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		<title>Is money controlling your life?</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 21 Jul 2026 04:57:53 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Money is a powerful tool, but it should never become your identity. In this personal reflection, I explore the two money traps of having too little and having too much, and how redefining my relationship with wealth helped me find something far more valuable than financial success: freedom and peace.]]></description>
		
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		<title>How To Rebuild Financially After a Major Loss?</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 20 Jul 2026 12:29:25 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Rebuilding financially after a major loss can feel overwhelming, especially when you're starting over with responsibilities and uncertainty. In this personal story, I share how I rebuilt my financial life after becoming a single mother, the mistakes I made, and the five money lessons that transformed my relationship with wealth. From learning to pay myself first to understanding that financial freedom is really about having choices, these principles helped me move from survival to independence. If you're wondering how to rebuild financially after divorce, job loss, or any life upheaval, I hope my journey offers both practical guidance and hope.]]></description>
		
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		<title>Is It Possible to Experience Profound Grief and Everyday Joy at the Exact Same Time?</title>
		<link>https://talesofeverydayjoy.com/2026/07/13/is-it-possible-to-experience-profound-grief-and-everyday-joy-at-the-exact-same-time/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Roopa]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 13 Jul 2026 04:04:32 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[Deeper Healing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Embracing Chaos & Pain]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[finding joy while grieving]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[glimmers]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[Yes, you can hold profound grief and everyday joy in the same day. Joy does not betray what you lost. With time the grey becomes the backdrop, and the small yellows, a line of sun, a cup of tea, look brighter against it. The question: can you let it bloom?]]></description>
		
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		<title>The Self-Made Person Is a Myth</title>
		<link>https://talesofeverydayjoy.com/2026/06/22/the-self-made-person-is-a-myth/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Roopa]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Jun 2026 08:00:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[gratitude]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[We celebrate the self-made. The older I get, the less I believe in them. &#8220;I built this myself.&#8221; We celebrate these words. We put them on magazine covers, repeat them in commencement speeches, admire people who seem to have risen by sheer force of will. But the older I get, the less I believe in [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>How to rebuild yourself after loss. Not your life!</title>
		<link>https://talesofeverydayjoy.com/2026/06/07/how-to-rebuild-yourself-after-loss-not-your-life/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 07 Jun 2026 06:37:02 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[When rebuilding after loss focusing one oneself is the best way to move forward. Small consistent habits pay off.]]></description>
		
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		<title>Why Art Is Not a Hobby: On Building a Life Around Practice</title>
		<link>https://talesofeverydayjoy.com/2026/05/21/why-art-is-not-a-hobby-on-building-a-life-around-practice/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 21 May 2026 07:02:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Dance]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[I have been dancing since I was five. Not as a hobby. As a practitioner who has organised life around it through every season. Education. Deaths. Motherhood. Rebuild. Someone once told me no one cares if you don't dance. It was the most liberating thing I ever heard.]]></description>
		
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		<title>The Garden Heals</title>
		<link>https://talesofeverydayjoy.com/2026/05/11/the-garden-heals/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 11 May 2026 16:39:02 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[I spent years heartbroken over the flowers I didn’t receive.

Then life fell apart, and I began planting things instead.

A plant here. A flower there. Small acts of care repeated over years.

One day, I realized:
I had become someone capable of growing an entire garden.

The garden is still growing.
]]></description>
		
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		<title>Somethings are never resolved- May be that&#8217;s okay</title>
		<link>https://talesofeverydayjoy.com/2026/01/30/somethings-are-never-resolved-may-be-thats-okay/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Jan 2026 07:04:18 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[We rush to resolve not because we're ready ,but because clean feels safe. Sorted means "I made it." And "I made it" means no one can judge me.
But performed life is not lived life.
Some things are never resolved. Maybe that's okay.]]></description>
		
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		<title>Freedom Doesn’t feel like You think it does</title>
		<link>https://talesofeverydayjoy.com/2025/10/15/freedom-doesnt-feel-like-you-think-it-does/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Roopa]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 15 Oct 2025 07:44:02 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[We imagine freedom as the day pain disappears. But real freedom is quieter—doing what needs to be done even when it still hurts. Showing up, creating, nurturing, and living alongside the wound. You’re not stuck. You’re already free—you just didn’t recognize it.]]></description>
		
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		<title>Joy vs Validation: Why Chasing Approval Brings Misery, Not Happiness</title>
		<link>https://talesofeverydayjoy.com/2025/09/16/joy-vs-validation-why-chasing-approval-brings-misery-not-happiness/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Roopa]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Sep 2025 12:14:08 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Chasing validation is a sure path to misery. Joy, however, is born of fullness—a heart that gives, heals, and lets go. It lives in coffee steam, sunlight on skin, even the sacred light across a lover’s body.]]></description>
		
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