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		<title>Living Bravely</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Jan 2012 05:37:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Joseph was a real stinker these last few days. Whiny and selfish and resistant. Screaming and hitting things in anger. A real pain in the butt. In Eckhart Tolle&#8217;s viewpoint, I responded by letting Joseph&#8217;s pain body trigger my own. I got into a terrible funk. No matter how enlightened I tried to be about [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=yogamother.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8998155&amp;post=909&amp;subd=yogamother&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Secret Demon Thoughts</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Jan 2012 04:41:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Recently I came across a piece of writing I&#8217;d done in 2008, which I&#8217;d entitled A Dark Time. From this vantage point, I can see that I was severely depressed when I wrote it, and I warn you: it&#8217;s not pretty. It&#8217;s my Secret Demon Thoughts and I never thought I&#8217;d share them, but something [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=yogamother.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8998155&amp;post=829&amp;subd=yogamother&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>From Regress to Progress</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Jan 2012 06:01:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[hope]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Joseph got sick this past week: cough, fever, ear infections &#8212; the works. It started on Christmas evening, shortly after we&#8217;d gotten to a friend&#8217;s house for dinner. Joseph had a major meltdown, claiming he was sick and needing to go home. Devoted mother that I am, I didn&#8217;t believe him. I thought, This kid [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=yogamother.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8998155&amp;post=885&amp;subd=yogamother&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Quiet Flame</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 24 Dec 2011 05:19:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[autism intervention]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[autism recovery]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ll wager a guess that parents of typical children look forward to school Christmas concerts. Not us. Blue Eyes and I have been dreading this year&#8217;s concert ever since last year&#8217;s took place. We called our RDI Consultant, John, to talk about it: YM: We&#8217;re worried about Joseph&#8217;s school concert. Last year, Joseph stood on [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=yogamother.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8998155&amp;post=862&amp;subd=yogamother&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Way I&#8217;m Walking</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 18 Dec 2011 06:35:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I am walking to a more trustful place. A place where I don’t have to have it all planned out, don’t have to try so hard, don’t have to work on it so much. A place where life is easier because I trust that, in each moment, I will have what I need in that [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=yogamother.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8998155&amp;post=856&amp;subd=yogamother&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Telling Him</title>
		<link>http://yogamother.wordpress.com/2011/12/12/telling-him/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Dec 2011 02:33:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Joseph and I were having lunch the other day in a little cafe when the sweet face of a Downs Syndrome boy suddenly popped up at our table. This boy couldn&#8217;t speak too well but he obviously wanted to make friends with Joseph, and we had a delightful little interaction. When he&#8217;d gone, Joseph said, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=yogamother.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8998155&amp;post=842&amp;subd=yogamother&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Butterfly</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 04 Dec 2011 01:58:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>yogamother</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[He’d been watching them closely, like he watched most people. Standing just beyond the quickly-flowing current, he’d observed the kids on the play structure. Climbing up ladders, sailing down slides, zipping across the shaky bridge, gliding down the pole. Finishing on one side and running around to the other to do it all again. Mostly [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=yogamother.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8998155&amp;post=833&amp;subd=yogamother&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Bullies, Fear, the Present and God</title>
		<link>http://yogamother.wordpress.com/2011/11/26/bullies-fear-the-present-and-god/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 26 Nov 2011 04:58:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>yogamother</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last week I attended a presentation on bullying and special needs children. I learned that not all special needs kids get bullied. The ones that are really different &#8212; seriously impaired, for example &#8212; don&#8217;t get bullied much. It&#8217;s the ones who fit in, but don&#8217;t fit in, that can get the royal treatment. That [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=yogamother.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8998155&amp;post=811&amp;subd=yogamother&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Weird</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Nov 2011 04:28:48 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I had a Skype session yesterday with John, our RDI consultant. I took notes as he spoke about the playdates Joseph&#8217;s been participating in. Somehow the subject of weirdness came up, so I jumped in with something that&#8217;s been bothering me lately: Joseph likes to be weird. We&#8217;ll be walking up to his classroom in [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=yogamother.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8998155&amp;post=784&amp;subd=yogamother&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Question Mark</title>
		<link>http://yogamother.wordpress.com/2011/11/09/the-question-mark/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Nov 2011 04:44:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[faith]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sometimes, just before Christmas, I go to an eight-hour meditation. It&#8217;s always a stretch, but many years ago I attended one that went beyond being a stretch to become  a nightmare. What happened was that I sat for eight hours of meditation without being able to meditate. My mind simply would not be still. I [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=yogamother.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8998155&amp;post=762&amp;subd=yogamother&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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