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		<title>Getting the Most Out of Virtual Connections</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Jul 2025 11:11:31 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Getting our connection needs met is more challenging than ever! Many of us are trying to meet our connection needs virtually… Which is great for flattening the curve of the Coronavirus… AND…How do you get the most nutrition out of your virtual connections? (Free Workshop Session)]]></description>
		
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		<title>3 Steps to Recalibrating Our Threat Sensors</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 13 Jul 2025 11:11:44 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[In times of high stress and changing concerns do you need to recalibrate your threat sensors?And how do you do that?It can be so challenging to deal with the sense of threat… and the stress that comes with it. And when the situation is changing day-to-day, with new information, what do you do? (Free coaching and tapping session)]]></description>
		
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		<title>Emerging… 4 Steps for Tapping into Courage and Clarity When You Need It</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Dec 2024 17:21:21 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[The emotional weather these days feels… unpredictable. Sunny feeling one moment and then with a cold gust of fearfulness — other people’s if not our own.  It’s into this that we emerge… and not just now from quarantine and isolation. (Listen and Tap Along)]]></description>
		
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		<title>Emotional Postures</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Feb 2021 16:11:11 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA["Worried" and "angry" are emotional postures. So are peevish, cynical, critical, lonely, unmotivated, ignored, friendless, untrusting, not-good-enough, unappreciated, and unloved. Let's also include overwhelmed, frustrated, impatient, and stressed. If a person demonstrates such a state of being on a consistent basis, it is an emotional posture. It has become how the person stands and relates to the world. EFT and our <a href="https://www.thrivingnow.com/circle/" title="group coaching program">group coaching program</a> can help you establish new, self-empowered emotional postures.]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>The REAL Affirmation</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Feb 2021 12:11:13 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[A typical affirmation is stated in the present tense as if what you want is already yours. For example, "I am wonderful!" Say that to yourself. "I am wonderful!" Notice what your head says right after the affirmation. What your head says AFTER the affirmation is, indeed, the REAL affirmation.]]></description>
		
		
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		<title>2020 Circle Sessions</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 01 Jan 2021 04:59:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Clear the Holiday Emotional Hangover</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 29 Nov 2020 17:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[After a holiday, the event may be finished while emotional residue remains. Family history, unmet longing, resentment, loneliness, forced gratitude, and overstimulation can continue circulating in the body. This Guide explores the difference between demanding that we feel grateful and letting the actual emotional aftermath complete with honesty and support. In the context of Clear [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
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		<title>What has to Change for you to feel more Free?</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Rick Wilkes]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Oct 2020 16:32:57 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[As you feel into your life, what has to change for you to feel more free&#8230; especially emotionally free? For me one of the first things that had top change on my way to a thriving life was&#8230; WORRY! Worry was literally eating me up inside. Changing my patterns of worry freed up so much [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>What Did You Expect? Healing the Pain of Unmet Expectations</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Rick Wilkes]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 04 Aug 2020 19:47:56 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[How does it feel when something unexpected happens? When expectations are not met, an alert is always triggered! How we process that alert can lead to distress and confusion... or towards wonder, solid presence, capable action, and calm confidence. What we're going to be doing together, if you'd like, is to take some expectations that members of our community have offered, and we'll address them and heal the pain. ]]></description>
		
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		<title>Enduring What&#8217;s Real with a Touch of Grace</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Apr 2020 19:52:57 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Facing what is real can release a lot of energy and bring joy and delight to the smallest moments. It's when we try to ignore or deny that life gets dull and heavy. Building the muscles to face what is actually happening, and not trying to avoid, can let us be present with the joy that life threads through most experiences. (Free Workshop Session)]]></description>
		
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		<title>Dealing with the Fear of the Unpredictable</title>
		<link>https://www.thrivingnow.com/dealing-with-the-fear-of-the-unpredictable/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Thriving Now]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Mar 2020 17:50:05 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Staying Grounded and Present In the Midst of Global Fear (Free Recorded Workshop). Whether it's the fear of a virus that's appearing in different places, the stock market falling, essential supplies being sold out of stores... The news can give most minds plenty to fear. The survival part of our brains can be really triggered. Join us for this tapping and sharing workshop and circle.]]></description>
		
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		<title>2019 Circle Sessions</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Thriving Now]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Jan 2020 04:59:41 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[2019 Circle Session Recordings]]></description>
		
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		<title>Let Your Holiday Desires Be Honest and Flexible</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Thriving Now]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 21 Nov 2019 17:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Holidays can magnify desire and shame. We may want warmth, ritual, solitude, help, beauty, sensuality, or meaningful conversation while entering an ecosystem that offers something very different. This Guide explores the difference between hiding a healthy desire and requiring other people to fulfill it exactly before we can care for ourselves. In the context of [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
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		<title>Separate What&#8217;s Real From What Your Mind Adds</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 19 Oct 2019 16:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Overwhelm often contains layers: what can be observed now, what it reminds us of, and what we imagine it means. All deserve attention, but they do not carry the same evidentiary weight. This Guide explores the difference between honoring an emotional truth and treating every anxious interpretation as a documented fact. In the context of [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
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		<title>Love Yourself When Things Go Bad</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Thriving Now]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Jul 2019 16:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Self-love is easiest to endorse when life is smooth and hardest to access when something goes wrong. In crisis, the primitive brain may treat blame and harshness as emergency tools for regaining control. This Guide explores the difference between responding to a real problem and making our frightened self another problem to defeat. In the [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
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		<title>Recover the Muchness You Learned to Hide</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Jul 2019 16:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Muchness is the vivid, curious, desirous, expressive energy that can feel excessive in environments built around conformity. Hiding it may have protected belonging, yet long-term shrinking costs creativity and aliveness. This Guide explores the difference between overwhelming others without awareness and allowing authentic life-force to have suitable expression. In the context of Recover the Muchness [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
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		<title>“I&#8217;m Not Good Enough” May Be a Protective Conclusion</title>
		<link>https://www.thrivingnow.com/im-not-good-enough-may-be-a-protective-conclusion/</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Thriving Now]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 26 Jun 2019 16:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[“I&#8217;m not good enough” often appears to be a fact, yet it can be a protective conclusion. If the defect is supposedly inside us, the world feels more controllable than admitting someone was unavailable, unsafe, unfair, or impossible to satisfy. This Guide explores the difference between assessing a specific skill and turning pain into a [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
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		<title>Ride the Letdown Before You Fix the Disappointment</title>
		<link>https://www.thrivingnow.com/ride-the-letdown-before-you-fix-the-disappointment/</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Thriving Now]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 30 Apr 2019 16:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Disappointment has a physical downward movement: energy mobilized toward a hoped-for future suddenly has nowhere to go. Racing into a replacement plan can interrupt the nervous system&#8217;s necessary recalibration. This Guide explores the difference between being defeated by disappointment and allowing the letdown to complete before choosing again. In the context of Ride the Letdown [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
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		<title>Shame Is Information, Not a Sentence</title>
		<link>https://www.thrivingnow.com/shame-is-information-not-a-sentence/</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Thriving Now]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Apr 2019 16:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[accountability]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[Shame collapses a specific concern into a total identity: not simply that something went wrong, but that we are wrong. Yet the rise of shame may point to several very different situations requiring different responses. This Guide explores the difference between being shamed by someone, noticing our own misalignment, and carrying an alarm from the [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
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		<title>When Other People&#8217;s Opinions Start Running Your Life</title>
		<link>https://www.thrivingnow.com/when-other-peoples-opinions-start-running-your-life/</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Thriving Now]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Apr 2019 16:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[approval]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[An opinion can arrive like an instruction, especially when approval once affected safety or belonging. We may organize our clothes, work, relationships, or voice around reactions that have not even occurred. This Guide explores the difference between receiving useful information and giving another person&#8217;s nervous system authority over our life. In the context of When [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
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		<title>Disappointment ~ The Let Down</title>
		<link>https://www.thrivingnow.com/disappointment-the-let-down/</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Rick Wilkes]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Apr 2019 18:54:58 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA["I feel so let down!""You let me down!""I let myself down, and feel cruddy and like a failure." It's true. The raw natural feeling we get in our body when disappointment is triggered is... The Let Down. Let's explore this... ]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Disappointment ~ It&#8217;s a Signal</title>
		<link>https://www.thrivingnow.com/disappointment-signal/</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Rick Wilkes]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Apr 2019 16:20:20 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Quick Reminder: Our replay of our session on Facing Disappointment ~ Feeling the Feelings is available. Watch it here and read below for some extra energy tuning&#8230; and share with your friends! Could disappointment serve an intelligent purpose in our lives??? Imagine you&#8217;re starving and there&#8217;s a juicy apple out of reach in the tree. [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>When Positive Thinking Becomes Emotional Pressure</title>
		<link>https://www.thrivingnow.com/when-positive-thinking-becomes-emotional-pressure/</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Thriving Now]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 28 Feb 2019 17:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Optimism can support resilience, but compulsory positivity abandons the part of us that is hurting. A bright interpretation offered too quickly can feel like a demand to disappear for someone else&#8217;s comfort. This Guide explores the difference between opening toward possibility and using positivity to avoid contact with pain. In the context of When Positive [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
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		<title>Grow a Healthy Relationship with Your Own Power</title>
		<link>https://www.thrivingnow.com/thrivingnow-poweranissa-2019-02-24/</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Rick Wilkes]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 12 Feb 2019 17:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Do you leave conversations frustrated because you did not say what you were actually thinking or feeling? Do you muzzle yourself, then replay the moment later? Do you feel responsible for keeping everyone comfortable? In this conversation, Rick Wilkes and Anissa Centers explore power as something more grounded than dominance. Healthy power is the ability [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Stop Repeating the Same Patterns</title>
		<link>https://www.thrivingnow.com/thrivingnow-repeatingpatterns-2019-02-02/</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Rick Wilkes]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Jan 2019 17:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Primitive Brain]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[body-no]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[A repeating pattern can feel like a personal failure: I knew better. I promised myself. Why am I here again? Rick Wilkes and Cathy Vartuli approach the pattern differently in this workshop. Repetition often means that a well-practiced protective loop is running faster than conscious choice. Shame adds more threat to that loop. Curiosity helps [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
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		<title>The Question: What Matters to Your Heart?</title>
		<link>https://www.thrivingnow.com/thrivingnow-thequestion-2019-01-26/</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Rick Wilkes]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 19 Jan 2019 17:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[We can make a long list of improvements and still avoid the quieter question underneath them: What actually matters to my heart? This workshop with Rick Wilkes and Cathy Vartuli offers a grounded way to listen for the answer. It is not a demand to manufacture the perfect life plan. It is a practice for [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>You Do Not Have to Be Perfect to Be Lovable</title>
		<link>https://www.thrivingnow.com/you-do-not-have-to-be-perfect-to-be-lovable/</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Thriving Now]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Jan 2019 17:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[Emotional States]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[belonging]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Circle Audio]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[Perfectionism is often less about excellence than attachment. If mistakes once threatened affection, peace, or belonging, flawless performance can feel like the price of being kept close. This Guide explores the difference between caring about quality and using performance to purchase love. In the context of You Do Not Have to Be Perfect to Be [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
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		<title>Fun That Actually Feels Like You</title>
		<link>https://www.thrivingnow.com/fun-that-actually-feels-like-you/</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Thriving Now]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Jan 2019 17:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[Emotional States]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[Fun can become another performance when we chase the activities we are supposed to enjoy. Authentic play begins by noticing what brings even a flicker of warmth, curiosity, mischief, relief, or aliveness to this particular body. This Guide explores the difference between displaying fun and receiving genuine nourishment from play. In the context of Fun [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
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		<title>2018 Circle Sessions</title>
		<link>https://www.thrivingnow.com/2018-circle-sessions/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Thriving Now]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 31 Dec 2018 13:08:45 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[2018 Circle Session Recordings]]></description>
		
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		<title>You Do Not Have to Follow the Family Holiday Script</title>
		<link>https://www.thrivingnow.com/you-do-not-have-to-follow-the-family-holiday-script/</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Thriving Now]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 25 Dec 2018 17:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Holidays can intensify the emotional scripts we carry about family: everyone should be together, gratitude should erase conflict, generosity should be effortless, and a successful gathering should repair what has never been repairable. When reality does not follow the script, we may work harder, blame ourselves, or endure situations that leave us depleted. Emotional freedom [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
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		<title>When Life Is Zooming, Reduce the Emotional Velocity</title>
		<link>https://www.thrivingnow.com/when-life-is-zooming-reduce-the-emotional-velocity/</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Thriving Now]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 02 Dec 2018 17:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[Emotional States]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[Sometimes the calendar is full because life is full: work, family, change, health, celebration, grief, and ordinary maintenance arrive together. The stressful part is not only the number of events. It is the emotional velocity—the sense that we must process, decide, respond, and perform before we have landed from the last thing. We may not [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
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		<title>Gratitude Is a Practice, Not a Denial of Pain</title>
		<link>https://www.thrivingnow.com/gratitude-is-a-practice-not-a-denial-of-pain/</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Thriving Now]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Nov 2018 17:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[appreciation]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[Gratitude can become emotionally dishonest when it is used to leap over what hurts. We list blessings while the body says, “Something is not okay.” Then a practice meant to nourish us becomes another demand to have the correct feeling. Authentic gratitude does not require appreciation for trauma, injustice, loss, or an unsatisfactory situation. We [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
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		<title>Time Is Not Wasted When It Restores Aliveness</title>
		<link>https://www.thrivingnow.com/time-is-not-wasted-when-it-restores-aliveness/</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Thriving Now]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 31 Jul 2018 16:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[“I wasted the day” often means “I did not produce what the judging part of me recognizes as valuable.” That is not the same as discovering that the time had no value. Human systems need restoration, wandering, play, grieving, conversation, and apparently idle integration. These experiences can look unproductive while being central to our homeostasis—the [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
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		<title>When Someone Intimidates You, Return to Equal Ground</title>
		<link>https://www.thrivingnow.com/when-someone-intimidates-you-return-to-equal-ground/</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Thriving Now]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 15 May 2018 16:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[Emotional States]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[Intimidation is not always loud or intentional. A person may have status, certainty, physical presence, expertise, money, or a forceful style. Our body can rapidly make them bigger and make us smaller. That reaction deserves respect. The primitive brain learned about power when we were small and dependent. Freezing, appeasing, deferring, or becoming intimidating ourselves [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
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		<title>Starting Conversations When You Feel Shy and Awkward</title>
		<link>https://www.thrivingnow.com/starting-conversations-when-you-feel-shy-and-awkward/</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Thriving Now]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Apr 2018 16:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Initiating a conversation can be mechanically simple and emotionally enormous. The words might only be, “Hi, I’m Rick. What’s your name?” Yet the body may predict rejection, embarrassment, intrusion, or being trapped after the other person responds. Shyness is not evidence that we lack warmth or interest. Often it means the primitive brain has attached [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
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		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Mar 2018 16:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[“I am not worthy” sounds like a conclusion about our nature. Often it is a story built in response to pain. A child who is criticized, neglected, dominated, or disappointed has very little power. Believing “something is wrong with me” can preserve a corner of imagined control: if I caused this, perhaps I can become [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
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		<title>Your Feelings, My Feelings, and What We Create Between Us</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 18 Feb 2018 17:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Emotional sensitivity can make relationships rich. It can also make responsibility confusing. Someone becomes upset and we feel compelled to fix it. We become activated and assume the other person caused everything happening inside us. Soon feelings are being passed back and forth like obligations. We need more than the choice between emotional isolation and [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
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		<title>When You Feel Stuck, Look for the Protection</title>
		<link>https://www.thrivingnow.com/when-you-feel-stuck-look-for-the-protection/</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Thriving Now]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 06 Jan 2018 17:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Circle Audio]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[Feeling stuck is frustrating because the conscious mind can often see exactly what would help. We know the call to make, the page to write, the boundary to set, or the practical task to complete. Yet another part of us will not move. We can call that laziness or self-sabotage. We can push harder. Or [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
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		<title>2017 Circle Sessions</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 31 Dec 2017 12:11:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Grounded Does Not Always Mean Still</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 19 Dec 2017 17:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Grounding is often pictured as perfect stillness: feet flat, slow breath, quiet mind. That can be useful. It can also become another standard we fail when something intense is happening. Being grounded means having enough contact with present reality and ourselves to choose a useful response. Sometimes that response is stillness. Sometimes it is movement, [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
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		<title>Gratitude Does Not Require Erasing the Gap</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Thriving Now]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 19 Nov 2017 17:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[Emotional States]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[Gratitude can feel difficult when the mind immediately adds “yes, but.” Yes, something went well, but it should have been better. Yes, someone appreciated us, but they do not know the whole story. Yes, we handled a hard situation, but a more developed person would not have struggled. The gap may be real. Gratitude does [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
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		<title>Let Gratitude Become Fuel for Engagement</title>
		<link>https://www.thrivingnow.com/let-gratitude-become-fuel-for-engagement/</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Thriving Now]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 18 Nov 2017 17:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[Emotional States]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Emotional Freedom]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[heartistry]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[Gratitude can be more than a private positive feeling. When it is specific and expressed, it helps people feel seen and gives energy back to the relationships and circles that nourish us. The practice is not to replace the emotional truth that is here. It is to widen the field enough that expression, relationship, and [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
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		<title>Shy People Do Not Need to Stop Being Sensitive to Connect</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Thriving Now]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Nov 2017 17:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Sex, Love, & Relationships]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Circle Audio]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[Shy people often approach connection as a self-improvement project: become outgoing, stop feeling awkward, never get hurt, and then participate. That standard hides the gifts inside sensitivity and guarantees delay. Outgoing people also feel clumsy, disappointed, and rejected. Connection does not require immunity from social pain. It requires enough safety and practice to remain visible [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
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		<title>Generous Service Needs Capacity, Choice, and Boundaries</title>
		<link>https://www.thrivingnow.com/generous-service-needs-capacity-choice-and-boundaries/</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Thriving Now]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Oct 2017 16:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[Emotional States]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Circle Audio]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Emotional Freedom]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[heartistry]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[self-expression]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[Generous service is not the same as limitless availability. The wish to help can be real while the body, distance, responsibilities, or inner guidance says that a particular form of help is not ours to give. The practice is not to replace the emotional truth that is here. It is to widen the field enough [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
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