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		<title>No more bread and chocolate</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 17 Jun 2013 14:26:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Louise Gallagher</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I am an emotional eater. When I am worried, unsure, confused, I eat. Doesn&#8217;t matter if I&#8217;m hungry, or not. Doesn&#8217;t really matter what I&#8217;m eating either. I just want to keep filling myself up to ease the gnawing that &#8230; <a href="http://ayearofmakingadifference.com/2013/06/17/no-more-bread-and-chocolate/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ayearofmakingadifference.com&#038;blog=30960894&#038;post=2644&#038;subd=ayearofmakingadifference&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Friday Fascinations</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 14 Jun 2013 12:28:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Louise Gallagher</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[As in Friday&#8217;s past, I am choosing to share things of wonder, things of humour, things that simply make me smile or go, Ah Ha! simply because I find them fascinating. Fascination 1: The lovely Fi Biederman over at Inspiration &#8230; <a href="http://ayearofmakingadifference.com/2013/06/14/friday-fascinations/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ayearofmakingadifference.com&#038;blog=30960894&#038;post=2641&#038;subd=ayearofmakingadifference&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Where do old blogs go?</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 13 Jun 2013 12:34:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Louise Gallagher</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Because I&#8217;m feeling playful, and also because I just feel like sharing, yesterday&#8217;s blog post and your comments reminded me of a poem I&#8217;d originally written over at my Recover Your Joy blog. Now before I post my poem, I &#8230; <a href="http://ayearofmakingadifference.com/2013/06/13/where-do-old-blogs-go/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ayearofmakingadifference.com&#038;blog=30960894&#038;post=2638&#038;subd=ayearofmakingadifference&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Social Media Confessions</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 12 Jun 2013 12:54:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Louise Gallagher</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Social Media Confessions: Confession No. 1 &#8212; I don&#8217;t spend a lot of time going through my FB page and when I do, I am always conscious of the fact I can get sucked into spending a great deal of &#8230; <a href="http://ayearofmakingadifference.com/2013/06/12/social-media-confessions/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ayearofmakingadifference.com&#038;blog=30960894&#038;post=2634&#038;subd=ayearofmakingadifference&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Loving myself in every light</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 11 Jun 2013 13:10:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Louise Gallagher</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I love how every adversity, and treasure, have the capacity to teach me something new. Yesterday I wrote about my experience of confronting conflict and coming to the realization &#8212; my best is good enough. It&#8217;s true. It is. but, &#8230; <a href="http://ayearofmakingadifference.com/2013/06/11/loving-myself-in-every-light/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ayearofmakingadifference.com&#038;blog=30960894&#038;post=2632&#038;subd=ayearofmakingadifference&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>I did my best and my best is good enough.</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 10 Jun 2013 13:45:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Louise Gallagher</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[My father was mercurial. A gentle soul who wrote poetry and read me stories and called me, &#8220;Little one&#8221; sitting in his lap, reading a book with him was where I felt safe when I was a child. Unless it &#8230; <a href="http://ayearofmakingadifference.com/2013/06/10/i-did-my-best-and-my-best-is-good-enough/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ayearofmakingadifference.com&#038;blog=30960894&#038;post=2628&#038;subd=ayearofmakingadifference&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Homelessness Sucks</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 07 Jun 2013 14:13:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Louise Gallagher</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The facts are sobering. Statistics Canada reports that 1 in 10 Canadians live with an addiction. A 2012 Salvation Army report, Canada Speaks 2012: Mental Health, Addictions and the Roots of Poverty, states that Canadians surveyed indicated 25% of Canadians &#8230; <a href="http://ayearofmakingadifference.com/2013/06/07/homelessness-sucks/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ayearofmakingadifference.com&#038;blog=30960894&#038;post=2624&#038;subd=ayearofmakingadifference&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>I met truth on the streets</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 06 Jun 2013 13:19:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Louise Gallagher</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I walked the streets yesterday. Oh, not like in the past where I posed as a prostitute to experience going eyeball to eyeball with a john. This street walking didn&#8217;t put me feeling at risk on the seedier side of &#8230; <a href="http://ayearofmakingadifference.com/2013/06/06/i-met-truth-on-the-streets/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ayearofmakingadifference.com&#038;blog=30960894&#038;post=2619&#038;subd=ayearofmakingadifference&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Don&#8217;t worry. I&#8217;m a mother.</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 05 Jun 2013 12:54:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Louise Gallagher</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[They&#8217;ve made it to Amsterdam. That I know for sure. Sometime during the night a message arrived on  my phone telling me my daughter and her girlfriend were waiting for their flight to Istanbul and then, Izmir where their friend &#8230; <a href="http://ayearofmakingadifference.com/2013/06/05/dont-worry-im-a-mother/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ayearofmakingadifference.com&#038;blog=30960894&#038;post=2616&#038;subd=ayearofmakingadifference&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>There&#8217;s something else possible.</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 04 Jun 2013 12:56:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Louise Gallagher</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I got me some serious self-doubts going on. Breathe. I admitted it. I am wracked with self-doubt and nothing you can say is gonna change it. See, I just don&#8217;t want to believe I can be all that I dream &#8230; <a href="http://ayearofmakingadifference.com/2013/06/04/theres-something-else-possible/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ayearofmakingadifference.com&#038;blog=30960894&#038;post=2610&#038;subd=ayearofmakingadifference&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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