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		<title>What I Mean by Redemptive Connection</title>
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					<description><![CDATA[When I use the phrase Redemptive Connection, I am not talking about a technique, a communication strategy, or a polished relational framework designed to help people manage difficult behavior more effectively. I am talking about something far deeper than behavior modification. I am talking about the kind of connection that creates enough safety for people...]]></description>
		
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		<title>The Long Road of Transformation</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 27 May 2026 19:42:19 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[We live in a culture that loves immediate results. Quick fixes. Fast breakthroughs. Five-step formulas. Before-and-after stories that wrap pain up neatly and move on before anyone has to sit too long in the tension of becoming. But real transformation rarely happens that way. Most meaningful growth happens slowly, quietly, and often painfully, along what...]]></description>
		
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		<title>Connection Is Not Rescue</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 27 May 2026 19:37:07 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[One of the greatest misunderstandings about mentoring, foster care, trauma-informed work, and even healthy family relationships is the belief that helping someone means rescuing them. It doesn’t. In fact, rescue can sometimes become the very thing that prevents genuine transformation. When I talk about connection, I am not talking about saving people, controlling outcomes, fixing...]]></description>
		
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		<title>Why Young Adults Still Need Family</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 27 May 2026 19:31:51 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[There is something deeply unnatural about asking a young person to build a life without belonging. We would never look at our own children on their eighteenth birthday and say, “Good luck. You’re completely on your own now.” Most families continue to offer support, wisdom, encouragement, financial help, a place to return, and the quiet...]]></description>
		
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		<title>Belonging Changes Everything</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 27 May 2026 19:10:30 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Over the years, I have become increasingly convinced that many of the struggles we see in young people, families, and even entire communities are not simply behavioral problems, emotional problems, economic problems, or even trauma problems at their core. Beneath so much of what we are witnessing is a profound crisis of belonging. Not surface-level...]]></description>
		
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