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		<title>The Process of Change &amp; the movie Moneyball</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Jan 2012 05:06:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[What a teriffic movie about the two men who changed baseball. Ever since West Wing (the tv show) I&#8217;ve loved the depth &#38; smarts Aaron Sorkin brings to every script he writes. The movie offers a lot of clarity about all the resistance to change that Billy Beane &#38; Peter Gordon encounter in the true <img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=relationshiprealities.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6732518&amp;post=2051&amp;subd=relationshiprealities&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Getting Back Together Without Making Anything Different</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 21 Jan 2012 05:09:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Over &#38; over couples find themselves happy to be back in their relationships that were once thought lost. I ask, &#8220;What have you both decided will be different this time around?&#8221; Not once has anyone given me an answer. This oft-repeated experience is called premature reconciling. Both partners are caught up in the myth that <img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=relationshiprealities.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6732518&amp;post=1999&amp;subd=relationshiprealities&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Link Between Depression &amp; Expectations (&amp; the movie Midnight in Paris)</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 15 Jan 2012 05:04:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Many people struggle their whole lives to learn how to make disappointment bearable. One of the great parts of aging (that almost makes up for gravity) is how much easier it is to roll with disappointment. You understand &#38; accept that disappointment is a huge part of life. One example would be to know you <img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=relationshiprealities.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6732518&amp;post=2005&amp;subd=relationshiprealities&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>What Personal Growth Requires (How to Invest in you, other people &amp; fictional characters)</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Jan 2012 05:06:59 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[On vacation, I started my second book by Charles Cumming and I was surprised &#38; delighted that Alec Milius was the central character yet again. One of the main ways I exact pleasure from reading is to fall in love with the characters&#8217; strengths &#38; weaknesses over time. I believe that&#8217;s why the poorly written <img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=relationshiprealities.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6732518&amp;post=1970&amp;subd=relationshiprealities&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>About Rhoda</title>
		<link>http://relationshiprealities.wordpress.com/2012/01/08/about-rhoda/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 08 Jan 2012 13:40:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Contact To contact Rhoda Mills Sommer, send an email to therapyideas@yahoo.com Professional Experience 9/81 to Present Private Practice including individual, group and couples therapy. In the management of my client load I make an effort to encompass a wide range of issues and broad client base. Typically my caseload includes issues of sexual abuse, chemical <img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=relationshiprealities.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6732518&amp;post=1954&amp;subd=relationshiprealities&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Consider Your Regrets of 2011 as We Begin 2012</title>
		<link>http://relationshiprealities.wordpress.com/2012/01/01/consider-your-regrets-of-2011-as-we-begin-2012/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 01 Jan 2012 05:02:10 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Emotions]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;&#8230;regret clings to me like a sweat I cannot shift.&#8221; Alec in The Spanish Game by Charles Cumming Being authentic means accepting regrets are an important part of life. I believe the regrets that are hardest to bear are lost opportunities. The unfinished business of the things you failed to risk is harder to live <img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=relationshiprealities.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6732518&amp;post=1924&amp;subd=relationshiprealities&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Our Relationship to the Occupy Protesters</title>
		<link>http://relationshiprealities.wordpress.com/2011/12/26/our-relationship-to-the-occupy-protesters/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Dec 2011 05:39:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[While it&#8217;s easy to be smug in our comfortable lives that the protesters don&#8217;t have clarity in their goals, I still appreciate their efforts. I remember the thankless task of protesting in the 70&#8242;s (the war) &#38; the 80&#8242;s (ERA) &#38; how important we believed our efforts to be. A variety of voices making themselves <img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=relationshiprealities.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6732518&amp;post=1912&amp;subd=relationshiprealities&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Don&#8217;t Give Up On Dating! ( 9 ideas in how to to hang in there )</title>
		<link>http://relationshiprealities.wordpress.com/2011/12/17/dont-give-up-on-dating-9-ideas-in-how-to-to-hang-in-there/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 17 Dec 2011 05:15:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Meeting someone in a bar is unlikely to guarantee success. Online dating can be very discouraging. Many of my single clients get very hopeless about ever finding the right partner. On the holidays, it&#8217;s harder to be single for many people. One example, would be parties where everybody is a couple &#38; you go alone. <img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=relationshiprealities.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6732518&amp;post=1900&amp;subd=relationshiprealities&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Women, Own Your Sexuality!</title>
		<link>http://relationshiprealities.wordpress.com/2011/12/06/women-own-your-sexuality/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Dec 2011 05:17:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Women often struggle to achieve orgasm because their thinking interferes with feeling their own sexual arousal. If a woman does not understand how to bring herself to orgasm it&#8217;s really unfair to expect your partner to solve the problem for you. It&#8217;s your body to learn about, it begins with you. Testosterone &#38; estrogen are <img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=relationshiprealities.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6732518&amp;post=1873&amp;subd=relationshiprealities&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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