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	<description>A Healing Guide For Parents of Young Addicts</description>
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		<title>Part 2: “Love Everything Alive”</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 27 Feb 2012 12:05:23 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Part 2: “Love Everything Alive”  By Reverend Charles F. Harper M.Div.  Spiritual Care Counselor , Betty Ford Center  &#160; “ To ease another’s heartache is to forget one’s own.”       Abraham Lincoln   &#160; In this series we have been explorng what it means to be in a place of spiritual awakening. Specifically, what [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Signs of A Spiriutal Awakening</title>
		<link>http://www.amazinggrief.com/2012/02/23/signs-of-a-spiriutal-awakening/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 23 Feb 2012 19:05:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Part 1: Celebrate Yourself ! By  Rev. Charles F. Harper M.Div. Spiritual Counselor , Betty Ford Center  &#160; “Sel love, my liege, is not so vile a sin as self neglect.” William Shakespeare &#160; In AA/NA we always suggest to newcomers seeking a sponsor that they should find a spoinosr who has some “thing” , [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Betty Ford Center Spiritual Counselors Book Wins Award</title>
		<link>http://www.amazinggrief.com/2011/11/28/betty-ford-center-spiritual-counselors-book-wins-award/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Nov 2011 14:41:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Amazing Grief: A Healing Guide for Parents of Young Addicts by Rev. Charles F. Harper, M.Div., has been selected as a winner of the USA Best Books 2011 Awards. Reverend Harper is a spiritual counselor at the Betty Ford Center. The publication took first place in the category of Health: Addiction &#38; Recovery, according to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Self Pity &#8211; Video from Rev. Harper</title>
		<link>http://www.amazinggrief.com/2011/10/24/self-pity-video-from-rev-harper/</link>
		<comments>http://www.amazinggrief.com/2011/10/24/self-pity-video-from-rev-harper/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 24 Oct 2011 10:00:23 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Self Pity is a natural stage of grief and outcome of depression. Learn more in this video: Watch the video. Full screen available. Get the book Amazing Grief  &#160; Tweet This Post]]></description>
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		<title>Virtue of Honesty: To Thy Own Self Be True</title>
		<link>http://www.amazinggrief.com/2011/10/17/virtue-of-honesty-to-thy-own-self-be-true/</link>
		<comments>http://www.amazinggrief.com/2011/10/17/virtue-of-honesty-to-thy-own-self-be-true/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 17 Oct 2011 10:00:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Reverend Charles F. Harper, M.Div. All honesty, whether it’s telling the truth about chopping down a cherry tree, or stopping the impulse to take or keep something that is not ours, or avoiding the inflation of our image with a spin of fiction, begins by facing the truth about who we are. No matter [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Why do Recovery Programs?</title>
		<link>http://www.amazinggrief.com/2011/10/10/why-do-recovery-programs/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 10 Oct 2011 09:00:48 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#160; Why do I believe in recovery program? Families and friends are spending thousands upon thousands of dollars to send their loved one away to a recovery program. Recovering addicts are spending thousands of hours away from the familiarity of home and family and friends. All this with no guarantees that they’ll be better off [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Signs of Spiritual Freedom: Love of Self : Passion for Compassion</title>
		<link>http://www.amazinggrief.com/2011/10/03/signs-of-spiritual-freedom-love-of-self-passion-for-compassion/</link>
		<comments>http://www.amazinggrief.com/2011/10/03/signs-of-spiritual-freedom-love-of-self-passion-for-compassion/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 03 Oct 2011 10:00:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[As we travel through the rough terrain of the strange land of addiction, we can suffer from compassion burn out, not onIy around our suffering child but also toward all those in our family or close circle of friends with whom we have shared our compassion and love in the past. I appreciate it when [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Signs of Spiritual Freedom: Joie de Vivre</title>
		<link>http://www.amazinggrief.com/2011/09/26/signs-of-spiritual-freedom-joie-de-vivre/</link>
		<comments>http://www.amazinggrief.com/2011/09/26/signs-of-spiritual-freedom-joie-de-vivre/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Sep 2011 10:00:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[As parents of an addict, or as an addict for that matter, the simple pleasures of life can be lost in the haze of our fear and trembling as we rush from stone to stone in search of a solution. Pleasure is an attitude toward one’s being that should be nurtured. An attitude commonly referred [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Signs of Spiritual Freedom: Love of Self</title>
		<link>http://www.amazinggrief.com/2011/09/19/signs-of-spiritual-freedom-love-of-self/</link>
		<comments>http://www.amazinggrief.com/2011/09/19/signs-of-spiritual-freedom-love-of-self/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Sep 2011 17:38:54 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Self Love]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Even in the midst of our child’s relentlessly painful and grief filled addiction we have the possibility of discovering moments of spiritual freedom for ourselves. The question is what does spiritual freedom look like? I’ve identified seven signs of spiritual freedom. Here’s one of them. As parents of an addict , or as an addict [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Why is it so hard for your child to get and stay sober?</title>
		<link>http://www.amazinggrief.com/2011/09/12/why-is-it-so-hard-for-your-child-to-get-and-stay-sober/</link>
		<comments>http://www.amazinggrief.com/2011/09/12/why-is-it-so-hard-for-your-child-to-get-and-stay-sober/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Sep 2011 09:30:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[They don’t believe in a higher power, and addiction is a spiritual disease that requires a spiritual solution. Young ad- dicts are no strangers to the spiritual. When they drink and drug, they are chemically filling “the hole in their soul.” Theologians call it a “higher-power hunger.” Martin Luther said, “Whatever thy heart clings to [...]]]></description>
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