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		<title>Do You Really Not Know What to Do, or Are You Afraid of the Answer You Already Have?</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 02 Oct 2026 06:00:02 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Sometimes 'I don't know what to do' is guilt, shame and fear in front of an answer you already have. Three questions to separate them and find your next step.]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Can You Grieve the Life You Didn&#8217;t Get and Still Enjoy the One You Have?</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 02 Oct 2026 05:59:47 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[It is okay to grieve the love, marriage or career you imagined and still want more. The risk is letting that unlived life steal the one you are living now.]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>How to Let go, Forgive and love yourself</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 31 Jul 2026 06:55:29 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[We chase the outcome, self love, peace, forgiveness, while ignoring the input that produces it. Self love is a byproduct of self-trust. Letting go is a byproduct of building. Forgiveness is a byproduct of outgrowing. Focus on the action, not the outcome. It works, invariably.]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Is It Possible to Experience Profound Grief and Everyday Joy at the Exact Same Time?</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 13 Jul 2026 04:04:32 +0000</pubDate>
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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>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Jun 2026 08:00:36 +0000</pubDate>
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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>
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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>Somethings are never resolved- May be that&#8217;s okay</title>
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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>
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		<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>
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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>
		<link>https://talesofeverydayjoy.com/2025/09/07/dream-vs-ability-to-dream/</link>
		
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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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