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      <image:title>Blog/Media - The Work My Pain Still Does - Originally published July 12, 2020 as I Began From a Place of Discomfort</image:title>
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    <lastmod>2026-03-17</lastmod>
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      <image:title>Blog/Media - Exit Without a Map? Why Your Discharge Summary Matters - Make it stand out</image:title>
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    <lastmod>2026-02-17</lastmod>
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      <image:caption>Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference.</image:caption>
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    <loc>https://www.nancyruffner.com/blog-media/ever-questions-club-no-jackets-required</loc>
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    <lastmod>2026-02-03</lastmod>
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      <image:title>Blog/Media - Ever Questions Club (no jackets required) - Make it stand out</image:title>
      <image:caption>Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference.</image:caption>
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    <loc>https://www.nancyruffner.com/blog-media/what-grandma-wont-tell-you</loc>
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    <lastmod>2026-01-18</lastmod>
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      <image:title>Blog/Media - What Grandma Won’t Tell you (aka I Won’t Let You See Me) - Make it stand out</image:title>
      <image:caption>Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference.</image:caption>
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    <loc>https://www.nancyruffner.com/blog-media/god-slowed-me-down-today</loc>
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    <lastmod>2025-12-16</lastmod>
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      <image:title>Blog/Media - God Slowed Me Down Today - Make it stand out</image:title>
      <image:caption>Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference.</image:caption>
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    <loc>https://www.nancyruffner.com/blog-media/dont-look-now-but-you-are-in-action</loc>
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    <lastmod>2025-12-02</lastmod>
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      <image:title>Blog/Media - Don’t Look Now, But You Are in Action - Make it stand out</image:title>
      <image:caption>Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Blog/Media - Don’t Look Now, But You Are in Action</image:title>
      <image:caption>To that end, I keep in full sight from my desk a card I drew randomly while attending a retreat designed to help “free myself from being stuck.” It told me to keep going. OK. There is a reason I drew that card.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Blog/Media - Life Can Turn on a DIME, or on a Tuesday - Make it stand out</image:title>
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    <lastmod>2025-11-03</lastmod>
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      <image:title>Blog/Media - When the Elephant’s in the Room,       Serve PIE - Make it stand out</image:title>
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    <lastmod>2025-10-21</lastmod>
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      <image:title>Blog/Media - When We Don't, Why We Don't, and What To Do About It. - Make it stand out</image:title>
      <image:caption>Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference.</image:caption>
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    <lastmod>2025-10-14</lastmod>
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      <image:title>Blog/Media - What's this PIE Model™ and what does it mean to me? - Make it stand out</image:title>
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      <image:title>Blog/Media - Introducing The PIE Model™, Built To Make Your Life a Whole Lot Easier - Make it stand out</image:title>
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    <lastmod>2025-09-25</lastmod>
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    <lastmod>2025-09-15</lastmod>
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      <image:title>Blog/Media - GUILT: The F.U.D.G.E. Ingredient That Won’t Let Go - Make it stand out</image:title>
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      <image:title>Blog/Media - Pass the F.U.D.G.E. - Today's ingredient is DOUBT - Make it stand out</image:title>
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      <image:title>Blog/Media - Pass the F.U.D.G.E. - Today's ingredient is DOUBT - I love this image. It’s in my Forever Folder. Do you see your marching orders within this image, your Call To Action? It’s in the first two letters, the “DO.”</image:title>
      <image:caption>I love this image. It’s in my Forever Folder. Do you see your marching orders within this image, your Call To Action? It’s in the first two letters, the “DO.”</image:caption>
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    <lastmod>2025-08-17</lastmod>
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      <image:title>Blog/Media - ‘Uncertainty is the only certainty there is’ (and that is only half the quote, sigh). - Make it stand out</image:title>
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      <image:title>Blog/Media - The F in F.U.D.G.E. stands for Fear&amp;nbsp; - Make it stand out</image:title>
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      <image:title>Blog/Media - “Let’s have some F.U.D.G.E.” - Make it stand out</image:title>
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    <loc>https://www.nancyruffner.com/blog-media/the-science-behind-being-stuck</loc>
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    <lastmod>2025-06-23</lastmod>
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    <lastmod>2025-06-09</lastmod>
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    <loc>https://www.nancyruffner.com/blog-media/reticence-red-flags-and-the-real-work</loc>
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    <lastmod>2025-05-21</lastmod>
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    <loc>https://www.nancyruffner.com/blog-media/nhdd-delivers-power-and-peace</loc>
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    <lastmod>2025-05-12</lastmod>
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      <image:title>Blog/Media - April 16th is a Day For Us All -&amp;gt; NHDD Delivers Power And Peace - Make it stand out</image:title>
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    <loc>https://www.nancyruffner.com/blog-media/love-letters-hcpoa-nhdd-tcp</loc>
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    <lastmod>2025-04-09</lastmod>
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      <image:title>Blog/Media - Love Letters: HCPOA, NHDD, TCP... - Make it stand out</image:title>
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    <loc>https://www.nancyruffner.com/blog-media/dependence-independence-interdependence-know-the-difference</loc>
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    <lastmod>2025-03-31</lastmod>
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      <image:title>Blog/Media - DEpendence. INdependence. INTERdependence. Know the Difference. - Make it stand out</image:title>
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    <loc>https://www.nancyruffner.com/blog-media/51-49-when-change-hangs-in-the-balance</loc>
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    <lastmod>2025-03-16</lastmod>
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      <image:title>Blog/Media - 51- 49, When Change Hangs in the Balance - Make it stand out</image:title>
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    <loc>https://www.nancyruffner.com/blog-media/aging-sliced-just-right-how-the-pie-model-helps</loc>
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    <lastmod>2025-03-04</lastmod>
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    <loc>https://www.nancyruffner.com/blog-media/aging-voice</loc>
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    <lastmod>2025-02-11</lastmod>
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      <image:title>Blog/Media - Another Installment from the Ageism Can of Worms: What About Your Voice? - Make it stand out</image:title>
      <image:caption>Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference.</image:caption>
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    <loc>https://www.nancyruffner.com/blog-media/belief-first-strategy-next-unlocking-the-secrets-to-successful-aging</loc>
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    <lastmod>2025-01-23</lastmod>
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      <image:caption>Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference.</image:caption>
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