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		<title>Fighting Discouragement in Early Recovery: 5 Tools You can use Today</title>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p>When discouragement weighs heavily on us like the world upon Atlas’s shoulders, we&#160;must&#160;remember a couple of&#160;very important&#160;things.&#160;Early on in recovery, we may not see all the&#160;behaviors&#160;that led us astray, but we&#160;must&#160;be careful and guard against relapse. Our emotional states are fragile in this early time, and with us not having built up great coping skills, [&#8230;]</p>
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