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		<title>Personal Growth Activity #3: A Compliment Journal</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Start a journal where in you keep the compliments other people have given you.   When you are feeling like you need a confidence boost, go and read them.
I was enjoying a talk with my friend the other day, and he shared with me how he noticed that since he went through one of the programs [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.sophisticatedrelationships.com/blog/?p=89</link>
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		<title>Personal Growth Activity #2: Gratitude Letters</title>
		<description><![CDATA[There is a ton of research out there that suggests having an attitude of gratitude is good for you.  Some people are concerned that if you are grateful for someone or something, then that means you are indebted.  However, researchers have &#8220;argued that gratitude is conceptually distinct from indebtedness, based on its having the opposite [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.sophisticatedrelationships.com/blog/?p=87</link>
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		<title>Finds for Fridays</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Here are some articles we found interesting, and thought you might too:
What happens when some pick up artists try to teach women how to meet men in San Francisco?  Find out here.
Is there more than one path to empathy?
Have kids?  Want to make the world a kinder place?  Here are some ideas about how to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.sophisticatedrelationships.com/blog/?p=181</link>
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		<title>Personal Growth Activity #1: The Felt Sense of Comfort</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A friend recommended this exercise as a way to taking a few minutes out of your day, to sit, in a comfortable position and check in with yourself.  Although this is not it&#8217;s original purpose, to find more out about that you can read more about the Felt Sense of Comfort exercise in Waking the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.sophisticatedrelationships.com/blog/?p=88</link>
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		<title>Personal Growth Activities</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Lighthouse and Lexi and are adding Personal Growth Activities (PGAs), that have been collected from various sources.  These are suggestions for activities that you might find helpful in your own journey toward personal development.  We may be posting up to one per month.  We hope you enjoy!
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		<link>http://www.sophisticatedrelationships.com/blog/?p=86</link>
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		<title>Finds for Fridays</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Here are some articles we liked and thought that you might too:
What Eric Barker thinks, based on some research, we should look for in a marriage partner.  He also wrote another interesting one on why people blame the victim . . ..
An interview by Elle Magazine with Neuropsychiatrist Louann Brizendine on her new book &#8220;The [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.sophisticatedrelationships.com/blog/?p=167</link>
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		<title>Finds for Fridays</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Here are some articles we liked, and thought you would to:
Science Daily talks about how the military has started using mindfulness meditation training to help build resilience in troops and reduce the likelihood of PTSD.
J.K. Rowling, author of the Harry Potter novels, gives a compelling commencement address at Harvard talking about the benefits of failure [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.sophisticatedrelationships.com/blog/?p=119</link>
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		<title>Finds for Fridays</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Articles we liked, that you might like too:
This Column will Change your Life: The Insulted and the Injured; about the rise of rudeness due to obliviousness and what to do about it.
Reshaping Relationships Through Passion; about the benefits of developing relationships that challenge us to grow based on shared passions.
What Makes a Good Teacher?; Mr. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.sophisticatedrelationships.com/blog/?p=90</link>
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		<title>Do you need to know where this relationship is going?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;I don&#8217;t know what I&#8217;m going to do next but I am expecting something spectacular to fall into my lap.&#8221; &#8211; a friend of PeepJay&#8217;s

I&#8217;ve once again been thinking about what I want in a relationship.  I started to wonder if I had a model of relationship that I was wishing for? At this [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.sophisticatedrelationships.com/blog/?p=81</link>
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		<title>An Open Letter to Females Found in Public Places</title>
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“The secret of happiness is this: let your interests be as wide as possible, and let your reactions to the things and persons that interest you be as far as possible friendly rather than hostile.”
~Bertrand Russell
Dear Cute and Intelligent Females:
I&#8217;m a man who likes women. I like meeting them, talking to them, flirting with them. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.sophisticatedrelationships.com/blog/?p=80</link>
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