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		<title>Say Yes</title>
		<link>http://playingwell.org/2009/10/12/say-yes/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Oct 2009 03:28:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Deidre Combs</dc:creator>
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Life is movement. The more life there is, the more flexibility there is. The more fluid you are, the more you are alive. – Arnaud Desjardins
 
Ask a Buddhist what we can count on and he will probably explain that nothing is permanent or, as Desjardins says, “life is movement.” 
 
Sometimes that precept is welcome news. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Emotions are Contagious</title>
		<link>http://playingwell.org/2009/08/31/emotions-are-contagious/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 31 Aug 2009 17:07:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Deidre Combs</dc:creator>
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As I read about the world&#8217;s mourning rituals I notice that you can catch a cold, you can contract the flu, but you can also get a case of sadness or joy from another. Emotions are contagious, which is not such a bad thing.

When I was pregnant, I didn’t think that the viral nature of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Dinner with Job</title>
		<link>http://playingwell.org/2009/08/20/dinner-with-job/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 20 Aug 2009 21:45:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Deidre Combs</dc:creator>
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Last week I had dinner with Job.

Thousands of years after the legend was born, the biblical character Job continues to incarnate in my pedestrian life. On Friday, he visited in the form of a father whose twenty-year-old daughter recently died of a brain tumor. I also met him last month as a young woman about [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Play Each Day</title>
		<link>http://playingwell.org/2009/08/10/play-each-day/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 10 Aug 2009 04:49:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Deidre Combs</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A half a dozen years ago, I found myself in a rough patch. Looking at the four seasons of tough times, I had a good four to six months of what in my last post I would have called &#8220;winter.&#8221; I wasn&#8217;t happy with what life had dished out in the early months of 2003, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Four Seasons of Tough Times</title>
		<link>http://playingwell.org/2009/07/31/the-four-seasons-of-tough-times/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 31 Jul 2009 18:07:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Deidre Combs</dc:creator>
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To everything there is a season, a time for every purpose under the sun… Ecclesiastes 3:1
 
The belief that every challenge has four distinct stages has occupied a ridiculous amount of my attention over the past dozen years. This is because I am convinced it is one of the most helpful truths for navigating difficult [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Creative Process</title>
		<link>http://playingwell.org/2009/07/12/the-creative-process/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 12 Jul 2009 01:32:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Deidre Combs</dc:creator>
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My creative spirit can be quite moody. Sometimes she wants to play for weeks, dropping by at all hours with seductive ideas and pretty accoutrements for what I’m developing. I can’t keep up, she jostles me awake at 3 am or rallies me on to write for 10 hours straight. Like that friend in college [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Shifting focus to overcome challenges</title>
		<link>http://playingwell.org/2009/06/23/shifting-focus-to-overcome-challenges/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Jun 2009 19:33:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Deidre Combs</dc:creator>
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With the Thriving Through Tough Times tip,  “Give to your community so you can fully recover,” I have been trying to justify it a bit backwards. With the other techniques, I noticed their appearance in many different traditions and thought, “Ah ha, a theme!” For example, surrounding yourself with a caring community is a widespread [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Give back to Come Back</title>
		<link>http://playingwell.org/2009/06/13/give-back-to-come-back/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 13 Jun 2009 01:59:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Deidre Combs</dc:creator>
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For it is in giving we receive – Saint Francis of Assisi

 I know something to be true. My friend Jerry White, has built his organization, Survivor Corps, around this same fact &#8212; if you want to fully return to your life after tough times, it is critical that you give back what you have learned [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Standing at the First Gate</title>
		<link>http://playingwell.org/2009/06/06/standing-at-the-first-gate/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 06 Jun 2009 00:55:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Deidre Combs</dc:creator>
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You cannot hope to build a better world without improving the individuals. To that end each of us must work for his own improvement, and at the same time share a general responsibility for all humanity, our particular duty being to aid those to whom we think we can be most useful.  &#8211;Marie Curie  

In [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Announcing a one day workshop in Tacoma, WA</title>
		<link>http://playingwell.org/2009/05/05/announcing-a-one-day-workshop-in-tacoma-wa/</link>
		<comments>http://playingwell.org/2009/05/05/announcing-a-one-day-workshop-in-tacoma-wa/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 05 May 2009 17:05:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Deidre Combs</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[For those in the Pacific Northwest, I will be providing a one day &#8220;Thriving Through Tough Times&#8221; workshop in Tacoma, Washington on May 30, 2009. It will be a fun and highly interactive day of exploring techniques to overcome our toughest challenges.
We will meet at the Center for Spiritual Living on 206 N. J Street. [...]]]></description>
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