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	<title>The Toolbox at LisaKiftTherapy.com &#187; Mental Health Articles</title>
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		<title>5 Ways to Rewire Your Brain for Happiness and Peace of Mind</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Mar 2012 20:34:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lisa Brookes Kift, MFT</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[We all seek happiness.  We all want to feel calm, grounded and avoid being hijacked by our own emotional reactivity.  Thankfully, the recent studies in neuroscience are demonstrating how to do this.  If you find yourself easily stressed, worried and fearful, there are likely personal historical reason for this when your brain learned to be [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Happy Thanksgiving:  An Attitude of Gratitude</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Nov 2011 07:00:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lisa Brookes Kift, MFT</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The topic of gratitude has been buzzing for some time fueled by research that&#8217;s demonstrated it&#8217;s power to not only improve happiness levels but strengthen social ties, boost self esteem, reduce stress and even resolve old traumas (see the work of Bob Emmons, PhD and Rick Hanson, PhD for more). The reality is that it takes practice to adopt an &#8221;attitude of gratitude,&#8221; [...]]]></description>
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		<title>4 Ways to Build Emotional Resilience</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Nov 2011 18:41:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lisa Brookes Kift, MFT</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Do you bounce back from challenging experiences?  Or do you get stuck, caught in a whirlwind of difficult emotions, feeling vulnerable, lost or out of control?  Emotional resilience is the ability to handle and adapt well to relationship problems, trauma, health problems, tragedy, financial stressors and other curve balls of life.  Resilience can be tougher for those who [...]]]></description>
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		<title>6 Ways to Stop Worrying About the Small Stuff</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Sep 2011 00:57:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lisa Brookes Kift, MFT</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Anxiety]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[As much as worry, fear and anxiety have a way of making us believe we have been brought to our knees, much of the worry, fear and anxiety we feel is ultimately not really about life changing, catastrophic things &#8211; but rather&#8230;the small stuff.  It&#8217;s not to say that life doesn&#8217;t have a way of hurling [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Toolbox 2010: Best of the Marriage, Relationship and Emotional Health Articles</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 02 Jan 2011 00:15:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lisa Brookes Kift, MFT</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Emotional / Mental Health Humor]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[2010 was another big year for The Toolbox at LisaKiftTherapy.com with a vastly growing readership, countless new articles related to marriage, relationships and emotional health &#8211; as well as new, polished 2nd editions of the first two of my Therapy-At-Home Workbooks® (which have also seen a surge of purchases from all over the globe).  In celebration, I [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What is Family of Origin Work?</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 14 Dec 2010 06:27:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lisa Brookes Kift, MFT</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;What is family of origin work? Therapists will likely have slightly different interpretations of what it is &#8211; and how to go about doing the therapy work itself. My definition of &#8220;family of origin work&#8221; in it&#8217;s simplest form is, &#8220;healing from our past to be able to move forward in the present.&#8221; I have [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Emotional and Relationship Health:  Social Networking and the Problem of Over-Connection</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 27 Oct 2010 17:12:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lisa Brookes Kift, MFT</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Like many of you, I am a social networker.  I use social networking for personal use (friends and family) as well as for my therapy and writing related endeavors.  I use Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn but there are a vast sea of other options should you want them.  Where do you draw the line?  Do you [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Mind the G.A.P. for Improved Emotional Health</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Sep 2010 21:28:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lisa Brookes Kift, MFT</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Acceptance]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[My guess is that most of us would like to be happy and feel at peace internally.  Much of what blocks this for people are complicated layers of conditioning, negative core beliefs about self, others, the world and other difficult life circumstances.  My recent studies of neuroscience in the last few years, particularly via the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Childhood Experience and Adult Anxiety</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Aug 2010 12:21:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lisa Brookes Kift, MFT</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Anxiety]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[There are many types of adult anxiety . The anxiety disorder I’ve had the most contact with in my experience as a therapist is Generalized Anxiety Disorder (GAD) and from here on when I speak of “anxiety” I will be referring to this. I believe that people’s emotional and/or psychological distress as adults can partially [...]]]></description>
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		<title>6 Secret Qualities of Happy People</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Aug 2010 12:00:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lisa Brookes Kift, MFT</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[If there&#8217;s one thing that we all seek &#8211; it&#8217;s happiness. I&#8217;ve never met a person who has told me they didn&#8217;t want to be happy, have you?  It&#8217;s a fundamental human desire regardless of whether people believe they can attain it.  When I do individual therapy, I have the opportunity to sit down with people as [...]]]></description>
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