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		<title>From Eat to Love: 21-day Mind-Body Detox: May 16 – June 6, 2014</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is a program I&#8217;m co-teaching with two people I really respect and thought that Drinking to Distraction readers might be interested! &#160; Yoga. Meditation. Nutrition. We each know these are the building blocks of true health, yet it seems impossible to stay with it all amidst the craziness of everyday life. Three teachers have [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://pixel.wp.com/b.gif?host=drinkingtodistraction.com&#038;blog=17994470&#038;post=633&#038;subd=drinkingtodistraction&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Today on Drinking Diaries, an excerpt from Drinking to Distraction</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 26 Mar 2014 15:03:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[“To Be or Not To Be” At some point, perhaps years before the night of my book party, alcohol and drinking began to occupy an increasing amount of my mental real estate. During the workday I eagerly anticipated cocktail hour. Or I perseverated over where to purchase a bottle of wine on my way home [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://pixel.wp.com/b.gif?host=drinkingtodistraction.com&#038;blog=17994470&#038;post=631&#038;subd=drinkingtodistraction&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Reviewed by Kirkus Indie!</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 19 Mar 2014 14:15:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Very happy to have been reviewed by Kirkus Indie: &#160; &#8220;Hollenstein (Understanding Dietary Supplements, 2007) makes it clear from the start that her book has none of the drama of typical addiction memoirs. She has no harrowing, cinematic rock-bottom moment to report, for example; instead, she focuses on her slow realization that “[a]lcohol numbed both [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://pixel.wp.com/b.gif?host=drinkingtodistraction.com&#038;blog=17994470&#038;post=629&#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://pixel.wp.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://pixel.wp.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>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://pixel.wp.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>Your Attention, Please</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Jul 2013 14:34:38 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[One of the most helpful meditation instructions I ever received was to regard thoughts the same way as I do sense perceptions such as sights and sounds. In this way, the car horn honking in the street is equivalent to a painful and emotionally loaded thought. I wouldn’t create a story associated with that horn [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://pixel.wp.com/b.gif?host=drinkingtodistraction.com&#038;blog=17994470&#038;post=546&#038;subd=drinkingtodistraction&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Resistance Is Futile</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 28 May 2013 14:38:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Recently, as part of Susan Piver’s Open Heart Project, we learned about the lojong slogan “3 objects, 3 poisons, 3 seeds of virtue.” The three objects are things we want, things we don’t want, and things we ignore; the three poisons passion, aggression, and ignorance; and the three seeds of virtue freedom from passion, aggression, [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://pixel.wp.com/b.gif?host=drinkingtodistraction.com&#038;blog=17994470&#038;post=531&#038;subd=drinkingtodistraction&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Falling off the (Dharma) Wagon</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Apr 2013 13:30:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[During the last week, a lot has happened. The bombings that seem so long ago occurred just 9 days back. The around-the-clock news coverage by the journalists that besieged Boston seemed to stretch out painful moments interminably. Like many people, I was glued to my television until the surreal news came through the scanners that [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://pixel.wp.com/b.gif?host=drinkingtodistraction.com&#038;blog=17994470&#038;post=513&#038;subd=drinkingtodistraction&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Taking Refuge</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Apr 2013 14:09:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[For as long as I can remember, I have struggled with self-doubt. I felt there was something different about me, something not quite right. While other children seemed confident in who they were and what they wanted, I was never quite sure of myself. As a result, I became very interested in and curious about [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://pixel.wp.com/b.gif?host=drinkingtodistraction.com&#038;blog=17994470&#038;post=500&#038;subd=drinkingtodistraction&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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