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		<title>Aging: Throw Out the Stereotype and Bring in the Potential</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Our society is guilty of Ageism, the negative stereotype of aging adults based on the presumption of inevitable decline in intellect, memory, physical capacity, mobility, and sex drive. Depicted in media, greeting cards and jokes, it has been ingrained in the culture and reflected in the expectations of both young and old alike. Well beyond [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Why Can&#8217;t We Speak About Rape? Finding a Voice</title>
		<description><![CDATA[According to a telephone survey of a nationally representative sample of 16,507 adults, nearly one in five women has been a victim of rape or attempted rape and one in 71 men reports having been raped or the target of attempted rape. As alarming as these statistics may be, they greatly under-represent the numbers who [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blogs.psychcentral.com/healing-together/2012/02/why-cant-we-speak-about-rape-finding-a-voice/</link>
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		<title>Should I End My Relationship? Important Considerations</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The question of whether to end a relationship, be it a 20 year marriage or a 5 year commitment, is a painful and complicated one. It is a question that often implies loss, fear of judgment, sense of failure, self-blame as well as glimmers of hope and change.  At times we avoid this question, we [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blogs.psychcentral.com/healing-together/2012/01/should-i-end-my-relationship-important-considerations/</link>
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		<title>Regulating Your Stress When It Is &#8216;Over The Top&#8217;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Knowing how much I love the warm weather and the beach, a friend recently asked if I wished I could I re-locate to one of those Caribbean Islands. Without blinking, the first words that came out of my mouth were, “No, not enough stress.”  WHAT? Well, what I was thinking about was the adrenaline rush [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Grieving as a Path to Connection and Meaning: A New Perspective</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The death of a loved one, be it our parent, child, spouse, sibling or friend ruptures the internal and external connection we have with that person. It is a connection that helps define our sense of self, mirrors who we are, impacts our feelings and influences our view of life. From a relational perspective, death [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blogs.psychcentral.com/healing-together/2012/01/grieving-as-a-path-to-connection-and-meaning-a-new-perspective/</link>
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		<title>Care of an Aging Parent: Enhancing the Psychological Journey</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Whatever else 79 million baby boomers are doing, one in eight are caring for an aging parent. Some are checking in on an elderly parent who is living alone, some are caring for a parent in their own home, some are visiting parents in assisted living or nursing facilities, and others are doing long distance [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blogs.psychcentral.com/healing-together/2012/01/care-of-an-aging-parent-enhancing-the-psychological-journey/</link>
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		<title>Six Simple Resolutions for Enhancing Your Relationship</title>
		<description><![CDATA[No one just shows up for a good relationship and relationships don’t just get better because time passes. It is what we do during that time that helps heal and enhance our relationships. Over the last few years I have written many blogs for couples. Here are six simple resolutions drawn from them that many [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blogs.psychcentral.com/healing-together/2011/12/six-simple-resolutions-for-enhancing-your-relationship/</link>
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		<title>Exercise for Mental Health: Reasons to Start and Reasons to Stop</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Despite the fact that more than 86% of Americans believe exercising for fitness improves a person’s odds of a long and healthy life by “a lot,” only 28% report they actually get as much physical exercise as they should. Some people can’t start; some start and stop; and some can’t stop. Adding to the exercise [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blogs.psychcentral.com/healing-together/2011/12/exercise-for-mental-health-reasons-to-start-and-reasons-to-stop/</link>
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		<title>Virginia Tech Then and Again: Healing After Trauma</title>
		<description><![CDATA[We catch our breath as we hear that Virginia Tech has once again faced a shooting and the violent deaths of two people on campus.  In this case seven minutes after police reported the shooting, students were informed and alerted by email, text, twitter and campus broadcast to stay where they were in locked down [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blogs.psychcentral.com/healing-together/2011/12/virginia-tech-then-and-again-healing-after-trauma/</link>
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		<title>Midlife Dating: From Solution to Evolution</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Few people have a long range goal of dating in midlife. To the many who find themselves faced with the possibility, midlife dating can seem like a mystifying, even overwhelming, journey to find a partner. The reality is that despite the horror stories of friends or the fictional depictions of perfect couples repelling down snowy [...]]]></description>
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