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		<title>The Aggressive Happiness Method: An Epic Treatise on How To Feel Awesome 99% of The Time!</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Apr 2012 05:00:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Shawn Maxam</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Pain is inevitable, but misery is optional. We cannot avoid pain, but we can avoid joy. -Tim Hansel The major obstacle I have encountered to being happy is a tendency of dwelling on the past, ignoring the present or obsessing about the future. Doing each of these alone is a catalyst towards incessant sadness but added together this psychological approach [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=forshawnel.com&#038;blog=19728428&#038;post=963&#038;subd=forshawneldotcom&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Cliches: How We Often Sell Ourselves Short In A Society Obsessed With Simplicity</title>
		<link>http://forshawnel.com/2012/04/23/cliches-how-we-often-sell-ourselves-short-in-a-society-obsessed-with-simplicity/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Apr 2012 14:19:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Shawn Maxam</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[If you are lonely when you&#8217;re alone, you are in bad company. -Jean-Paul Sartre 1st Class Citizens: Freedom, access to education/information 2nd Class Citizens: Oppression, tyranny and fear Life is far more nuanced than a quote from a fortune cookie. We minimize our individuality and the uniqueness of our lived circumstances when we resort to common used [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=forshawnel.com&#038;blog=19728428&#038;post=946&#038;subd=forshawneldotcom&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Goddess Complex and The Death of My Infallible Mother</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Apr 2012 14:45:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Shawn Maxam</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I am a flawed human being &#8211; a far more flawed human being than you realize. -Haruki Murakami Have  you ever had realizations so jarring that your emotional psyche is forever changed? The landscape of a basic belief you probably held since childhood is destroyed and gone forever. Akin to when you were told Santa Clause doesn&#8217;t exist [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=forshawnel.com&#038;blog=19728428&#038;post=951&#038;subd=forshawneldotcom&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>5 Years, 4 Hospitals, 3 Near Suicides, 2 Masters Degrees &amp; 1 Unsolved Murder: The Lives, Deaths and Nuances of Shawn Maxam</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 07 Apr 2012 02:07:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Shawn Maxam</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Actions are always more complex and nuanced than they seem. We have to be willing to wrestle with paradox in pursuing understanding. -Harold Evans April 10th, 2012 is the five-year anniversary of my Bipolar Disorder diagnosis. I may have only physically aged five years but my emotional growth during this time has been enormous. I have learned that happiness [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=forshawnel.com&#038;blog=19728428&#038;post=927&#038;subd=forshawneldotcom&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Emotional Maturity, Boundaries and Why Most of the People You Know Aren&#8217;t Actually Adults</title>
		<link>http://forshawnel.com/2012/03/15/emotional-maturity-boundaries-and-why-most-of-the-people-you-know-arent-actually-adults/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Mar 2012 17:45:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Shawn Maxam</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Maturity is the ability to think, speak and act your feelings within the bounds of dignity. The measure of your maturity is how spiritual you become during the midst of your frustrations. -Samuel Ullman The ability to recognize boundaries is very difficult. Many of us believe we are emotionally mature individuals but the test to determine if this [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=forshawnel.com&#038;blog=19728428&#038;post=917&#038;subd=forshawneldotcom&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Difference between Typical, Normal and Healthy: Definitions of Existence</title>
		<link>http://forshawnel.com/2012/02/16/the-difference-between-typical-normal-and-healthy-definitions-of-existence/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 17 Feb 2012 04:17:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Shawn Maxam</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[To be normal is the ideal aim of the unsuccessful. - Carl Gustav Jung I recently realized how loaded the word normal is? It essentially means acceptable to society. But normal is subjective and colored by prejudice, lack of knowledge and the mores of the place and times we live in. Perfect example is how interracial relationships were [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=forshawnel.com&#038;blog=19728428&#038;post=906&#038;subd=forshawneldotcom&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Why I Am Not Afraid To Fail!</title>
		<link>http://forshawnel.com/2012/02/08/why-i-am-not-afraid-to-fail/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Feb 2012 21:08:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Shawn Maxam</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Remembering that I&#8217;ll be dead soon is the most important tool I&#8217;ve ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life. Because almost everything &#8211; all external expectations, all pride, all fear of embarrassment or failure &#8211; these things just fall away in the face of death, leaving only what is truly important. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=forshawnel.com&#038;blog=19728428&#038;post=890&#038;subd=forshawneldotcom&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Don Cornelius and The Day the Myth of Black Suicide Died</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 04 Feb 2012 02:11:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Shawn Maxam</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[For many centuries, suicides were treated like criminals by the society. That is part of the terrible legacy that has come down into society&#8217;s method of handling suicide recovery. Now we have to fight off the demons that have been hanging around suicide for centuries. -Judy Collins On a February 1st, 2012 Soul Train founder [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=forshawnel.com&#038;blog=19728428&#038;post=878&#038;subd=forshawneldotcom&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>JOHN 3:16, The difference between Sacrifice &amp; Difficulty and The Short-Cut Fallacy</title>
		<link>http://forshawnel.com/2012/01/24/john-316-the-difference-between-sacrifice-difficulty-and-the-short-cut-fallacy/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Jan 2012 19:59:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Shawn Maxam</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[There would be far less suffering amongst mankind, if men &#8212; and God knows why they are so fashioned &#8212; did not employ their imaginations so assiduously in recalling the memory of past sorrow, instead of bearing their present lot with *equanimity. -Goethe  *equanimity - Mental calmness, composure, and evenness of temper, esp. in a difficult [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=forshawnel.com&#038;blog=19728428&#038;post=868&#038;subd=forshawneldotcom&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Everyone&#8217;s Special But No One&#8217;s Unique</title>
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		<dc:creator>Shawn Maxam</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Judge a man by his questions rather than by his answers. -Voltaire Special: Surpassing what is common or usual; exceptional Unique: Being the only one of its kind, Without an equal or equivalent; unparalleled Whether it is arrogance, hopefulness, ignorance, wishful thinking or some other motivating factor human beings all want to be different. I often thought many [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=forshawnel.com&#038;blog=19728428&#038;post=859&#038;subd=forshawneldotcom&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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