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		<title>Growing Up into Belonging.</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 25 May 2013 00:30:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[ My knee jerk patterned reaction to fill the space and ease my anxiety prevents me from ever feeling the deep relief that happens in belonging to community.]]></description>
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		<title>Growing Up Sexually.</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 18 May 2013 13:14:38 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I have been making love with the same man for some 30 years, and although I can honestly say it has gotten amazingly and increasingly better over the decades, it is important to add that this improvement was in direct proportion to the work and willingness we brought to growing up sexually.]]></description>
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		<title>Growing Up, Growing Older.</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 11 May 2013 03:12:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Wendy Strgar</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[“The only way that we can live is if we grow. The only way that we can grow is if we change. The only way that we can change is if we learn. The only way we can learn is if we are exposed. And the only way that we can become exposed is if [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Perennial Healing.</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 04 May 2013 12:13:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Wendy Strgar</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[  “Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.” ~ Carl Gustav Jung It is that time of year again, when the garden performs its ritual magic of re-creating itself anew. Regardless of the challenging and changeable winter weather conditions, the perennials in the garden re-emerge each spring, a blooming demonstration of what it means [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Reclaiming the Garden of Our Sexual Soul.</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 27 Apr 2013 01:24:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#160; &#8220;The soul of sweet delight can never be defiled.”  ~ William Blake We all have a sexual soul, or more accurately, a piece of our soul is reflected deeply in our sexuality. This sexual space that inhabits the deepest recesses of our consciousness is one of the most meaningful ways that we know ourselves, and, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Weeding the Relationship Garden.</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 20 Apr 2013 18:26:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Wendy Strgar</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Source: thepaintedbench.tumblr.com via Michele on Pinterest   &#8220;You must weed your mind as you would weed your garden.” ~Terri Guillemets I learned about weeds before I learned anything about gardens. For my 40th birthday my husband built me a beautiful, secure deer fence and I was told to use straw to augment and lighten the heavy [...]]]></description>
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		<title>I am Grateful for the Pain of Transformation.</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 13 Apr 2013 00:41:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Wendy Strgar</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[“The mark of your ignorance is the depth of your belief in injustice and tragedy. What the caterpillar calls the end of the world, the Master calls the butterfly.” ~ Richard Bach   I recently learned that the transformation of the caterpillar to a butterfly isn’t just about the effort of spinning their cocoon. Once inside, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Joys of Erotic Education.</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 06 Apr 2013 10:57:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Wendy Strgar</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Source: gorgeouscompany.wordpress.com via Sasha on Pinterest &#160; &#160; “Conservatives say teaching sex education in the public schools will promote promiscuity. With our education system? If we promote promiscuity the same way we promote math or science, they’ve got nothing to worry about.”  ~ Beverly Mickins Most of what matters and gets better in life happens [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Embodying Erotica: Purr, Growl &amp; Sex Talk.</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 30 Mar 2013 02:39:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[“Be no longer tender. Cover me with frenzied kisses—even as I would drench my body in the cruel torrents of the rain. Envelop me from throat to ankle in delirium intolerable….” ~ Blanche Shoemaker Wagstaff Accessing our deepest erotic selves can be as simple as tapping into the power of our own voice, exploring the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Stop the Cutting.</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 16 Mar 2013 00:49:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Wendy Strgar</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Just recently in December of 2012, after 10 years of organizing and education, a United Nations resolution to end female circumcision worldwide was adopted by consensus of more than 100 nations, including 54 from Africa. ]]></description>
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