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		<title>Are you stuck in the perfection trap?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Many of my clients suffer from what I call the “perfection trap.” This sneaky pit is easy to fall into when you are trying too hard to do everything just right. When you over-worry about failure or looking bad, you back yourself right into the devious clutches of “it’s never good enough” – and never [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Certainty is not necessarily clarity</title>
		<description><![CDATA[“I know that will never happen for me,” my client said dejectedly as she described her dream job. “He never listens…I doubt that will ever change,” huffed another client about her husband of 10 years. My good friend Rev. Susan Leo once said “certainty is the opposite of faith.” I think she meant that when [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Secret ingredient in achieving goals: gratitude!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[One of the (many) reasons that life coaching works is the focus on what is already going well. When clients are ready to make important changes in their lives, I often turn their attention to what is already working for them. In other words,  gratitude. It can be easy to focus on problems. The big [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.nurturelifecoaching.com/blog/secret-ingredient-in-achieving-goals-gratitude/</link>
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		<title>Ready to be inspired?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The 2010 Portland Mama Makeover is coming to an end this week. It has been an amazing experience to work with Andrea Moore, this year&#8217;s winner. I had the honor of being her personal life coach for this healing journey; we cried, laughed and dreamed together over the two months. After weekly sessions of Pilates, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Stressed, busy parent? You need self nurture!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Last week I had the pleasure of being interviewed on Single and Unplugged, an internet radio show dedicated to supporting and inspiring single parents. My topic was self nurture: how to tend to yourself when time and money are often limited. It was a great show and I think the information and insights are relevant [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Don&#8217;t believe the either/or dilemma</title>
		<description><![CDATA[If I accept the job as a teacher, then I will be giving up on my dream as a writer. When I take time for myself, I am taking away from my family. if I get married, I won&#8217;t be able to make my own decisions anymore. I have heard each of these statements from [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Portland Mama Makeover announces the winner!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I am so thrilled to be a part of the Portland Mama Makeover essay contest giveaway! We had more than 200 women apply and so many who really deserve the nurturing of this special opportunity. So much so that we decided to choose 4 runners-up! If you want to read about the mamas who were [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.nurturelifecoaching.com/blog/portland-mama-makeover-announces-the-winner/</link>
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		<title>Vision Mapping</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Here are some photos of the Vision Maps (in progress) from our recent Vision Mapping workshop! It was so fun to see the artful intentions that each woman created to add clarity and focus for their goals.]]></description>
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		<title>Why is change so scary?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Often, coaching clients come to me wanting to make changes in their lives but feel either overwhelmed or paralyzed. They have a sense of wanting to move towards something that feels positive, such as a new career, better communication in their relationships, an exciting new project, more fitness and self-care, etc., yet they don’t understand [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Here comes the sun&#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Living in the Northwest, I have developed a new relationship with sunshine. You see, I grew up in Texas, where we had more sunny, hot days than I could appreciate. But now, I consider sunshine to be a rare and precious commodity. When I was a kid on our family ranch in West Texas, we [...]]]></description>
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