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		<title>Dark Night of the Soul Meets Law of Attraction</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Apr 2013 14:45:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Carol Hess</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Carol's Musings]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Personal Empowerment]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The Mind Game]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Weighing In (Rants & Raves)]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Warning If you want to read an upbeat, let’s speak and think and feel only positive things so that’s what we attract kind of experience today, then you don’t want to read this blog post.  But if you are in the midst of a dark night of the soul or if you’re just feeling a [...]
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		<title>A Love Letter to the People of Boston</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Apr 2013 02:18:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Carol Hess</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Dear People of Boston, I&#8217;m sending you my love and thoughts and prayers. Love, love, love, love, love, love, love, love, love, love, love. Love is the only antidote I know to the fear that is the source of such horrible acts of terror.  And the only balm to soothe the grieving heart and soul.
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		<title>To Let Go</title>
		<link>http://www.starpolisher.com/to-let-go/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 13 Feb 2013 23:49:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Carol Hess</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Authentic Power]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Sarah O'Leary]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[My friend Sarah O’Leary over at Holistic Hot Sauce has written a great post on the art and science of letting go.  She inspired me to go poring through my files and come up with something I stumbled across years ago. The following is not original to me, and I have no idea where it came from.  [...]]]></description>
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		<title>An Ode to Cranky &amp; Cantankerous</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 04 Feb 2013 16:24:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Carol Hess</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Personal Empowerment]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The Art of Star Polishing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The Mind Game]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Weighing In (Rants & Raves)]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[affirmations]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[authenticity]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Law of Attraction]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[positive thinking]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Cranky.  Cantankerous.  Don’t you just love those words?  I like the sound of crotchety too. I come from a long line of women who tend to get cranky and cantankerous as they age.  I’m delighted to announce I’m there.  Just call me Crankypants Carol.  (Thank you, Sandi Amorim for crankypants.) Actually, I suspect my female [...]
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		<title>Why Change Is So Damned Difficult &amp; What to Do About It</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Jan 2013 17:44:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Carol Hess</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The day I knew I was going to quit smoking once and for all, I was pissed.  I didn’t want to stop.  I loved smoking.  But I stopped anyway.  Why?  Because I knew it was time for a change. And guess what?  It wasn’t that difficult.  That change that I had always regarded as an [...]
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		<title>A Giant Dose of Inspiration</title>
		<link>http://www.starpolisher.com/a-giant-dose-of-inspiration/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Jan 2013 15:47:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Carol Hess</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Dream Catching]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Tears to Triumph Telelift]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Happy New Year!  We made it!  You know me.  I’m a pretty big believer in the woo-woo (and proud of it!).  I didn’t come to this belief easily.  In fact, I fought it tooth and nail and still do sometimes. One of these days, I will tell you how the story of how and why I transformed [...]
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		<title>No Answers But Lots of Feelings</title>
		<link>http://www.starpolisher.com/no-answers-but-lots-of-feelings/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 17 Dec 2012 15:53:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Carol Hess</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Community]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Stress Management]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[compassion]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[suffering]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[When a horrific event shakes our world, we want to make sense of it.  We ask questions and seek answers.  We desperately search for the magic solution that will ensure something like this will never happen again. There are no easy answers and no pat solutions.  Just feelings.  Lots and lots of feelings. Here&#8217;s Danielle LaPorte&#8217;s [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Power of Surrender</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 07 Dec 2012 16:42:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Carol Hess</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Authentic Power]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[(This is the third post in the Authentic Power series.)   These are strange and stressful times that frequently leave us feeling powerless.  Our old way of doing things isn’t working any more.  One look at the American government, education, infrastructure, economy, health care, and financial systems is proof positive that the old order is broken. [...]
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		<title>An Early Christmas Wish List</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Nov 2012 12:30:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Carol Hess</dc:creator>
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		<title>I Meet My Greatest Teacher</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Nov 2012 12:30:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Carol Hess</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[(This is the second post in the Star Polisher Authentic Power Series.  The first post was The Leap into Power.) I met a woman years ago whom I’ve never been able to forget.  She might have been my greatest teacher, even though we didn’t exchange more than a few words, and I never saw her [...]
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