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		<title>How NOT to Deal With Anxiety (Part III): Addiction</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 24 May 2013 14:38:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kitty</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Addiction and Recovery]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[(Note: People instinctively work to keep the anxiety in their environment to a minimum all the time. I’ve read several great articles lately about effective ways to do this. This series is about ineffective ways people deal with their anxiety. If you’ve ever wondered at how some people behave, or what their motivations are, this [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Conceal-Carry? Me??</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 17 May 2013 20:35:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kitty</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Misc (Opinions and Observations)]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[So, after ten years (that is, the entire time we’ve been together) of putting it off, I finally agreed to take the conceal-carry permit class with my partner. Every time he’s brought it up in the past, I’ve said, “Go ahead if you want. I’m not interested.” Furthermore, I thought it a waste of time [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How NOT to Deal With Anxiety (Part II): Control, Power, and Manipulation</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 17 May 2013 16:26:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kitty</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Anxiety and Stress Reduction]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Relationships]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[(Note: People instinctively work to keep the anxiety in their environment to a minimum all the time. I’ve read several great articles lately about effective ways to do this. This series is about ineffective ways people deal with their anxiety. If you’ve ever wondered at how some people behave, or what their motivations are, this [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>7</slash:comments>
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		<title>How Not to Deal With Anxiety (Part I): Self-Delusion</title>
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		<comments>http://www.bravenewkitty.com/2013/05/how-not-to-deal-with-anxiety-part-i-self-delusion/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 03 May 2013 20:43:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kitty</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Anxiety and Stress Reduction]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.bravenewkitty.com/?p=2181</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[(Note: People instinctively work to keep the anxiety in their environment to a minimum all the time. I’ve read several great articles lately about effective ways to do this. This series is about ineffective ways people deal with their anxiety. If you’ve ever wondered at how some people behave, or what their motivations are, this [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>33</slash:comments>
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		<title>It Takes A Village To Raise a Really Healthy Person</title>
		<link>http://www.bravenewkitty.com/2013/04/it-takes-a-village-to-raise-a-really-healthy-person/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=it-takes-a-village-to-raise-a-really-healthy-person</link>
		<comments>http://www.bravenewkitty.com/2013/04/it-takes-a-village-to-raise-a-really-healthy-person/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 26 Apr 2013 22:10:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kitty</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Addiction and Recovery]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Healing Process]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Before I started down my path of recovery in earnest, I did a lot of reading about recovery. I devoured self-help books, mostly about addiction and relationships (the banes of my young adult existence). I learned a lot about what was wrong with me (or at least, what I thought was wrong with me). But [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Demonizing</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Apr 2013 21:01:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kitty</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[FOO (Family of Origin Issues)]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[If we truly desire to reach a better understanding of each other we have to stop demonizing each other and replace hate with hope.&#8211;Karen Hughes If we have no peace, it is because we have forgotten that we belong to each other. &#8211; Mother Teresa Demonizing goes hand in hand with reactivity. When people are reactive, they are externally focused: [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>14</slash:comments>
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		<title>Reactivity</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Apr 2013 20:55:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kitty</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Anxiety and Stress Reduction]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Critical Thinking]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I heard a story on Wait, Wait Don’t Tell Me the other day about a ban placed on triangular shaped flapjacks (in England, a flapjack is a granola bar, not a pancake) after a student was hit in the face with one. The sharp corners of the triangular-shaped bar could potentially put an eye out, [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>22</slash:comments>
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		<title>The Dangers of Living Too Much In Your Head</title>
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		<comments>http://www.bravenewkitty.com/2013/04/the-dangers-of-living-too-much-in-your-head/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Apr 2013 23:28:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kitty</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Authenticity]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[FOO (Family of Origin Issues)]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.bravenewkitty.com/?p=2089</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8230;and not enough in your heart. Thinking about my relatives at my mother’s funeral got me thinking about intellectualizing and what a huge coping skill/defense mechanism it is for so many people. I think in the modern world, a world where faith in science has largely replaced faith in God (even amongst many who consider [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>35</slash:comments>
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		<title>Hanging Onto Yourself</title>
		<link>http://www.bravenewkitty.com/2013/03/hanging-onto-yourself/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=hanging-onto-yourself</link>
		<comments>http://www.bravenewkitty.com/2013/03/hanging-onto-yourself/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 29 Mar 2013 23:02:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kitty</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Communication Skills]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[FOO (Family of Origin Issues)]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.bravenewkitty.com/?p=2086</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[“Hanging onto yourself” is a concept that David Schnarch talks about in his relationship guide, The Passionate Marriage. He contends that the health of an intimate relationship is proportional to the participants’ ability to stay focused on their own wants and needs, particularly during times of conflict with each other. Which makes sense, because if we [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>30</slash:comments>
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		<title>Book Review: Anatomy of an Epidemic by Robert Whitaker</title>
		<link>http://www.bravenewkitty.com/2013/03/book-review-anatomy-of-an-epidemic-by-robert-whitaker/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=book-review-anatomy-of-an-epidemic-by-robert-whitaker</link>
		<comments>http://www.bravenewkitty.com/2013/03/book-review-anatomy-of-an-epidemic-by-robert-whitaker/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 22 Mar 2013 21:14:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kitty</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Book Reviews]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I’m not sure how I found this book. Maybe Amazon spammed me after I bought The Chemistry of Joy; I don’t remember. But even though I wasn’t looking for it, I almost read the book through in one sitting. It has hugely altered my perspective on psychiatry in general and psychiatric drugs in particular. I [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>12</slash:comments>
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