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		<title>What Are You Worth?</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 20 Jun 2013 05:00:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Janet Ong Zimmerman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Self worth is based on the value you place on yourself and what you think about yourself.    The Journey to True Worth Starts Within Getting to the place of knowing your true worth is one of life’s journeys. Settling for less than you deserve, chasing love that isn’t yours, being afraid to speak authentically and being overly concerned with your partner’s thoughts of you are all signs of not knowing your worth. As a successful woman, I didn’t recognize and honor my full worth until my early 40s. I stayed too long in the wrong relationships and stayed in casual relationships when I really wanted a committed relationship. I made a man my priority when I was just his option. I swallowed my voice when I should have spoken up. I thought I was more worthy if I was in a relationship. Because I was successful in every other [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Reclaiming the Woman Within ~ A Conversation with Me</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 16 Jun 2013 05:00:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tina Hines</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[If you are like me, you talk to yourself many times during the day. Sometimes these are just snippets of a dialogue, and at other times they are full conversations. I have found that when I pay attention to these conversations, they can be quite intriguing! Sometimes I talk to myself at the same time that I’m listening to someone else speak. This most often happens if I am irritated or bored but am reluctant to say what I’m really thinking. For instance, if I’m in a meeting, and someone is dominating the conversation by belaboring one point and not helping to move forward to a resolution, I try to control my facial expressions but my inner dialogue includes phrases like, “I think I’m going to scream!” Or, “We talked about that LAST week. Why are we going there again?”  This is my “fret and fume” dialogue. My “fret and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>An Intimate Cry</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 14 Jun 2013 05:00:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Hollie Sweat</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Love Safely, Sensually and Spiritually]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Are you the type of person who would prefer to be happy all of the time?  Smile at strangers?  Love to make people feel welcomed, accepted and loved?  Well, join the team. I want everyone I meet to feel special, and I believe, for the most part, they do.  Yeah Team Happy! Sometimes, even though I fight it as if I am drowning, I experience sadness.  The more I fight it, the more emotional I get.  It’s as if I’m splashing in water trying to get to the side in order to grab the wall or the railing for the stairs and I can’t seem to make it.  The more I splash and panic the more my head goes under the water.  Emotions are fluid, like water and we all know fighting water it is exhausting. I have learned that it is important to embrace those emotional moments or you [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Share Your Story – Carrie Strimel</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 14 Jun 2013 05:00:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tina Hines</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Conceiving a child, bearing a child, raising a child…every woman who has been blessed with this experience knows that it is a glorious and exciting journey. But Carrie’s beautiful daughter was born with a rare genetic disorder, and caring for her carried the complex dichotomy of potentially overwhelming challenges and incredible rewards. The intensity of her responsibilities was not lost on Carrie, and she soon found that in order to be strong for her daughter, she needed something to balance this intensity, something that was uniquely hers. Carrie had been an avid entrepreneur before her daughter’s birth, and she felt the need to get back to that somehow. She founded her own company and is now balancing her daughter’s care with her work. It hasn’t been easy…some days are better than others…but she is continually striving to learn and improve herself. The turning point that inspired her to take on [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How We Lose Our Integrity in Love</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 13 Jun 2013 05:00:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Janet Ong Zimmerman</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Love For Sucessful Women]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[“Integrity is not conditional and doesn’t change based on the situation. It is the way you view yourself and how you conduct yourself.” What’s integrity got to do with love? Integrity is the foundation from which you conduct yourself. It’s your moral fiber, character, and how honest and trustworthy you are. It’s knowing and being comfortable with who you are and who you’re not, while committing to being the best you can be. It’s about letting others live their lives without trying to control or change them, knowing they have their own path to walk and lessons to learn. When you approach love with integrity, you do and say the right things. You’re more concerned with what’s right rather than who’s right. You behave and take action from who you really are and not how someone defines you. You give your partner the space to be who he is without [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Dreams, Passion &amp; Purpose</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 12 Jun 2013 05:00:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tina Hines</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[You have been challenged not only to dream but to trust that dreams do come true. You have been encouraged to dig deep inside yourself to reconnect with your passion. You have been urged to start fulfilling your purpose by using that passion as a guide. But after all of this challenging, encouraging and urging, I wonder, &#8220;Will you actually do it&#8221;?? Take a moment to enter a dream where the main character is you. Close your eyes and visualize yourself fulfilling your purpose. Imagine that you are the author who communicates a life-changing message that someone has desperately needed. You are the owner of the store that carries that one special product that customers have been unable to find. You are the speaker with a story to tell to an audience of thousands of people, but each person in that audience feels as if you are speaking directly to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Reclaim the Woman Within ~ A Note to Overwhelmed List Keepers</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 09 Jun 2013 05:00:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tina Hines</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The days pass, and somehow your “to do” list seems to get longer rather than shorter. You pick up your list each day and think, “There’s no way I can do all of this…but I’ll try.” Then you push forward, not even stopping for meals. Instead, you mindlessly eat while standing, driving or performing some other task. Every week you try to cross off those last few items so that you can start with a fresh list the following week. But it never happens. Lists can overwhelm you, especially if you don’t accept the fact that there is ALWAYS something that needs to be done. And unless you pace yourself, you will find yourself consistently depleted without the satisfaction of accomplishment. Some people attack this by making a master list, prioritizing tasks and then assigning them to specific days of the week. Some people divide their daily list into morning [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Reclaim the Woman Within..</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 02 Jun 2013 05:00:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tina Hines</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Do you wake up every day feeling tired? It&#8217;s not a unique feeling. Of course you may be not getting enough sleep, but more likely there&#8217;s another reason. We often feel tired when we have lost control of our time. We all have commitments that we can&#8217;t ignore. In order to get paid, we need to spend time at work. In order to prepare a meal for ourselves or our families, we need to go shopping for the ingredients. We also spend time paying bills, doing laundry, mowing the lawn, washing our cars and taking care of other responsibilities. And then there is time spent with our friends. Friendships are incredibly important, but sometimes even friends can innocently deplete our time. Spending time is in some ways like spending money. We only have a finite amount of time in the day to spend, just as we only have a finite [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Love More, Judge Less</title>
		<link>http://www.formysisterfriends.org/2013/05/love-more-judge-less.html</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 30 May 2013 05:00:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Janet Ong Zimmerman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[“If you judge people, you have no time to love them.” - Mother Teresa What you judge in your partner is also in you Have you found yourself trying to change your partner? Trying to control him? Thinking you’re right and he’s wrong? If so, these are forms of judging. Judging implies that something is wrong with him, that he’s not good enough. It’s easy to fall into the habit of judging the people closest to us, especially our partner. Continuing down the slippery slope of judgment makes us feel disconnected with and unloving towards our partner. When we think it’s him, we’re unaware that what we judge in our partner is also in us. For instance, if you’re missing a deep connection with your partner, you may think (you’re judging) your partner lacks substance or is shallow. If you reflect on who you are in your relationship with him, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Share Your Story &#8211; Dr. Venus Opal Reese</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 30 May 2013 05:00:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tina Hines</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[We are receiving several inspiring stories from our sister friends. Our next compelling story takes you from the streets to Stanford. Dr. Venus Opal Reese encountered many challenges in her life but today she is the epitome of a success story. We know that many of you have stories of triumph as well, and we look forward to hearing from you! To be forced to live on the streets at 16 is a situation no teenager should face, but it was reality for Venus. Although many teenagers have difficulty transitioning into adulthood and it’s not unusual for parents and teens to be in conflict, Venus was literally put out of her home by her mother and forced to live in a world of drugs, prostitution, violence and addiction. She was frightened…frightened of the police, of the drug culture, of the cold. Fear led Venus to feel worthless and give up [...]]]></description>
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