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		<title>Putting Yourself First</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This morning, my boyfriend asked me if I would be driving out to his place tonight. I paused, not quite knowing how to respond. I had just stepped off a plane, arriving home from a business trip which had been short, but exhausting. My house was a mess, and I had a list a mile [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Making Healthy Use of One of Our Own Ism’s</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It seems appropriate that on the last day of the year, I write a blog that incorporates New Year’s resolutions with a healthier use of one of our Isms. (And as my own New Year’s resolution I’ve decided to henceforth refer to supporters of alcoholics as SOA’s, to make writing this blog a little simpler.) [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Loving Detachment – Emotional Detachment from the Alcoholic</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The concept of loving detachment can be a life-saver for the supporter of an alcoholic, but great reward usually requires great work. Embracing loving detachment means embracing some foundational changes in your own actions and beliefs. The first of this three-post series on loving detachment focussed on the overall concept of loving the addict while [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Loving Detachment: “Physical” detachment from the Alcoholic</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Within the concept of loving detachment, there are two types of detachment to practice: physical and emotional. This blog deals with physical detachment and the next one will deal with emotional detachment. Both are critical to your health and sanity. As I mentioned in my last bog, loving detachment doesn’t require that you physically leave [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Loving Detachment: A Road Map</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Loving detachment may be the most important tool that someone close to an alcoholic can use to get back their own sanity – but it is a short phrase with a long meaning. This blog attempts to help readers understand what loving detachment is, and how to practice it. According to Google Analytics, the #1 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Different Kind of &#8220;Change of Life&#8221;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A few weeks ago, I was sure I was going to die. It would happen – I figured – at some point during a business trip to Montreal. The plan would go down, or my cab would get into an accident. Regardless, my life would be over and my kids would be on their own. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.lookingup.ca/2011/11/a-different-kind-of-change-of-life/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=a-different-kind-of-change-of-life</link>
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		<title>What is a Dry Drunk?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Last night I held a book launch party for a friend of a friend who has written a book about love addiction. Attendees represented a diversity of professions and personal situations. Some were there for the intrigue, some to support a friend, and some possibly for guidance. I met new people and old acquaintances. I [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.lookingup.ca/2011/10/what-is-a-dry-drunk/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=what-is-a-dry-drunk</link>
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		<title>How to Help Our Children</title>
		<description><![CDATA[When you’re in the thick of a dysfunctional relationship with an alcoholic, it’s hard to imagine life will ever be “normal” again. Then as you go through the healing process and life does become more manageable, it can be difficult to stop stressing and micro-managing every aspect of our lives and the lives of those [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.lookingup.ca/2011/09/how-to-help-our-children/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=how-to-help-our-children</link>
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		<title>Changing the Things We Can</title>
		<description><![CDATA[My father had Alzheimer’s, so whenever I hear about anything to do with degenerative brain function, I tend to listen. This morning I spent an enjoyable half hour listening to an archived radio broadcast a friend had sent me the link to. The show was an edition of the CBC’s Quirks and Quarks, and featured [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What&#8217;s Really Broken?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The other day a very dear friend of mine sent me an email to tell me how reading my book was affecting her. She’s been reading it slowly, highlighting passages that resonate, underlining comments that she wants to refer back to and remember. She said it’s been helping her. Like me, she was in a [...]]]></description>
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