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	<title>The Constructed Life</title>
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	<description>The way you take care of this moment creates the next</description>
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		<title>Why you can&#8217;t reason with an addict.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It’s painful when someone we care about doesn’t seem to want to turn away from their addiction. Why can’t they see what see? 

We try to reason with them. We’re sure if they can just shift their perspective and see the bigger picture, as we do, they’ll stop their destructive behavior.

Of course we think this [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.theconstructedlife.com/2010/01/19/why-you-cant-reason-with-an-addict/</link>
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		<title>Where addiction starts</title>
		<description><![CDATA[According to Tibetan Buddhist nun, Pema Chodron, all addiction stems from the same place.
It&#8217;s that place where you are restless, anxious, ill-at-ease or in some way in your head and you feel a deep need to soften the discomfort with something or someone.
It&#8217;s not enough to be in the present.
Chodron also reminds us that there [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.theconstructedlife.com/2009/02/19/where-addiction-starts/</link>
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		<title>STAY</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Much traditional coaching concerns itself with setting and achieving goals, building self-confidence, making plans and decisions.
All of these are action steps.  By definition, action steps take you away from where you are.  Nothing wrong with this, except when the answer to a particular situation lies right where you are here and now.  Which is usually [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.theconstructedlife.com/2009/02/19/stay/</link>
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		<title>Thich Nhat Hanh and the yellow roses</title>
		<description><![CDATA[ 
One dozen long-stemmed deep yellow roses to be exact; Valentine’s day roses. Not having a large enough vase to accommodate all 12 together, I put 6 in a vase in the living room and 6 on a Chinese step cabinet which I use as a bedside table.  
The 6 in the living room [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.theconstructedlife.com/2008/12/10/thich-nhat-hanh-and-the-yellow-roses/</link>
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		<title>New Thinking in Alcohol Treatment</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The common thinking that an addict had to emotionally buy into the need for treatment in order to begin recovery, essentially self-diagnose himself as an alcoholic,  is now in question.
In one of the classic texts on the subject, Loosening the Grip: A Handbook of Alcohol Information by Jean Kinnney, the author asserts that this is [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.theconstructedlife.com/2008/12/10/new-thinking-in-alcohol-treatment/</link>
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		<title>Fourth Annual New Year&#8217;s Resolution Special Offer</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Back by popular demand, the Fourth Annual New Year&#8217;s Resolution special coaching program will launch on December 1st.
Reserve your slot now.
Don&#8217;t miss out.  I only offer this three month, deep-discounted, laser coaching program through March 1st.
Go here for more details.






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		<link>http://www.theconstructedlife.com/2008/11/04/fourth-annual-new-years-resolution-special-offer/</link>
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		<title>New Year&#8217;s Resolutions: How to make &#8216;em so you keep &#8216;em.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[First, let’s demystify them. A New Year’s Resolution is nothing more than a commitment made at the end of the year. The only difference is that instead of making it to someone else you’re making it to yourself.

If you’ve had a hard time keeping Resolutions in the past take a long, hard look at how [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.theconstructedlife.com/2008/11/04/new-years-resolutions-how-to-make-em-so-you-keep-em/</link>
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		<title>Don&#8217;t get attached to your work.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Buddhists speak of a Noble Truth – that life is suffering. Not necessarily physical suffering – like when you have a bad back – but the ordinary everyday suffering that comes with being human. Call it suffering or call it sadness, disease or discomfort. The fact of the matter is that we all die, we [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.theconstructedlife.com/2008/11/01/dont-get-attached-to-your-work/</link>
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		<title>Top Ten Reasons to get up in the morning</title>
		<description><![CDATA[1.  Bedsores.
(When you hang around in one place for too long it starts hurtin’).
2.  You’re needed.
(And you won’t know how or why unless you start the ball rolling).
3.  You have much to offer.
(No matter how bad things are. Some of us are gurus; some of us are cautionary tales. We all give [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.theconstructedlife.com/2008/10/29/top-ten-reasons-to-get-up-in-the-morning/</link>
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		<title>Top Ten Hints to Finding Reality</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Top Ten Hints to Finding Reality

 It’s way bigger than a breadbox and it’s in your visual field not between your ears.
It presents no problems only opportunities for action.
It has what you need when you need it.
It doesn’t require anything of you except your presence.
You can’t lose it.
You can’t fight it.
Everybody’s got one.
It’s never right [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.theconstructedlife.com/2008/10/28/top-ten-hints-to-finding-reality/</link>
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