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		<title>The Passage of Time</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Jul 2010 20:48:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>sherylpaul</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Parenthood transitions]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[There are moments when I can hardly bear the passage of time, moments when I&#8217;ll look at my nearly-six year old and realize how young and small he really is but knowing that if these six years passed so quickly, how much more quickly will the next six pass, and the six after that. There [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=sherylpaul.wordpress.com&amp;blog=12356508&amp;post=1171&amp;subd=sherylpaul&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;What&#8217;s Wrong With Me?&#8221;</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Jul 2010 17:48:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>sherylpaul</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Buying a house]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Parenthood transitions]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Transitions - General]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[As I was rocking my baby to sleep for his nap this morning several hours earlier than his regular nap time, I remembered my first weeks with Everest and how uncertain I often felt as a new mother. As sleep has always been one of our most challenging areas (with both boys), I often consulted [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=sherylpaul.wordpress.com&amp;blog=12356508&amp;post=1150&amp;subd=sherylpaul&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>A Few Words on the Word &quot;Ritual&quot;</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Jul 2010 17:03:44 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Rituals and Symbols]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[In response to my recent post on moving, I received several emails and comments on the Inner Bonding site about my suggestion to implement a ritual as a way to concretize the feelings activated by a move. While the person writing was open to the idea of a ritual, they all said that they had [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=sherylpaul.wordpress.com&amp;blog=12356508&amp;post=1169&amp;subd=sherylpaul&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>A Warbler at the Window</title>
		<link>http://sherylpaul.wordpress.com/2010/07/20/a-warbler-at-the-window/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Jul 2010 14:45:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>sherylpaul</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Dying/Death]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Transitions - General]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[animal trauma]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[stages of transition]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[One morning last week, as I sat down to write, I heard the unmistakable thwack of a bird hitting glass. With a sharp inhale and tears in my eyes, I crossed the room, peered outside, and saw a beautiful warbler on its back, shaking, its tongue darting in and out of its beak. My heart [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=sherylpaul.wordpress.com&amp;blog=12356508&amp;post=1121&amp;subd=sherylpaul&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Friday Quote: &quot;The Way of Transition: Embracing Life&#039;s Most Difficult Moments&quot;</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Jul 2010 14:57:54 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Quotes]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Transitions - General]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[conscious transitions]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[letting go]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[the way of transition]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[While Arnold van Gennep introduced the term &#8220;rite of passage&#8221; to the West in 1960 through his book Rites of Passage, William Bridges brought the three-stage roadmap of transitions to mainstream culture with his book, Transitions: Making Sense of Life&#8217;s Changes, in 1980. If you&#8217;re interested about deepening your understanding of transitions, both books are [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=sherylpaul.wordpress.com&amp;blog=12356508&amp;post=1168&amp;subd=sherylpaul&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Potency of Labor</title>
		<link>http://sherylpaul.wordpress.com/2010/07/13/the-potency-of-labor/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Jul 2010 14:47:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>sherylpaul</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Parenthood transitions]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Each life transition carries one or two core issues. The wedding transition triggers issues around intimacy and commitment. Moving activates our childhood experience of comfort and home. Losing a job or enduring a career transition often triggers issues around identity and security. And labor and new motherhood activate our issues around mothering: our relationship with [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=sherylpaul.wordpress.com&amp;blog=12356508&amp;post=1105&amp;subd=sherylpaul&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Story of Matthew: Part 2  or &#8220;The Transition of Healing&#8221;</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Jul 2010 14:00:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>sherylpaul</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Transitions - General]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[During transitions, our false beliefs and ineffectual core habits are often revealed. This can take us by surprise, especially around transitions like getting married or having a baby where the cultural belief tells us that we&#8217;re supposed to feel only happiness and excitement. When we find ourselves consumed by fear and anxiety and overwhelmed by [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=sherylpaul.wordpress.com&amp;blog=12356508&amp;post=1086&amp;subd=sherylpaul&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Faces of the Wounded Self</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Jul 2010 17:16:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>sherylpaul</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Matthew called me three months before his wedding and told me the following story: “I’ve been with my fiancé for two years, and until last month I was madly in love with her. I couldn’t wait to see her at the end of every day, I loved getting phone calls from her, I didn’t care [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=sherylpaul.wordpress.com&amp;blog=12356508&amp;post=1093&amp;subd=sherylpaul&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Moving&#8230; with children</title>
		<link>http://sherylpaul.wordpress.com/2010/07/06/moving-with-children/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Jul 2010 17:33:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>sherylpaul</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Moving]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last week, I blogged about the emotional aspects of the moving transition and how to contextualize what is triggered when we move. I mentioned that I would talk more about how to help children transition through a move using context and rituals in a way that is meaningful for them. We&#8217;ve moved twice with our [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=sherylpaul.wordpress.com&amp;blog=12356508&amp;post=1069&amp;subd=sherylpaul&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Story of Brian and Beth: Examining Our Expectations of Marriage</title>
		<link>http://sherylpaul.wordpress.com/2010/07/05/the-story-of-brian-and-beth-examining-our-expectations-of-marriage/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Jul 2010 15:03:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>sherylpaul</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Wedding/marriage transition]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[conscious bride]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[My work with clients seems to arrive in themes. This week’s theme was, “How do I know that we can sustain a long-term marriage when I have so few healthy role-models around me?” As I was falling asleep last night, I remembered a section of “The Conscious Bride” that was edited out for space reasons. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=sherylpaul.wordpress.com&amp;blog=12356508&amp;post=921&amp;subd=sherylpaul&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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