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	<description>TALKING WITH LIFE COACH ABIGAIL STEIDLEY ABOUT VULVODYNIA, PAINFUL SEX, VULVAR AND VAGINAL PAIN, IC, AND OTHER PAINFUL PELVIC PROBLEMS - HOW TO FEEL BETTER WHEN YOU'VE NEVER FELT WORSE</description>
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		<title>Focusing on Pain</title>
		<link>http://vulvodyniacoach.wordpress.com/2008/05/06/focusing-on-pain/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 06 May 2008 20:41:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Abigail Steidley</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[I’d like to let you know that I am now also writing for Dr. Echenberg’s website, Secret Suffering.  I hope you enjoy the articles as well as the site, which is jam-packed with helpful information.
When you&#8217;re in pain, it can be difficult to think about anything else.  Pain becomes the boss, dictating what activities you [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Lessons Learned</title>
		<link>http://vulvodyniacoach.wordpress.com/2008/05/01/lessons-learned/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 01 May 2008 00:22:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[anxiety]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[breathing techniques]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[breathing to help pain]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Eckhart Tolle]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[interstitial cystis]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Oprah]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[relaxation]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I’d like to let you know that I am now also writing for Dr. Echenberg’s website, Secret Suffering.  I hope you enjoy the articles as well as the site, which is jam-packed with helpful information.
I often think I&#8217;ve thoroughly learned something and then life throws me a new experience that takes me deeper than ever [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Feeling the Healing</title>
		<link>http://vulvodyniacoach.wordpress.com/2008/04/23/feeling-the-healing/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Apr 2008 18:37:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Abigail Steidley</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;d like to let you know that I am now also writing for Dr. Echenberg&#8217;s website, Secret Suffering.  I hope you enjoy the articles as well as the site, which is jam-packed with helpful information.
I&#8217;ve been sick this week, and it has reminded me of an important idea I&#8217;ve been meaning to share.  A few [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Letting Fear Drive</title>
		<link>http://vulvodyniacoach.wordpress.com/2008/04/15/letting-fear-drive/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Apr 2008 18:28:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Abigail Steidley</dc:creator>
		
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		<category><![CDATA[Vulvar vestibulitis syndrome]]></category>

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		<category><![CDATA[fear]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Steering by Starlight]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Most of us are not hoping to wake up every morning and feel intense panic or desperate fear.  If we could ask for anything, we&#8217;d probably ask for peace.  Peace for others, peace for the entire planet, and peace within ourselves.  Yet, when we face health problems and physical pain, peace seems impossible.  Fear and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Pain: The Messenger</title>
		<link>http://vulvodyniacoach.wordpress.com/2008/04/07/pain-the-messenger/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Apr 2008 23:48:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Abigail Steidley</dc:creator>
		
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		<category><![CDATA[Vulvodynia]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[chronic pain]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[interstitial cystitis]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[vulvar pain]]></category>

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		<category><![CDATA[dealing with pain]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Eckhart Tolle]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[vulvar vestibulitis]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://vulvodyniacoach.wordpress.com/?p=44</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[After years of struggling with physical pain and other uncomfortable sensations such as vulvar burning, rawness, and itching, I felt exhausted.  I was so sick of pain I wanted to give up, somehow, or run away.  I longed to jump out of my own skin and just escape.  I was going crazy dealing with the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Crazy Woman Syndrome</title>
		<link>http://vulvodyniacoach.wordpress.com/2008/04/01/the-crazy-woman-syndrome/</link>
		<comments>http://vulvodyniacoach.wordpress.com/2008/04/01/the-crazy-woman-syndrome/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Apr 2008 22:03:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Abigail Steidley</dc:creator>
		
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		<category><![CDATA[anxiety]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[bladder problems]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[doctor frustration]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://vulvodyniacoach.wordpress.com/?p=43</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[When I was 19, I started having very strange bladder problems.  I noticed I always felt like I needed to urinate, and yet I never felt as though I could quite empty my bladder.  I woke up several times a night to use the restroom.  Sometimes I had to sit and wait on the toilet [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Calling all Perfectionists and Overachievers</title>
		<link>http://vulvodyniacoach.wordpress.com/2008/03/26/calling-all-perfectionists-and-overachievers/</link>
		<comments>http://vulvodyniacoach.wordpress.com/2008/03/26/calling-all-perfectionists-and-overachievers/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 26 Mar 2008 23:16:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Abigail Steidley</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Life Coaching]]></category>

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		<category><![CDATA[Vulvar vestibulitis syndrome]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Vulvodynia]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[chronic pain]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[vulvar pain]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[vulvodynia support]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Following Your North Star]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[overachievers]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[pelvic pain]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[perfectionists]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://vulvodyniacoach.wordpress.com/?p=42</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I’ve been noticing a trend lately while working with women suffering from health issues.  I coach women with pelvic pain issues of any variety, and I can’t help but notice some commonalities.  I am no longer surprised when I hear person after person describe herself as a perfectionist, an overachiever, a type A personality, an [...]]]></description>
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			<media:title type="html">Abigail</media:title>
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		<title>It&#8217;s Perfect</title>
		<link>http://vulvodyniacoach.wordpress.com/2008/03/21/its-perfect/</link>
		<comments>http://vulvodyniacoach.wordpress.com/2008/03/21/its-perfect/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 21 Mar 2008 17:40:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Abigail Steidley</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Life Coaching]]></category>

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		<category><![CDATA[Vulvar vestibulitis syndrome]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Vulvodynia]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[chronic pain]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[vulvar pain]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[vulvodynia support]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[dealing with pain]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Today my “What If” post is being featured on Sandy Robinson&#8217;s blog, Fighting Fatigue.  Take a look at her fantastic site! 
In Martha Beck coaching, we coaches have a question we love to ask our clients.  When they are facing a something they find unpleasant or frustrating, we ask, “Why is this experience perfect for you right [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What If</title>
		<link>http://vulvodyniacoach.wordpress.com/2008/03/18/what-if/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 18 Mar 2008 01:32:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Abigail Steidley</dc:creator>
		
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		<category><![CDATA[vulvar pain]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[vulvodynia support]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[depression]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[hysterectomy]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[pain]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[the law of attraction]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[The Secret]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I recently coached a client through a hysterectomy, working on her fears about the surgery, her worries about anesthesia, and her concerns about her doctors.  Health crises bring surges of emotion into our lives, and if we don’t know what to do with all these emotions, we run the risk of making the experience much [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Being Grateful</title>
		<link>http://vulvodyniacoach.wordpress.com/2008/03/14/being-grateful/</link>
		<comments>http://vulvodyniacoach.wordpress.com/2008/03/14/being-grateful/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 14 Mar 2008 19:14:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Abigail Steidley</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[When I was in the midst of my physical pain and emotional turmoil, I saw an Oprah show where the guest was talking about feeling grateful for experiencing illness.  I can’t remember now what illness this person suffered from, or what the whole show was about, but I do remember how very annoyed I was [...]]]></description>
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