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		<title>Feeling Blue? Pick Yourself Back up with Some Positive Emotion suggests from Asheville Therapist Deborah Barnett, Ph.D.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Many people from time to time feel blue, depressed, or anxious. For some people these emotions are a common experience. Whether depression or anxiety is familiar to you or a rare occurrence, it is helpful to have tools to pick yourself back up when needed.
Positivity Portfolio
One way to increase positive emotion is to create positivity [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://deborahbarnett.com/blog/?p=199</link>
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		<title>Tony Robbins “Breakthrough” Season Premiere is Tuesday July 27th 8/7c. Positive Psychologist and Coach is Full of Curiosity</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Tony Robbins is one of those guys for whom the answer, “Fine.” To the question “How are you?” is not good enough. He helps people achieve massive amounts of success. He is not interested in people getting better, but in having them thrive! ]]></description>
		<link>http://deborahbarnett.com/blog/?p=195</link>
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		<title>Is Getting Rid of Depression or Anxiety Enough? Asheville Psychologist Deborah Barnett shares her Thoughts</title>
		<description><![CDATA[here are many reasons that people seek mental health counseling in Asheville, NC (or in any other city for that matter.) Many people seek depression treatment or anxiety treatment. Others seek counseling for stress management or counseling for agoraphobia. Yet is that enough? Savoring can be helpful to increase happiness and well-being.]]></description>
		<link>http://deborahbarnett.com/blog/?p=184</link>
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		<title>Asheville Psychologist Deborah Barnett Shares a Technique to Challenge your Pessimistic Thoughts</title>
		<description><![CDATA[You don’t have to put up with those pessimistic thoughts that run around in your head and can lead to depression and anxiety. Instead, you can dispute those thoughts to build optimism. I have shared this technique with my Asheville counseling clients and they have found it helpful. Think of the last time you were [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://deborahbarnett.com/blog/?p=179</link>
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		<title>What&#8217;s on your Internal Ticker-Tape?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In their book The Resilience Factor, Karen Reivich, Ph.D. and Andrew Shatte, Ph.D. have a wonderful metaphor for examining the beliefs that go through your mind moment to moment. It is called the Ticker-Tape. Imagine the signs that display the Dow Jones Industrial Average or the current news ticker at the bottom of your television [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://deborahbarnett.com/blog/?p=173</link>
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		<title>Life, Well Lived</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I love this video that I have provided the link to, below. In many ways it is Positive Psychology applied to life! Positive Psychology is, on the personal level, about nurturing and building character strengths. When these strengths are well utilized, the ripple effect on the world around us is profound. There is one quote [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://deborahbarnett.com/blog/?p=167</link>
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		<title>Judging, Comparing and how Happiness can Help</title>
		<description><![CDATA[We have all heard the expression “don’t be judgmental.” Yet the reality is judging, overanalyzing and overthinking is very difficult not to do. The media prompts us to judge all the time “Try our product; we are better than those guys.” The news is constantly highlighting who did what that was “bad” – e.g. this [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://deborahbarnett.com/blog/?p=162</link>
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		<title>Being Optimistic Despite the Odds</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Despite hard times and growing older, individuals find that with optimism they can succeed]]></description>
		<link>http://deborahbarnett.com/blog/?p=149</link>
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		<title>Using the &#8220;A Beautiful Day&#8221; Positive Psychology Exercise to Assist in Making Decisions</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A Beautiful Day Positive Psychology technique can help in making decisions]]></description>
		<link>http://deborahbarnett.com/blog/?p=144</link>
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		<title>&#8220;A Beautiful Day&#8221; Positive Psychology Technique</title>
		<description><![CDATA[ Here is a fun, simple, positive psychology intervention to help increase your well-being. I enjoy sharing this exercise with my Asheville psychotherapy clients and individuals who do phone coaching with me.
“A Beautiful Day”*
Instructions: write out what a beautiful, fun, ideal 24-hours would look like to you. Be as detailed as possible. Describe each activity in [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://deborahbarnett.com/blog/?p=137</link>
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