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		<title>Do You See The Obstacle Or The Goal?</title>
		<link>http://margaretpaul.com/self-improvement-personal-growth/do-you-see-the-obstacle-or-the-goal-2</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Apr 2012 12:34:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Margaret</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Self Improvement & Personal Growth]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Where does your mind generally go &#8211; to the obstacles or to the goal? You CAN change your mindset if it is stopping you from having what you want. Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal. ~Henry Ford What happens for you when you get a great [...]]]></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>Who Am I?</title>
		<link>http://margaretpaul.com/self-improvement-personal-growth/who-am-i</link>
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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>
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		<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>Inner Peace</title>
		<link>http://margaretpaul.com/spiritual-growth/inner-peace</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 10 Dec 2011 17:17:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Margaret</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Spiritual Growth]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[ego]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Inner Bonding]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[inner peace]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[love]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Margaret Paul]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[We all want inner peace, but do you remember what creates it? Watching this 1 minute movie, &#8220;Inner Peace&#8221; will remind you! Margaret Paul, Ph.D. is a best-selling author of 8 books, relationship expert, and co-creator of the powerful Inner Bonding® process &#8211; featured on Oprah, and recommended by actress Lindsay Wagner and singer Alanis [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Will Your Next Marriage be Better?</title>
		<link>http://margaretpaul.com/relationships/will-your-next-marriage-be-better</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 03 Dec 2011 17:54:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Margaret</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Relationships]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[controlling behavior]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[divorce]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Discover the surprising statistics about second and third marriages, and why they have such a poor success rate. “It’s time for me to move on. I’ve learned so much – I just know that next time it will be better.” “Our new relationship has a great chance, because we’ve both been married before and have [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Self-Pity or Self-Compassion</title>
		<link>http://margaretpaul.com/self-improvement-personal-growth/self-pity-or-self-compassion</link>
		<comments>http://margaretpaul.com/self-improvement-personal-growth/self-pity-or-self-compassion#comments</comments>
		<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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		<category><![CDATA[personal responsibility]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://margaretpaul.com/?p=644</guid>
		<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>Caretaking: A Covert Form of Narcissism</title>
		<link>http://margaretpaul.com/relationships/caretaking-a-covert-form-of-narcissism</link>
		<comments>http://margaretpaul.com/relationships/caretaking-a-covert-form-of-narcissism#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 10 Oct 2011 16:57:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Margaret</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Relationships]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Caretaking is NOT the opposite of narcissism! I used to think that caretaking was the opposite of narcissism. I thought that narcissists were people who demanded that others give themselves up to care-take the narcissist. I thought that caretakers were people who were programmed to take care of others instead of themselves. I thought that [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Why Do We Seek Approval?</title>
		<link>http://margaretpaul.com/self-improvement-personal-growth/why-do-we-seek-approval</link>
		<comments>http://margaretpaul.com/self-improvement-personal-growth/why-do-we-seek-approval#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 03 Sep 2011 18:33:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Margaret</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Self Improvement & Personal Growth]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[addicted to approval]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[anxiety]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[If you are addicted to seeking others&#8217; approval, this article is for you! Many years ago, I became aware of feeling anxious much of the time. Since this feeling had been with me as long as I could remember, it had seemed normal &#8211; until it stopped being okay with me. It stopped being okay [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;If You Really Loved Me, You Wouldn&#8217;t&#8230;&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://margaretpaul.com/relationships/if-you-really-loved-me-you-wouldnt</link>
		<comments>http://margaretpaul.com/relationships/if-you-really-loved-me-you-wouldnt#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Aug 2011 12:05:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Margaret</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Relationships]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[How often have you had the thought, &#8220;If you really loved me, you wouldn&#8217;t&#8230; Get angry, yell, curse, call names, say mean, untrue things about me Project your behavior onto me Withdraw, run away, shut down, sit spaced-out in front of the TV Resist doing what I ask you to do Look at other women, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;I Feel Trapped&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://margaretpaul.com/self-improvement-personal-growth/i-feel-trapped</link>
		<comments>http://margaretpaul.com/self-improvement-personal-growth/i-feel-trapped#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 04 Jul 2011 16:32:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Margaret</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Self Improvement & Personal Growth]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;I can&#8217;t seem to stop snacking,&#8221; said Linda, in our phone session. &#8220;And I can&#8217;t figure out why. I don&#8217;t overeat during meals, but then I snack on things that I don&#8217;t need to be eating. I&#8217;ve had this issue on and off since adolescence and I want to resolve it.&#8221; &#8220;Linda, right now, take [...]]]></description>
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