I had with my spiritual guidance about this.]]></description>
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<title>Beyond Misery Junk!</title>
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<pubDate>Fri, 22 Oct 2010 14:24:37 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Are you ready to move beyond misery? Learn about the junk that may be causing your misery.]]></description>
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<title>Relationships: &quot;I Am Open, You Are Closed&quot;</title>
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<pubDate>Fri, 15 Oct 2010 14:33:29 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Are you in a relationship where you believe that you are open and your partner is closed? Read on!]]></description>
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<title>Law of Attraction: The Importance of Feeling Good</title>
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<pubDate>Fri, 08 Oct 2010 15:40:24 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[It's really important that you feel good. Because this feeling good is what goes out as a signal into the universe and starts to attract more of itself to you. So the more you can feel good, the more you will attract the things that help you feel good and that will keep bringing you up higher and higher.]]></description>
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<title>Resistance to Gratitude: Why Isn't The Law of Attraction Working for Me?</title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 04 Oct 2010 11:07:50 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Do you find yourself resistant to expressing gratitude for what you have? Are you stuck in your ability to manifest what you want?]]></description>
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<title>Do You Avoid Failure Like the Plague?</title>
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<pubDate>Fri, 24 Sep 2010 10:29:02 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[What are you sacrificing by focusing on avoiding mistakes and failure, rather than on learning and growth? Fun? Joy? Love? Success?]]></description>
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<title>The Art of Manifestation - When It Is Loving to Be Controlling</title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 14 Sep 2010 19:43:26 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Is it ever loving to be controlling? Yes! Discover the kind of controlling that is loving and leads to manifesting what you want in life.]]></description>
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<title>The Power of Tears</title>
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<pubDate>Fri, 10 Sep 2010 14:45:07 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Discover the difference between victim pain and authentic pain and how expressing your authentic tears can open you to joy. Our tears are a God-given way of expressing sadness, just as laughter is a God-given way of expressing fun and joy. Both laughter and tears release stress in loving ways, rather than having to release it through anger or through holding it in your body, which can eventually cause physical pain and illness.]]></description>
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<title>Moving Beyond Emotional Dependency</title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 01 Sep 2010 09:50:56 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Are you ready to be your own person? Are you ready to move beyond neediness and into emotional freedom? Are you ready to stop needing others to make you feel that you are okay? Are you ready to learn to fill yourself with love and define your own worth?]]></description>
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<title>What Will They Think? - Love and Approval Addiction</title>
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<pubDate>Fri, 27 Aug 2010 10:33:08 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Are you love and approval addicted? Are you constantly worried about what others think of your looks and/or performance?]]></description>
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<title>Needs Vs Neediness</title>
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<pubDate>Fri, 20 Aug 2010 15:44:24 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[We do not thrive without love, so I consider love a basic need. Even though we might muddle through without love, I believe that many people get ill and die from a lack of love - dying of loneliness.]]></description>
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<title>Speaking Your Truth When It's Hard</title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 12 Aug 2010 09:34:30 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[How often to you withhold your truth from someone important to you because you are afraid of their anger? Discover what caring about yourself looks like in this situation.]]></description>
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<title>Do You Really Want to Lose Weight?</title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 09 Aug 2010 12:25:26 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[You say you really want to lose weight, yet either you don't lose it or you lose it only to gain it back. Discover the underlying cause of this and what you can do to permanently lose weight.]]></description>
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<title>Healing the Need For Others' Approval</title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 05 Aug 2010 15:02:13 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Do you ever find yourself thinking things like: I'd better give her a call or she will think I don't like her. If I do what I want to do he will be mad. If I don't explain myself they will think I don't care.]]></description>
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<title>Body Image Stress - Aging Insecurities and Self-Image</title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 05 Aug 2010 11:12:55 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Are you fearful that signs of aging are going to turn off the right person? Discover what to do about this in this article.]]></description>
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<title>How to Lose Weight As an Older Woman</title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 26 Jul 2010 14:03:16 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Leah called me for a phone session because she was menopausal and was having a very hard time losing weight. She had gained 12 pounds and was unhappy about it. "Everything I used to do doesn't work anymore," she told me.]]></description>
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<title>What is Emotional Freedom?</title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 15 Jul 2010 10:21:23 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Are you choosing emotional dependency or emotional freedom? Discover the secret of attaining emotional freedom!]]></description>
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<title>Lying As a Form of Control</title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 08 Jul 2010 12:42:14 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Did you learn to lie as a child to protect yourself from rejection? Are you still using this form of control, which is undermining your self-esteem? Discover how to heal lying.]]></description>
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<title>The ONE Major Cause of Relationship Problems!</title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 08 Jul 2010 11:43:35 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[What if you could discover the ONE major cause of your relationship problems and it was something that you could do something about? Would you do it?]]></description>
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<title>I Want to Love But I Can't Give Up Control</title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 22 Jun 2010 09:56:51 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Are there fears in the way of keeping your heart open to loving? You CAN learn how to feel safe enough to open your heart and share your love.]]></description>
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<title>Are You Caring Or Caretaking?</title>
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<pubDate>Fri, 18 Jun 2010 08:35:44 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Caring = giving to another from love, for the joy of it - as a free gift. Caretaking = giving to get love, giving with an agenda attached, giving yourself up.]]></description>
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<title>Why Won't My Partner Have Sex With Me?</title>
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<pubDate>Fri, 11 Jun 2010 09:40:05 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Are you wondering why your partner doesn't want to have sex with you? This article may provide the answer for you.]]></description>
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<title>Why Are My Partners Always Needy?</title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 03 Jun 2010 16:30:52 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Angelo had been married to Serena for 15 years before divorcing. In his marriage, Angelo was a caretaker, always trying to please Serena, always trying to get her approval and avoid her disapproval. Serena was a taker - handing responsibility to Angelo for her happiness and often angry with him when he didn't do what she wanted.]]></description>
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<title>The Relationship Trap - &quot;Let's Talk&quot;</title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 25 May 2010 16:13:40 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Do you sometimes feel trapped, knowing that your partner is going to blame you, when your partner says "Let's Talk"? Do you give in or get angry and withdraw because you don't know what else to do?]]></description>
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<title>Life's One Achievable Goal</title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 20 May 2010 14:05:23 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[We all have many goals in life, and we may achieve some of them and not others. But there is one primary goal that is not only achievable, but is the very reason you are here on the planet.]]></description>
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<title>Am I in a Healthy Relationship?</title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 11 May 2010 16:55:20 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Frequently, my clients and members of our website ask me, "Is my relationship healthy? How do I know if it is healthy?" Just as physical health is on a continuum, emotional health and relationship health are also on a continuum.]]></description>
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<title>The Secret to Emotional Healing</title>
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<pubDate>Fri, 07 May 2010 08:52:24 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Are you ready to heal your anxiety, depression, anger, and relationship problems, and experience emotional freedom? Discover the secret to deep emotional healing!]]></description>
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<title>Food That Harms, Food That Heals</title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 28 Apr 2010 13:29:41 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Our country is stretched to the limit due to the cost of health care. Even with the new health care bill, there will be on going conflict over what we should do to provide people with affordable health care. But the reason that the problem seems irresolvable is a very complex one.]]></description>
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<title>Do You Get Frustrated With Others?</title>
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<pubDate>Fri, 23 Apr 2010 14:31:02 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Do you believe that your frustration with others is being caused by them? Discover the real reason for frustration.]]></description>
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<title>Addiction to Distractions</title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 13 Apr 2010 20:18:59 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Some addictions are obvious, like food, drugs, and alcohol. Some addictions are subtle, and the addiction to distractions is one of these.]]></description>
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<title>Core Sadness Vs Wounded Sadness</title>
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<pubDate>Fri, 09 Apr 2010 07:33:54 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Very often, in my work with my clients, when I ask them what they are feeling they say, "I feel sad." Often, they do not know why they feel sad. Sadness comes from two very different sources.]]></description>
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<title>The Heart of Healing</title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 30 Mar 2010 13:48:24 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[There is ONE vital choice that you can make that leads to healing rather than to suffering. Discover that powerful choice in this article.]]></description>
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<title>Addictions - Talking As a Form of Resistance</title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 25 Mar 2010 11:31:46 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Many people have discovered talking as way to avoid being invaded, controlled, or rejected by others. Yet this addiction, as well as many others, being a form of self-abandonment, leads to much suffering.]]></description>
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<title>Addiction to Spending</title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 16 Mar 2010 15:09:06 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA["I keep getting into more and more debt, but I can't seem to stop. I do great for a while, and then I just have to go shopping and buy stuff. This is going to ruin my life if I don't stop, but how do I stop?]]></description>
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<title>How Do You Define Success?</title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 11 Mar 2010 11:44:06 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Our society is way off track about what is regarded as success. Discover how you define success and if your definition is serving you well.]]></description>
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<title>Gaining Others' Respect</title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 02 Mar 2010 08:40:45 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Are you distressed about how often others are disrespectful to you? Discover why this may be happening and what you can do about it.]]></description>
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<title>Healing Love and Approval Addiction</title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 25 Feb 2010 07:55:32 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[You CAN heal from love and approval addiction! Discover if you are love and approval addicted and begin to understand how to heal this.]]></description>
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<title>Healing Emotional Dependency</title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 25 Feb 2010 07:40:42 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Are you tired of tap dancing as fast as you can to get the love, attention and approval that you believe you need to be okay? Learn how to move beyond emotional dependency and into personal power and emotional freedom.]]></description>
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<title>When Someone Rejects You, Who Are They Rejecting?</title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 11 Feb 2010 04:52:02 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[The fear of rejection is a huge issue in relationships. For some, the fear is so huge that it stops them from being in a relationship. For others, it plagues them throughout their relationships and causes much anxiety.]]></description>
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<title>Childhood Heartbreak</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Celine, an only child, was 7 years old, her mother died tragically in a car accident. She and her father were devastated. However, unlike so many of my clients who lost parents and no one was there for them, Celine's father was completely there for her, even while dealing with his own grief and heartbreak.]]></description>
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<title>Safety With an Open Heart</title>
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<pubDate>Fri, 29 Jan 2010 07:52:46 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Do you live your life with your heart mostly open or mostly closed? Do you spend most of your time protecting against rejection or being taken advantage of, or most of your time open to sharing love with others? As children, many people had very heartbreaking experiences that caused them to close their heart.]]></description>
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<title>Can't Say No to People?</title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 19 Jan 2010 14:25:16 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Are you afraid to say "no" to others? Discover where you got this fear and how to move into personal power and emotional freedom.]]></description>
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