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		<title>Do You Choose to Play Big or Small?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[by Amy Barnes, MBA MA LMHC Until recently I didn’t realize that I had a choice. Then I realized how small I had been playing. I could make lots of excuses about why I was playing small, not working up to my full potential or using all my gifts and talents in most areas of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Hope of Spring</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Because we have had years of experience of snow melting and spring coming we not only have faith that spring will come, we know without any doubt that spring will come.
However we often do not have that same faith in ourselves and our relationships.  In relationship counseling,
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		<link>http://www.lifeoptions.us/blog/2011/02/17/the-hope-of-spring/</link>
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		<title>Making Plans for 2011 and Beyond</title>
		<description><![CDATA[What do you want to create in your life in 2011 and beyond? As a counselor I enjoy assisting clients in creating what they really want in all aspects of their lives. Yesterday I focused on making my “I want list.” Some of us feel very comfortable asking for what we want. I grew up [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.lifeoptions.us/blog/2011/01/12/making-plans-for-2011-and-beyond/</link>
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		<title>Pain and Joy</title>
		<description><![CDATA[by Amy Barnes, MMA MA LMHC Pain and Joy are deeply connected. Sounds like they don’t have much in common. Yet as I work with clients, as a therapist, counselor and coach, I empower people like you in counseling to move from pain to joy. These two deep feelings are intricately entwined. They have everything [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.lifeoptions.us/blog/2010/12/19/pain-and-joy/</link>
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		<title>BREATHE!!!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Yes just breathe. Most of us are rushing around this time of year with far more to do than we can comfortably handle. We don’t even take time to breathe. Are you breathing or holding your breath??? Are you a shallow or a deep breather? Healthy breathing is a great stress reducer and one I [...]]]></description>
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		<title>National Listening Day</title>
		<description><![CDATA[by Amy Barnes MBA MA LMHC Instead of shopping for your family on Black Friday, (or at least in addition to)  give your family and friends the gift of listening, of actually paying attention to them. The day after Thanksgiving, is also National Listening Day, sponsored by the Fetzer Institute,  The Fetzer Institute just happens [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.lifeoptions.us/blog/2010/11/26/national-listening-day/</link>
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		<title>Thanksgiving Tips for Family Togetherness</title>
		<description><![CDATA[by Amy Barnes MBA MA LMHC Thanksgiving has always been my favorite holiday. It&#8217;s a day for focusing on relationships. I love to cook and I enjoy the wonderful conversations and time together, the wonderful relationships with family and friends. I so appreciate the gifts of time and laughter I receive from each of my [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.lifeoptions.us/blog/2010/11/23/thanksgiving-tips-for-family-togetherness/</link>
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		<title>YES or NO???</title>
		<description><![CDATA[One of our earliest life tasks after mastering basic survival is discovering who we are in the world. NO! How I love to watch two year olds as they run out into the world seldom out of eye range of a loving parent or caretaker. Then the look back to make sure they are still [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.lifeoptions.us/blog/2010/11/03/yes-or-no/</link>
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		<title>Transforming Pain</title>
		<description><![CDATA[We all want to feel good. We want to have good things happen to us and to our family and to our friends. Yet sometimes things happen that we don’t feel very good about. Listening to the media we should all feel good all the time. Just buy this or drink that or smoke this [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.lifeoptions.us/blog/2010/11/01/transforming-pain/</link>
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		<title>Transform Yourself and Transform The World</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Transform yourself and transform the world. Ok. One week until elections. I’ve virtually stopped watching or listening to the news. I’m on my pre election rant at the state of politics. I can only take so much negativity and I am well past my full level. Politicians know people vote based on fear. It’s been [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.lifeoptions.us/blog/2010/10/26/transform-yourself-and-transform-the-world/</link>
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