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		<title>October 17, 2011 The Eruption of Post Traumatic Stress is a Healing Opportunity</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 17 Oct 2011 00:01:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Elaine</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Hi everyone.  I hope you had a wonderful summer and are enjoying this beautiful fall season.  Wow.  Two weekends of Indian summer was such a blessing!  In my eyes the beauty of the season makes up for summer coming to an end.  I hope it is beautiful wherever you are located!  It has been a [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=hopehealing.wordpress.com&amp;blog=11141836&amp;post=2249&amp;subd=hopehealing&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>August 5, 2011 Emotionally Healthy Parenting Info. For Highly Sensitive People&#8211;It&#8217;s Time To Stand Your Ground!</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Aug 2011 20:44:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Elaine</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[draining relationships]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[feeling grounded and rooted in the earth]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Guilt--tips for healing the guilt]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[healthy family system]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Honor Thy Father and Mother?]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[How to Cope with a Narcissistic Parent]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[HSPs are late bloomers]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[I Won't Back Down by Tom Petty (song)]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[listening to your body]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mother Earth]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Moving on and No Contact]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[overcoming guilt]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[passive-aggressive silent treatments]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[recharge]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[recharged by nature]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Stand your ground]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[summer--warm summer nights]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[turning 50]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[visualizations for healing]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[no contact with parents]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Hi everyone.  It is now August and I hope all of you have been enjoying the summer.  Yeah it&#8217;s too hot!&#8211;but I hope you are finding creative ways to beat the heat.  I am having the best summer ever!  I have found that my ability to slow down and enjoy the moment is really sticking [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=hopehealing.wordpress.com&amp;blog=11141836&amp;post=2162&amp;subd=hopehealing&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>July 12, 2011 The Process of Inner Child Healing and a Poem of Hope for Highly Sensitive Survivors</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 12 Jul 2011 19:07:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Elaine</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[avoiding emotions]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[compulsions]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[dread]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[emotionally numb]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[enlightened witness]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[finding your voice]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[found my self]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Hello everyone.  Whenever I write a new post, I &#8220;tune in&#8221; to you, my readers, and write from my heart.  Sometimes I plan what I am going to write and other times I write something entirely different from what I had planned.  At the beginning I used to worry, &#8220;how can I top that last post&#8221;, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=hopehealing.wordpress.com&amp;blog=11141836&amp;post=2104&amp;subd=hopehealing&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>June 17, 2011 Hurts So Good?&#8211;Through Pain You Grow Stronger&#8211;Processing Childhood Emotional Pain So You Can Heal</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 17 Jun 2011 17:45:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Elaine</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[beliefs]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[brilliant creative ideas]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Documenting truth statements]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[feelings ingrained in the neural pathways in your brain]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[John Gray]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[let the unimportant things go]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[moment of grace and surrender]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[no remorse]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[obedient child]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[overcoming self-doubt]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[playing the guitar]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Recovery]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Hi everyone.  Today I was out on my patio getting my morning dose of Vitamin D from the sun (hallelujah, the warmth is finally here to stay!) and writing down ideas for my next post.  When I was finished, the song &#8220;Hurts So Good&#8221; by John Mellencamp came on the radio I was listening to.  You [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=hopehealing.wordpress.com&amp;blog=11141836&amp;post=2068&amp;subd=hopehealing&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>May 20, 2011 The Highly Sensitive Person (HSP) and The Body&#8211;An Awakening To the Importance of Listening To It and Core Strength</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 20 May 2011 00:47:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Elaine</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Hi everyone.  I am back and writing again. Yay!  I hope you are enjoying the beauty of this spring season and all the brilliantly colorful flowers. Thank you to those who commented or emailed me such wonderful wishes.  It was quite a traumatic ordeal for me but I believe there are lessons in all things [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=hopehealing.wordpress.com&amp;blog=11141836&amp;post=2031&amp;subd=hopehealing&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>May 5, 2011 Pain is a Teacher</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 05 May 2011 16:19:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Elaine</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Hello everyone.  I am sorry to be late with my next post&#8211;I am recovering from an injury to muscles connected to my sacroiliac joint (low back&#8211; right hip area). I am gradually off of pain medication but I am spending most of my hours laying here on my left side. It was quite a shock [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=hopehealing.wordpress.com&amp;blog=11141836&amp;post=2018&amp;subd=hopehealing&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>April 19, 2011 Moving On From A Narcissistic Parent-Part 2</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 19 Apr 2011 02:17:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Elaine</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Hi everyone. Easter will be here in less than one week and I have been reviewing the state of No Contact with my extended family.  It has been 1 year and 4 months since I have had any contact with them and I know I made the right decision.  The time away from them has continuously [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=hopehealing.wordpress.com&amp;blog=11141836&amp;post=1953&amp;subd=hopehealing&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>March 30, 2011 Honor Thy Parents Only If They Are Honorable&#8211;Support for Highly Sensitive Survivors at Easter</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Mar 2011 17:28:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Elaine</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Hi everyone.  April is almost here and as highly sensitive survivors you may be experiencing what can only be described as Easter Guilt.  Easter is a family time, when families get together and celebrate God and Jesus and we contemplate our very reason for being on the planet.  Even for the non-religious, Easter causes many [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=hopehealing.wordpress.com&amp;blog=11141836&amp;post=1910&amp;subd=hopehealing&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>March 15, 2011 HOPE For Overcoming Childhood Pain and Guilt&#8211;For Highly Sensitive Survivors of a Narcissistic Parent</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Mar 2011 21:13:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Elaine</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Hi everyone.  As we are halfway through March, there is HOPE!  There is hope for Spring and warmer temperatures around the corner, hope for the U.S. economy as joblessness decreases, hope for the Japanese people as they recover from the horrific earthquake and tsunami. We put ourselves in their shoes and imagine how we would cope.  Messages of love, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=hopehealing.wordpress.com&amp;blog=11141836&amp;post=1908&amp;subd=hopehealing&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Feb. 28, 2011 Stress Relief For Highly Sensitive People (HSPs)</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Feb 2011 19:13:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Elaine</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Hi everyone. We made it through the harsh weather of February.  Yay!  March has visions of early flowers budding up through the ground, warmer temperatures, and hopefully a lot less snow and storms.  It was beautiful and fun at first, but here in the midwestern United States, the continuous snow and storms soon started to [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=hopehealing.wordpress.com&amp;blog=11141836&amp;post=1897&amp;subd=hopehealing&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>February 5, 2011 How Highly Sensitive People Who Are High Achieving and Intuitive Can Overcome Self-Defeating Behaviors</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 05 Feb 2011 11:59:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Elaine</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Hi everyone. My new website is here!  It is called Highly Sensitive Survivors and it is at hspsurvivors[dot]com.  Today&#8217;s post is primarily for high achieving intuitive thinking types (for example, INTJs, and ENTJs) but also may apply to high achieving feeling types as well. Today I want to talk about the special complexity of being both a high achiever and [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=hopehealing.wordpress.com&amp;blog=11141836&amp;post=1783&amp;subd=hopehealing&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>January 14, 2011 A New Coaching Website for Highly Sensitive Survivors of Emotional Abuse</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 14 Jan 2011 07:08:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Elaine</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Hi everyone.  Today is the 1 year anniversary of publishing my very first post on this blog!  I can&#8217;t believe all that has happened since then.  Thank you so much to all of my readers and subscribers and those who have left comments in support of what I am doing.  I just purchased a domain name and [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=hopehealing.wordpress.com&amp;blog=11141836&amp;post=1700&amp;subd=hopehealing&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>January 2, 2011 Happy Shiny New Year!</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 02 Jan 2011 21:21:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Elaine</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Happy New Year everyone!  I hope that you had a wonderful, safe, healthy, and memorable holiday celebration with your loved ones&#8211;full of love, gratefulness, and compassion towards each other. It has been a unique holiday for me in that I am helping my 20-year-old daughter get ready for the trip of a lifetime. She is [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=hopehealing.wordpress.com&amp;blog=11141836&amp;post=1652&amp;subd=hopehealing&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Dec. 14, 2010 Happy Bitter-Sweet Holidays!</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 14 Dec 2010 23:43:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Elaine</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Hi everyone. December is here!  Winter is here! And the Holidays are upon us!  And doesn&#8217;t it feel that way sometimes&#8211;like they are upon us instead of within us or about us&#8230;instead of about love and giving and sharing the joys of all of our uniqueness as humans on the planet and that we are [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=hopehealing.wordpress.com&amp;blog=11141836&amp;post=1633&amp;subd=hopehealing&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Nov. 30, 2010 Narcissistic Parents Are The Cause Of Learned Helplessness in Highly Sensitive People (HSPs)</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 30 Nov 2010 23:17:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Elaine</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Hi everyone.  Today I want to write about a subject that many of my clients and readers can relate to as Highly Sensitive People with a narcissistic parent.  It is something called Learned Helplessness.  Learned Helplessness is that feeling of powerlessness that we all feel at times, and for some of us it is more pervasive and [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=hopehealing.wordpress.com&amp;blog=11141836&amp;post=1605&amp;subd=hopehealing&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>November 17, 2010 Holiday Survival Tips and A Poem To My Narcissistic Mother&#8211;An HSPs Recovery From Artistic and Creative Self-doubt</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Nov 2010 21:07:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Elaine</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Hi everyone.  It&#8217;s November!&#8211;and there&#8217;s a briskness in the air and the  awareness of the holidays approaching.  For many of us highly sensitive survivors that comes with a bitter-sweet feeling&#8211;of light and love from God above (the true reason for the season) mixed with the grief of a lost childhood and sad or painful holiday memories of [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=hopehealing.wordpress.com&amp;blog=11141836&amp;post=1570&amp;subd=hopehealing&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>October 31, 2010 Get Free From The Wicked Witch In Your Life</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 31 Oct 2010 02:31:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Elaine</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Hi everyone and Happy Halloween.  Halloween to me and my family is about dressing up in costumes and getting candy and is primarily Fun For The Kids!  I hear the origins of this holiday are about something dark and scary but I don &#8216;t believe there is any harm in celebrating the FUN part and I think [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=hopehealing.wordpress.com&amp;blog=11141836&amp;post=1519&amp;subd=hopehealing&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>October 12, 2010 Journaling for Joy and Finding My True Voice In A Poem</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 12 Oct 2010 13:11:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Elaine</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Hello to all of you sensitive souls.  I hope you are enjoying this beautiful week of Indian Summer we are having. The news says that most of the U.S. is experiencing gorgeous mild temperatures and colorful changing leaves right now.  It is definitely my favorite time of the year and it feels like such a [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=hopehealing.wordpress.com&amp;blog=11141836&amp;post=1476&amp;subd=hopehealing&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>September 29, 2010 Part 2&#8211;More Helpful Tips for HSPs With A Narcissistic Parent</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 29 Sep 2010 13:11:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Elaine</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Hi everyone.  Today I am releasing Part 2 of my More Helpful Tips post for those of you Highly Sensitive Souls trying to figure out how to thrive when you have a narcissistic parent.  It may help for you to review tips 1 through 6 in my last post. To summarize, they were about: your gift of [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=hopehealing.wordpress.com&amp;blog=11141836&amp;post=1347&amp;subd=hopehealing&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>September 15, 2010 More Helpful Tips&#8211;For Highly Sensitive People (HSPs) With A Narcissistic Parent&#8211;Part 1</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 15 Sep 2010 22:12:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Elaine</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Hi everyone. As highly sensitive people, many of you are struggling with how to cope with your relationship with your narcissistic parent and your unsupportive siblings and extended family.  First of all I want to tell you that I understand your pain and how hard it is. There is very little support in our society for [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=hopehealing.wordpress.com&amp;blog=11141836&amp;post=1338&amp;subd=hopehealing&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>August 17, 2010 Helpful Tips and Reminders for Highly Sensitive Survivors of a Narcissistic Parent</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Aug 2010 18:05:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Elaine</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Hi everyone. Finally a new post!  It&#8217;s been a wonderful, eventful summer!  My 20-year-old daughter has been home from college for the summer since May and it has been wonderful spending time with her&#8211;probably her last summer living at home with her father and I.  And we just helped my 23-year-old son move into his apartment in the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=hopehealing.wordpress.com&amp;blog=11141836&amp;post=1283&amp;subd=hopehealing&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>July 21, 2010  Perfectionism, The Highly Sensitive Person, and How Grieving Our Childhood Pain Is Essential To Healing</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Jul 2010 23:46:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Elaine</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[  Hi everyone.  I hope you are enjoying the summer.  I hope you are not heaping lists of  &#8221;shoulds&#8221; on yourself (home improvements etc.) to accomplish&#8211;only to realize, &#8220;What was I thinking?!  I can&#8217;t do all this stuff!&#8211;the KIDS are home!&#8221;  ha ha.  Yes I remember, and I still do it somewhat but this summer is SO [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=hopehealing.wordpress.com&amp;blog=11141836&amp;post=1190&amp;subd=hopehealing&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>June 30, 2010 The Misjudgment of Introverts and the True Meaning of Introversion</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Jun 2010 15:39:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Elaine</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Hi everyone.  The Fourth of July is coming soon!  I hope you are able to enjoy Independence Day with the knowledge that you are a special highly sensitive person (HSP) and you deserve Independence and Freedom  from your guilt-inducing, belittling, or controlling narcissistic parent. Because this is typically a family holiday, it can bring with it memories and childhood [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=hopehealing.wordpress.com&amp;blog=11141836&amp;post=1156&amp;subd=hopehealing&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>June 15, 2010 The Highly Sensitive Person (HSP) and Allergies, Food Intolerances, and Stress-related Illness</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Jun 2010 13:57:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Elaine</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Hi everyone.  I hope you are enjoying the summer!  I am.  I am thoroughly enjoying the warmth that is finally here.  I am not going to complain about the heat and humidity here in the midwestern United States. That&#8217;s right, I am located in the midwest and as I get older I had been longing to [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=hopehealing.wordpress.com&amp;blog=11141836&amp;post=1130&amp;subd=hopehealing&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>May 27, 2010 Summer&#8217;s Great Expectations&#8211;Why Summertime Can Be Difficult for Highly Sensitive People (HSPs) Surviving From A Narcissistic Parent</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 27 May 2010 03:52:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Elaine</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Hi everyone.  The warm weather is here!  Summer is coming!  Visions of the fun times ahead soaking up the sun, and outdoor activities fill the mind!  The plans, the anticipation, the wonder, and excitement&#8230;Yay!  Right?&#8230;or instead are you wondering why you are feeling surprisingly &#8220;down&#8221;?  I have been trying to figure out why I&#8217;ve had to fight [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=hopehealing.wordpress.com&amp;blog=11141836&amp;post=1053&amp;subd=hopehealing&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>May 13, 2010 Voicing And Releasing Righteous Anger&#8211;A Guide For Highly Sensitive People (HSPs) With A Narcissistic Parent</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 13 May 2010 20:43:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Elaine</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Hi everyone.  I am still feeling drained by my many May events but I wanted to share with you some of my reactions to Mother&#8217;s Day and my Mother&#8217;s Birthday.  My goal was to hang on and get through it and &#8220;stay strong&#8221; was my motto, so I was a little surprised that rather than have to [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=hopehealing.wordpress.com&amp;blog=11141836&amp;post=1012&amp;subd=hopehealing&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>April 30, 2010 Mother&#8217;s Day Survival Guide&#8211;How To Cope If You Have a Narcissistic Mother</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Apr 2010 23:07:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Elaine</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Hi everyone.  May is approaching.  This is a big month for me. May 8th is my eldest child&#8217;s Party (on campus) in honor of his Graduation from College! We are so proud and awestruck how this child persevered through interviewing in this tough economy and was able to land &#8220;The Dream Job&#8221;!  So this will be a [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=hopehealing.wordpress.com&amp;blog=11141836&amp;post=948&amp;subd=hopehealing&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>April 19, 2010 Helpful Tips About Healing Childhood Pain&#8211;From Self-doubt To Finding Your True Purpose</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Apr 2010 02:05:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Elaine</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Hi everyone.  I hope you are able to enjoy the beauty in the spring flowering trees and all of the splashes of purple and pink that are so breathtaking&#8211;at least they are here where I am located.  Wherever you are, I am grateful for the technology of the internet that helps me to feel as if [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=hopehealing.wordpress.com&amp;blog=11141836&amp;post=913&amp;subd=hopehealing&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>April 12, 2010 You Don&#8217;t Need To Forgive Someone Who Is Not Sorry&#8211;Foregiveness Is For Your &#8220;Self&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://hopehealing.wordpress.com/2010/04/12/april-12-2010-you-dont-need-to-forgive-someone-who-is-not-sorry-foregiveness-is-for-your-self/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Apr 2010 02:08:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Elaine</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Hi everyone.  The surge of pollen in the air has me a little under the weather so I apologize for not writing a post sooner.  I have been wanting to share my song &#8220;Help Me to Forgive&#8221; for a while, but I wanted to explain what I mean by forgiveness because it can be such [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=hopehealing.wordpress.com&amp;blog=11141836&amp;post=885&amp;subd=hopehealing&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>APRIL 1, 2010 Guilt At Easter Time&#8211;and How To Cope If You Are Enforcing Boundaries On Your Narcissistic Parent</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Apr 2010 15:58:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Elaine</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Hi everyone.  Here comes Easter and some of you may be experiencing some guilt about not getting along with your families of origin (FOO).   My family did not have deep traditions at Easter&#8211;just Easter baskets that naturally stopped when I got older and not much pressure to call or get together with extended family.  But my husband [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=hopehealing.wordpress.com&amp;blog=11141836&amp;post=769&amp;subd=hopehealing&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>March 26, 2010 How My Best Counselor Helped Me to Break Through My Illusions and Self-doubt</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 26 Mar 2010 00:31:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Elaine</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Hi everyone. Yay it&#8217;s Spring!  I hope you are enjoying the beauty of nature as it comes to life again.  That&#8217;s how I&#8217;m feeling too&#8211;as if I am coming to life&#8211;happier than I&#8217;ve ever been in my life.   And it is a new feeling&#8211;I catch myself out of habit being tensed up in my shoulders [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=hopehealing.wordpress.com&amp;blog=11141836&amp;post=673&amp;subd=hopehealing&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>March 18, 2010 Trust in Your Desires as a Guide to your True Purpose in Life</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Mar 2010 17:32:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Elaine</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Hi Everyone.  I&#8217;ve had a very exciting week and I have lots to update you on.  First of all, I got an email back from Dr. Michael R. Smith and he said that my site is quite informative and is unique and important work.  He also gave me a link from his blog to mine under &#8220;Empath [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=hopehealing.wordpress.com&amp;blog=11141836&amp;post=514&amp;subd=hopehealing&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Mar. 7, 2010 Techniques for Journaling and Over-riding Your Inner Critic&#8211;For The Highly Sensitive Person (HSP)</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 07 Mar 2010 20:35:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Elaine</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Hi everyone.  I&#8217;m happy to be back.  Everything is very quiet in regards to my mother and extended family.  Thank goodness no more phone calls or emails&#8211;there were only about 2 short ones each since I began no contact.  So I feel I can relax and just enjoy moving forward.  I  had a wonderful vacation [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=hopehealing.wordpress.com&amp;blog=11141836&amp;post=411&amp;subd=hopehealing&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Mar. 1, 2010 From the Heart of an Obedient Child: The Painful Legacy Left Behind</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Mar 2010 15:37:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Elaine</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Hi everyone.  I am away on vacation.  So I am taking a short break from writing a post&#8211;but in keeping with the same subjects in my posts of late, I decided to share with you a poem I wrote about 2 years ago.  I hope you like it.    Love, Elaine     FROM THE HEART OF [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=hopehealing.wordpress.com&amp;blog=11141836&amp;post=375&amp;subd=hopehealing&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Feb. 20, 2010 Moving on from a Narcissistic Parent&#8211;A Former Obedient Child&#8217;s Fight For Freedom</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 20 Feb 2010 01:49:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Elaine</dc:creator>
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		<title>Feb. 12, 2010 Overcoming the Guilt From Standing Up To a Narcissitic Parent</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Feb 2010 17:36:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Elaine</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Hi everyone. Surprise!  I changed my &#8220;theme&#8221;&#8211;the look of the page&#8211;so you can read the text easier.  I liked the pink but this one is nice too.  I hope you like it!  Please leave a comment if you have a preference. I have some great news.  I went to my chiropractor and for the first time [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=hopehealing.wordpress.com&amp;blog=11141836&amp;post=342&amp;subd=hopehealing&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Feb. 4, 2010 My Ode to Michael Jackson</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Feb 2010 18:53:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Elaine</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Hi everyone.  Michael Jackson was definitely a highly sensitive person (HSP) with a narcissistic father and he suffered from much childhood pain because of it. There has been a lot about him on the news again lately. So it seemed timely and appropriate for me to write this post about him. I think it is wonderful that they [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=hopehealing.wordpress.com&amp;blog=11141836&amp;post=275&amp;subd=hopehealing&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Jan. 28, 2010 On Overcoming Self-doubt: The Story Behind My Songs of Hope and Healing</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 28 Jan 2010 20:34:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Elaine</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Hi everyone.  Today I am releasing the audio for my song A New Beginning.  To listen click here-&#62; A New Beginning .   I hope you like it. The recording is unedited and done in one take so bear with me.  Improvements are forthcoming.  It ties into my post for the week.  I hope you like it too. *You may listen to [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=hopehealing.wordpress.com&amp;blog=11141836&amp;post=230&amp;subd=hopehealing&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Jan. 21, 2010 Childhood Pain Comes Up to Heal When Things Are Going Well</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 22 Jan 2010 00:33:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Elaine</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Hi everyone.  The day after I released my post on No More Guilt you might be able to guess what happened&#8211;I woke up in the morning with the dreaded feeling of Guilt like a black cloud hanging over my head.  In the past I might have felt guilty and spiraled into negativity but thank goodness [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=hopehealing.wordpress.com&amp;blog=11141836&amp;post=183&amp;subd=hopehealing&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Jan.14, 2010 No More Guilt!</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 14 Jan 2010 02:46:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Elaine</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Hi everyone.  It&#8217;s a new year and it feels great because this is the first time in my life that I have ignored a guilt-inducing email and phone call from my mother.  And I don&#8217;t feel guilty!  This is big.  I feel a new sense of freedom and aliveness and inner peace.  What will happen?  [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=hopehealing.wordpress.com&amp;blog=11141836&amp;post=74&amp;subd=hopehealing&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>I Was Lost But Now I&#8217;ve Found Me</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Dec 2009 20:40:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Elaine</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Here is a sample of my music.  To listen: CLICK HERE =&#62; I Was Lost But Now I&#8217;ve Found Me *You may listen to my songs for free on this website. If you would like to save or download my songs though please make a donation.   Thank you for your support! LYRICS I Was Lost But [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=hopehealing.wordpress.com&amp;blog=11141836&amp;post=25&amp;subd=hopehealing&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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