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		<title>living the practice&#8230;part 2</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 01 Oct 2011 13:19:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[At the end of our days of trekking, I turned to Kat and said, &#8220;I&#8217;m so looking forward to this boat ride.&#8221;  She kindly asked, &#8220;have you ever rafted?&#8221;  When I answered no, she explained it wasn&#8217;t going to be a boat ride, and that we had to actually do the paddling on this raft. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=nourishingyoursoberself.wordpress.com&amp;blog=12921110&amp;post=260&amp;subd=nourishingyoursoberself&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>living the practice&#8230;part 1</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Sep 2011 22:23:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Kat and I, with our guide, Jigmet, were driven about 90 minutes outside of Leh, Ladakh, to begin our trek in the Himalayan Mountains. I met Kat, a young woman from NYC, 3 months previously at the women&#8217;s AA meeting in Pune. We were both excited to begin this part of our synchronistic journey which seemed [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=nourishingyoursoberself.wordpress.com&amp;blog=12921110&amp;post=237&amp;subd=nourishingyoursoberself&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>lightness of life&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://nourishingyoursoberself.wordpress.com/2011/05/03/lightness-of-life/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 03 May 2011 20:50:59 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[It is with an old, familiar feeling of trepidation that I come back to this page, and quite frankly to myself, through this process of exploring what it means to be a sober person/woman. I just re-read my last post from January and was reminded that I can be open and honest, clearly express myself, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=nourishingyoursoberself.wordpress.com&amp;blog=12921110&amp;post=225&amp;subd=nourishingyoursoberself&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>the F word&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://nourishingyoursoberself.wordpress.com/2011/01/05/the-f-word/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 05 Jan 2011 08:37:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[At an early age it seemed natural for me to live behind the armor of bravado or invisibility, and to side-step the vulnerability of feeling.   Alcohol and drugs became a welcome relief. In early sobriety, I needed remedial education in the subject of FEELINGS to learn how to identify these unspeakable things that I spent my [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=nourishingyoursoberself.wordpress.com&amp;blog=12921110&amp;post=214&amp;subd=nourishingyoursoberself&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>light.darkness.birth.death&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://nourishingyoursoberself.wordpress.com/2010/12/20/light-darkness-birth-death/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 20 Dec 2010 01:34:37 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Winter Solstice, as the darkest day moves into longer days of light, on the same day as the Full Moon and total Lunar Eclipse, while we celebrate birth and life itself, the ending of one year, and the beginning of another.      Through the writing process this past year, along with settling into my life with all three daughters [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=nourishingyoursoberself.wordpress.com&amp;blog=12921110&amp;post=194&amp;subd=nourishingyoursoberself&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>jumping for joy&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://nourishingyoursoberself.wordpress.com/2010/12/07/jumping-for-joy/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Dec 2010 16:39:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I was less than happy to see  snow flurries flying through the cold, gray sky yesterday with the forecast for the rest of the week in the 30&#8242;s.  Of course, it&#8217;s a natural thing to expect here in December in the northeastern part of the US.  I continue to struggle with the reality of dark at 5pm, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=nourishingyoursoberself.wordpress.com&amp;blog=12921110&amp;post=182&amp;subd=nourishingyoursoberself&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>remembering&#8230;</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Dec 2010 15:14:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Due to time constraints, this post in honor of AIDS Awareness Day is coming a day late.  I know remembering and awareness are appropriate every day&#8230; I got sober in 1981 attending meetings in my neighborhood on the Lower East Side of Manhattan and across town in the Village.  About a year or so into my sobriety people in [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=nourishingyoursoberself.wordpress.com&amp;blog=12921110&amp;post=176&amp;subd=nourishingyoursoberself&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>living fully&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://nourishingyoursoberself.wordpress.com/2010/11/21/living-fully/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 21 Nov 2010 16:40:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I suppose the memorial service in the city this afternoon for an AA friend along with the recent deaths of two others bring thoughts of &#8216;living fully&#8217; to mind.  It&#8217;s not only the finality of death that triggers the wisdom of living fully for me.  I recently spent time with my sister who is quite limited in terms of physical [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=nourishingyoursoberself.wordpress.com&amp;blog=12921110&amp;post=167&amp;subd=nourishingyoursoberself&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>a warming soup&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://nourishingyoursoberself.wordpress.com/2010/10/20/a-warming-soup/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 20 Oct 2010 14:33:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Here in the northeast, the leaves are changing to beautiful shades of gold, copper, and brilliant red.  Chestnuts have already dropped to the ground with their spiny pods cracked open revealing smooth, shiny wood grain nuts&#8230;acorns crunch underfoot as I take my daily walk.   Even in the bright sunlight, under a cloudless blue sky, the air is chilly. This [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=nourishingyoursoberself.wordpress.com&amp;blog=12921110&amp;post=158&amp;subd=nourishingyoursoberself&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>A media fast&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://nourishingyoursoberself.wordpress.com/2010/10/18/a-media-fast/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 18 Oct 2010 15:59:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In early sobriety,  I made the decision to simply stop buying The NY Post and Daily News.  Somehow, I intuitively knew it was detrimental to my search for some semblance of peace and serenity to continue buying and reading this dramatic, horrifying, graphic newspaper reporting.    I would get a little &#8216;fix&#8217;  reading the headlines as I walked [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=nourishingyoursoberself.wordpress.com&amp;blog=12921110&amp;post=152&amp;subd=nourishingyoursoberself&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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