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	<title>Against the Grain &#187; Personal Growth</title>
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		<title>Saints Don&#8217;t Get Angry</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Sep 2011 20:56:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John T Marohn</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I grew up in a family of screamers, duckers, fighters, and scramblers. If that didn&#39;t work, my family withdrew into icy silence. That&#39;s what we thought bedrooms were for: our little caves of isolation where we could get our way in frozen-lake invisibility. If that didn&#39;t work, we could always go to plan B: smart-ass [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Shroud of Fatalism</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Sep 2011 22:34:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John T Marohn</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is the&#160;second in a series of blog posts in which I expand upon key concepts from my&#160; e-book,&#160; &#34;A Recovery Journey:&#160; The Beginnings&#34; So, you have &#160;a great day at school. Your teachers laugh at your jokes. You get a 95 on your math exam. You talk to one of your teachers during lunch. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Your Mind and Your Job Won&#8217;t Do It</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Sep 2011 18:57:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John T Marohn</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is the first in a series of blog posts in which I expand upon key concepts from my  e-book,  &#8220;A Recovery Journey:  The Beginnings&#8221; Knowledge has always been important to me. I grew up believing that if I knew things, I wouldn&#8217;t be invisible, especially in a family where high drama and chronic volatility [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Coitus Interruptus</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Sep 2011 03:46:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John T Marohn</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[ Now that I&#8217;ve got your attention. It took me a long time to discover that I had learned, from early childhood, to be a detached observer. I was the youngest of five children. My family was in constant turmoil. My parents argued all the time. My two older brothers were always fighting. And my mother&#8217;s [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Impermanence</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 24 Jun 2011 16:58:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John T Marohn</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The reality of impermanence has always seemed a no-brainer to me. People and animals come into existence; they live out their lives; and then they die. Or, in the words of the bumper-sticker, “Life&#8217;s a bitch, and then you die” More importantly, my own experiences with memorial services, funerals, hospice, suicides, emergency rooms, psych wards, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Holy, Another Grand Illusion</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Jun 2011 16:23:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John T Marohn</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[“Abandon holiness,” says Lao Tsu. and “See with original purity.” Although these lines are just fragments of Lao Tsu&#8217;s Tao Te Ching, they are typical of the ancient thinker&#8217;s radical take on reality. Who, for example, would “abandon holiness”? After all, Western culture prides itself on Christian values, especially those values gleaned from the Old [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Owning Up, Part II</title>
		<link>http://johntmarohn.com/blog/alcohol-recovery/owning-up-part-ii/</link>
		<comments>http://johntmarohn.com/blog/alcohol-recovery/owning-up-part-ii/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 16 May 2011 18:38:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John T Marohn</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Alcohol Recovery]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is the second part of a two part series on “Owning Up, Emotional Honesty.” In the first part, I discussed the confessional-box tradition I grew up in and my many years of therapy. In this part, I discuss the importance of what twelve-steppers refer to as the “rooms,” the meeting places where we go [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Owning Up: Emotional Honesty</title>
		<link>http://johntmarohn.com/blog/alcohol-recovery/owning-up-emotional-honesty/</link>
		<comments>http://johntmarohn.com/blog/alcohol-recovery/owning-up-emotional-honesty/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 09 May 2011 16:49:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John T Marohn</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Alcohol Recovery]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is a two-part series on owning up, honesty, and emotional transparency. In the first part, I discuss my confessional-box heritage growing up as a Roman Catholic. I then go on to cover the contrasting role of therapy in helping me to be more honest about myself. In the second part of this two-part series, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Generosity</title>
		<link>http://johntmarohn.com/blog/personal-growth/generosity/</link>
		<comments>http://johntmarohn.com/blog/personal-growth/generosity/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 27 Apr 2011 15:49:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John T Marohn</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In the first part of this two part series about where we learn our attitudes about good and bad, I discussed the “interventionist school” of Christianity, a narrative that teaches the followers of Christianity that all of our notions of good and evil are created or altered by an interventionist deity through grace, epiphanies, miracles, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Psychological Meltdowns</title>
		<link>http://johntmarohn.com/blog/personal-growth/psychological-meltdowns/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Mar 2011 00:01:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John T Marohn</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Your Netflix movies have been setting on the coffee table for two months. The bank called Friday to tell you you&#8217;re two months behind on the mortgage and three months on your equity loan. The dry cleaners left a message on your answering machine saying that you had fourteen shirts that they&#8217;ve been holding for [...]]]></description>
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