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		<title>Various Foods to Nourish the Soul</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 19 Oct 2010 20:42:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Darshana Weill</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Over the last 13 years I have sat with women as clients and/or students and supported them to explore their relationship to food, their bodies, and themselves. Although I started out my journey as a nutrition educator and holistic health counselor, I soon realized that most people&#8217;s struggles with food did not come from what [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Why Would I Want Therapy?</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Aug 2010 00:49:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Laura</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[When I talk to friends and acquaintances about therapy, I often hear these comments. Do any of them sound familiar? &#8220;I can talk to my friends about my problems.&#8221; &#8220;Why would I talk to some stranger about my problems?!&#8221; &#8220;I&#8217;m not crazy.&#8221; &#8220;Therapy is cool for others, but not for me.&#8221; &#8220;The therapist is going [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Structure of Knowing Money Exercise</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 06 Jun 2010 20:03:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Laura</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[As promised, here is an exercise taken from Maria Nemeth&#8217;s book, The Energy of Money. I invite you to explore this exercise in a calm and non-judgmental place, and give yourself some time just to free-associate. I&#8217;ve shortened it a bit, for space&#8217;s sake. Your Structure of Knowing Money On a poster-sized piece of paper, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Money Issues!</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 05 Jun 2010 23:28:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Laura</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[If you live in this society, you have some relationship to money, so this month&#8217;s topic is the dreaded MONEY ISSUE! Do you save? Do you spend? Do you binge spend? Do you have a hard time spending money on yourself? Do you have a hard time spending money on others? Do you always think [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Practice of Journaling</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 05 May 2010 01:55:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Laura</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I was debating what to cover this month, and what repeatedly kept getting my attention was the practice of journaling. Journaling is a great tool in conjunction with psychotherapy. Why? Because there are a lot of thoughts floating around in your head. The practice of writing them down can be very freeing as well as [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Faith and Forgiveness</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 11 Apr 2010 06:11:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Laura</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I want to continue the discussion on faith from last month, since it seems to still be gripping me in some way. Faith is about knowing you&#8217;re not doomed by your past mistakes. I&#8217;d like to share a quote with you, &#8220;You are not punished FOR your mistakes, but BY your mistakes.&#8221; The punishment is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Faith As A Verb</title>
		<link>http://holisticgardner.com/blog/2010/03/faith-as-a-verb/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=faith-as-a-verb</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Mar 2010 04:49:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Laura</dc:creator>
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		<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>
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		<title>What Is Holistic Psychotherapy?</title>
		<link>http://holisticgardner.com/blog/2010/01/what-is-holistic-psychotherapy/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=what-is-holistic-psychotherapy</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 01 Jan 2010 19:19:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Laura</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://holisticgardner.com/blog/?p=87</guid>
		<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>
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		<title>You Are Not What You Eat</title>
		<link>http://holisticgardner.com/blog/2009/11/you-are-not-what-you-eat/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=you-are-not-what-you-eat</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Nov 2009 22:16:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Laura</dc:creator>
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		<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>
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		<title>How Do We Make Sense of Something So Senseless?</title>
		<link>http://holisticgardner.com/blog/2009/11/richmond_gang_rape/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=richmond_gang_rape</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Nov 2009 20:08:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Laura</dc:creator>
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		<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>
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