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	<title>The Toolbox at LisaKiftTherapy.com &#187; Anxiety</title>
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		<title>Being in the Moment and Why it Matters</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Apr 2012 21:24:48 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Mindfulness.  Presence.  Being in the moment. All three of the above essentially mean the same thing &#8211; and practicing them can bring you more emotional and relationship health.  It&#8217;s a practice, a reconditioning and training of your mind that can be done in meditation &#8211; or in every day life simply bringing your attention to things you [...]]]></description>
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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>
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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>The Toolbox: Top 10 Emotional Health Articles for 2011</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Dec 2011 16:46:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lisa Brookes Kift, MFT</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[New Years Eve 2011 is rapidly approaching and I am thankful for the support I’ve received for The Toolbox at LisaKiftTherapy.com  - one of the original therapist-created websites.  As a therapist who writes and also maintains a busy private practice, it’s important to me to maintain the quality and integrity of this site.   2011 has been [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Steps to Identify Your Unhelpful Belief Systems</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Nov 2011 12:57:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lisa Brookes Kift, MFT</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Do you struggle with anger, depression, anxiety or recurring relationship problems and have the sense that it might have roots somewhere in your past?  Trust your instincts. There&#8217;s likely something there worth taking a look at. I work extensively with people in individual therapy to assist them in working through the past &#8211; to move on [...]]]></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>
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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>Pet the Lizard by Rick Hanson, PhD</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 02 Sep 2011 22:43:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lisa Brookes Kift, MFT</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Anxiety]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I’ve always liked lizards. Growing up in the outskirts of Los Angeles, I played in the foothills near our home. Sometimes I’d catch a lizard and stroke its belly, so it would relax in my hands, seeming to feel at ease. In my early 20&#8242;s, I found a lizard one chilly morning in the mountains. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>An Anxiety and Stress Survivor Shares Her Story and Tips</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 09 May 2011 18:25:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lisa Brookes Kift, MFT</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Anxiety]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[For ten years I suffered with an unknown illness, I knew I was sick but it is harder to convince others or receive the right help if your symptoms do not directly point towards the obvious.  Regular doctor visits resulted in the prescription of various pills.  I was told that I was suffering from Irritable [...]]]></description>
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		<title>4 &#8220;Can&#8217;t-Miss&#8221; Tools for Improved Resilience and Emotional Health</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 12 Apr 2011 22:13:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lisa Brookes Kift, MFT</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Anger Management]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I attended the Psychotherapy Networker Symposium in Washington DC recently and left with some highly useful tools to benefit your emotional health from the workshop, Neuroscience and the Art of Self Care conducted by Linda Graham, MFT.  If you struggle with your own emotional reactivity at times - and are interested in building resilience and the ability [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Neuroscience of Resilience:  Attunement</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Feb 2011 00:14:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lisa Brookes Kift, MFT</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Anxiety]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Attunement]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[(Post 4/9 in a series) As we looked at in The Neuroscience of Resilience:  Emotional Regulation, the key to staying resilient around stressful emotions is to stay regulated; not to allow our emotions to hijack us.  We are continuing to look at the following questions: Can we build up our own resilience?  How?  What does [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Neuroscience of Resilience:  Emotional Regulation</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 21 Jan 2011 15:13:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lisa Brookes Kift, MFT</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Anxiety]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Depression]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[(Post 3/9 in a series) As previously discussed in The Neuroscience of Resilience:  Quelling the Fear Response, much has been learned about the the power of resilience.  The last post in this series looked at the importance of  being less reactive to stressful events when they occur.  We are continuing to look at the following question: Can [...]]]></description>
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