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		<title>Faith As A Verb</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Today I'm tackling a fascinating topic - and that is, the topic of faith. I'm not talking here about a religious or spiritual affiliation, but understanding that what you put into therapy is working on your behalf.]]></description>
		<link>http://holisticgardner.com/blog/2010/03/faith-as-a-verb/</link>
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		<title>Goal-Setting for the New Year</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Happy New Year! I wish all of you a happy, healthy, and prosperous 2010. I know new years can be full of resolutions, goals, and new starts, but only a select few end up keeping their resolutions. Why is that?
Intellectually, we know what we want to change (our relationships, addictions, weight, etc.) but until we [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://holisticgardner.com/blog/2010/01/goal-setting/</link>
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		<title>What Is Holistic Psychotherapy?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I often get the question from potential clients, "What is holistic psychotherapy, anyway?"

My New York aunt insists that in New York, the word 'holistic' would not get me very far - there's this perception that the translation of 'holistic' equals California crunchy-oat-bread-with-sprouts-and-avocado-eating, Birkenstocks-wearing, lefty-communist protesters... Or some such comparison. Maybe they think we're all driving around in '68 VW Bugs hugging trees and singing Kumbaya.]]></description>
		<link>http://holisticgardner.com/blog/2010/01/what-is-holistic-psychotherapy/</link>
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		<title>You Are Not What You Eat</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I was listening to Wayne Dyer&#8217;s series of audio CDs &#8220;The Essence of Being in Balance,&#8221; which I found in a bargain bin recently. I had seen him on a PBS TV special, and thought he made some good points, so I went ahead, and needing a dose of balance myself, picked up the 6-CD [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://holisticgardner.com/blog/2009/11/you-are-not-what-you-eat/</link>
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		<title>The Gravity of Sexual Abuse: Identifying the Symptoms</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This blog entry is about sexual abuse, especially in light of the recent Richmond High incident. There are many ways sexual abuse or molestation can manifest in both men and women. Here are some phrases to watch for that might be cause for deeper work]]></description>
		<link>http://holisticgardner.com/blog/2009/11/sexual-abuse/</link>
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		<title>How Do We Make Sense of Something So Senseless?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Gang rape in Richmond, California brings up profound questions

Last weekend, a horrific incident happened outside of a school gymnasium. Around midnight on October 25, 2009, the Richmond police department got a call from a girl whose brother-in-law heard about the rape. The police followed-up and found a half-naked fifteen year old girl, beaten and unconscious, cowered underneath a bench outside her school. She was airlifted to the hospital in critical condition.]]></description>
		<link>http://holisticgardner.com/blog/2009/11/richmond_gang_rape/</link>
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		<title>Negotiating Expectations</title>
		<description><![CDATA[What is the deal with expectations, anyway?]]></description>
		<link>http://holisticgardner.com/blog/2009/10/negotiating-expectations/</link>
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		<title>Living in Alignment</title>
		<description><![CDATA[What happens when you smile just to be polite, or you say "Yes," when you really mean "No"? Or you say you like something when the exact opposite is true?]]></description>
		<link>http://holisticgardner.com/blog/2009/09/living-in-alignment/</link>
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		<title>The Energetics of Healing</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Recently I watched Caroline Myss' "Energetics of Healing" DVD. Myss is most known for her book Anatomy of the Spirit, and is renowned as one of the first practitioners to pull the mind, body, and spirit together and reach the masses.

In this DVD, her premise is that we have a set amount of energy coming from the Source to us everyday that is managed through energetic chakra centers. ]]></description>
		<link>http://holisticgardner.com/blog/2009/05/energetics/</link>
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		<title>Yoga Bodies</title>
		<description><![CDATA[While subbing a vinyasa yoga class a few weeks ago, I noticed that the majority of the bodies in the room fell into two categories: flexible and stiff. While this is an extreme oversimplification, being the therapist that I am, I began to draw conclusions to life off the mat, and to relationships in general. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://holisticgardner.com/blog/2009/05/yoga-bodies/</link>
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