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		<title>Life After Death of Someone We Love</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Kathleen Barry]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Mar 2022 22:14:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[This is a reposting of an article originally published in 2014. My late husband Roy died suddenly and unexpectedly on July &#160;10, 2011.&#160; &#160;I will soon be arriving at the three year anniversary of his death.&#160; The journey of grief from that fateful day to today was filled &#160;with terrible emotional pain, severe depression, unending...]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Unexpected Transitions: When Life Throws Us a Curve Ball</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Kathleen Barry]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 25 Mar 2017 23:39:38 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Happy Birthday Whispers of Wisdom®. Today is your third anniversary of being launched! Wow… the time has gone quickly. When I wrote my first post in 2014, I was approaching the third anniversary of Roy’s death and thought I had “come through the grief” – which in a certain way I had. However, adding on...]]></description>
		
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		<title>Life is an inside job: What is it we need from ourselves to be successful in a relationship?</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Kathleen Barry]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Jul 2015 21:29:56 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Facts, nothing but the facts ma&#8217;am. This is what has happened: I was suddenly widowed 4 years ago after 23 years in a wonderful marriage. I went through a very severe depression for 2 years. I gained 40 lbs. I began to come out of the fog about 2 years ago. I started working out...]]></description>
		
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		<title>You Betch-em Red Rider!</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Kathleen Barry]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Mar 2015 00:57:32 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[I have looked life in the face with open eyes. I have learned that it takes courage to keep both feet in the game of life. I have learned since being on my own that I need to say NO to so many urges and impulses. Saying NO to the impulse is putting off short...]]></description>
		
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		<title>Now You &#8220;See&#8221; It, Now You Don&#8217;t&#8230;</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Kathleen Barry]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Dec 2014 01:45:06 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[I had a meltdown yesterday and it is only December 2!  After an intense session with my analyst, I returned home, ate lunch, and felt exhausted.  I took a 2 1/2 hour nap with my cats and woke up feeling tired. Then I spotted the familiar red wrapped boxes in my kitchen. The day before...]]></description>
		
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		<title>What are you trying to tell me?</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Kathleen Barry]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Oct 2014 00:23:14 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[For the past year and a half I have had a chronic need to scratch the top of my head. This is a recurring condition that surfaces when I am under stress. As a result of the scratching, I have a bald spot at the top of my head in the crown chakra area. The...]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Shedding Light</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Kathleen Barry]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 30 Aug 2014 00:59:48 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Recently I was asked why I share such personal information on my blog. The questioner stated that he could not imagine “revealing&#8221; this kind of material in a public forum. I have been thinking about this query for the past couple of weeks. The verb to reveal comes from the 14th century old French reveler...]]></description>
		
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		<title>Cats, Coffee and Pink Bougainvillea</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Kathleen Barry]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Jul 2014 02:44:43 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[The greatest joy in my life is when I am sitting at my small, round, wood-top table looking out at the ocean &#8211; my feet propped up on the chair and my body calm. These moments, minutes and oftentimes hours of being right here is a slice of heaven on earth. Often my cats join...]]></description>
		
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		<title>Managing the Early Days of Grief</title>
		<link>https://whispersofwisdom.com/managing-early-days-of-grief/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Kathleen Barry]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 24 May 2014 00:57:48 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[I have been asked since starting my blog of how I managed to get through the early days of grief. During the first 12 months, I depended greatly on a poem by the late Irish poet, John O’Donohue, entitled &#8220;On Grief&#8221; from To Bless the Space Between Us, which I have included below.  A colleague sent me...]]></description>
		
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		<title>When Bad Things Happen to Good People</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Kathleen Barry]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 07 May 2014 01:00:03 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Rabbi Harold Kushner wrote in his best selling book When Bad Things Happen to Good People  that bad things happen to good and bad people alike – and good things often happen to bad people.  I knew before Roy died that life was not fair, but my personal relationship to this statement took on a...]]></description>
		
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		<title>In Life It&#8217;s Not Where You Go, But Who You Travel With</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Kathleen Barry]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Apr 2014 01:14:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[I recently returned from a five day trip to Tucson where I attended my niece&#8217;s wedding. My family and I had a good time &#8211; we laughed, danced, ate, drank, and caught up with one another&#8217;s lives. I travel with more confidence now. This trip was easier than others because I was with my family most of the...]]></description>
		
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