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	<title>Simi Therapy Tools for Depression, Anxiety, and Stress &#187; Marriage and Relationships</title>
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		<title>Make your marriage better, in 5 minutes a day</title>
		<link>http://www.simi-therapy.com/blog/simi-marriage-relationship-better/513/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Feb 2010 17:55:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Deborah Tucker</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I found some great hints in my copy of the Psychotherapy Networker by Steven Stosny, Ph.D.,  who works with couples and other with relationship problems.  You can read more about his programs at CompassionPower.  I&#8217;m going to quote very liberally from what he wrote, because it is well-done and so concise.
He asks couples to add [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How to raise a competent young adult &#8212; Part 2</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Sep 2009 03:49:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Deborah Tucker</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In my last post, I took the position that it is getting harder and harder for some young adults to successfully &#8220;launch&#8221;; that is, to move out of their parents&#8217; house and become independent.   I state that there are two main areas where parents have gotten off track.  One  is regarding helping their children plan [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How to raise a competent young adult &#8212; Part 1</title>
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		<comments>http://www.simi-therapy.com/blog/how-to-raise-a-competent-young-adult-part-1/441/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 27 Sep 2009 03:53:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Deborah Tucker</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I keep reading articles these days on how the &#8220;new normal&#8221; is for young adults to remain financially and emotionally independent on their parents, long into their twenties.  The articles quote studies showing how much more common this is, and give lots of reasons why this should be so.  They go on to cite positive [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Step-mothers &#8212; step-monster no more!</title>
		<link>http://www.simi-therapy.com/blog/step-mothers-step-monster-no-more/430/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Sep 2009 21:15:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Deborah Tucker</dc:creator>
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I love it when clients recommend books!  There is nothing like someone who has experienced a situation to recognize good advice when they see it.
So here is a recommendation for women who are step-mothers.  I haven&#8217;t yet read it myself, but the reviews on Amazon from actual readers are strongly positive.  As [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Chronic illness and your marriage</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 27 Aug 2009 21:01:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Deborah Tucker</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Health and Fitness]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Marriage and Relationships]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[<a href="http://www.simi-therapy.com/blog/chronic-illness-and-your-marriage/378/"><img align="left" hspace="5" width="150" src="http://img.zemanta.com/reblog_e.png?x-id=5d8ee586-d5db-4797-b16f-6062511e80f0" class="alignleft wp-post-image tfe" alt="Reblog this post [with Zemanta]" title="" /></a>More Magazine recently published an article entitled &#8220;Married, with Illness&#8220;.  It is full of examples of how husband and wives cope when one, or both, have a severe chronic illness.  Not surprisingly, this takes a tremendous toll on a marriage.  According to the article, 75% of such marriages end in divorce.  This is especially tragic [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Help your marriage survive recession stress</title>
		<link>http://www.simi-therapy.com/blog/help-your-marriage-survive-recession-stress/346/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 06 Aug 2009 16:39:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Deborah Tucker</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Marriages, like all relationships, and like all living things, need to be nurtured. When we get stressed, we may forget to do and say the things that help our spouses feel connected to us. Some simple concepts, practiced regularly, can really make a difference.
John Gottman, a well-known researcher and author on the topic of successful [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Christian and struggling in your marriage?  Try Fireproof</title>
		<link>http://www.simi-therapy.com/blog/christian-and-struggling-in-your-marriage-try-fireproof/204/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 04 Apr 2009 16:38:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Deborah Tucker</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[<a href="http://www.simi-therapy.com/blog/christian-and-struggling-in-your-marriage-try-fireproof/204/"><img align="left" hspace="5" width="150" src="http://img.zemanta.com/reblog_e.png?x-id=eeb65a8e-e6de-4008-af2c-6d78416ce677" class="alignleft wp-post-image tfe" alt="Reblog this post [with Zemanta]" title="" /></a>My clients are always more on top of popular books and movies that I am, so I hear about some great ones, but it takes me awhile to get to them.  
Several clients in the last couple of months have told be about Fireproof.  My husband and I finally watched this last night, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>It&#8217;s All About Relationships</title>
		<link>http://www.simi-therapy.com/blog/its-all-about-relationships/132/</link>
		<comments>http://www.simi-therapy.com/blog/its-all-about-relationships/132/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 14 Feb 2009 22:19:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Deborah Tucker</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Here is a guest piece, written by licensed marriage and family therapist Shannon Strull.  You can learn more about her by visiting Shannon&#8217;s page on our website.
I believe relationships are our richest resource for happiness and spiritual growth.  I believe it is in relation to others that we discover who we are.  [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Tale of Two Brains, or &#8230; Mars and Venus revisited</title>
		<link>http://www.simi-therapy.com/blog/a-tale-of-two-brains-or-mars-and-venus-revisited/6/</link>
		<comments>http://www.simi-therapy.com/blog/a-tale-of-two-brains-or-mars-and-venus-revisited/6/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 19 Feb 2008 02:11:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Deborah Tucker</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Brain science]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today a client came in and told me about a funny video clip on YouTube about how men and women&#8217;s brains function differently.  If you click on this post&#8217;s title, you can see it&#8230; it runs about 10 minutes.
Turns out it&#8217;s by a pastor named Mark Gungor, who speaks on Laugh Your Way to [...]]]></description>
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