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      <image:caption>— Dr. Richard Davidson, University of Wisconsin-Madison</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>— Aristotle</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>-- Elle</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Blog - The courage of living curiously - When you courageously throw your attempts to control, predict, plan for, and decide to the wind and choose to ‘Allow,’ you embrace the inherent uncertainty of life.</image:title>
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      <image:caption>-- Brené Brown</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>-- Krista Tippett, host of On Being</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Blog - Freedom lies in embracing the finite nature of your life - “It’s only when we truly know and understand that we have a limited time on earth – and that we have no way of knowing when our time is up – that we will begin to live each day to the fullest, as if it were the only one we had.”</image:title>
      <image:caption>-- Dr. Elisabeth Kübler-Ross</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Like anxiety, the Howler ramps up it’s response to being avoided, escalating to explosions, curses, and insults!</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>The way long-term change actually happens isn’t sexy.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Blog - Why Anxiety Feels Like a Heart Attack:  The Neuroscience of Anxiety - The threat center in our brains can be turned on by our own thoughts.</image:title>
      <image:caption>Our thoughts are so powerful. We can create threats in our mind that our body responds to as as if we were facing a lion, a true threat to our very survival.</image:caption>
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    <loc>https://www.roottoflourish.com/blog/be-here-now-to-reduce-anxiety-9ajw8</loc>
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      <image:title>Blog - ‘Be Here Now’ to Reduce Anxiety - The present moment is the only moment that you actually have available to you.</image:title>
      <image:caption>You spend the actual moments when you are alive anticipating future moments and remembering past moments so you never get to enjoy and thrive in the moments when everything is okay.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Blog - Your inner critic – Body Edition, Part 2:  Responding to Your Inner Critic - Recognize that you have a choice with regard to whether these thoughts define you … or not.</image:title>
      <image:caption>Know that this inner critic, this negative voice, has become an accepted part of your identity, and it will take considerable time, effort, energy, and most especially compassion, to root it out. But, it can be done.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Blog - Your Inner Critic: Body Edition, Part 1 - Embody Your Inner Critic - When I say ‘embody,’ I mean to give a it a form.</image:title>
      <image:caption>We’re going to try to put a face, or a visual, to this negative voice. In doing so, we may discern a purpose for the voice, see how it ties into your identity (how you see yourself), and then create a strategy for how to respond to it.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Blog - Don’t make weight loss the goal.  Let it be a side effect of emotional healing.</image:title>
      <image:caption>We work to heal the self-hatred and the self-loathing, and be able to respond to that critical voice … so that weight loss does happen, but it happens as a side effect of the deeper, more emotional work that’s happening … because that’s what is really holding us back.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Learning to tolerate – and even embrace – uncertainty is a skill that can be learned. And, doing so can change your life.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Blog - How NOT to Treat Anxiety:  5 reasons why “STOP IT!” doesn’t work</image:title>
      <image:caption>“STOP IT!” just identifies an unwanted thought and attempts to shove it away while making you feel badly about yourself and ignoring your emotional experience. Shoving the thought aside and ignoring your feelings simply exacerbates the very things you’re trying to stop.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Sourdough baking, should you choose to heed the call, provides an opportunity to reflect, look within, and improve your emotional wellbeing.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Choose how you’d like to spend your days. And then expend the effort to claim them… to catch them, and fully live them.</image:caption>
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