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		<title>Who Am I?</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 05 Feb 2012 00:16:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Margaret</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Self Improvement & Personal Growth]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Spiritual Growth]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Conversations With the King]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Take a lesson from Elvis Presley: Learn to define your own worth, instead of having to ask others, &#8220;Who am I&#8221; I recently attended a conference and one of the speakers was David Stanley, who lived with Elvis Presley as his stepbrother since David was four years old. His book, about his experiences with Elvis, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How do you Make Others Responsible for Your Painful Feelings?</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 10 Dec 2011 17:09:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Margaret</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Addictions]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[We have all learned many ways of trying to avoid or get rid of our painful feelings. Many of these ways are fairly obvious: addictions to substances and activities, staying in your mind rather than in your body, or judging yourself. Another major way we avoid or try to get rid of our painful feelings [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Self-Pity or Self-Compassion</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 22 Oct 2011 19:56:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Margaret</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Self Improvement & Personal Growth]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[compassion]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[ego]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[feeling sorry for yourself]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[frequency]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Do you understand the difference between self-pity and self-compassion? There is a vast difference between feeling sorry for yourself and feeling kindness toward yourself. Self-Pity When you see yourself as a victim, you indulge in self-pity. You are a bottomless pit of misery, and you may find yourself crying endless victim tears. You might say [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Life: Security or a Daring Adventure?</title>
		<link>http://margaretpaul.com/self-improvement-personal-growth/life-security-or-a-daring-adventure</link>
		<comments>http://margaretpaul.com/self-improvement-personal-growth/life-security-or-a-daring-adventure#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Sep 2011 17:15:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Margaret</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Self Improvement & Personal Growth]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Spiritual Growth]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[A Course in Miracles]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[body and soul]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[controlling behavior]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[feeling safe]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Helen Keller]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Inner Bonding]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[insecurity]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Margaret Paul]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[safety and security]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Security is mostly superstition. It does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. Life is either a daring adventure, or nothing. To keep our faces toward change and behave like free spirits in the presence [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Do You Chase When Someone Withdraws?</title>
		<link>http://margaretpaul.com/relationships/do-you-chase-when-someone-withdraws</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 19 Jun 2011 19:57:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Margaret</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Relationships]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[anxiety]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[codependent]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Depression]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[panic]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[self-love]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Serenity Prayer]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[A member of our website asked this question in our advice section: I&#8217;ve read several of the articles on the site, but have not seen anything mentioned about &#8220;chasing&#8221; after someone who is pulling away in a relationship. That has to be a form of protection against deeper feelings, though, right? If someone is pulling [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Law of Love</title>
		<link>http://margaretpaul.com/spiritual-growth/the-law-of-love</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 12 Jun 2011 15:02:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Margaret</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Spiritual Growth]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[defining yourself]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Depression]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[ego]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[God]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[guilt]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[truth]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I have learned over my 43 years of counseling that no one heals without a personal connection to a spiritual source of Guidance. William was struggling with issues of shame and depression. He had struggled with feelings of insecurity and jealousy most of his life, despite years of inner work. While he intellectually knew that [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;I Don&#8217;t Deserve to be Loved&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://margaretpaul.com/self-improvement-personal-growth/i-dont-deserve-to-be-loved</link>
		<comments>http://margaretpaul.com/self-improvement-personal-growth/i-dont-deserve-to-be-loved#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 16 May 2011 12:08:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Margaret</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Self Improvement & Personal Growth]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[core shame]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://margaretpaul.com/?p=525</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Have you ever said to yourself, &#8220;The reason God doesn&#8217;t love me is I don&#8217;t deserve to be loved?&#8221;&#160; Have you ever looked inside to discover why you might not be loving to yourself and answered with, &#8220;I&#8217;m not worthy of love&#8221;? I hear this all the time from my clients. It is often one [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Do You Believe What You Perceive?</title>
		<link>http://margaretpaul.com/self-improvement-personal-growth/do-you-believe-what-you-perceive</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Mar 2011 17:44:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Margaret</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Self Improvement & Personal Growth]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[course in miracles]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[false beliefs]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Inner Bonding]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[insecurity]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Margaret Paul]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[paradigm shift]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[perception]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[state of mind]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Steven Covey]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Perception is a mirror not a fact. And what I look on is my state of mind, reflected outward.&#8221; &#8211; - A Course in Miracles I remember many years ago seeing the movie &#8220;Rashomon&#8221; (starring Toshiro Mifune and directed my Akira Kurosawa) where three people saw a murder committed and each saw it completely differently. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;If I&#8217;m Perfect, No One Will Reject Me&#8221; &#8211; Healing Perfectionism</title>
		<link>http://margaretpaul.com/self-improvement-personal-growth/if-im-perfect-no-one-will-reject-me-healing-perfectionism</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 06 Feb 2011 18:44:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Margaret</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Self Improvement & Personal Growth]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Spiritual Growth]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[controlling behavior]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[core Self]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[soul essence]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://margaretpaul.com/?p=401</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Discover the 3 big false beliefs that lead to the burden of perfectionism, and the truth that heals these beliefs.]]></description>
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		<title>Relationships and Emotional Connection</title>
		<link>http://margaretpaul.com/relationships/relationships-and-emotional-connection</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Feb 2011 23:17:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Margaret</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Relationships]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[authenticity]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[compassion]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[core shame]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://margaretpaul.com/?p=398</guid>
		<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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