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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>Connecting Words and People in Community: Uniting Threads of Identity</title>
		<link>http://www.guidingchange.org/blog/2011/08/14/connecting-words-and-people-in-community-uniting-threads-of-identity/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 14 Aug 2011 15:22:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Deb</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Connections]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Come join me in a writing workshop I am co-facilitating on September 18, 2011.  We will be using writing and creativity exercises to explore how the individual threads that make up our identities connect us to the community beyond ourselves. For more information, click here. I hope to see you there. Share on Facebook]]></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>
				<category><![CDATA[Change, Transition and Transformation]]></category>
		<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>Forgiving the Past vs. Being Able to Empathize in the Present</title>
		<link>http://www.guidingchange.org/blog/2011/05/26/forgiving-the-past-vs-being-able-the-empathize-in-the-present/</link>
		<comments>http://www.guidingchange.org/blog/2011/05/26/forgiving-the-past-vs-being-able-the-empathize-in-the-present/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 27 May 2011 01:47:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Deb</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Forgiving Mengele]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Palestinians]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Peace Research institute for the Middle East]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Professor Sami Adwan]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[In my recent post on forgiveness, I wrote about the film Forgiving Mengele.  This documentary follows Eva Mozes Kor, a survivor of the inhumane experiments of Dr. Mengele in Auschwitz, who decided to forgive Mengele as part of her own healing process. Eva is a woman who is strong in her convictions about the importance [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Forgiveness</title>
		<link>http://www.guidingchange.org/blog/2011/05/26/forgiveness/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 May 2011 13:49:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Deb</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I saw a wonderful documentary recently, Forgiving Mengele (2006 directed by Bob Hercules and Cheri Pugh).    This film follows Auschwitz survivor Eva Mozes Kor.  Eva, along with her twin sister, was one of the many twins subjected to inhumane experiments by Dr. Mengele.  The film focuses on her decision to forgive Mengele as part of [...]]]></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>
		<category><![CDATA[Healing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Learning]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Bikram Yoga]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Camel Pose]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Iyanla Vanzant]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Self-Awareness]]></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>We Need to See the Connections</title>
		<link>http://www.guidingchange.org/blog/2010/01/01/we-need-to-see-the-connections/</link>
		<comments>http://www.guidingchange.org/blog/2010/01/01/we-need-to-see-the-connections/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 01 Jan 2010 20:42:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Deb</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Balance]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Connections]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Healing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Quilt of Humanity]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.guidingchange.org/blog/?p=153</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[So often, we fail to see the connections in our life.  In some cases, this can be life threatening.  In the New York Times Magazine article, Perplexing Pain, Lisa Sanders writes about a woman who suffered for years from attacks of abdominal pain, rapid heart rate, fever, and a variety of other symptoms.  Despite seeing [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>0</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>
				<category><![CDATA[Change, Transition and Transformation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Connections]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Healing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Quilt of Humanity]]></category>
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		<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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		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
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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>
		<category><![CDATA[Vulnerable]]></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>
				<category><![CDATA[Change, Transition and Transformation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Connections]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Healing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Learning]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Authenticity]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Courage]]></category>
		<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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