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		<title>Nursing Home Abuse Awareness – Guest Blog, Amber Paley</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Feb 2012 22:51:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ellen Besso</dc:creator>
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		<description>Ensuring Your Elderly Loved One’s Happiness at an Assisted Living Facility by Amber Paley Elder abuse is a subject we’re hearing more and more about as of late.  From that news follows concern; not just for the vulnerable elderly&lt;a class="more-link" href="http://ellenbesso.com/midlife-women/nursing-home-abuse-awareness-guest-blog-amber-paley"&gt;&lt;span&gt;read more&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="feedflare"&gt;
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		<title>Tibet Situation Worsening</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Feb 2012 19:47:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ellen Besso</dc:creator>
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		<description>I am reprinting this email, sent out to Canada Tibet Committee members in case you are not aware of the seriously worsening situation in Tibet. You can read more about Tibet on the Canada Tibet Committee website or become&lt;a class="more-link" href="http://ellenbesso.com/midlife-women/tibet-situation-worsening"&gt;&lt;span&gt;read more&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="feedflare"&gt;
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		<title>Our Drive for Perfectionism, are we all products of our society?</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Jan 2012 21:55:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ellen Besso</dc:creator>
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		<description>Whether our parents or  important others in our lives modelled it, or if we came out of the womb with our personalities already shaped, most of us have perfectionistic tendencies, at least in some areas. While it&amp;#8217;s great to&lt;a class="more-link" href="http://ellenbesso.com/midlife-women/our-drive-for-perfectionism-are-we-all-products-of-our-society"&gt;&lt;span&gt;read more&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="feedflare"&gt;
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		<title>Peace and Joy to you</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Dec 2011 22:55:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ellen Besso</dc:creator>
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		<description>&amp;#160; Wishing everyone a peaceful and joyful holiday season. * Fill yourself with the company of loving      family and friends * Spend plenty of quality time alone * Soak up nature * Enjoy your favourite books and movies *&lt;a class="more-link" href="http://ellenbesso.com/midlife-women/peace-and-joy-to-you"&gt;&lt;span&gt;read more&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="feedflare"&gt;
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		<title>Caregiving – When Enough is Enough</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Dec 2011 23:34:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ellen Besso</dc:creator>
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		<description>By midlife our family and work demands often lessen, making this a time when focus and energies shift towards new projects, goals and dreams, interests that add a different kind of meaning to our lives. For many of us&lt;a class="more-link" href="http://ellenbesso.com/midlife-women/caregiving-%e2%80%93-when-enough-is-enough"&gt;&lt;span&gt;read more&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="feedflare"&gt;
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