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		<title>Our Loss is Always With Us</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 24 Mar 2013 08:04:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Maureen Hunter</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Our loss is always with us&#8230;.in some way or another. In the devastation of early grief, it shrouds our life and shatters the normalcy of all we knew. I remember that time so well. How could emotional pain be so crippling and devastating?   No matter how happy I am now or what I am doing [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Seeding a New Life</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 10 Mar 2013 09:20:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Maureen Hunter</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Grief Emotions]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[New Beginnings]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The Reality of Grief]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Do you get impatient with your grief? Wish it would go away. Wish you could have it over and done with. It&#8217;s so painful &#8211; enough already!! If only we could. As much as we wish it, it will have it&#8217;s way with us. It will tumble and spin us and spit us out. Then [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Dodging and Ducking</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 24 Feb 2013 07:16:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Maureen Hunter</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Grief Emotions]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Grief bursts]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Grief Triggers]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Living with Loss]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[It hasn&#8217;t happened to me for ages but it happened to me twice this week. One I managed to dodge and the other came out of the blue surprising me with its impact and in a moment engulfing me with its fury. I&#8217; m talking about grief triggers. Those events, sounds, smells, and sights that [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Beautiful Quotes for Grief</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 10 Feb 2013 07:29:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Maureen Hunter</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Dealing with Grief]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Grief and Loss]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Grief Quotes]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I came across this beautiful quote recently. It may touch you or it may not depending on your belief. To me it touched my heart&#8230;.. It gave me hope that my loved ones are indeed never far away. It gave me comfort that the arms of their love surround me always. It gave me courage [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Looking Back</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 27 Jan 2013 12:45:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Maureen Hunter</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Grief and Loss]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[It’s hard to believe it’s nearly the end of January already. For some of us the time flies, for others it seems each day is like an eternity as we struggle through the pain of our grief. As I look back on the last 6 years, I feel grateful that I have moved beyond the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Where are you this New Year?</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 13 Jan 2013 06:39:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Maureen Hunter</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Dealing with Grief]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Grief and Loss]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Grief Emotions]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Surviving Loss]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Historically the New Year has been a time of setting goals and resolutions for the coming year. It seems a great time to refocus our energies in positive ways. But as those who are grieving know, the turning over of the clock can bring with it many differing emotions. The thought of thinking any further [...]]]></description>
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		<title>My Christmas Wishes for You</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 22 Dec 2012 09:48:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Maureen Hunter</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Grief and Loss]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[As I get ready for my family arriving to spend this festive season with us, I wanted to take a moment to send you my Christmas wishes, my last post for 2012.   I know for many it will be a difficult day, and yet for many more a day filled with love and new [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Touch of Compassion</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 14 Dec 2012 07:54:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Maureen Hunter</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Dealing with Grief]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Compassion]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Gentleness]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Grief support]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Self Compassion]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Have you ever tried to be compassionate to yourself? To support yourself when the going gets tough. To give yourself a well done, a big hug for YOU! It can be a challenge to give and be to ourselves.  Our heads are usually full of judgement, self deprecation and anything but a gentle thought or [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Christmas Gifts for the Heart and Soul</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 08 Dec 2012 09:30:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Maureen Hunter</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Grief and Loss]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Last year I wrote an article entitled The 12 Gifts of Christmas for a Grieving Heart (That Money Can’t Buy). I bestowed on you 12 Gifts of Christmas to bless your coming days and fill your heart with the caring, compassion and comfort that comes deep from another. From another who too knows how very [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Thanksgiving Thoughts for Hurting Hearts</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Nov 2012 11:16:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Maureen Hunter</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[The Reality of Grief]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Holiday Grief]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[missing loved ones at holiday time]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Thanksgiving grief]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I know for many of my US friends, Thanksgiving is this week and then of course the other holidays with the lead up to Christmas. Whether it is the year of firsts or way beyond that, it can still be a very difficult time for many. Our families are fragmented yet others are whole. Days [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Hearts in the Sky</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Nov 2012 08:29:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Maureen Hunter</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Communicating/Connecting with Loved Ones]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Hearts in the Sky]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Messages from Heaven]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Missing Loved Ones]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Signs from Beyond]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I walk my dog Jessie most days and much of that time is spent pondering life. As always my musings are never complete without some thought of my beautiful spirit son. And as I think of him I often look up into the clouds, into the magnificent sky.   Out of those wonderful clouds in the blueness of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sometimes I just need……</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Nov 2012 09:30:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Maureen Hunter</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Grief and Loss]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[When we are grieving our needs change but in those first few days, weeks and months of grief we are needy, very needy. I don&#8217;t mean that in a bad way either. There is nothing wrong with recognizing what is going to support us as we do the unthinkable. Trying to get through the 1440 minutes in [...]]]></description>
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