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	<title>Blogging on Good Therapy &#187; Healing Stories</title>
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		<title>The Price Paid for Being the Perfect Child</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Feb 2012 20:05:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>BeverlyAmsel</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Art & Practice of Psychotherapy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Codependency]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Communication Problems]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Family of Origin Issues]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Follow the Heart]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Healing from The Inside Out]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Healing Stories]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Individuation]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[In one client's experience, striving to be the perfect child led to an adult life in which she found herself unable to assert herself and make her own decisions and feelings known. Through the therapeutic process, she became comfortable with being less perfect in her parents' eyes and better able to experience her life genuinely.]]></description>
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		<title>Wounded Leaders &#8211; There&#8217;s so much we can Learn and Heal through the Elections</title>
		<link>http://www.goodtherapy.org/blog/learning-healing-through-elections-01101224/</link>
		<comments>http://www.goodtherapy.org/blog/learning-healing-through-elections-01101224/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Jan 2012 17:26:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>judithbarr</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Being & Doing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Cultural & Social Issues]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Healing Stories]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Power]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Power: Healing to the Root]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Right after the new year begins, the elections process will ramp up again&#8230; bombarding us with news at each and every step, building to a series of feverish pitches.  One at each caucus or primary. One when the Republican nominee is selected. One at the Democratic convention. And one on election day. This is our [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Staying Your Own Person while Home for the Holidays</title>
		<link>http://www.goodtherapy.org/blog/being-yourself-during-holiday-visits-1212114/</link>
		<comments>http://www.goodtherapy.org/blog/being-yourself-during-holiday-visits-1212114/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Dec 2011 16:45:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>BeverlyAmsel</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Being & Doing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Communication Problems]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Follow the Heart]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Individuation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Psychotherapy: Specific Issues Treated & Changes Made]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Relating to Self and Others]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sensitivity to Critiscism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Women's Issues]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Young Adult Issues]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[For adult children, going home for the holidays may be problematic. While it can be wonderful to see parents, siblings, and extended family, it can also be an occasion that brings up old, unresolved conflicts. One of the most typical unresolved conflicts is related to separation and individuation: while growing up at home, some children [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Recovering and Thriving as a Parent After Perinatal Depression and Anxiety</title>
		<link>http://www.goodtherapy.org/blog/recovering-thriving-parent-after-perinatal-depression-anxiety/</link>
		<comments>http://www.goodtherapy.org/blog/recovering-thriving-parent-after-perinatal-depression-anxiety/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 02 Dec 2011 19:51:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>AndreaSchneider</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Adjusting to Change / Life Transitions]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Anxiety]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Depression]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Family Problems]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Healing Stories]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Postpartum Depression]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Psychotherapy: For those Considering or Exploring]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Psychotherapy: Specific Issues Treated & Changes Made]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Women's Issues]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I am particularly reflective at this time of year, as my youngest son is turning six years old. It was just that many years ago that I experienced the joy of his birth and then the ensuing terrifying abyss with postpartum depression. I love my little angel boy more than life itself. And I loved [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>8</slash:comments>
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		<title>Following in a Parent&#8217;s Footsteps</title>
		<link>http://www.goodtherapy.org/blog/following-parents-footsteps-1107114/</link>
		<comments>http://www.goodtherapy.org/blog/following-parents-footsteps-1107114/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Nov 2011 19:30:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>BeverlyAmsel</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Being & Doing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Follow the Heart]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Healing Stories]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Individuation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Psychotherapy: Specific Issues Treated & Changes Made]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Relating to Self and Others]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The Human Being of Therapy]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[“Like father like son”; “Like mother, like daughter”. These sentiments are often expressed with great joy and pride. Parents are delighted and honored when their children seek to emulate them. Boys and girls will follow dad around with their own hammers or bake cookies like mom. As children grow older and think about their choices [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Disruption of Dirty Pain</title>
		<link>http://www.goodtherapy.org/blog/disruption-of-unhealthy-pain/</link>
		<comments>http://www.goodtherapy.org/blog/disruption-of-unhealthy-pain/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 17 Oct 2011 21:24:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>JiovannCarrasco</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Acceptance and Commitment Therapy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Art & Practice of Psychotherapy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Being & Doing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Depression]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Healing from The Inside Out]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Healing Stories]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Psychotherapy: For those Considering or Exploring]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Psychotherapy: Models & Methods]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Psychotherapy: Specific Issues Treated & Changes Made]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.goodtherapy.org/blog/?p=10461</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Nobody likes pain. It makes sense that we make every attempt to avoid it or make it go away. That’s just part of being human. But why do some humans seem to have less of it than others? There are two types of pain: clean pain and dirty pain. We don’t have a whole lot [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>3</slash:comments>
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		<title>Is There a Way Around Grief?</title>
		<link>http://www.goodtherapy.org/blog/way-around-grief/</link>
		<comments>http://www.goodtherapy.org/blog/way-around-grief/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Sep 2011 20:43:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Adjusting to Change / Life Transitions]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Art & Practice of Psychotherapy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Follow the Heart]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Grief, Loss, & Bereavement]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Healing Stories]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[The Human Being of Therapy]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.goodtherapy.org/blog/?p=10192</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Grief, a deep feeling of sadness over a loss, is one of the most difficult experiences a person can have. During the grief process, we may feel hopeless, out of control, dead inside, empty, pained, afraid, angry, or just about any other painful emotion one can name. Just about everyone experiences grief at least a [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>12</slash:comments>
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		<title>Help! My Brain is Betraying Me!: Intrusive Thoughts in Motherhood</title>
		<link>http://www.goodtherapy.org/blog/intrusive-motherhood-thoughts/</link>
		<comments>http://www.goodtherapy.org/blog/intrusive-motherhood-thoughts/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 26 Aug 2011 19:56:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>AndreaSchneider</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Anxiety]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Healing Stories]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Parenting]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Postpartum Depression]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Psychotherapy: For those Considering or Exploring]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Psychotherapy: Specific Issues Treated & Changes Made]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Psychotropic Medication]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Women's Issues]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.goodtherapy.org/blog/?p=9864</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Mandy nuzzled her 3 month old baby happily as she warmed his bottle. It felt so good to breathe in his sweet baby smell and touch his soft delicate skin, his little body curled in a warm embrace into the curve of her neck. Mandy was starting to feel like she had her “sea-legs&#8217; as [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>13</slash:comments>
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		<title>Mindfully Approaching Pain: The Way Through May Just be the Way Out</title>
		<link>http://www.goodtherapy.org/blog/mindfulness-therapy-chronic-pain/</link>
		<comments>http://www.goodtherapy.org/blog/mindfulness-therapy-chronic-pain/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Aug 2011 19:21:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>SuellenFaginAllen</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Art & Practice of Psychotherapy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Chronic Illness / Disability]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Chronic Pain]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Healing from The Inside Out]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Healing Stories]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Health / Illness / Medical Issues]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mindfulness Based Approaches / Contemplative Approaches]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Psychotherapy: Models & Methods]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.goodtherapy.org/blog/?p=9544</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[“Oh, my aching body!” You’ve heard this exclamation &#8211; or something like it &#8211; many times, probably in television commercials advertising the latest miracle pill or cream that promises fast relief and few side effects, perhaps from a family member or friend who did a few too many reps at the gym, pulled a muscle fighting [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>5</slash:comments>
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		<title>Sports Psychology and Grieving the Loss of a Pet</title>
		<link>http://www.goodtherapy.org/blog/sports-psychology-pet-death-grief/</link>
		<comments>http://www.goodtherapy.org/blog/sports-psychology-pet-death-grief/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 28 Jun 2011 18:56:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>DarlaSedlacek</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Grief, Loss, & Bereavement]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Healing from The Inside Out]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Healing Stories]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Psychotherapy: Models & Methods]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Psychotherapy: Specific Issues Treated & Changes Made]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sport / Fitness Psychology]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The Human Being of Therapy]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.goodtherapy.org/blog/?p=8836</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Ultra Emotion-athon As I practice various mental skills, doing sport psychological experiments, I do my best to practice what I “preach” to clients in pushing toward potential. In the past year I completed 3 ultramarathons and was very excited by the depth into my own being that those races helped me to explore. That excitement [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>7</slash:comments>
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		<title>Full Recovery from Eating Disorders: Is it Possible?</title>
		<link>http://www.goodtherapy.org/blog/full-recovery-eating-disorders/</link>
		<comments>http://www.goodtherapy.org/blog/full-recovery-eating-disorders/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Jun 2011 23:04:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>JosieTuttle</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Eating & Food Issues]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Healing from The Inside Out]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Healing Stories]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Health / Illness / Medical Issues]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Isolation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Journal Therapy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Psychotherapy: Models & Methods]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Psychotherapy: Specific Issues Treated & Changes Made]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Self-Harm]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The Human Being of Therapy]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.goodtherapy.org/blog/?p=8620</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[After 6 years in the depths of anorexia, my eating disorder was a way of life. Starving had become my world. It was the way I dealt with anger, fear, hurt, frustration, disappointment, and every other even slightly uncomfortable feeling. I managed my weight to manage my life. Anorexia was my control, my way of [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>8</slash:comments>
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		<title>Bottoming Out Twice</title>
		<link>http://www.goodtherapy.org/blog/alcohol-bottom-out/</link>
		<comments>http://www.goodtherapy.org/blog/alcohol-bottom-out/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 15 Apr 2011 00:09:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>DanielGoldin</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Addictions & Compulsions]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Anger]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Art & Practice of Psychotherapy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Drug & Alcohol Addiction]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Family of Origin Issues]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Healing from The Inside Out]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Healing Stories]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Inadequacy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Men's Issues]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Psychotherapy: Specific Issues Treated & Changes Made]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Relating to Self and Others]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Self-Criticism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Shame and Guilt]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The Human Being of Therapy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The Non-Pathological Model]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[It has been said in AA, &#8220;An addict needs to bottom out twice to get better. First from alcohol, and later emotionally.&#8221; Most people who struggle with addiction started using drugs &#8220;to solve&#8221; what appeared to be unsolvable emotions. The word &#8220;emotion&#8221; comes from the same root as &#8220;motion.&#8221; Originally it meant a stirring within [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Art Psychotherapy Art</title>
		<link>http://www.goodtherapy.org/blog/art-psychotherapy-adults/</link>
		<comments>http://www.goodtherapy.org/blog/art-psychotherapy-adults/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 13 Apr 2011 22:27:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>BarbaraMosinski</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Anxiety]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Art & Practice of Psychotherapy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Art Therapy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Depression]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Elements of Good Therapy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Grief, Loss, & Bereavement]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Healing from The Inside Out]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Healing Stories]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Post Traumatic Stress / Trauma]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Psychotherapy: Models & Methods]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Psychotherapy: Specific Issues Treated & Changes Made]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The Human Being of Therapy]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.goodtherapy.org/blog/?p=8338</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Whenever I am asked what I do for a living I start by saying that I am a Psychotherapist, an Art Psychotherapist. The person will often make attempts to qualify my answer by asking…”Are you a psychiatrist?” “No,” I answer. “I don’t prescribe medication and I am not an MD.” Sometimes they go on in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Man Who Resembled Daddy</title>
		<link>http://www.goodtherapy.org/blog/daughter-recovery-emotional-abuse/</link>
		<comments>http://www.goodtherapy.org/blog/daughter-recovery-emotional-abuse/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 01 Apr 2011 00:15:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>FeliceBlock</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Abuse / Survivors of Abuse]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Emotional Abuse]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Family of Origin Issues]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Family Problems]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Forgiveness]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Grief, Loss, & Bereavement]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Healing Stories]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.goodtherapy.org/blog/?p=8260</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[My 85 year old father had a stroke recently. He is a survivor of the Holocaust, as was my mother of blessed memory. My father has survived once again. My parents withstood emotional and physical abuse to its extreme and while they loved me with all their heart, one of the by products of their [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Wholeness of Grief</title>
		<link>http://www.goodtherapy.org/blog/grief-loss-child-yoga-chanting/</link>
		<comments>http://www.goodtherapy.org/blog/grief-loss-child-yoga-chanting/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 31 Mar 2011 23:57:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>KarlaHelbert</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Adjusting to Change / Life Transitions]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Cancer]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Grief, Loss, & Bereavement]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.goodtherapy.org/blog/?p=8258</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[When he was three months old, my firstborn child was diagnosed with a choroid plexus carcinoma, a rare, aggressive brain tumor that grows on the structure inside the brain that makes cerebral spinal fluid. Two weeks after the initial resection of the tumor, and two more subsequent surgeries to drain fluid from his brain, he [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Dealing with Fertility Challenges: Coping Tips and Resources for Parents-in-the-Making</title>
		<link>http://www.goodtherapy.org/blog/resources-coping-fertility-challenges/</link>
		<comments>http://www.goodtherapy.org/blog/resources-coping-fertility-challenges/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Mar 2011 22:48:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>AndreaSchneider</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Fertility Issues]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Follow the Heart]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Healing from The Inside Out]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Healing Stories]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.goodtherapy.org/blog/?p=8249</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Spring has arrived. The landscape is greening up, buds are shooting through the grass, birds chirping. Longer daylight hours. Rabbits bring baskets with chocolate. All can be honky-dory at this time of nature&#8217;s bounty with wildlife awakening from hibernation and bringing young into the world&#8230; &#8230;yes, all CAN be honky-dory during springtime for many. However, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>And Baby Makes Three</title>
		<link>http://www.goodtherapy.org/blog/and-baby-makes-three/</link>
		<comments>http://www.goodtherapy.org/blog/and-baby-makes-three/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Mar 2011 16:00:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>HelenaMadsen</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Adoption / Foster Care Issues]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Being & Doing]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Fertility Issues]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Follow the Heart]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.goodtherapy.org/blog/?p=8204</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[For many couples, the decision to have a child is a no-brainer. After a year or two of married life, they decide they’re ready to transition from newlyweds to parents. If they’re fortunate enough to conceive easily, a bouncing baby girl or boy usually arrives within the year. Sounds so simple doesn’t it? Well, not for those of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>It&#8217;s About Relationships, Not Food!</title>
		<link>http://www.goodtherapy.org/blog/eating-disorder-bad-relationships-food/</link>
		<comments>http://www.goodtherapy.org/blog/eating-disorder-bad-relationships-food/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 25 Jan 2011 16:04:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ondinanandinehatvany</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Abandonment]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Art & Practice of Psychotherapy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Caregiver Issues / Stress]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Control Issues]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.goodtherapy.org/blog/?p=7863</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Beginning in infancy, relationships, food and feeding become intertwined. Think about it: Baby cries and baby gets fed. Someone has to do that feeding, and that someone is usually holding the baby and relating to him or her. So, from our earliest memories, food and being fed is one of our first ways of connecting [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Emotional Abuse: Is It Traumatic?</title>
		<link>http://www.goodtherapy.org/blog/trauma-emotional-abuse/</link>
		<comments>http://www.goodtherapy.org/blog/trauma-emotional-abuse/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 19 Jan 2011 18:33:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>FeliceBlock</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Abuse / Survivors of Abuse]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Anxiety]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Depression]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Emotional Abuse]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Eye Movement Desensitization Reprocessing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Family of Origin Issues]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Sensitivity to Critiscism]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.goodtherapy.org/blog/?p=7829</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[When a loved one hurts you through excessive criticism, put downs or abuse of any kind, you experience emotional and often simultaneous physical pain. But can emotional abuse be considered traumatic? Dr. Francine Shapiro defines two types of trauma, &#8220;big T&#8221; trauma and &#8220;little t&#8221; trauma. &#8220;Big T&#8221; trauma refers to what we commonly think [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>9</slash:comments>
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		<title>Growing Up and Relationships: What’s Wrong With Me?</title>
		<link>http://www.goodtherapy.org/blog/relationships-self-esteem-object-relations-parenting-psychotherapy/</link>
		<comments>http://www.goodtherapy.org/blog/relationships-self-esteem-object-relations-parenting-psychotherapy/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 13 Dec 2010 20:07:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>LynnSomerstein</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Addictions & Compulsions]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Anxiety]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Art & Practice of Psychotherapy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Codependency]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Communication Problems]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Emptiness]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Family of Origin Issues]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[LGBT (Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender) Issues]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.goodtherapy.org/blog/?p=7585</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Richard came to treatment feeling angry, sad and resentful. He was scared that the man he was living with was getting ready to dump him. “That always happens,” he said. “Just when I feel my life turn around, I get dumped. What’s wrong with me? Why am I always the one who gets left? I [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What Recovery Really Means</title>
		<link>http://www.goodtherapy.org/blog/eating-food-issues-compulsive-binge-recovery-psychotherapy/</link>
		<comments>http://www.goodtherapy.org/blog/eating-food-issues-compulsive-binge-recovery-psychotherapy/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Nov 2010 18:35:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>DeborahKlinger</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Addictions & Compulsions]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Anxiety]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Control Issues]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Cultural & Social Issues]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.goodtherapy.org/blog/?p=7386</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[When I write articles for GoodTherapy, I usually write about my views on recovery from disordered eating and body image concerns, and about things I’ve learned from my professional experience. This article is different: it’s about my personal experience. This month’s article was originally due the day after Halloween.  For reasons I’ll mention shortly, I [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Part I: Voice Dialogue and Healing the Inner Scapegoat &#8211; A Transpersonal Perspective</title>
		<link>http://www.goodtherapy.org/blog/voice-dialogue-psychotherapy-inner-scapegoat/</link>
		<comments>http://www.goodtherapy.org/blog/voice-dialogue-psychotherapy-inner-scapegoat/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 29 Oct 2010 16:17:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>FrancescaStarr</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Abuse / Survivors of Abuse]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Art & Practice of Psychotherapy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Depression]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Elements of Good Therapy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Emotional Overwhelm]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Family of Origin Issues]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Grief, Loss, & Bereavement]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Healing from The Inside Out]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Healing Stories]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Identity Issues]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Isolation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Jungian Psychotherapy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mindfulness Based Approaches / Contemplative Approaches]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Power]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Shame and Guilt]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[The Human Being of Therapy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Voice Dialogue]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.goodtherapy.org/blog/?p=7340</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[This is the third in a series of articles on the Scapegoat and how Voice Dialogue can help heal this ancient phenomenon that continues to occur within all human communities and within certain sensitive and susceptible individuals. The first two articles explored the Shadow, the phenomenon called projection, and the history of the Scapegoat in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Masochistic Anger Part III: Is Being Angry with Yourself a Way to Grieve?</title>
		<link>http://www.goodtherapy.org/blog/internalized-masochistic-anger-grief-relationships-therapy/</link>
		<comments>http://www.goodtherapy.org/blog/internalized-masochistic-anger-grief-relationships-therapy/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 01 Oct 2010 20:48:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>JeanetteRaymond</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Anger]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Grief, Loss, & Bereavement]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Healing Stories]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Helplessness/Victimhood]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.goodtherapy.org/blog/?p=7210</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Byron tried hard to please but his anger got in the way Byron’s anger terrified him. He did everything he could to avoid feeling it and showing it when it washed over him. He wanted to die of shame every time he saw his girlfriend’s fear and distress. He didn’t intend to hurt or scare [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Resilience&#8230; and Unraveling the Mystery</title>
		<link>http://www.goodtherapy.org/blog/somatic-experiencing-trauma-resilience/</link>
		<comments>http://www.goodtherapy.org/blog/somatic-experiencing-trauma-resilience/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 23 Sep 2010 20:14:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>SherryOsadchey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Adjusting to Change / Life Transitions]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Anxiety]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Different Side of Treatment]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Emotional Overwhelm]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.goodtherapy.org/blog/?p=7180</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Something that I have found fascinating in working from a Somatic Experiencing framework is the way in which a charge that has been held by the physiology from an unresolved critical incident can impact behavior and thought in unexpected ways. I have mentioned this in my previous entries. It is something that I have experienced [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Untying Knots in the Body to Untie Knots in the Mind and Heart</title>
		<link>http://www.goodtherapy.org/blog/mindfulness-grief-body-psychotherapy/</link>
		<comments>http://www.goodtherapy.org/blog/mindfulness-grief-body-psychotherapy/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Sep 2010 19:08:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ReneeBurgard</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Adjusting to Change / Life Transitions]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Attachment]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Body Psychotherapy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Elements of Good Therapy]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Family Problems]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Grief, Loss, & Bereavement]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[The Non-Pathological Model]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.goodtherapy.org/blog/?p=7126</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[“It feels heavy right here,” Rebecca* said, crying and touching her chest, “like a huge rock is sitting on me. It’s like that old cartoon, where a boulder would fall off a cliff and pin the roadrunner to the ground – it feels like I can’t move.” Rebecca had come to see me last year, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Masochistic Anger Part II: Anger at Having to be a Home Breaker Can Make you Sick</title>
		<link>http://www.goodtherapy.org/blog/machochistic-anger-anger-management-marriage-psycholog/</link>
		<comments>http://www.goodtherapy.org/blog/machochistic-anger-anger-management-marriage-psycholog/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 31 Aug 2010 18:13:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>JeanetteRaymond</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Anger]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Chronic Pain]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Divorce / Divorce Adjustment]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Family Problems]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Forgiveness]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Healing Stories]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Inadequacy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Psychotherapy: Specific Issues Treated & Changes Made]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.goodtherapy.org/blog/?p=7076</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Anger and hate consumed Sebastian Anger that his marriage hadn’t worked out the way he hoped washed over Sebastian from the minute he woke up. He was angry with his selfish wife. He was angry that she didn’t seem to want to help their son with his homework or encourage him in sports. Sebastian was [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Offerings</title>
		<link>http://www.goodtherapy.org/blog/offerings/</link>
		<comments>http://www.goodtherapy.org/blog/offerings/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Jun 2010 18:59:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>KalilaBorghini</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Healing Stories]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Psychotherapy: Specific Issues Treated & Changes Made]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Spirituality]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.goodtherapy.org/blog/?p=6710</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[As a Yoruba Priest, I frequently make offerings to the Orishas (divine spirits who guide our lives) and my ancestors. The type of offerings varies, with the simplest being a white candle, glass of water, white flowers and a bowl of fruit on my ancestral altar. We Yoruba also make offerings we call “Ebo”. The [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Other Side of Cancer</title>
		<link>http://www.goodtherapy.org/blog/coping-with-cancer/</link>
		<comments>http://www.goodtherapy.org/blog/coping-with-cancer/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 18 May 2010 17:30:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>author1</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Cancer]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Healing Stories]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Health / Illness / Medical Issues]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Psychotherapy: Specific Issues Treated & Changes Made]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.goodtherapy.org/blog/?p=6627</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[My husband, Nolan, was a firm believer that if you looked hard enough, you could find something positive in any bad situation. I agreed, most of the time. Until he was diagnosed with cancer. Very early on, we were told Nolan’s cancer was very aggressive and in extremely difficult to reach places. It was spreading [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Perfect Match: An Oncologist Who Gave the Gift of Time</title>
		<link>http://www.goodtherapy.org/blog/cancer-oncologist/</link>
		<comments>http://www.goodtherapy.org/blog/cancer-oncologist/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 17 May 2010 19:34:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>author1</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Cancer]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Different Side of Treatment]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Health / Illness / Medical Issues]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Psychotherapy: Specific Issues Treated & Changes Made]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The Human Being of Therapy]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.goodtherapy.org/blog/?p=6615</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[From our first appointment with my husband’s oncologist, hours after a CT scan showed large tumors throughout his abdomen, Nolan told me he was sure she was the doctor who was meant to treat him. I didn’t think much of it at the time. I thought he was just trying to reassure himself that things [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>10</slash:comments>
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		<title>A Client Study: Changing Criticism with Interpersonal Neurobiology</title>
		<link>http://www.goodtherapy.org/blog/neurobiology-changing-criticism/</link>
		<comments>http://www.goodtherapy.org/blog/neurobiology-changing-criticism/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 12 May 2010 19:11:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ChristopherDiggins</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Art & Practice of Psychotherapy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Healing Stories]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Interpersonal Neurobiology]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Psychotherapy: Models & Methods]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Psychotherapy: Specific Issues Treated & Changes Made]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sensitivity to Critiscism]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.goodtherapy.org/blog/?p=6588</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[A client just recently told me of how he very often hears things as criticism when they are not meant to be critical. For instance he and his wife had a disagreement about buying snack bars. When at the store he had agreed that he would eat the raisin filled bars since she and son [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>9</slash:comments>
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		<title>How Can I Stop Comparing?</title>
		<link>http://www.goodtherapy.org/blog/women-therapy-comparing/</link>
		<comments>http://www.goodtherapy.org/blog/women-therapy-comparing/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Apr 2010 18:54:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>JoyDavis</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Body Image]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Healing Stories]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Psychotherapy: Specific Issues Treated & Changes Made]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Women's Issues]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[One of the misery-makers in which many women engage is comparing themselves to other women. And it is by no means a fair comparison. Typically we are the underdog. The one who does not measure up. We compare ourselves to all the girls we see to be more beautiful—their height, their toned stomachs, the grace [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Susie’s Dad Was an Alcoholic</title>
		<link>http://www.goodtherapy.org/blog/psychotherapy-alcoholic-father/</link>
		<comments>http://www.goodtherapy.org/blog/psychotherapy-alcoholic-father/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Feb 2010 16:22:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>LynnSomerstein</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Drug & Alcohol Addiction]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Family Problems]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Healing Stories]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Psychotherapy: For those Considering or Exploring]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Psychotherapy: Specific Issues Treated & Changes Made]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Susie could tell right away when her father had been drinking &#8211; he had extra sparkling eyes, he smiled a lot, he breathed heavy, and he talked non-stop for endless hours. She was supposed to listen to every word, agree real fast and with enthusiasm, and then tell her dad what a great man he [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Use of Reauthoring and Therapeutic Letters in Narrative Therapy: Case Study with “Peter”</title>
		<link>http://www.goodtherapy.org/blog/narrative-therapy-reauthoring/</link>
		<comments>http://www.goodtherapy.org/blog/narrative-therapy-reauthoring/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Feb 2010 20:36:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>peggygold</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Art & Practice of Psychotherapy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Healing Stories]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Narrative Therapy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Psychotherapy: Models & Methods]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[** The following article is a continuation from last month’s GoodTherapy.org submission, “The Use of Scaffolding Map in Narrative Therapy” ** In my second meeting with Peter, we met alone for the majority of the time because his father was involved with taking care of the other children in the family. Peter was immediately talkative [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Therapy as Sacred</title>
		<link>http://www.goodtherapy.org/blog/therapy-sacred/</link>
		<comments>http://www.goodtherapy.org/blog/therapy-sacred/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 28 Jan 2010 19:04:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ChristopherDiggins</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Art & Practice of Psychotherapy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Healing Stories]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Interpersonal Neurobiology]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Psychotherapy: Models & Methods]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.goodtherapy.org/blog/?p=6071</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[There is nothing more satisfying for me than hearing, &#8220;I have been in therapy for years talking about this and today with you is the first time I felt like someone really believed me.&#8221; The client comes to this relief when she senses my intention and ability to hear her story, be emotionally present, and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>New Year’s Resolution: Lose Weight. Not!</title>
		<link>http://www.goodtherapy.org/blog/therapy-new-year-resolution-lose-weight/</link>
		<comments>http://www.goodtherapy.org/blog/therapy-new-year-resolution-lose-weight/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 22 Jan 2010 23:35:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>DeborahKlinger</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Eating & Food Issues]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Healing Stories]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Psychotherapy: Specific Issues Treated & Changes Made]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[It’s January, the time of year when we’ve rung out the old and are ringing in the new, making resolutions for the coming year. New Year’s resolutions usually involve goals for self-improvement, often including weight loss. Magazine ads and articles extol the benefits of amazing plans that promise permanent weight loss in short amounts of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Scared Stiff</title>
		<link>http://www.goodtherapy.org/blog/psychotherapy-scared-stiff/</link>
		<comments>http://www.goodtherapy.org/blog/psychotherapy-scared-stiff/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 20 Jan 2010 18:58:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>LynnSomerstein</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Art & Practice of Psychotherapy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Healing Stories]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mindfulness Based Approaches / Contemplative Approaches]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Psychotherapy: For those Considering or Exploring]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Psychotherapy: Models & Methods]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[As David Frawley wrote in Yoga: the Greater Tradition, “Breath and Mind are connected like the two wings of a bird. The breath reflects our thoughts and emotions. . . .fear makes us forget to breathe.&#8221; Emily’s boyfriend dropped her; he told her he wouldn’t ask her out again because she was like a parrot, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Strategies for Surviving the Recovery of Childhood Abuse</title>
		<link>http://www.goodtherapy.org/blog/surviving-recovery-of-childhood-abuse/</link>
		<comments>http://www.goodtherapy.org/blog/surviving-recovery-of-childhood-abuse/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Nov 2009 18:50:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>JoyceThompson</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Abuse / Survivors of Abuse]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Healing Stories]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Psychotherapy: Specific Issues Treated & Changes Made]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Self-Care]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Being a survivor of childhood abuse is hard enough. But when one finds the ‘right’ therapist and begins the recovery process in earnest, it can be even more difficult! It’s critical that you be kind to yourself during this time in your life. Allow yourself to feel what you are feeling and not to chastise [...]]]></description>
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		<title>It Wasn’t Me, It Was The Dog</title>
		<link>http://www.goodtherapy.org/blog/it-wasnt-me-it-was-the-dog/</link>
		<comments>http://www.goodtherapy.org/blog/it-wasnt-me-it-was-the-dog/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 22 May 2009 18:12:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>sarahjenkins</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Healing Stories]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Relating to Self and Others]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.goodtherapy.org/custom/blog/?p=2219</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[For as long as I could remember, they were my siblings. Faithful. Loving. Supportive. With me when I played, laughed, and cried, they were beside me all of the time. Showing me unconditional love and compassion, the dogs I cherished were a part of my family, just as I was a part of theirs. I [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>18</slash:comments>
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		<title>Overcoming OCD: A Client-Therapist Success Story</title>
		<link>http://www.goodtherapy.org/blog/therapist-success-story/</link>
		<comments>http://www.goodtherapy.org/blog/therapist-success-story/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 16 May 2009 12:48:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Art & Practice of Psychotherapy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Book Reviews]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Healing Stories]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Obsessions and Compulsions / OCD]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Psychotherapy: Specific Issues Treated & Changes Made]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Therapy News]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[A GoodTherapy.org News Update Obsessive-compulsive disorder is a condition fairly well known among mental health professionals and the psychologically-minded public at large. Yet as with so many things, there exist extreme departures from what we&#8217;d normally envision of a person afflicted with OCD &#8211;and the co-author of a recently released book on the subject is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Hope: A Poem about Healing from Being Unwanted</title>
		<link>http://www.goodtherapy.org/blog/new-story-added-to-the-healing-story-collection-hope-a-poem-about-healing-from-being-unwanted/</link>
		<comments>http://www.goodtherapy.org/blog/new-story-added-to-the-healing-story-collection-hope-a-poem-about-healing-from-being-unwanted/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 14 Feb 2008 07:42:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>author1</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Healing Stories]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.goodtherapy.org/custom/blog/2008/02/13/new-story-added-to-the-healing-story-collection-hope-a-poem-about-healing-from-being-unwanted/</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Electric feeling in my face threading up from my tummy. Something vibrating, trying to escape. to run from danger, to go back home, upward to the Formless Feels like a dried up cocoon, like a shell washed up on the beach: lifeless… crusty… scared….dead, embalmed….. sarcophagus covered with think crust Just one sign of life, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Emma: Healing from Sexual Abuse</title>
		<link>http://www.goodtherapy.org/blog/new-story-added-to-the-healing-story-collection-emma/</link>
		<comments>http://www.goodtherapy.org/blog/new-story-added-to-the-healing-story-collection-emma/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Jan 2008 23:34:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>author1</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Healing Stories]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Psychotherapy: Specific Issues Treated & Changes Made]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sexual Abuse]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.goodtherapy.org/custom/blog/2008/01/11/new-story-added-to-the-healing-story-collection-emma/</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[In another culture they would perhaps be called visions. In our culture, we call this “Self-Led Healing.” I call it taking the hand of my Higher Power, going to a place within myself that I call my Story-Telling Place, and working with my Higher Power to create the story-adventures that cleanse and heal the pockets [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Journey Home: A Story of Rediscovering Repressed Memories and Healing from Childhood Abuse</title>
		<link>http://www.goodtherapy.org/blog/283/</link>
		<comments>http://www.goodtherapy.org/blog/283/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 06 Dec 2007 06:00:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>author1</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Healing Stories]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Internal Family Systems]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Psychotherapy: Models & Methods]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sexual Abuse]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.goodtherapy.org/custom/blog/2007/12/05/283/</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[When I began training in Internal Family Systems Therapy (IFS) several years ago, my whole life became a healing story. It is difficult to even know how to begin or focus in the attempt to tell it. I was drawn to the model after reading Dick’s textbook in graduate school. It stirred my heart. It [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ana: A Story about Making an Ally with One&#8217;s Anorexia</title>
		<link>http://www.goodtherapy.org/blog/new-story-added-to-the-healing-story-collection-ana/</link>
		<comments>http://www.goodtherapy.org/blog/new-story-added-to-the-healing-story-collection-ana/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 02 Nov 2007 05:47:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>author1</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Eating & Food Issues]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Healing Stories]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[My story is the story of Ana. Ana was my closest companion for almost sixteen years. The name “Anna,” as it is usually spelled, means “gracious,” but Ana certainly did not seem very gracious at times. Ana is a shortened form of Anorexia, the name I gave my eating disorder. In that one word lies [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Little Lil: A Story about Trying to be Perfect</title>
		<link>http://www.goodtherapy.org/blog/new-story-added-to-the-healing-story-collection-little-lil/</link>
		<comments>http://www.goodtherapy.org/blog/new-story-added-to-the-healing-story-collection-little-lil/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 07 Oct 2007 06:30:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>author1</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Healing Stories]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Psychotherapy: Specific Issues Treated & Changes Made]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Self-Criticism]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Once upon a time there was a wonderful little girl, sensitive, intelligent, gifted. She was so sensitive that it was easy for her to see words that weren’t spoken. Words that other people did not speak swirled through the air but ended up inside of her. When she was not very old, and couldn’t even [...]]]></description>
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