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            <title><![CDATA[How to Connect with People]]></title>
            <description><![CDATA[Connecting with people is a fundamental human need, and navigating through this complex arena is made up of an equally complex set of skills. ]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Thoughts as we enter a new year]]></title>
            <description><![CDATA[2025 was a year of uncertainty and tragedy, and 2026 is starting off following the same trajectory. It’s impossible to know what else is in store for us.]]></description>
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            <pubDate>Sun, 04 Jan 2026 04:17:32 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[The People You Love Never Truly Die]]></title>
            <description><![CDATA[We’re all going to die someday, but that truth doesn’t make death any easier to accept. One beauty is finding loved ones who have passed in small ways.]]></description>
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            <pubDate>Sat, 08 Feb 2025 02:54:31 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[To be unapologetically rested is my resolution this year]]></title>
            <description><![CDATA[The overwhelming sense of exhaustion we all feel isn’t an individual problem. It’s a societal one. We must resist the societal pressure to be “productive” by being unapologetically rested. ]]></description>
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            <pubDate>Sat, 04 Jan 2025 23:05:21 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[The Cyclical Nature of Grief]]></title>
            <description><![CDATA[After a core loss in one’s life, grief is an embedded part of one’s identity.]]></description>
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            <pubDate>Sun, 07 Apr 2024 00:51:08 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Memory Is Unreliable, but It’s All We Have]]></title>
            <description><![CDATA[Memory’s shifting nature forms the imperfect, elusive foundation we need to build the story of who we are and the world around us. ]]></description>
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            <pubDate>Thu, 15 Feb 2024 02:35:47 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Finding Our Humanity: Exploring What It Means to Be Alive]]></title>
            <description><![CDATA[One way to discover what it means to be alive and counteract the effort to dehumanize is to intentionally seek and cultivate the humanity in both us and those around us.]]></description>
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            <pubDate>Thu, 11 Jan 2024 03:51:07 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Being Seen & Loving the Self]]></title>
            <description><![CDATA[Learning how to be seen is a process because at its core is unlearning social expectations, and, at the same time, learning how to love oneself.]]></description>
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            <pubDate>Mon, 13 Nov 2023 05:00:41 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Learning How to Learn Well]]></title>
            <description><![CDATA[The research shows that taking breaks and giving time to process information is fundamental for learning well, all of which I need to retrain myself to do.]]></description>
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            <pubDate>Fri, 21 Jul 2023 02:37:54 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Making Choices is About Living with the Consequences]]></title>
            <description><![CDATA[It’s incredibly difficult to know whether a choice is good or bad in the moment. One approach to making choices comfortably is knowing the potential consequences and being able to live with them.]]></description>
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            <pubDate>Mon, 03 Jul 2023 22:11:19 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Learning to Stay Present Takes Time]]></title>
            <description><![CDATA[After years of practice, it is still incredibly easy for me to get lost in thought and lose sight of what’s happening around me, but I now know a few tricks to stay present.]]></description>
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            <pubDate>Fri, 23 Jun 2023 22:13:49 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Acknowledging the Uncertainty of the Future]]></title>
            <description><![CDATA[The unpredictability of the future is scary, but it’s not always something to be afraid of.]]></description>
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            <pubDate>Mon, 19 Jun 2023 00:45:06 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[My Partner’s Great, but I Need My Friends]]></title>
            <description><![CDATA[In a world that idolizes romantic relationships, it’s important to cultivate and maintain friendships for our overall health and happiness.]]></description>
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            <pubDate>Mon, 12 Jun 2023 23:30:07 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[When Friendships Grow Apart]]></title>
            <description><![CDATA[Losing a friend is one of the hardest endings to experience that no one prepares you for.]]></description>
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            <pubDate>Tue, 23 May 2023 03:50:10 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[8 Years of Norah: A Photo Essay]]></title>
            <description><![CDATA[A photo essay in honor of Norah's, my Siberian Husky, 9th birthday.]]></description>
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            <pubDate>Tue, 16 May 2023 02:36:51 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Learning to Lean into My Power]]></title>
            <description><![CDATA[Leaning into and accepting one’s power is a scary, challenging, and iterative learning journey.]]></description>
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            <pubDate>Tue, 09 May 2023 04:09:49 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Understanding the Smaller Parts of the Self]]></title>
            <description><![CDATA[Even though identity is an allusive and ever-changing reality, identifying and categorizing our identity is one helpful way to learn who we are.]]></description>
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            <pubDate>Wed, 03 May 2023 01:53:32 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[A Sudden Moment of Fear]]></title>
            <description><![CDATA[During a recent hike, the fear of a fellow hiker roused in me a sudden and surprising experience of fear that I am still working to overcome. ]]></description>
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            <pubDate>Thu, 27 Apr 2023 01:50:56 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[A Safe Place is an Action]]></title>
            <description><![CDATA[The creation of a genuine safe place takes conscious action from all members from the group. If all members don’t agree to actively strive for a safe place, many communities will continue to be harmed.]]></description>
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            <pubDate>Sat, 22 Apr 2023 22:20:59 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Accepting Who People Are Leads to Happier Relationships]]></title>
            <description><![CDATA[Learning to accept the people in our lives, what they’re able to give us, set boundaries, and stick to them are a few key ways to handling any relationship.]]></description>
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            <pubDate>Tue, 18 Apr 2023 05:02:26 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[The Turmoil Between Being Productive and Taking a Break]]></title>
            <description><![CDATA[The incessant pressure to be “productive” is harmful, popular, and difficult to counteract despite us intuitively knowing the power of breaks and the research that confirms rest is essential.]]></description>
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            <pubDate>Tue, 11 Apr 2023 00:48:37 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[The Multitude of External Factors Impacting Our Lives]]></title>
            <description><![CDATA[Our lives are impacted by a wide variety of external factors that influence who we become and what we can do before we’re born and being aware of these factors is the first step to understanding the frameworks that direct our existence.]]></description>
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            <pubDate>Fri, 31 Mar 2023 21:28:58 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[There’s So Much to Know, and Not Enough Time]]></title>
            <description><![CDATA[There’s an incredible amount of information available to us daily. We can’t learn it all, but we can learn some, so choose how you spend your time wisely.]]></description>
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            <pubDate>Tue, 14 Mar 2023 05:30:20 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Experiencing Awe Helps Me Appreciate Life]]></title>
            <description><![CDATA[Finding moments that inspire awe have positive health benefits but also help one appreciate being alive.
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            <pubDate>Fri, 10 Mar 2023 06:04:47 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Thoughts on Avoiding Regret]]></title>
            <description><![CDATA[Even though researcher Daniel H. Pink says it’s best to address and learn from our regrets, sometimes it’s best to prevent regrets if we have the power to.]]></description>
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            <pubDate>Mon, 06 Mar 2023 03:11:02 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Overcoming the Cycle of What-if]]></title>
            <description><![CDATA[We’re all prone to thinking “what if” when something doesn’t work out, but it’s important to go easy on ourselves because we’re doing the best we can.]]></description>
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            <pubDate>Thu, 23 Feb 2023 04:41:45 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Building a Routine Saved My Mental Health]]></title>
            <description><![CDATA[Building a consistent and doable routine has helped me lead a happier life.]]></description>
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            <pubDate>Fri, 03 Feb 2023 05:03:21 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Finding Ways to Live When You’re Terribly Busy]]></title>
            <description><![CDATA[As the new year excitement winds down and it gets more and more busy, here’s how I’m finding ways to live and go easy on myself.]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Choosing Ease Can Make Someone’s Day a Little Lighter]]></title>
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            <title><![CDATA[Pursuing Financial Independence to Meet My Life Goals]]></title>
            <description><![CDATA[Obtaining financial independence is one key way to meet major life goals.]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[The Invariability of Time and the New Year]]></title>
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            <title><![CDATA[An Overthinkers Journey to Resilient Thinking]]></title>
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            <title><![CDATA[Storytelling: A Lesson Learned from Family]]></title>
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            <title><![CDATA[Loss and Uncertainty: A Meditation Under Quarantine]]></title>
            <description><![CDATA[A meditation on loss and uncertainty during quarantine.]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[With Our Heads in the Clouds: Creating a New Dream for the World]]></title>
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            <title><![CDATA[The Law of Imitation ]]></title>
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            <title><![CDATA[Privilege Isn’t a Bad Word]]></title>
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            <title><![CDATA[Acknowledge the Womxn in Your Life]]></title>
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            <title><![CDATA[Reflections on Being Back in the Classroom]]></title>
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            <title><![CDATA[Find a Perspective that Helps You Ask More Questions]]></title>
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            <title><![CDATA[Just Like That: Moving Without Confidence]]></title>
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            <title><![CDATA[Writing is Overwhelming, But It Doesn’t Have to Be]]></title>
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            <title><![CDATA[A Struggle: Writing About the Positive]]></title>
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            <title><![CDATA[On Listening: The Role of Paying Attention When Writing]]></title>
            <description><![CDATA[There is a misconception that writing is "...an art of speaking." In actuality, writing, poetry specifically, "is an art of listening," which makes listening to the world around us especially crucial.]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Finding Magic]]></title>
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            <title><![CDATA[Turbulent Relationships: Endings]]></title>
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            <title><![CDATA[Anxiety: A Confession]]></title>
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            <title><![CDATA[The Modern-Day Epidemic: Loneliness]]></title>
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            <title><![CDATA[We Must First Find the Stories]]></title>
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