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		<title>Paging &#8220;C&#8221; !</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Jan 2012 00:02:48 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Dear C, I did not mean to be out of touch with you for so long. Please forgive me. I don&#8217;t have your current contact info, so if you are so inclined, please contact me at joyfulalivewoman@gmail.com Thank you and a special Happy New Year to you, my very valuable and special online friend. Love, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=joyfulalivewoman.wordpress.com&amp;blog=10245631&amp;post=3674&amp;subd=joyfulalivewoman&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;You Can Get More Stinkin&#8217; From Thinkin&#8217; Than You Can From Drinkin&#8217;, But To Feel Is For REAL!&#8221; &#8212; Joe Miller</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Jan 2012 16:17:48 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;You Can Get More Stinkin&#8217; From Thinkin&#8217; Than You Can From Drinkin&#8217;, But To Feel Is For REAL! And I mean Really Feel!!&#8221; &#8212; Joe Miller Joe Miller was The Man, and probably still is  I was very fortunate to experience him in person many times, along with his wonderful wife Guin, but I was [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=joyfulalivewoman.wordpress.com&amp;blog=10245631&amp;post=3650&amp;subd=joyfulalivewoman&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Ending A Friendship</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Jan 2012 20:34:06 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Healing From Narcissism in Relationships]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last April, I wrote a post entitled &#8220;New Friends and Healthy Relationship Dynamics.&#8221; Less than a month later, I wrote a post entitled &#8220;When People Show You Who They Are, Believe Them.&#8221; After that second post, I gave one of the women a second chance. That was just over seven months ago. This morning (January [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=joyfulalivewoman.wordpress.com&amp;blog=10245631&amp;post=3642&amp;subd=joyfulalivewoman&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Person I Was Meant To Be</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Jan 2012 20:20:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;I feel like I&#8217;m the person I was meant to be.&#8221; That&#8217;s what I thought suddenly, several weeks ago, while driving my dog to the dog park so we could play with all our human and canine friends. Then my thoughts went to my mother and how, now that she&#8217;s been gone for a while [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=joyfulalivewoman.wordpress.com&amp;blog=10245631&amp;post=3639&amp;subd=joyfulalivewoman&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Death or Bankruptcy?</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Jan 2012 19:43:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[You will notice that I reversed the usual sequence of these words. I could have said bankruptcy before death. To me that has some significance. 2011 was quite a year for me. I was hospitalized 3 times and had major surgery twice. One of the surgeries was to cure a life-threatening situation, so I had [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=joyfulalivewoman.wordpress.com&amp;blog=10245631&amp;post=3629&amp;subd=joyfulalivewoman&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Casey Anthony is GUILTY</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 06 Jul 2011 14:44:53 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I want to share with you two posts that I saw today, July 6, 2011, on a message board. They are copied and pasted below. One is an essay entitled &#8220;Today I learned.&#8221; The other is a brief response to it by another poster. I agree wholeheartedly with these two posts. I agree with thousands [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=joyfulalivewoman.wordpress.com&amp;blog=10245631&amp;post=3496&amp;subd=joyfulalivewoman&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>One Year Anniversary of my NM&#8217;s Passing</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Jun 2011 13:44:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today marks one year since my mother passed away. I&#8217;ve thought a little about it. I supposed it is summed up by what my daughter said when she was here last weekend to help me after a long hospitalization: &#8220;You&#8217;re so much better now that she&#8217;s gone.&#8221; A sad commentary for a daughter and granddaughter [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=joyfulalivewoman.wordpress.com&amp;blog=10245631&amp;post=3402&amp;subd=joyfulalivewoman&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>When People Show You Who They Are, Believe Them</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 15 May 2011 17:19:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[That&#8217;s a quote from Maya Angelou via Oprah, and it&#8217;s damn good advice. Out of 25 years, that&#8217;s the main thing I&#8217;m taking from her show, though there have been many other wise and inspiring things. I had a lifelong habit of allowing toxic, pushy and generally unhealthy people in my life and making excuses [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=joyfulalivewoman.wordpress.com&amp;blog=10245631&amp;post=3331&amp;subd=joyfulalivewoman&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Live Hummingbird Cam</title>
		<link>http://joyfulalivewoman.wordpress.com/2011/05/09/live-hummingbird-cam/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 09 May 2011 20:55:42 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Animal Medicine]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I love hummingbirds, and I found this wonderful live cam on uStream of &#8220;Phoebe,&#8221; a busy &#8220;Allen&#8221; hummingbird mom who lives on the Channel Islands 12 miles off the California Coast near Orange County. You can see up close views of a tiny nest and the babies, as well as mom feeding them. There is [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=joyfulalivewoman.wordpress.com&amp;blog=10245631&amp;post=3319&amp;subd=joyfulalivewoman&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;Ungrateful Wretch&#8221;</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 09 May 2011 18:11:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>JoyfulAliveWoman</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Healing From Narcissism in Relationships]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Key: NM: Narcissist Mother ACoN: Adult Child of a Narcissist Reading the various blogs of ACoNs has given me so much more insight into the subtleties of the crazy chaotic dysfunctional dynamic of entanglement with a Narcissist. I was just reading Upsi&#8217;s blog post for today, and reading a comment made by Judy got me thinking. While I was growing up, at [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=joyfulalivewoman.wordpress.com&amp;blog=10245631&amp;post=3302&amp;subd=joyfulalivewoman&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Best Times?</title>
		<link>http://joyfulalivewoman.wordpress.com/2011/05/03/the-best-times/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 03 May 2011 18:45:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>JoyfulAliveWoman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Recently I realized that the only period in my history wherein most of the people I knew still have good feelings about me is high school. They are the ones who are on my Facebook, along with a smattering of others. I&#8217;m not on Facebook very much, it doesn&#8217;t really work for me in the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=joyfulalivewoman.wordpress.com&amp;blog=10245631&amp;post=3248&amp;subd=joyfulalivewoman&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Amazing community of bloggers; and Should I have handled things differently?</title>
		<link>http://joyfulalivewoman.wordpress.com/2011/05/02/amazing-community-of-bloggers-and-should-i-have-handled-things-differently/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 03 May 2011 01:08:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>JoyfulAliveWoman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today, as with many other recent days, I&#8217;m overwhelmed wtih the desire to read the many excellent blogs about surviving FOO (Family of Origin) narcissism, and I&#8217;m overwhelmed by the sheer volume and the fact that I just cannot get through them all as I would like to. Recently I found a blog entitled You [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=joyfulalivewoman.wordpress.com&amp;blog=10245631&amp;post=3234&amp;subd=joyfulalivewoman&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;I Did Love You&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://joyfulalivewoman.wordpress.com/2011/05/01/i-did-love-you/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 01 May 2011 22:03:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[daughters of narcissistic mothers]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Do they have a classroom or a courtroom on the other side of the veil for Narcissistic Mothers? How about a freaking tribunal?? That&#8217;s what I thought when, just now, I happened to read this page at Daughters of Narcissistic Mothers. A few months ago, I was sunning myself on a friend&#8217;s patio balcony. It was [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=joyfulalivewoman.wordpress.com&amp;blog=10245631&amp;post=3197&amp;subd=joyfulalivewoman&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Narcissism in Spirituality: Detachment vs. Immersion</title>
		<link>http://joyfulalivewoman.wordpress.com/2011/04/30/narcissism-in-spirituality-detachment-vs-immersion/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 30 Apr 2011 23:45:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[What Is Narcissism?]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[(Revised and updated on June 25, 2011) Note to Christians: While this post refers to religious methods other than Christianity, there do exist both ascetic and immersion sects in Traditional Christianity. As well, there exist both ascetic and immersion sects in Mystical Christianity. For example, the traditional priest/nun path (i.e., Catholic) and the shamanic Christian [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=joyfulalivewoman.wordpress.com&amp;blog=10245631&amp;post=3133&amp;subd=joyfulalivewoman&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>New Friends and Healthy Relationship Dynamics</title>
		<link>http://joyfulalivewoman.wordpress.com/2011/04/20/new-friends/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 20 Apr 2011 13:42:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[alpha female]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Recently I realized that I not only attract females with a high degree of narcissism, but alpha females as well. With most of my friendships, until fairly recently it&#8217;s invariably been about their schedule, what they want to do, hanging out at their place (rarely mine), etc. and there seems to be little awareness of [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=joyfulalivewoman.wordpress.com&amp;blog=10245631&amp;post=3005&amp;subd=joyfulalivewoman&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Been in the hospital</title>
		<link>http://joyfulalivewoman.wordpress.com/2011/04/16/been-in-the-hospital/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 16 Apr 2011 20:02:37 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Medical Corner]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[bronchiectasis]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[double pneumonia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[hospital]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Haven&#8217;t been in the hospital since 1992, but the latest incident with my lungs put me there for 3-4 days this past week. I was one sick puppy for a while. Double pneumonia and the worst case of pleurisy ever, complete with lots of scar tissue that intensified the pain. It was a pretty good [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=joyfulalivewoman.wordpress.com&amp;blog=10245631&amp;post=2972&amp;subd=joyfulalivewoman&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Heron Medicine</title>
		<link>http://joyfulalivewoman.wordpress.com/2011/04/10/heron-medicine/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 10 Apr 2011 16:10:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[aggressive determination]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The other day as I was walking my dog around the golf course, I was feeling wistful that the egrets and herons have now moved on. Of course, the Gambel&#8217;s Quail and other migratory birds are now back, but I was missing one particular cute little egret who always sat alone at his/her own little [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=joyfulalivewoman.wordpress.com&amp;blog=10245631&amp;post=2899&amp;subd=joyfulalivewoman&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;The Generation Gap&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://joyfulalivewoman.wordpress.com/2011/04/08/the-generation-gap/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 09 Apr 2011 04:42:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[When I was a kid, like teenage in the 60&#8242;s (too young for the hippie generation really) there was a saying that was as pervasive as &#8220;That&#8217;s AMAZING!!&#8221;  It was &#8220;The Generation Gap.&#8221; You know, the &#8220;hope I die &#8216;fore I get old&#8221; stuff. Well, that generation is now OLD. Hella old. (Excuse me, my daughter recently [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=joyfulalivewoman.wordpress.com&amp;blog=10245631&amp;post=2866&amp;subd=joyfulalivewoman&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;How to Meet the Needs of a Narcissist&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://joyfulalivewoman.wordpress.com/2011/04/08/how-to-meet-the-needs-of-a-narcissist/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 08 Apr 2011 17:45:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA["How to Meet the Needs of a Narcissist"]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[This morning I saw a search string that generated a hit on my blog: &#8220;How to meet the needs of a narcissist.&#8221; What a freaking travesty that question is! Meeting the needs of a Narcissist!! SNORT. I feel not only derision for the question, but sadness and concern for the querent. Derision not for the querent, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=joyfulalivewoman.wordpress.com&amp;blog=10245631&amp;post=2857&amp;subd=joyfulalivewoman&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Living with a Birth Defect/Chronic Condition</title>
		<link>http://joyfulalivewoman.wordpress.com/2011/04/07/living-with-a-birth-defectchronic-condition-pcd-kartagener-syndrome/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 08 Apr 2011 00:22:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Medical Corner]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[bronchiectasis]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[This post isn&#8217;t about Narcissism, though I suppose one could argue that the details herein have made me vulnerable to being bullied, ostracized, ridiculed and other types of abuse which is usually perpetrated by Narcissists, other personality-disordered people and various disturbed sorts of people. This post details how people living with debilitating birth defects and chronic conditions [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=joyfulalivewoman.wordpress.com&amp;blog=10245631&amp;post=2817&amp;subd=joyfulalivewoman&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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