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		<title>Emotional Training Helps Kids Fight Depression : NPR</title>
		<link>http://lunasmom.com/archives/276</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 18 Jan 2010 06:45:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Emotional Training Helps Kids Fight Depression : NPR.
This is a brilliant effort at nipping the downward spiral in the bud when children are at their most formative, and it is definitely running parallel to what I am trying to work on with my son.

Over the last two days my son has discovered the word &#8220;hate.&#8221; [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Being Latino</title>
		<link>http://lunasmom.com/archives/274</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 13 Dec 2009 17:14:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[It has taken me a long time, and having my own children, to come to terms with my identity. I had to learn how to live my life as me, the whole me, not just one aspect of me. Not just my cultural identity, but who I am at the core, the essence of my existence. How I would define myself, what it means to be me. What are my likes and dislikes, aversions and motivations. Who am I? All of it despite any box I might have to check or any box into which other people might want to put me.]]></description>
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		<title>An Open Letter to My Children</title>
		<link>http://lunasmom.com/archives/272</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Nov 2009 02:39:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>lunasmom</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I was daydreaming just now, thinking about a conversation I had earlier with another parent. We were discussing the issues his son was having in school, how amotivated his child was and their struggle to get him to make an effort. It got me to thinking about what motivates our children to achieve and then [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Remembrance Day</title>
		<link>http://lunasmom.com/archives/267</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Nov 2009 17:30:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>lunasmom</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I think my father lived in the shadow of a brother with whom he could never compete. This brother was well-liked, affable by all accounts. He died in combat in 1966, a casualty of the conflict in Vietnam. He died just shy of his 21st birthday and thus, he will always live and loom larger [...]]]></description>
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		<title>It&#8217;s been quite a summer</title>
		<link>http://lunasmom.com/archives/256</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 23 Aug 2009 22:16:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>lunasmom</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve spent the time on leave from school, working hard on my project at work (summer is our busy season), spending time with my children and working on trying to declutter my house. I didn&#8217;t get all THAT far in the decluttering department, but I have made some important headway and that&#8217;s enough for me [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Where I&#8217;ve been</title>
		<link>http://lunasmom.com/archives/254</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Jun 2009 16:42:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>lunasmom</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The last month or so, I have basically been underwater. In addition to work, school, pets, kids,  enduring the absence of my husband, finishing out the church school year, choir, and trying out a new extracurricular activity (soccer), I also have weathered a few health issues, including chronic back pain due (apparently and surprisingly) to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Part 3: Treatment, Adherence, Crisis, and Stigma</title>
		<link>http://lunasmom.com/archives/234</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 20 Apr 2009 05:10:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>lunasmom</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In ye olde days, doctors used to call it &#8220;compliance.&#8221; You were prescribed medication and if you took your meds, you were compliant. If, for whatever reason, you did not take your meds, you were labeled &#8220;non-compliant&#8221; with all the attendant bad juju that went with it. Non-compliant was fairly well synonymous with &#8220;difficult&#8221; or [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Part 1: Diagnosis, Misdiagnosis, and Manifestations</title>
		<link>http://lunasmom.com/archives/212</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 17 Apr 2009 05:30:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>lunasmom</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Someone recently related to me that they had received a diagnosis but weren&#8217;t sure they accepted it. I have seen this scenario played out in the bipolar community many times: &#8220;But I am not psychotic/manic/suicidal&#8221; etc. The &#8220;problem&#8221; with diagnosis, with any kind of labeling or categorization of a person&#8217;s personality or identity or deeply [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Four Part Series: Diagnosis, Denial, Treatment, and Personal Accountability</title>
		<link>http://lunasmom.com/archives/214</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 17 Apr 2009 03:13:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>lunasmom</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I have been thinking about mental wellness over the past few days, in response to the idea that a patient might not accept a diagnosis and the role diagnosis plays in mental wellness. I&#8217;ve also been thinking about the concept of &#8220;reframing&#8221; that my therapist has me working on, and the concept of mental illness. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Finagle&#8217;s Law of Dynamic Negatives</title>
		<link>http://lunasmom.com/archives/203</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 11 Apr 2009 16:19:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>lunasmom</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Finagle&#8217;s Law of Dynamic Negatives (also known as Finagle&#8217;s corollary to Murphy&#8217;s Law) is usually rendered:

Anything that can go wrong, will—at the worst possible moment

One variant (known as O&#8217;Toole&#8217;s Corollary of Finagle&#8217;s Law) favored among hackers is a takeoff on the second law of thermodynamics (also known as entropy):


The perversity of the Universe tends towards [...]]]></description>
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