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		<title>Mindfulness Gets Simple</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 20 Jul 2009 23:59:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Amanda</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It's really not that difficult to turn off that over-anxious voice in your head. And when you tune into mindfulness, you'll experience a new kind of peace that makes motherhood so much more enjoyable!]]></description>
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		<title>Make more time by doing less.</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[We may not be able to make the days any longer, but we can still create time.]]></description>
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		<title>When you&#8217;re raising kids, it&#8217;s okay to blink.</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Apr 2009 01:00:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Amanda</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Enjoying our time with our kids isn't as much about quantity as it is about quality.]]></description>
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		<title>Less is more</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Mar 2009 15:09:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Amanda</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Doing with less makes us appreciate what we do have -- more.]]></description>
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		<title>New Year&#8217;s List Is A Nice Measuring Stick</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 31 Dec 2008 13:02:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Amanda</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Making New Years resolutions is a good exercise for taking stock of the real successes in your life.]]></description>
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		<title>Holiday Fun &#8211; Hold the Stuff!</title>
		<link>http://www.fourfoldmom.com/2008/11/24/holiday-fun-hold-the-stuff/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 24 Nov 2008 14:20:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Amanda</dc:creator>
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The holiday season has officially arrived. The local radio station is playing 24-hour Christmas music from now until New Years. My kids are becoming at home in the storage room, pulling out their favorite decorations and dispersing them around the house. And the pile of shopping catalogs on the kitchen counter grows exponentially each day. 
These [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Fourfold Living</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 12 Nov 2008 01:58:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Amanda</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[As the global financial crisis becomes more complicated, families should take the opportunity to simplify and seek balance in their lives.]]></description>
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		<title>Getting Off the Treadmill</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 11 Nov 2008 13:47:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Amanda</dc:creator>
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I woke up one morning recently and realized that I was completely out of whack. It wasn&#8217;t sudden. It had probably taken years for me to lose touch with myself and to fall utterly out of balance.
Around the time of this personal enlightenment, I happened to stumble upon a photo of a smiling woman (on [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Stop Scaring Me!</title>
		<link>http://www.fourfoldmom.com/2008/11/07/stop-scaring-me/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 07 Nov 2008 14:57:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Amanda</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Since becoming a mom, I often have the feeling that I&#8217;m under siege &#8212; and the only means of defense available to me is to never pick up a parenting-related magazine, turn off the news programs, and avoid groups of other over-informed mothers. The negative, alarmist-driven media is likely the greatest threat to parental peace-of-mind.
It&#8217;s [...]]]></description>
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