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  1. <?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?><rss xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" xmlns:openSearch="http://a9.com/-/spec/opensearchrss/1.0/" xmlns:blogger="http://schemas.google.com/blogger/2008" xmlns:georss="http://www.georss.org/georss" xmlns:gd="http://schemas.google.com/g/2005" xmlns:thr="http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0" version="2.0"><channel><atom:id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24759294</atom:id><lastBuildDate>Mon, 25 Mar 2024 06:09:18 +0000</lastBuildDate><title>Conclusion Blogger</title><description>Jamie Bowers</description><link>http://conclusionblogger.blogspot.com/</link><managingEditor>noreply@blogger.com (Unknown)</managingEditor><generator>Blogger</generator><openSearch:totalResults>688</openSearch:totalResults><openSearch:startIndex>1</openSearch:startIndex><openSearch:itemsPerPage>25</openSearch:itemsPerPage><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24759294.post-2885814536153356297</guid><pubDate>Fri, 06 Apr 2007 19:23:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2007-04-06T12:34:52.196-07:00</atom:updated><title>I&#39;m jumpin in!</title><description>So here&#39;s the deal about what&#39;s going on with me right now.  I&#39;m not going to be writing here for awhile, I&#39;ve chosen to take on Thank Dog! and expanding the business.  I know I&#39;ve said this before but now I&#39;m putting myself into action.  I want this, so it&#39;s time to stop talking and start doing.  We have a blog on the &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.thankdogtraining.com&quot;&gt;web site&lt;/a&gt; where I&#39;ll be writing about what&#39;s going on and the progress we WILL be making.  Come and check us out!  Until then...see ya!</description><link>http://conclusionblogger.blogspot.com/2007/04/im-jumpin-in.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Unknown)</author><thr:total>0</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24759294.post-3395134766120365442</guid><pubDate>Sun, 01 Apr 2007 21:32:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2007-04-02T12:50:48.099-07:00</atom:updated><title>Another breakthrough weekend</title><description>HAHA!  This happens to me every time!  I feel that Kristen was the last piece of the puzzle to my whole Landmark experience.  Her name came up many times for me during each course that I have taken.  I resisted calling her, only because I didn&#39;t know why and what I was going to say.   What I got from this weekend is acknowledging my resentment towards her.  We used to be the best of friends all through college, up to the point when I moved.  After Jill and I lived in California for awhile, our relationship drifted and neither of us knew why.  I&#39;d go home for a visit, not wanting to be there because I felt Kristen didn&#39;t approve of me anymore.  While I was living that story, she was living a different one, which made her get that I didn&#39;t want to be there.  It turned into a whole lot of resentment and sadness.  I, subconsciously, cut her out of my life due to my act of &quot;You&#39;re not the boss of me!&quot;  After all, I felt rejection from the person who I looked up to the most...&quot;You&#39;re not the boss of me anymore, here I&#39;ll show you!&quot;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It felt really great getting it all out in the open.  Both of us have been carrying this around for almost 7 years and never talked about it once.  We both used the excuse, &quot;Oh, we don&#39;t talk much.  We&#39;re not that close anymore.&quot;  Wow, how ridiculous is that!?!  We both laughed after we shared the stories we&#39;ve been living about each other.  I feel like we got our sisterly love back and now we have two more days of fun together...life couldn&#39;t be any sweeter.</description><link>http://conclusionblogger.blogspot.com/2007/04/another-breakthrough-weekend.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Unknown)</author><thr:total>0</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24759294.post-5733485717257348935</guid><pubDate>Fri, 30 Mar 2007 16:39:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2007-03-30T09:52:51.183-07:00</atom:updated><title>This Weekend</title><description>Jill and I just dropped Kristen off at Landmark.  It was like seeing our little baby off for the first day of school.  I felt a little emotional....happy, excited, sad, and anxious all at the same time.    It&#39;s like that when a loved one goes through.  You want them to get as much out of it as possible and if that happens, sometimes it&#39;ll be an ass kicking and that&#39;s where my emotions are coming from.  I know what it feels like, so I know what could be in store for her.  Not saying it always has to be about tears and sadness to get those life changing breakthroughs, but it&#39;s definitely a possibility.  So yeah, I&#39;m all over the place right now...meaning this will probably be another Landmark Forum experience for me as well.  It happens EVERY TIME over these weekends.  If Kristen has a big breakthrough, most likely I&#39;ll have one too.  It&#39;s just how it goes... &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Awwwww....Krissy is all grown up;)  Hehe.</description><link>http://conclusionblogger.blogspot.com/2007/03/this-weekend.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Unknown)</author><thr:total>0</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24759294.post-5661994827837121933</guid><pubDate>Thu, 29 Mar 2007 21:58:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2007-03-29T16:25:37.665-07:00</atom:updated><title>Your turn sis!</title><description>Kristen, my older sister, is flying in this evening to do the Landmark Forum this weekend.  We&#39;re all very excited as I said in a previous post.  I&#39;m curious to see what it will hold for her and what she&#39;ll get out of it.  I don&#39;t have any expectations, you can&#39;t when one goes through.  After  all, everyone&#39;s experience is different, people dive in more than others, and stories are never the same.  I&#39;m just looking forward to having our traditional Landmark conversations every night. Those are the best and especially now since it&#39;ll be sharing we&#39;ve probably never had before.  FUN!</description><link>http://conclusionblogger.blogspot.com/2007/03/your-turn-sis.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Unknown)</author><thr:total>0</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24759294.post-1133123913369067059</guid><pubDate>Tue, 27 Mar 2007 15:18:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2007-03-27T16:20:14.659-07:00</atom:updated><title>A Perfect Sunday</title><description>Sunday was a wild and very fun day.  Calen and I stopped in at the &lt;span style=&quot;text-decoration: underline;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-style: italic;&quot;&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-style: italic;&quot;&gt;Abbey&lt;/span&gt; for a drink after we were finished running our errands.  It was a nice day out and since we had no plans for the evening we thought,&quot;What the hell?&quot;  It&#39;s funny, both of us get really shy when it&#39;s just us two in a gay bar.  It&#39;s silly because we both know how easy it is for us to make friends, but if it&#39;s us who has to make the first move...forget it.  Fear of rejection I&#39;m sure.  Anyway, we ended up knowing a few people there, so an automatic group formed and that&#39;s when the alcohol  took over the afternoon.  HA!  We were having so much fun talking to randoms, dancing a little here and there, and just making each other laugh.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;As the evening approached, we all came to a consensus that we weren&#39;t ready for the Sunday bar excursion to be over so that&#39;s when we walked over to &lt;span style=&quot;font-style: italic;&quot;&gt;Here&lt;/span&gt; for some dancing.  We stayed there for a bit, drank more, and danced to get our wiggles out.  Calen and I were with two other people at this point.  Unfortunately, they had to go home and that&#39;s when a text message from two of our other friends was received.  They wanted us to meet them for a late night dinner at 10.  We were all about it so to pass time we went and checked out &lt;span style=&quot;font-style: italic;&quot;&gt;Eleven,&lt;/span&gt; a bar that just opened that I haven&#39;t had the opportunity to check out yet.   It was great!  We sat at the bar and talked to everyone who was sitting there too.  We were making instant friends, having great conversation, and getting more drunk as the night when on.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;10 o&#39;clock arrived and it was time for dinner.  Calen and I took a cab to &lt;span style=&quot;font-style: italic;&quot;&gt;Basix &lt;/span&gt;and met our friends for some yummy dinner.  We were pretty drunk at this time, but still able to socialize properly...hehe.  When we finished, our friends dropped us off at &lt;span style=&quot;font-style: italic;&quot;&gt;East West&lt;/span&gt; to continue our night of spontaneity and fun.  We made friends with everyone who were sitting at the bar, which turned into a pizza party after they ordered a bunch from Domino&#39;s.  It was hilarious and so random.  We finally got home around 3 a.m. to call it a night.   I&#39;m so glad we did it and there wasn&#39;t a single plan made all day long...it was all on a whim and totally  unexpected.  Being spontaneous IS fun...more of that please!</description><link>http://conclusionblogger.blogspot.com/2007/03/perfect-sunday.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Unknown)</author><thr:total>0</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24759294.post-2647271702372470028</guid><pubDate>Fri, 23 Mar 2007 18:11:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2007-03-23T11:25:26.214-07:00</atom:updated><title>Here we go again!</title><description>Recently, I&#39;ve been having a bit of writer&#39;s block.  I know I&#39;ve written about this quite a few times before, so I guess it&#39;s that time again.  I can tell you how much I&#39;ve been enjoying my time off from Landmark.  Maybe that&#39;s it.  Maybe I&#39;m not analyzing myself so much anymore and I don&#39;t even realize it.  I have been feeling much more relaxed and also having breakthroughs that seemed impossible to me before.  Being vulnerable hasn&#39;t been an issue, my communication is better than ever, and my personal life, along with the people around me has hit another beginning of a new and exciting growth period.  I must say that life is pretty good right now and things are really starting to fall in place.  Wow, I can feel it by just writing this...</description><link>http://conclusionblogger.blogspot.com/2007/03/here-we-go-again.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Unknown)</author><thr:total>0</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24759294.post-82696414534517412</guid><pubDate>Wed, 21 Mar 2007 18:52:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2007-03-21T11:55:46.505-07:00</atom:updated><title>I haven&#39;t been writing due to...</title><description>Some personal things going on for the past two weeks and I&#39;m getting over my head cold that I&#39;ve had for 3 days now.  I&#39;m finally feeling better in all areas:)  YAY!</description><link>http://conclusionblogger.blogspot.com/2007/03/i-havent-been-writing-due-to.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Unknown)</author><thr:total>0</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24759294.post-7574516683938682354</guid><pubDate>Fri, 16 Mar 2007 15:41:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2007-03-16T13:14:17.238-07:00</atom:updated><title>My New Act</title><description>My parents and Torri did the Advanced Course together last weekend, it kind of just happened like that.  Thankfully, it was very successful.  They all got a ton out of it and really got where I&#39;ve been coming from with all this Landmark stuff.  So much that my parents, Jill, and Gina declared together on Wednesday, while I wasn&#39;t there, that my act of &quot;I&#39;m not good enough&quot; isn&#39;t my act at all.  They came to a consensus that my act is &quot;You&#39;re not the boss of me.&quot;  HA!  It TOTALLY fits in fact, it&#39;s still a running joke with my parents at home.  They actually say it to each other when they&#39;re being funny because that&#39;s what I used to say growing up.  Apparently, I was a stubborn one, not letting anyone tell me what to do and if they did, I&#39;d do the exact opposite...pretty much the way I still live my life.  Hehe.  Gina told me they came up with a bunch of examples of this, I&#39;m sure I can come up with a few myself but one word comes to mind when I think of this and it&#39;s resistance.  I wrote about it before, I resist everything and that&#39;s where this act comes to play...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;You don&#39;t think I should marry him?  You&#39;re not the boss of me, watch!  You  think you can treat me like that?  You&#39;re not the boss of me, I&#39;m moving to California! You think you can put me to sleep with mass amounts of IV Ativan? You&#39;re not the boss of me, I won&#39;t sleep for two weeks!  You don&#39;t think I should date her?  You&#39;re not the boss of me, now I like her even more.  You don&#39;t think Landmark will work?  You&#39;re not the boss of me, I&#39;m going to turn into a pretty butterfly!  You want me to be like this as a coach?  You&#39;re not the boss of me, I&#39;ll do it the way I want and I&#39;ll let everyone know about it! HA!  Yep, this is my act, I couldn&#39;t agree more...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Nice work family!</description><link>http://conclusionblogger.blogspot.com/2007/03/my-new-act.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Unknown)</author><thr:total>0</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24759294.post-6247750441728967828</guid><pubDate>Thu, 15 Mar 2007 15:34:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2007-03-15T09:42:14.804-07:00</atom:updated><title>The Do It Anyway Game</title><description>I started playing a game with myself that I used to do in the beginning of my transformation.  Anytime I want to get something done or go somewhere, if my head is making excuses to get out of it, I&#39;ll do it anyway.  It&#39;s my own mental challenge and it actually ends up being fun.  It&#39;s like telling my mind, &quot;I&#39;ll show you and I&#39;ll win!&quot;  I found that when I make it a game, I&#39;m much more productive and it creates new opportunities for me to practice the things I need to further my growth.  Examples of this are running those annoying errands I make excuses not to or being in social settings I avoid at all costs even though I really want to be there.  The minute I start talking myself out of things, I&#39;ll acknowledge it and do the exact opposite.  It&#39;s powerful because the distinction between the mind and what&#39;s so becomes very clear.   All those inner talks mean nothing and have nothing to do with reality and what I&#39;m capable of.  I&#39;ll admit it&#39;s definitely something to get used to, but when you do...it becomes second nature and your belief system of yourself becomes very positive.  Why did I quit then you ask?  Well, my mind took over and sometimes that will happen.  The most important thing to know is you can always start again because every day is a new day.  I did and these past few weeks have been incredible as far as my integrity goes.  It really is a powerful way to be and I&#39;m going to keep on playing and I invite you all to play too:)</description><link>http://conclusionblogger.blogspot.com/2007/03/do-it-anyway-game.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Unknown)</author><thr:total>1</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24759294.post-1886635055415746625</guid><pubDate>Tue, 13 Mar 2007 18:04:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2007-03-13T11:37:49.169-07:00</atom:updated><title>A Ridiculously Easy Day</title><description>I&#39;m subbing today at one of my favorite schools and all but 5 of my 31 5th grade students are out of the room, taking a 2 hour long english test. Talk about an easy day! Not only is that happening right now, but lunch today is for 35 minutes, AND it&#39;s early dismissal due to district wide professional development meetings that are held every Tuesday. Yep, the kids leave at 1:15 and I pretty much get to do what I want until 2:15, when school is over. It actually couldn&#39;t have worked out any better. I am only running on about 3 1/2 hours of sleep, due to a late night and good company. Seriously, subbing couldn&#39;t be anymore perfect today and not to mention what big sweeties these kids are:)</description><link>http://conclusionblogger.blogspot.com/2007/03/ridiculously-easy-day.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Unknown)</author><thr:total>2</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24759294.post-5514943779478585870</guid><pubDate>Tue, 13 Mar 2007 14:54:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2007-03-13T19:32:02.108-07:00</atom:updated><title>Sunday Night</title><description>I joined Marisa and Daniella for an evening at the Falcon, a bar that shows the L Word every Sunday night. A friend I haven&#39;t seen in awhile rented out a private room for all of us ladies to watch and mingle at the same time. It was super cool because I haven&#39;t been out in lesbian land for quite some time now, which has been intentional of course. Hehe. It&#39;s true, anytime I&#39;d go out it&#39;d be with my gay guy friends instead of throwing myself into a room full of new possibility and opportunity. Hmmm...what do I mean by that? Well, if you pointed me in the direction of a lesbian bar, I would walk the opposite way saying, &quot;No thanks. Maybe next time.&quot; In fact, the last few times I&#39;ve been in one was not because I wanted to go; but my friends dragged me there due to their love of the lady atmosphere. I&#39;m so weird about this stuff and I totally call myself out on it constantly. I&#39;m just glad I broke out of my shell finally because it hasn&#39;t always been like this for me. I used to be a little social butterfly, watching the &quot;view&quot; as I sip my beer. I could talk to anyone and really just have a good time, uncaring of how I was being in the moment. I&#39;m not sure when that changed, it&#39;s definitely been in the last year. Thankfully, I saw what I&#39;ve been missing...the relatedness and connection between gay women and I&#39;m ready to have that again. After all, having lesbian friends is really fun, it&#39;s unique in its own way. Well...it is for me anyway;)</description><link>http://conclusionblogger.blogspot.com/2007/03/sunday-night.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Unknown)</author><thr:total>0</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24759294.post-6551604840090013289</guid><pubDate>Mon, 12 Mar 2007 15:13:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2007-03-12T10:07:37.348-07:00</atom:updated><title>A New Challenge</title><description>From this day forward, I am decreasing the time I spend on the internet if it&#39;s not work related.  I came to a conclusion this weekend that I literally live in my computer, which has kept me in hiding, avoiding any type of possible connection with the outside world.  Yep, it makes me feel pretty silly saying so, but whatever because now I know what to do next and I&#39;m always open to learning a new lesson.  It&#39;s all a part of my growth process, to take responsibility and put it into action. My challenge here is:  Get off the damn computer and go be with people! I heard it loud and clear:)</description><link>http://conclusionblogger.blogspot.com/2007/03/new-challenge.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Unknown)</author><thr:total>0</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24759294.post-9192062136496792799</guid><pubDate>Fri, 09 Mar 2007 18:30:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2007-03-09T10:32:05.233-08:00</atom:updated><title>YAY!</title><description>My parents are in the Advanced Course right now.  Hehe...I can&#39;t wait to hear ALL about it;)</description><link>http://conclusionblogger.blogspot.com/2007/03/yay.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Unknown)</author><thr:total>0</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24759294.post-2775338403352819242</guid><pubDate>Thu, 08 Mar 2007 20:30:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2007-03-08T12:30:57.361-08:00</atom:updated><title>Cute!</title><description>&lt;a onblur=&quot;try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}&quot; href=&quot;http://3ec.us/creatingfun/imgs/albums/friendship/friends.jpg&quot;&gt;&lt;img style=&quot;margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px;&quot; src=&quot;http://3ec.us/creatingfun/imgs/albums/friendship/friends.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;&quot; border=&quot;0&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;</description><link>http://conclusionblogger.blogspot.com/2007/03/cute.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Unknown)</author><thr:total>0</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24759294.post-3009158902106815185</guid><pubDate>Thu, 08 Mar 2007 18:11:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2007-03-08T12:32:04.910-08:00</atom:updated><title>Subbing</title><description>I had my first experience of a Los Angeles high school today.  I&#39;m not subbing in an upper grade class, it just so happens that grades k-12 are on the same campus.  It was really strange to walk through the halls, I haven&#39;t been back in a high school for years and now I know why I chose NOT to sub for the older kids...I&#39;m really tiny compared to them.  Seriously, they towered over me, I felt like I was the kid.  Me intimidating?  Now way!  I mean what would I say?  &quot;Hi, I&#39;m Ms Bowers and although I look small, I can be really mean and scary.  So, you better watch out or I&#39;ll...I&#39;ll...tell your teacher on you!&quot;  Hehe.  Yeah, the thought of being a teacher in an upper grade class sounds like a terrible idea, therefore, elementary it is:)</description><link>http://conclusionblogger.blogspot.com/2007/03/subbing.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Unknown)</author><thr:total>1</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24759294.post-4924513205270176002</guid><pubDate>Mon, 05 Mar 2007 17:07:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2007-03-05T09:46:17.239-08:00</atom:updated><title>It&#39;s time to be healthy!</title><description>I&#39;m going on a health kick starting today. I&#39;ve been feeling like shit because of my lack of exercise, eating whatever I want, and just really not taking care myself as I usually do. Today, I am switching my eating habits to a more healthy plan and then going to the sporting goods store to buy a knee brace...the reason why I haven&#39;t been working out. It&#39;s time for me to take control of this part of my life because I do love it when I&#39;m into it. The times I&#39;ve always felt the best was when I&#39;m working out and eating right. I want to feel that again. I want to feel that I can physically do anything without question or concern. I want to feel strong and energized, the way I used to and not so fragile like I feel right now. I owe it to myself to be the best I can be and that includes my body. From here on out, I&#39;m taking this challenge on and ignoring those little voices that tell me not to. I&#39;m going to make a game of it and I&#39;m going to win dammit!</description><link>http://conclusionblogger.blogspot.com/2007/03/its-time-to-be-healthy.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Unknown)</author><thr:total>1</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24759294.post-9101642045622941596</guid><pubDate>Sun, 04 Mar 2007 17:22:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2007-03-07T16:13:18.321-08:00</atom:updated><title>YAY KRISTEN!</title><description>&lt;a onblur=&quot;try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}&quot; href=&quot;https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEioiK2s_642i6xr13zuwF3oC8n2yyqNQfsRzZMCi_rqk5v_07n4L5QkybJ3RC6YSblqH_05UtMvXVcBABUnSijlMEcyNSDfNxCfDJKrBz1ugeu5-snfGb9RDvFaXx29c3kaDcq9/s1600-h/kristenava.jpg&quot;&gt;&lt;img style=&quot;margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;&quot; src=&quot;https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEioiK2s_642i6xr13zuwF3oC8n2yyqNQfsRzZMCi_rqk5v_07n4L5QkybJ3RC6YSblqH_05UtMvXVcBABUnSijlMEcyNSDfNxCfDJKrBz1ugeu5-snfGb9RDvFaXx29c3kaDcq9/s400/kristenava.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;&quot; id=&quot;BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5039340048780193794&quot; border=&quot;0&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;My wonderful older sister Kristen signed up for the Forum and will be flying to LA at the end of this month to complete it.  It&#39;s so great!  She&#39;ll be coming home to us every night to talk about what she got during her long days of &quot;self&quot; boot camp.  It couldn&#39;t be anymore perfect because the four of us have found that the REAL Landmark doesn&#39;t occur until we&#39;re surrounded by our loved ones and are given the opportunity to share with one another.  We all popped this way.  As  I said before, transformation only occurs in language so in order to believe and live by what is learned, we have to share and thankfully Kristen will be doing that with us.  My household is very skilled in this area now so as  long as a participant is willing...we can listen, share, and coach anyone to really get what the Landmark Forum is about.  I&#39;m very excited for her and I have no doubt that she&#39;s going to kick some ass!   WOOHOO!</description><link>http://conclusionblogger.blogspot.com/2007/03/yay-kristen.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Unknown)</author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEioiK2s_642i6xr13zuwF3oC8n2yyqNQfsRzZMCi_rqk5v_07n4L5QkybJ3RC6YSblqH_05UtMvXVcBABUnSijlMEcyNSDfNxCfDJKrBz1ugeu5-snfGb9RDvFaXx29c3kaDcq9/s72-c/kristenava.jpg" height="72" width="72"/><thr:total>1</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24759294.post-3282496827131145999</guid><pubDate>Fri, 02 Mar 2007 14:56:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2007-03-02T07:43:02.572-08:00</atom:updated><title>Let&#39;s go!</title><description>It was my last night of being a coach in the Self-Expression Leadership Program and I am so happy to finally reach the end.  My participants were rock stars all the way through and I can&#39;t begin to tell you how proud I was to be their coach.  Acknowledged by Doris and the coaching team, my group was looked at as the powerhouse.  They lead the class every week along with their own lives outside of Landmark.  I was really present to each and everyone of their transformations.  They got so much out of doing this course, it was truly amazing to watch them grow into individuals along with being community leaders.  They really stepped up to the plate and I truly feel honored to be a part of what they accomplished.   That alone was worth all the time and energy I gave to this 4 month long course.  It was me being for other people and really getting how to be a stand for others and their lives. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;After all the participants left, we had our last coaching meeting.  Doris turned to me and  said, &quot;I have something to say to you.  You are a natural leader, you&#39;ve done miracles with your group, and I want you to consider being a head coach for another course.&quot;  Although, it was very flattering, to be acknowledged like that in front of everyone, I declined.   I told her it&#39;s time for me to take a breather, but thanked her for saying what she did.  It felt really great to finally say, &quot;Okay guys.  I&#39;m finished and I&#39;m going to live my life for me now.&quot;  As I mentioned before, I will definitely be doing future courses in Landmark, but not at this moment.  I feel like a free bird ready to take on life as I know it, as I want it, and as the possibilities I will continue to create for myself.  Anything is possible and I really get that now.  YAY!</description><link>http://conclusionblogger.blogspot.com/2007/03/lets-go.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Unknown)</author><thr:total>2</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24759294.post-5995262694885962313</guid><pubDate>Thu, 01 Mar 2007 22:53:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2007-03-01T15:02:48.327-08:00</atom:updated><title>JILL WON!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!</title><description>Yep, that&#39;s right!  Jill won the &lt;a href=&quot;http://lwordshirt.onlinepromo.com/phase5/winner.cfm&quot;&gt;L Word T-shirt&lt;/a&gt; contest and now she gets to claim her prize:  An all expense paid vacation to Los Angeles (hehe...she lives here), where she gets to stay in a luxury hotel for two nights and three days.  She&#39;ll be driven around town on a $500 shopping spree with &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.honeyldesigns.com/&quot;&gt;Honey Labrador&lt;/a&gt; and will also pocket $500 in cash. Oh and the best part is the T-shirts will be sold in all the Showtime stores and online as well.    YAY!  YAY!  YAY!</description><link>http://conclusionblogger.blogspot.com/2007/03/jill-won.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Unknown)</author><thr:total>1</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24759294.post-4244955782059181239</guid><pubDate>Wed, 28 Feb 2007 16:00:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2007-02-28T09:28:46.043-08:00</atom:updated><title>She jumped!  It&#39;s a big deal and a big day...</title><description>&lt;a onblur=&quot;try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}&quot; href=&quot;https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiHO30rwleX3u1uKJdVcLxOjNh_SNmnXmHbQy-iZELzTc2vefVufBv8COYZPWXg4C7kw1WGGQg7vM1M_ah2p_S-cs1qgHpNMHzxpfz3Kp8ao3yk4LWCerL2JFLYvggkD1nYqVkK/s1600-h/gquin.jpg&quot;&gt;&lt;img style=&quot;margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;&quot; src=&quot;https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiHO30rwleX3u1uKJdVcLxOjNh_SNmnXmHbQy-iZELzTc2vefVufBv8COYZPWXg4C7kw1WGGQg7vM1M_ah2p_S-cs1qgHpNMHzxpfz3Kp8ao3yk4LWCerL2JFLYvggkD1nYqVkK/s400/gquin.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;&quot; id=&quot;BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5036629722512947074&quot; border=&quot;0&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Well the day has finally arrived after 6 years of waiting.  Today is the last day Gina will ever have to walk through the doors of Norris Hospital ever again.  It&#39;s the end of the road, the long and excruciating stretch is over for her and a career transformation is about to begin.  &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.code-fiends.com/&quot;&gt;Code-Fiends&lt;/a&gt; is her baby now and I have no doubt it&#39;s going to be everything Jill and Gina ever imagined it to be.  They&#39;ve worked so hard to get it where it is today and business just keeps pouring in.  This is stuff that we already know, so now it&#39;s going to be all about Gina...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Wow lady.  You mutha  f***in did it!  We&#39;re all so proud of you for sticking through it the way you did.    You worked your ass off and not only at Norris, you literally kept two jobs almost the whole time and not to mention a third when Accoyo! was in season.  You&#39;re amazing, an inspiration, and you deserve everything you worked so hard for.  This is the time for you to shine, the time for you to really enjoy your life and everything you have in it.  You undoubtedly left an imprint on Norris and although they may not know it yet, they will.  How do I know?  Well, I observe you on a daily basis and I know how you throw yourself into everything you do.  They were LUCKY to have you.  Your work ethic is unstoppable and I can&#39;t wait to see what you make happen next.  Embrace it all Gina.  Live your life for you now because there&#39;s nothing else that could be more important than this moment.  You can do anything you want because you value the life that you&#39;ve already created.  I love you, I&#39;m so proud of you, and congratulations!  It&#39;s playtime baby!</description><link>http://conclusionblogger.blogspot.com/2007/02/she-jumped.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Unknown)</author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiHO30rwleX3u1uKJdVcLxOjNh_SNmnXmHbQy-iZELzTc2vefVufBv8COYZPWXg4C7kw1WGGQg7vM1M_ah2p_S-cs1qgHpNMHzxpfz3Kp8ao3yk4LWCerL2JFLYvggkD1nYqVkK/s72-c/gquin.jpg" height="72" width="72"/><thr:total>1</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24759294.post-5075168033708722995</guid><pubDate>Tue, 27 Feb 2007 21:03:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2007-02-27T14:44:56.027-08:00</atom:updated><title>Wanna believe in the Secret?</title><description>I went to the Bodhi Tree last week and purchased &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.brainsync.com/brain.asp?id=50&quot;&gt;The Secret Meditation&lt;/a&gt; cd.  The mediation is an hour long and it&#39;s to be played while sleeping.  It claims that after listening to it for 6 weeks every night,  suddenly the law of attraction is a reality and living by it isn&#39;t so difficult.  I was very intrigued so I bought it and listened to it in the car, on the way home.  Not a good idea and little did I know, it said it in the directions.  I couldn&#39;t believe how heavy I was when I arrived, I was so relaxed it was hard to move around.  Now, when I put my headphones on for bed, it literally puts me to sleep in 10 minutes.  It&#39;s awesome and I totally recommend you all to buy it, it&#39;s worth every penny!</description><link>http://conclusionblogger.blogspot.com/2007/02/wanna-believe-in-secret.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Unknown)</author><thr:total>0</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24759294.post-3491602218312427653</guid><pubDate>Thu, 22 Feb 2007 20:22:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2007-02-22T12:22:03.981-08:00</atom:updated><title>It&#39;s almost over</title><description>I&#39;m subbing for a 4th grade class today and they&#39;re trying so hard to get a reaction from me.  I just kind of sit back and laugh, they&#39;re so ridiculous they don&#39;t even know.  I kept 4 boys in for recess and they told me how mean I am and because my feelings weren&#39;t hurt, they kept getting frustrated.  I&#39;m so relaxed in this class, they literally can&#39;t stand it.  It&#39;s one try after another to piss me off, but I refuse to go there.  I just don&#39;t care enough for my mood to change, especially for a group of 9 year olds who have nothing to do with my life after 2:30 today.  2 hours and counting...</description><link>http://conclusionblogger.blogspot.com/2007/02/its-almost-over.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Unknown)</author><thr:total>2</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24759294.post-8629887222902051541</guid><pubDate>Mon, 19 Feb 2007 21:43:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2007-02-22T07:43:19.356-08:00</atom:updated><title>Break time!</title><description>I had a coaching call with my head coach earlier today.  She wanted coaching because she also wants to take a break from Landmark, to enjoy her life and her family.  I told her that&#39;s exactly what she should do, that I&#39;m not going to coach her into doing anything different.  Seriously, I was probably the wrong person to call if she wanted to be coached back into the course she&#39;s in.  I am all about independence and having a fulfilling life right now, outside of Landmark.  It&#39;s not to say anything negative about the education, not at all actually.  I love it, will forever stand by it, and will  do future courses.  I just believe that everyone should take the time at some point and apply what we learned to our life, without having a &quot;back up&quot; in case we fall.  I feel we need to  learn how to do it ourselves and THEN go back to Landmark when we&#39;re ready to take our growth to a whole new level.  That&#39;s how I&#39;m playing this game for now on...Life first, then Landmark.  Perfect:)</description><link>http://conclusionblogger.blogspot.com/2007/02/break-time.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Unknown)</author><thr:total>0</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24759294.post-9006612417644924161</guid><pubDate>Wed, 14 Feb 2007 21:09:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2007-02-14T13:23:59.188-08:00</atom:updated><title>Happy Valentine&#39;s and Single Awareness Day!</title><description>&lt;a onblur=&quot;try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}&quot; href=&quot;https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgnPgQwX_CJL5fs8lkoGFP6UJahzZp2X2n9eTcOtDgM7AXsweNDIGIfC5WwCItftQpANDeLgL2Jgz0F2N-tSoyV5K14VJV7cmZhXR5uAbM1uWUISyeyFW-IgqdJFUMdiS1AWEhJ/s1600-h/mejochbday1.jpg&quot;&gt;&lt;img style=&quot;margin: 0px auto 10px; 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