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		<title>&#8216;Feel the guilt and do it anyway&#8217;</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Apr 2026 00:17:36 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[I was torn between my excitement over attending an event for which I already had tickets and my friends&#8217; desire to have me along on a long weekend trip. Certainly, it was a dilemma. I wanted to go along with the group but I had been waiting for my event to come into town for [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Tossed on the high seas without a paddle</title>
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					<description><![CDATA[There are times when turbulence feels like the norm. Life loses its predictability. What we see as the certainties of everyday life are not as certain as we’d like. Opening the daily paper or doomscrolling the news sites and social media, we’re confronted with one traumatic piece of information after another. Such moments can be [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Empathy: Wartime and present times</title>
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					<description><![CDATA[Empathy is the bedrock of all relational and therapeutic work. It is not simply a skill but a mode of being with another mind — what the psychoanalyst Heinz Kohut called vicarious introspection. The capacity to feel into the emotional life of another so that the self can be known, mirrored and stabilized. Without empathy, [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>The case for human therapists</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Dec 2025 05:19:46 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[A recent Los Angeles Times article’s headline boldly stated, “AI therapy isn’t getting better. Therapists are just failing.” A warning shot for psychotherapists, sounded loud and clear. Therapists take heed, that&#8217;s the implied message. A bold attack indeed on a community that diligently seeks ways to heal and soothe thousands of suffering souls, utilizing myriad [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>To forgive or not forgive</title>
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					<description><![CDATA[Forgiveness. One of humanity’s oldest and most complex virtues has stirred hearts and minds across centuries. The earliest preserved story of forgiveness appears in the Hebrew Bible through Joseph, who forgave his brothers after they sold him into slavery. The very word forgive, from Old English, means to grant pardon or indulgence. From its inception, [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Wrangling the birds and the bees</title>
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					<description><![CDATA[Much has changed since the days of the good-old-fashioned &#8220;talk&#8221; about the birds and the bees. Youngsters still come to The Talk knowing the basics. That hasn&#8217;t changed. Yet today&#8217;s children are much more savvy than their counterparts of the past when it comes to the practical applications of the sex act. This is virtually [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>When psychotherapy ends &#8230;</title>
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					<description><![CDATA[Our time is up. Both parties knew that on this particular day, this moment was coming. And now having arrived, it is all about a goodbye that requires the fullness and reverence of a sacred process. Traditionally viewed as the ultimate goal of treatment, termination of psychotherapy remains complex. It often brings bittersweet emotions and [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>A house divided, trying to stand</title>
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					<description><![CDATA[Matthew 12:25 states, &#8220;Every kingdom divided against itself will be laid waste, and no city or household divided against itself will stand.&#8221; While this Biblical wisdom may also be said of family systems, perhaps even more poignantly today it serves as a reminder of the stressful and disheartening state of conflict between our &#8220;houses&#8221; and [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>The fire this time</title>
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					<description><![CDATA[In the heart of Los Angeles, an apocalyptic event struck seemingly out of nowhere. High winds, commonly referred to as the Santa Anas, are not unfamiliar to Angelenos. Nor are wildfires, brush fires or other types of blazes that catch the winds and wreak havoc in areas around this sprawling city, 10 million strong and [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Grief &#038; loss: When we come to mourn</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Dr. Katrina Wood]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 21 Nov 2024 00:51:31 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Grief &#038; loss are guaranteed. We all face them as conscious, self-aware beings. No one is exempt. We come to mourn family, friends, pets, homes, aspects of ourselves lost through aging or illness &#8212; all of which we have loved and cherished over the years.   Grief remains a universal experience, visiting its pain upon [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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