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		<title>Calming the Spinning Thoughts of Anxiety</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 14 Mar 2010 06:57:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lisa Brookes Kift, MFT</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Anxiety]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mental Health Tips and Tools]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[People who suffer with the distressing symptoms of anxiety often experience rumination, or recurrent worry and thought spinning. This can greatly impact sleep and daily living. The negative cyclical thinking tends to have a spiraling effect &#8211; where the person ends up at the worst possible scenario &#8211; &#8220;Something bad will happen to me,&#8221; or [...]


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		<title>The Therapist Consultation Room: Parent-Child Pairs, Mirror Neurons and Embracing Shame</title>
		<link>http://lisakifttherapy.com/tools-for-therapists-counselors/notes-from-a-therapists-chair-the-therapy-and-counseling-blog/the-therapist-consultation-room-parent-child-pairs-mirror-neurons-and-embracing-shame/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Mar 2010 22:09:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lisa Brookes Kift, MFT</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Notes from a Therapist's Chair - The Therapy and Counseling Blog]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[After checking in, we discussed our reading assignment, chapters 6-8 in Being a Brainwise Therapist by Bonnie Badenoch.  We covered a bit about how we therapists can call upon the inner community &#8211; in particular the internalization of parent-child pairs (neuroscience showing us how this works through the resonance circuits that link us with one another) as [...]


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		<title>Experiencing Relationship Roadblocks?  Consider Your Attachment Style</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Mar 2010 19:23:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lisa Brookes Kift, MFT</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Relationship Articles]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Relationship Problems]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[adult attachment style]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[If you are one of the many out there who finds yourself in repetitive patterns of unhealthy relationships, perhaps you might benefit from identifying your attachment style – which not only could answer some fundamental questions for you around your relationship “triggers” but also provide clues as to why you attract certain types of people.
There [...]


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		<title>5 Stress Management Strategies for Highly Driven Professionals</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Mar 2010 12:35:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lisa Brookes Kift, MFT</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Stress Management]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[In this fast-paced, dog-eat-dog world we live in, super-achievers often find themselves at the top of the heap in their professions. They’re the ones who eat, breathe and sleep their jobs, race out of the house, briefcase and PDA in hand, occasionally a quick kiss to the spouse and kid on the way out. They’re [...]


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		<title>Therapist in the Spotlight &#8211; Esther Boykin, MFT</title>
		<link>http://lisakifttherapy.com/tools-for-therapists-counselors/therapist-in-the-spotlight-article-of-the-month/therapist-in-the-spotlight-margaret-paul-ph-d/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Mar 2010 04:13:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lisa Brookes Kift, MFT</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Esther Boykin is a licensed Marriage and Family Therapist in the Washington, DC area and is the co-owner of Group Therapy Associates, a private practice in Haymarket, VA.  Her areas of special interest include teenagers, couple dynamics, and trauma. Esther is a freelance writer and has published on a variety of relationship and mental health [...]


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		<title>Marriage Advice: Communication for a Troubled Marriage</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Mar 2010 07:51:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lisa Brookes Kift, MFT</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I am a 25 yr old who is married with 3 children. I am married to my first love. We are having problems in our marriage. We are not really communicating and it is to the point where the kids are emotionally affected. He tends to have his family intervening in our marriage.. I love [...]


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		<title>Healing from Grief through Acceptance Therapy by Ben Klempner, LMSW</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Mar 2010 18:53:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lisa Brookes Kift, MFT</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Grief can come for a variety of reasons such as the death of a loved one, the loss of a job, a divorce, or any transitional and defining moment in life, either pleasant, painful, or both.  
A good friend of mine lost his dog.  A Yorkshire Terroir, she was stolen from him.  His heart was broken [...]


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		<title>Couples Assessment: How Strong is Your Relationship Foundation?</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 26 Feb 2010 21:44:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lisa Brookes Kift, MFT</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Healthy Marriages]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[In my couples therapy work, I’ve noticed there are certain aspects that determine the strength of a couple’s relationship foundation &#8211; that is, the relationship’s ability to stand strong in the face of the things that life throws out, be it normal daily frustrations or extremely stressful external events.
I’ve developed a simple quiz for couples that can be used quickly to [...]


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		<title>Relationship Advice: Lack of Emotional Safety in Relationship</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Feb 2010 10:45:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lisa Brookes Kift, MFT</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I read your article on &#8220;emotional safety&#8221; and it seems to be lacking in my recent relationship. I&#8217;d been dating a guy on and off for about a year. I&#8217;ve been trying to share this concept with him, but it always seems to go nowhere. We initially hit it off very well and share similar [...]


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		<title>Marriage Counseling: How do you Make Relationship Changes Last?</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Feb 2010 20:51:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lisa Brookes Kift, MFT</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[As much good work that  can be accomplished while undergoing the marriage counseling process, one bigger question is, &#8220;Can the changes be sustained once the couples are once again on their own?&#8221;   If they don&#8217;t have the tools to sustain the process, what they learned in the therapist and through practice while in the therapy process &#8211; might end [...]


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