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		<title>Settling &#038; Strengthening</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 17 May 2026 16:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Mar 2026 16:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 15 Feb 2026 17:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Gary Craig &#8211; EFT Manual &#8211; Emofree.com</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Jan 2026 12:11:24 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Gary Craig was the creator of EFT, Emotional Freedom Techniques. He died in Jan 2026. He released EFT to the public domain, and now experts around the world continue to move it forward.]]></description>
		
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		<title>Gratitude Science Experiments</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Dec 2025 17:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Skip performed positivity and make gratitude an honest experiment. Notice real goodness without denying pain, then discover what helps appreciation feel safe, embodied, and freely yours.]]></description>
		
		
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		<pubDate>Wed, 12 Nov 2025 17:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 11 Nov 2025 17:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Dark emotional weather is not proof that you failed. Explore practical ways to invite, make, receive, and share warmth—even before loneliness, shame, or soul shivers are solved.]]></description>
		
		
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		<title>Being Present&#8230; Now</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 12 Oct 2025 16:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[The present contains more than the problem demanding your attention. Practice being with enough of what is here to regain access to choice, curiosity, connection, and life force.]]></description>
		
		
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		<title>Tolerating Joy</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 28 Sep 2025 16:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[If joy triggers bracing, vigilance, or fear of the crash, nothing is wrong with you. Practice receiving goodness in safe, specific, nervous-system-friendly sips.]]></description>
		
		
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		<title>Yearning’s Edge</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 24 Aug 2025 16:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Yearning can ache, guide, sharpen, and reveal what matters. Learn to honor its life force without becoming trapped inside one picture of how fulfillment must look.]]></description>
		
		
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		<title>Intentional Co-Thriving</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Jul 2025 16:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Thriving together takes more than proximity or mutual obligation. Explore how intentional relationships and ecosystems can nourish aliveness, courage, play, resource, and meaningful expression.]]></description>
		
		
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		<title>Gifts + Gaps = Me!</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Jul 2025 11:11:46 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Embracing our gifts can be HARD. Often times we have been picked on about them, ridiculed, or told not to be so “full of ourselves.” Yet our gifts are core to who we are! Some we were born into. Others we’ve had to work to cultivate. In this workshop...]]></description>
		
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		<title>Getting the Most Out of Virtual Connections</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Rick Wilkes]]></dc:creator>
		<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>Thorns &#038; Joys</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 22 Jun 2025 16:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Life can offer beauty while something still hurts. Practice tending the thorn without postponing every joy—and receiving what is good without denying danger, grief, or needed action.]]></description>
		
		
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		<pubDate>Sun, 08 Jun 2025 16:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Your future-mapping mind may be skilled, protective, and exhausted. Learn to imagine what is good and sufficient, then return responsibility, energy, and attention to the present.]]></description>
		
		
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		<title>Yes My Circus, But NOT My Monkey</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 25 May 2025 16:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Your ecosystem may be your circus, but every feeling and consequence is not your monkey. Practice caring, responding, and staying connected without taking responsibility for everyone’s inner weather.]]></description>
		
		
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		<title>Do One Small Act</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 27 Apr 2025 16:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[One small act is not an insult to a big life. Reconnect with body, choice, and what matters now through actions gentle enough to sustain relationship with yourself.]]></description>
		
		
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		<title>Weird Is the New Wonderful</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 13 Apr 2025 16:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[What if the difference you learned to hide carries aliveness, usefulness, artistry, or freedom? Practice distinguishing danger from disturbance—and authentic adaptation from erasing yourself.]]></description>
		
		
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		<title>Scapegoat No More</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 18 Mar 2025 16:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[If blame became a neural superhighway, responsibility may land before the accusation finishes. Learn to separate empathy from guilt and step out of carrying everyone else’s shame.]]></description>
		
		
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		<title>Grace in Mistakes</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 09 Mar 2025 16:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[A missed mark does not have to become an attack on identity. Recover enough space to understand, repair, learn, and adapt while keeping accountability and self-respect together.]]></description>
		
		
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		<pubDate>Sun, 23 Feb 2025 17:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 09 Feb 2025 17:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[When a task feels boundless, the body prepares for an enormous demand. Find the specific, complete, ridiculously small action that lets life force move without pressure.]]></description>
		
		
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		<pubDate>Sun, 26 Jan 2025 17:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 13 Jan 2025 17:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Authentic kindness includes you. Explore the inner strength to choose soup, a warm no, honest repair, or needed rest—without confusing fawning, compliance, and overgiving with care.]]></description>
		
		
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		<title>Eating Your Emotions</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Jan 2025 16:11:12 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Do you find yourself eating when you didn't mean to? Eating things you didn't intend to? What if you learned to cover-up and bury emotions with food? In this free video workshop, we use Tapping to release the compulsive need for food to comfort, stuff down, and bury when we feel powerful emotions... and more.]]></description>
		
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		<title>Beyond Comparison: Your Grace, Your Power</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Dec 2024 21:44:25 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Have you ever caught yourself in that moment of comparison, feeling that twinge of “I’ll never be able to do that”? I want to share how this very human experience can transform how you view these moments. The Primitive vs. Thriving Mind Our brain’s primitive comparison system served us well for survival. It quickly assesses: [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Why Isn&#8217;t Money Easier?</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 21 Dec 2024 12:11:14 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Guilt and Shame are so present around money that some people say they don't have any blocks there... they's be delighted to be a millionaire! It's only after digging a bit deeper that they find hidden layers...]]></description>
		
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		<title>Comparing Yourself to Others</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Dec 2024 22:11:52 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Do you compare yourself to others? Who doesn't! We're conditioned by glossy magazines, advertising, fashion models, sports, and high pressure workplaces to compare ourselves to others... and to figure out where we stand on the Ladder of Status. The trap comes when our tribal brain sees someone who is better at something we value than we are. ]]></description>
		
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		<title>Just For A Moment&#8230;</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Cathy Vartuli]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Dec 2024 18:17:02 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Just for a moment… could you let yourself Be? People are focused on Doing. And with all the pressure to do the right thing, feel the right thing, think the right thing… it’s easy to lose ourselves. People become “shoulds” and “musts,” trying to meet the unvoiced expectations of those around them. We become actors [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Little Things to Help You Feel Loved</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Dec 2024 12:11:38 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Ever notice how changing small things can feel like a bother? Too much work for the reward? Silly example&#8230; Whenever I zoom, I put on a bit of makeup. I think the definition makes understanding emotions on video easier. For years I&#8217;ve had a scratchy brush to put on blush. Every time I notice the [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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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>It’s a Shame</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Rick Wilkes]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Dec 2024 16:11:43 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Do you get the feeling sometimes that there is something WRONG with you… that you’re somehow “bad” and don’t deserve what other people get? If so… It’s a SHAME. I remember in elementary school how confident and bold I was. I loved learning new facts, figures, names, and places. I was outspoken. I figured that [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Instead of Fixing… Allowing</title>
		<link>https://www.thrivingnow.com/instead-of-fixing-allowing/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Dec 2024 12:11:09 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[The unseen, inner intelligence that keeps our heart beating is the same intelligence that can restore our health-even if that restoration will take a miracle. But this is not an intelligence that can be forced. It defies our attempts to "fix" and cut corners. In the years that I've observed the healing process in myself and in others, I've noticed that true healing appears to be a process of allowing.]]></description>
		
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		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Dec 2024 16:11:28 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[What’s the smallest act of courage you can imagine taking right now? Does it seem too small to matter? Does it feel like it wouldn’t be big enough to make a difference? What if that simple, small act, was the beginning of a beautiful new life? My smallest act of courage was realizing no one [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Dec 2024 12:11:57 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[I’ve spent a lot of my life running and doing 3 things at once. It helped distract me from all my emotions. Since I’ve started tapping, I’ve been able to slow down and enjoy life more. The problem is, if I get too quiet, this strong fear shows up. I’ve been working through that, and [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<pubDate>Sun, 15 Dec 2024 17:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Thriving is not a prize reserved for when everything is handled. Practice directing more life force toward what matters while difficulty, grief, fear, and unfinishedness come along.]]></description>
		
		
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		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Jul 2024 16:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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