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		<title>From Eat to Love: An Anti-Resolution for 2014</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Jan 2014 22:25:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The following is a post I shared on my Eat to Love website for the New Year. Recognizing the sizable overlap between drinking and eating &#8212; as distraction, as habit, as addiction &#8212; I thought I would share it here. If you are interested in receiving this type of article from me, please feel free [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=drinkingtodistraction.com&#038;blog=17994470&#038;post=604&#038;subd=drinkingtodistraction&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Announcing the publication of Drinking to Distraction</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 28 Dec 2013 21:23:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m very excited to announce the publication of the Drinking to Distraction book! This short memoir is a collection of my thoughts and experiences, from the days when I wondered (sometimes aloud, but mostly to myself) whether or not I was an alcoholic, to my decision to quit and those awkward early days, and finally [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=drinkingtodistraction.com&#038;blog=17994470&#038;post=597&#038;subd=drinkingtodistraction&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Beauty in the Breakdown</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Dec 2013 15:57:37 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[So, let go, so let go Jump in Oh well, what you waiting for? It&#8217;s alright &#8216;Cause there&#8217;s beauty in the breakdown So, let go, yeah let go Just get in Oh, it&#8217;s so amazing here It&#8217;s all right &#8216;Cause there&#8217;s beauty in the breakdown ~ Let Go, Frou Frou &#160; It’s been more than [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=drinkingtodistraction.com&#038;blog=17994470&#038;post=589&#038;subd=drinkingtodistraction&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>My Year of Living Dangerously</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 05 Nov 2013 15:39:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[On December 28th of 2012, I was laid off from my job as a medical writer at a biotechnology company. I was with that company much longer than anticipated since the job, at the time I got it, was an escape hatch from the disastrous job I started right after I quit drinking. I planned [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=drinkingtodistraction.com&#038;blog=17994470&#038;post=581&#038;subd=drinkingtodistraction&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Beyond Black and White</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Oct 2013 14:18:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[“All of you are perfect just as you are and you could use a little improvement” ~Suzuki Roshi This past weekend, I attended a meditation retreat at the New York Shambhala Center. The focus of the retreat was “The Art of Being Human” and getting in touch with the concept of basic goodness. One of [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=drinkingtodistraction.com&#038;blog=17994470&#038;post=575&#038;subd=drinkingtodistraction&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Plus ça Change…</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Oct 2013 12:20:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The rest of that saying goes “plus c’est la même chose,” which means essentially that “the more things change, the more things stay the same.” Every language seems to have some version of this expression, a resignation of sorts to the fact that people and situations can seem virtually immovable in many cases. I have [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=drinkingtodistraction.com&#038;blog=17994470&#038;post=570&#038;subd=drinkingtodistraction&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Doo Be Doo Be Doo</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Sep 2013 15:51:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The practice of meditation has afforded me what appears to be a lifetime of food for thought. Yet the simple act of butt meeting cushion can be reduced to a very basic question: Can I try to focus on just being for 15 minutes today? 20? During that time, can I relinquish my urge to [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=drinkingtodistraction.com&#038;blog=17994470&#038;post=568&#038;subd=drinkingtodistraction&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Compassion Is the New Black</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Aug 2013 12:46:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[It is difficult to describe how much I love “Orange Is the New Black,” the new Netflix original series based on Piper Kerman’s memoir about her time in a women’s prison. I binge-watched the 13-episode series over the course of several days, such that when I was forced to leave my apartment, I had the [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=drinkingtodistraction.com&#038;blog=17994470&#038;post=557&#038;subd=drinkingtodistraction&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>What is Real Confidence?</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 30 Jul 2013 15:18:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The other day I was walking to my new gym with a serious case of gym-timidation. I imagined that the other members would all be younger, prettier, and fitter than me, and had therefore procrastinated most of the day. Finally I could delay no longer. I put on my sneakers and headed out, tail already [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=drinkingtodistraction.com&#038;blog=17994470&#038;post=554&#038;subd=drinkingtodistraction&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>My Sister’s Keeper</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Jul 2013 12:09:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I have almost always had a complicated relationship with my sister. Whether this is due to sibling rivalry, our closeness in age (she is 18 months my junior), or because we are the same sex, I am not sure. What I do know is that our relationship often feels tense and restrained. There is no [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=drinkingtodistraction.com&#038;blog=17994470&#038;post=550&#038;subd=drinkingtodistraction&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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