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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>Why Art Is Not a Hobby: On Building a Life Around Practice</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 21 May 2026 07:02:16 +0000</pubDate>
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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>
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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.
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		<title>Somethings are never resolved- May be that&#8217;s okay</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Roopa]]></dc:creator>
		<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>Joy vs Validation: Why Chasing Approval Brings Misery, Not Happiness</title>
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		<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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		<title>Dream vs Ability to dream</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 07 Sep 2025 15:25:07 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[We mourn lost dreams as if they take away our very power. But loss only takes the old story. It never takes our ability to dream again. Pause, reclaim your energy, and let a new dream, truer to your path, find its way through you.]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Life is a University: Embrace the Curriculum of Growth</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 24 Aug 2025 06:15:35 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Life is a University-stop whining, attend class.]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Tolerance, Adjustment , and Acceptance: The dance of Relationships</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Jun 2025 08:17:47 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Explore the difference between tolerance, adjustment, and true acceptance in relationships. This powerful reflection unpacks emotional patterns, power dynamics, and the cost of shrinking to fit in. Featuring Karna's story and real-world examples, it invites readers to build relationships rooted in clarity, dignity, and conscious self-acceptance.]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Don’t Feel Like It? Do It Anyway-Krishna’s Guide to Doing What Needs to Be Done</title>
		<link>https://talesofeverydayjoy.com/2025/06/22/dont-feel-like-it-do-it-anyway-krishnas-guide-to-doing-what-needs-to-be-done/</link>
		
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		<pubDate>Sun, 22 Jun 2025 15:50:12 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[“Feelings are valid, but they are not commands.
They are a compass, not the destination.
Krishna felt deeply, yet he did what needed to be done.
That is the quiet strength of dharma.”]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Cozy Spot: Growing, Evolving, and Aging Like a Fine Wine</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 21 Nov 2024 18:41:14 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[  This corner of my garden has gone through so many evolutions, and I’ve loved every single one. As the garden grows older, it gets richer, more colors, more textures, more depth. It’s fuller, creamier, velvety, and just deliciously alive. It’s the same with us, isn’t it? We all evolve, layer by layer. But here’s [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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