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		<title>Take A Moment of Reflection: Break Free</title>
		<link>http://www.guidingchange.org/blog/2012/01/16/take-a-moment-of-reflection-break-free/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Jan 2012 13:12:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[“You must learn one thing. The world was made to be free in. Give up all other worlds except the one to which you belong. … anything or anyone that does not bring you alive is too small for you” -David Whyte (excerpted from Sweet Darkness) The worst limitations we live with are the ones [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Feeling Stuck vs. Letting the Fields Lay Fallow</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 08 Jul 2011 13:42:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Deb</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[fields lay fallow]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Because of a variety of challenges that had been taking place for me personally, I found myself in that scary but familiar place of transition &#8211; the place you are in when an ending of some kind has occurred, but the new beginning has not yet fallen into place.  Transition, as William Bridges explains so [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Depression as a Gift?</title>
		<link>http://www.guidingchange.org/blog/2011/07/08/depression-as-a-gift/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 08 Jul 2011 11:43:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Deb</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Healing]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[emotions]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[integrity]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I have suffered from depression on and off all my life.  For anyone who has never experienced depression, it is difficult to describe.   It is like having no skin to protect your emotions so that the slightest comment, thought or situation can have a huge negative impact that is completely out of proportion.  It’s like [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Expanding Your Dreams to Fit Your Capacity</title>
		<link>http://www.guidingchange.org/blog/2010/12/31/expanding-your-dreams-to-fit-your-capacity/</link>
		<comments>http://www.guidingchange.org/blog/2010/12/31/expanding-your-dreams-to-fit-your-capacity/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 31 Dec 2010 16:10:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Deb</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Change, Transition and Transformation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Coaching]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Spirituality and Reflection]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[What if you could do more than you believe you are capable of? You can, if you start with believing that you can. I know this sounds simplistic, but it is. It is simple, although not easy. If you think about it, all inventions that at one time were believed to be impossible, were made [...]]]></description>
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		<title>One Day My Heart Just Opened Up</title>
		<link>http://www.guidingchange.org/blog/2010/12/25/one-day-my-heart-just-opened-up/</link>
		<comments>http://www.guidingchange.org/blog/2010/12/25/one-day-my-heart-just-opened-up/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 25 Dec 2010 18:49:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Deb</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Balance]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Change, Transition and Transformation]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Learning]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Bikram Yoga]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Iyanla Vanzant]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[One Day My Soul Just Opened Up is the title of a fabulous book by Iyanla Vanzant that takes the reader through a 40-day process of spiritual and personal growth. I had an experience recently that gave me an understanding of how Iyanla must have felt when she came up with the title of that [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>5</slash:comments>
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		<title>Fear: The Root of All Evil – Part Two</title>
		<link>http://www.guidingchange.org/blog/2009/12/31/fear-the-root-of-all-evil-%e2%80%93-part-two/</link>
		<comments>http://www.guidingchange.org/blog/2009/12/31/fear-the-root-of-all-evil-%e2%80%93-part-two/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 31 Dec 2009 14:21:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Deb</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Connections]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Healing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Quilt of Humanity]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Community]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Delusions]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Fear]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Israel]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[What would happen if we looked past the delusions created by our fear?   Friendships and connection.   An article in the New York Times on December 31, 2009, A Mideast Bond, Stitched of Pain and Healing, demonstrates this.  The article describes the friendships developed between an Israeli boy, injured by a Hamas rocket, and a Palestinian [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Fear is the Root of All Evil-Part One</title>
		<link>http://www.guidingchange.org/blog/2009/10/05/fear-is-the-root-of-all-evil/</link>
		<comments>http://www.guidingchange.org/blog/2009/10/05/fear-is-the-root-of-all-evil/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Oct 2009 20:17:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Deb</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Change, Transition and Transformation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Authenticity]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Courage]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Fear]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.guidingchange.org/blog/?p=122</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Fear is the root of evil.   Well, if not evil – the root of a lot of ineffective and non-constructive behavior. When we are afraid, we find ways, mentally, emotionally, psychologically (and in certain instances even physically) to protect ourselves.  In circumstances in which our survival is at stake, we utilize defense mechanisms that serve [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>13</slash:comments>
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		<title>Reaching Your Potential: Living and Working Authentically and with Integrity</title>
		<link>http://www.guidingchange.org/blog/2009/07/14/reaching-your-potential-living-and-working-authentically-and-with-integrity/</link>
		<comments>http://www.guidingchange.org/blog/2009/07/14/reaching-your-potential-living-and-working-authentically-and-with-integrity/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 14 Jul 2009 22:27:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Deb</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Change, Transition and Transformation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Coaching]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Potential]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Reframing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Self-Awareness]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Self-Care]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Do you feel that you are not reaching your full potential but are not sure what direction to take? Do you wish you had someone to serve as a sounding board for your thoughts and ideas? Do you set goals for yourself but find it difficult to follow through? Do you wish you had someone [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Being Vulnerable = Strength and Courage</title>
		<link>http://www.guidingchange.org/blog/2009/07/14/strength-and-courage-vulnerability/</link>
		<comments>http://www.guidingchange.org/blog/2009/07/14/strength-and-courage-vulnerability/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 14 Jul 2009 20:25:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Deb</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Change, Transition and Transformation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Connections]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Culture]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Healing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Learning]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Authenticity]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Courage]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Rugged Individualism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Self-Awareness]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Vulnerability]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Many of us have been taught a dysfunctional view of what it means to be strong and courageous.  We teach our boys that being strong means never crying and never acknowledging their feelings – with the exception of anger, of course.  “Real men” don’t cry or show pain.  They are supposed to appear strong, rather [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>8</slash:comments>
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		<title>What is True Courage?</title>
		<link>http://www.guidingchange.org/blog/2009/07/14/what-is-true-courage/</link>
		<comments>http://www.guidingchange.org/blog/2009/07/14/what-is-true-courage/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 14 Jul 2009 20:17:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Deb</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Authenticity]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Self-Awareness]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Self-Care]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[There are different ways of viewing “courage.”  To some, courage is appearing fearless, strong and invincible when faced with conflict.  To me, courage is more about being willing to acknowledge my fears and show my vulnerability.  This is the courage that’s necessary to build connections across conflict and differences. Sometimes I am able to be [...]]]></description>
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