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		<title>Is There Such A Thing As Sexual Addiction?</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 08 May 2012 06:38:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Margaret</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Is sexual addiction a real thing, or just an excuse for bad behavior? In a recent article in CNN.com Blogs, (http://thechart.blogs.cnn.com/2012/03/29/new-book-questions-the-myth-of-sex-addiction/?hpt=hp_bn12) psychologist David Ley states in his new book, &#8220;The Myth of Sex Addiction,&#8221; that there is no such thing as sex addiction—that the term is just an excuse for bad behavior. I disagree with [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Is There Such A Thing As Healthy Narcissism?</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 17 Mar 2012 15:37:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Margaret</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Discover that &#8216;healthy narcissism&#8217; is an oxymoron! All of us have an ego wounded self who is narcissistic to one degree or another. For the purpose of this article, I am defining narcissism as abandoning responsibility for ourselves and expecting someone else to attend to us and define our self-worth, or expecting something external to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Your Own Inner Work Affects the Whole World!</title>
		<link>http://margaretpaul.com/self-improvement-personal-growth/your-own-inner-work-affects-the-whole-world</link>
		<comments>http://margaretpaul.com/self-improvement-personal-growth/your-own-inner-work-affects-the-whole-world#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 20 Feb 2012 02:35:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Margaret</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[You have more of an effect on the world than you know! &#8220;Let everyone sweep in front of his own door, and the whole world will be clean.&#8221; &#8211; Johann Wolfgang von Goethe What would happen if we each learned to take 100% responsibility for our own feelings and needs &#8211; learning to attend to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How to Connect with Others</title>
		<link>http://margaretpaul.com/relationships/how-to-connect-with-others</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 27 Nov 2011 17:48:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Margaret</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Relationships]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[connection]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[emotional connection]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Are you mystified about how to create meaningful emotional connection with others? 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 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Do You Isolate?</title>
		<link>http://margaretpaul.com/self-improvement-personal-growth/do-you-isolate</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Nov 2011 13:09:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Margaret</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Self Improvement & Personal Growth]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[If you tend to isolate, and you believe that isolating protects you from getting hurt, you might be surprised to learn of the harm you are causing yourself. In my counseling practice, I often have clients who tend to isolate as a way of protecting against their fears &#8211; especially their fears of rejection and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Vital Importance of Community</title>
		<link>http://margaretpaul.com/relationships/the-vital-importance-of-community</link>
		<comments>http://margaretpaul.com/relationships/the-vital-importance-of-community#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 16 Oct 2011 21:35:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Margaret</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Relationships]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[caring communities]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[controlling community]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Discover why people in a particular kind of community die of old age, rather than from heart disease and cancer. I&#8217;ve been reading in many different sources about the research involving community and well being. In his best-selling book, &#8220;Outliers,&#8221; Malcolm Gladwell opens with a study done in a small Pennsylvania town called Roseto. In [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Challenge of Accepting Our Helplessness Over Others</title>
		<link>http://margaretpaul.com/relationships/the-challenge-of-accepting-our-helplessness-over-others</link>
		<comments>http://margaretpaul.com/relationships/the-challenge-of-accepting-our-helplessness-over-others#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Sep 2011 13:19:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Margaret</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Relationships]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[compassion]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://margaretpaul.com/?p=632</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[What do you do when you feel helpless over another&#8217;s choices? What is the result? Are you happy with how you manage this feeling? Helplessness is a very difficult feeling. It can even feel like life or death to those of us who were left to cry for hours as babies, with no one coming [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Devastation of Inner Emptiness</title>
		<link>http://margaretpaul.com/self-improvement-personal-growth/the-devastation-of-inner-emptiness</link>
		<comments>http://margaretpaul.com/self-improvement-personal-growth/the-devastation-of-inner-emptiness#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Aug 2011 15:53:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Margaret</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The news stories of sexual addiction lead us to ask &#8220;Why?&#8221; 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. We have all heard about the sexual acting-out of Anthony Weiner, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Tiger Woods, Bill Clinton and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Burned by Coffee or Burned by Heartbreak &#8211; They Feel the Same</title>
		<link>http://margaretpaul.com/relationships/burned-by-coffee-or-burned-by-heartbreak-they-feel-the-same</link>
		<comments>http://margaretpaul.com/relationships/burned-by-coffee-or-burned-by-heartbreak-they-feel-the-same#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 20 Aug 2011 15:50:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Margaret</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[back pain]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Science has finally confirmed what anyone who&#8217;s ever been in love already knows: Heartbreak really does hurt.&#8221; http://www.cnn.com/2011/HEALTH/03/28/burn.heartbreak.same.to.brain/index.html &#8220;In a new study using functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI), researchers have found that the same brain networks that are activated when you&#8217;re burned by hot coffee also light up when you think about a lover who [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Feeling Disconnected From Your Partner?</title>
		<link>http://margaretpaul.com/relationships/feeling-disconnected-from-your-partner</link>
		<comments>http://margaretpaul.com/relationships/feeling-disconnected-from-your-partner#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 31 Jul 2011 12:43:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Margaret</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;We can&#8217;t seem to connect anymore.&#8221; This is one of the most common complaints I hear in my counseling practice. We all know that it is generally easy to connect at the beginning of a relationship &#8211; before all the protections and defenses come up. But what do you do to reconnect once you feel [...]]]></description>
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