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	<title>Debbie Bowie Blog</title>
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	<description>Speaker, Feng Shui Practitioner, Certified Professional Organizer, Mentoring for aspiring professional organizers, Rock Scissors Paper Institute</description>
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		<title>Freedom to Choose, Clarity of Purpose &amp; Clutter</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Last weekend I was at Randolph College, formerly Randolph-Macon Women’s College, the college where I earned a B.A. 36 years ago. I was there to speak at the annual reunion about using feng shui to clear clutter. It’s always a trip back in time for me when I return to Randy-Mac. I look back to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.rockscissorspaperinstitute.com/blog/2013/05/22/freedom-to-choose-clarity-of-purpose-clutter/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=freedom-to-choose-clarity-of-purpose-clutter</link>
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		<title>Life: A Journey, Not a Destination</title>
		<description><![CDATA[When I was growing up I was taught that the way to do life was to work from goal to goal, ever advancing yourself to make more money. I worked that way for about 37 years before I discovered that I was on the wrong path. Money doesn’t float my boat. Yes, it’s a necessity [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.rockscissorspaperinstitute.com/blog/2013/05/08/life-a-journey-not-a-destination/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=life-a-journey-not-a-destination</link>
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		<title>Clutter Clearing and Grief: A Healing and Growth Opportunity</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It seems a current theme in my life is grief and letting go. My mother’s cognitive functions are slowly deteriorating due to dementia. I’m losing my competent, energetic Mom bit by bit. I recently was right in the middle of helping her transition to assisted living, dealing with her grief about leaving her beloved home, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.rockscissorspaperinstitute.com/blog/2013/04/25/clutter-clearing-and-grief-a-healing-and-growth-opportunity/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=clutter-clearing-and-grief-a-healing-and-growth-opportunity</link>
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		<title>Clutter Clearing: Staying the Course and Benefits of Doing So</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I rewarded myself for weeks of hard work clearing out my mother’s house and getting it ready to sell with some time to do just what I wanted to do. My husband warned, “You’ll just work the whole time.” He knows me so well! I’m one of those people who gets a rush by getting [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.rockscissorspaperinstitute.com/blog/2013/04/14/clutter-clearing-staying-the-course-and-benefits-of-doing-so/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=clutter-clearing-staying-the-course-and-benefits-of-doing-so</link>
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		<title>Physical Self-Care: A Priority for Successful Clutter Clearing</title>
		<description><![CDATA[When I greeted my client today and asked how she was doing she told me she was OK. . . . . In other words she wasn’t really OK. When I inquired further she told me she hadn’t had much to eat today, that she felt tired. We talked about how to proceed with our [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.rockscissorspaperinstitute.com/blog/2013/04/01/physical-self-care-a-priority-for-successful-clutter-clearing/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=physical-self-care-a-priority-for-successful-clutter-clearing</link>
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		<title>End of Life Clutter Clearing: An Emotional Process</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I’m gearing up to clear out my mother’s house. My mom is adjusting well to her new home in Gayton Terrace, an assisted living facility near me in Richmond, VA. Now it’s time to take the next step, clear out Mom’s home in Kilmarnock, VA and get it ready to sell. It will be a [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.rockscissorspaperinstitute.com/blog/2013/03/20/end-of-life-clutter-clearing-an-emotional-process/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=end-of-life-clutter-clearing-an-emotional-process</link>
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		<title>Dale&#8217;s Story: The Results of a Year of Intentional Clutter Clearing</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In 2012 I decided to prove that intentional clutter clearing changes lives. Intentional clutter clearing is clutter clearing with specific goals in mind. I offered three women who wanted positive change in their lives two hours of my clutter clearing services per month at no cost to them. All they had to do was make [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.rockscissorspaperinstitute.com/blog/2013/03/14/dales-story-the-results-of-a-year-of-intentional-clutter-clearing/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=dales-story-the-results-of-a-year-of-intentional-clutter-clearing</link>
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		<title>Difficult Times, Winter Contraction</title>
		<description><![CDATA[You may have noticed that I haven’t been posting with my usual regularity. Once again I have been hijacked by family challenges. I recently had to move my mother from out of town to an assisted living facility closer to me, which in itself was a major feat given my mother&#8217;s resistance, her dementia and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.rockscissorspaperinstitute.com/blog/2013/03/05/difficult-times-winter-contraction-2/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=difficult-times-winter-contraction-2</link>
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		<title>The Feng Shui Benefits of Anchoring Rugs</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Rugs that slide around are irritants! And, they are safety hazards. However, until recently most of my scatter rugs slid all over the place. In the busyness of life I kept procrastinating doing anything about that problem. That all changed when Mom was getting rid of a non-skid rug pad. It was free and it [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.rockscissorspaperinstitute.com/blog/2013/02/18/the-feng-shui-benefits-of-anchoring-rugs/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=the-feng-shui-benefits-of-anchoring-rugs</link>
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		<title>4 Guidelines for Helping Aging Parents and Clutter Clearing</title>
		<description><![CDATA[You may have noticed that I&#8217;ve been missing from action the past few weeks. I have been caught up in the challenging and complicated process of helping my mother transition from independent living to assisted living. I&#8217;m back now, and want to share some of what I&#8217;ve learned from that process. This past month was [...]]]></description>
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