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		<title>Losing My Fear of Death</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Jan 2012 07:15:37 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Yesterday, I shared how I overcame my fear of flying. That experience ran so much deeper than making plane trips less stressful – it actually helped me conquer my fear of death. So much of the trauma in my childhood centered around the fear of death. I was forced to kill a kitten. I saw [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=faithallen.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1831564&amp;post=6676&amp;subd=faithallen&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>How I Overcame My Fear of Flying</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Jan 2012 12:14:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[On my blog entry entitled Healing Metaphor: Riding on an Airplane, a reader posted the following comment: With all deference to your metaphor (it was wonderful, btw!), as someone with a crippling phobia of flying, I am asking you to please do a blog post soon on how you overcame this fear. ~ Karen I [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=faithallen.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1831564&amp;post=6665&amp;subd=faithallen&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Healing Metaphor: Riding on an Airplane</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Jan 2012 11:48:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I recently rode on an airplane when I took my kid to visit Hogsmeade (Harry Potter’s city) in Orlando, FL. I thoroughly enjoyed the flight. The reason this is significant is because I used to have a phobia of flying – I mean a really serious fear of flying. I would obsess over any plane [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=faithallen.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1831564&amp;post=6654&amp;subd=faithallen&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Dancing in the Rain</title>
		<link>http://faithallen.wordpress.com/2012/01/24/dancing-in-the-rain/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Jan 2012 07:44:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I recently encountered a saying that struck a chord with me: Life isn’t about waiting for the storm to pass. It’s about learning to dance in the rain. ~ Author Unknown If I waited for the storm to pass, I would never dance. I think this is true for just about anyone with a history [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=faithallen.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1831564&amp;post=6645&amp;subd=faithallen&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Needing Quiet Social Time</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Jan 2012 07:45:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[As I shared here and here, I mutually ended a nine-year dysfunctional friendship in August of 2011. I wrote about missing the friend but not the friendship here. Grieving that loss has gotten easier. There are still aspects I miss, but it gets easier every day. Over the weekend, I pinpointed what I miss the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=faithallen.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1831564&amp;post=6637&amp;subd=faithallen&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>How Do You Measure Your Healing From Child Abuse?</title>
		<link>http://faithallen.wordpress.com/2012/01/20/how-do-you-measure-your-healing-from-child-abuse/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Jan 2012 07:10:23 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Yesterday, I began exploring the question of how to measure healing from child abuse. I focused on how my sister and I endured similar abuses but reacted very differently. Most people (from an outwardly American measure) would call me the “successful” one because I have had more stability in my life (financial, marital, etc.). However, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=faithallen.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1831564&amp;post=6628&amp;subd=faithallen&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Different Reactions to Similar Abuses</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Jan 2012 07:03:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[On my blog entry entitled Why Do Some Child Abuse Survivors Fare Better than Others?, a reader posted the following comment: This does lead potentially to more interesting questions such as how do each of us measure our healing. I think for me freedom and joy would be key, as they were most stolen. ~ [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=faithallen.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1831564&amp;post=6616&amp;subd=faithallen&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>How Do You Heal When You Cannot Remember Due to Drugs?</title>
		<link>http://faithallen.wordpress.com/2012/01/18/how-do-you-heal-when-you-cannot-remember-due-to-drugs/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Jan 2012 07:32:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Yesterday, I talked about healing from abuse you don’t remember due to being very young when it happened here. Today, I will address healing abuse you don’t remember due to having been drugged when it happened. I, myself, was drugged as part of my abuse. I know this through connecting the dots of my flashbacks, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=faithallen.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1831564&amp;post=6611&amp;subd=faithallen&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>How Do You Heal Abuse from Early Childhood?</title>
		<link>http://faithallen.wordpress.com/2012/01/17/how-do-you-heal-abuse-from-early-childhood/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Jan 2012 07:22:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>faithallen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[On my blog entry entitled Can You “Let Go” of Abuse You Don’t Remember?, a reader asked the following question: If either the early age or later possible drugging makes those memories permanently inaccessible, how am I supposed to heal? Is there a way to process what I may never recover? If not am I [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=faithallen.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1831564&amp;post=6599&amp;subd=faithallen&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Feeling Responsible for Others’ Reactions to Your Abuse</title>
		<link>http://faithallen.wordpress.com/2012/01/16/feeling-responsible-for-others-reactions-to-your-abuse/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Jan 2012 07:48:20 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sukoon’s comment on this blog entry inspired this post. Sukoon talked about feeling guilty for burdening family members with knowledge of the abuse. This is a common struggle for child abuse survivors. Here’s the irony – We worry about burdening adults with hearing about abuse that we actually experienced as children. Am I the only [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=faithallen.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1831564&amp;post=6593&amp;subd=faithallen&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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