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		<title>Verbal Valentines Work Wonders in Relationships</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Feb 2009 05:16:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gay and Katie Hendricks</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[One of the keys to healthy relationships is spoken appreciation. Other kinds of appreciation (such as touch or giving a hand with a chore) are great, too, but spoken appreciation is highly valued and easy to do. We recommend a technique we call verbal valentines, which work wonders in any kind of relationship.
We give each [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Turn Isolation into Connection: A tool to help you choose love</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Dec 2008 07:01:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Cynthia James</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[We all crave connection ... and during the holidays we see how far we have to go in relationships. Try this technique to transform feelings of isolation by looking at connection as a choice.]]></description>
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		<title>How to Survive Family Gatherings</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 21 Nov 2008 03:29:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gay and Katie Hendricks</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;I feel out of sync with my family of origin around the holidays, when I spend more time with them than usual,&#8221; wrote one reader recently. &#8220;They aren&#8217;t interested in honest communication, working on relationships, or other things that are important to me &#8230; How can I deal with this in a positive way?
This question [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Gift of Completion</title>
		<link>http://blog.gaiam.com/blog/the-gift-of-completion/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Apr 2008 07:11:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gay and Katie Hendricks</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Much of the stress of daily life is caused by incompletion in relationships. There are many stressful aspects of leaving things incomplete, but the most stress occurs around significant emotional communications that are left unfinished. Many of us have people in our lives with whom we have big incompletions on the emotional level:  secrets, debts, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How To Have Relationship Harmony This Holiday</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 06 Dec 2007 07:01:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gay and Katie Hendricks</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A long soak in a hot bath, some breathing, peaceful yoga, or meditation practice, a quiet moment with a cup of your favorite tea: Things like that can go a long way to restoring your serenity. A walk in nature, by yourself or with loved ones, can be a gift that means more than any you could buy in a store.]]></description>
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