<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" version="2.0"><channel><title><![CDATA[Hillary Keegin Therapy]]></title><description><![CDATA[Monsite]]></description><link>https://www.hillarykeegin.com/blog</link><generator>RSS for Node</generator><lastBuildDate>Thu, 17 Sep 2026 13:22:12 GMT</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://www.hillarykeegin.com/blog-feed.xml" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"/><item><title><![CDATA[Enoughness: Can we have our cake and not eat it too ?]]></title><description><![CDATA["Plus ! Plus ! Plus ! More ! More ! More ! "     In June, we had a neighbors potluck.  I was seated next to two young medical interns.  One woman said to the other: “Today I had a guy come in, a nurse, saying he wanted a prescription for Ozempic.  He’s thin as a rail. He told me he started taking it to ‘understand what his patients were experiencing’ and that it makes him feel so great now he wants to take it full time.  I told him: no way, you do not need this drug!”   ***   A growing number...]]></description><link>https://www.hillarykeegin.com/post/enoughness-can-we-have-our-cake-and-not-eat-it-too</link><guid isPermaLink="false">6aa58d86dd58bcb58cb7a0f6</guid><pubDate>Sat, 12 Sep 2026 17:38:27 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="http://video.wixstatic.com/video/7fc69a_de54be3b7e084ccb84648c72d99c0ea2/1080p/mp4/file.mp4" length="0" type="video"/><dc:creator>hkeegin2</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Empty Space]]></title><description><![CDATA[“If your mind is empty, it is always ready for anything; it is open to everything. In the beginner’s mind there are many possibilities, in the expert’s mind there are few.”   -Shunryu Suzuki   When my son Max was four, he asked me: “Was I at your and papa’s wedding?” I laughed and said, “No, Max.  You weren’t born yet.”  He considered this for a second. “So where was I then?” and then, in a flash, he answered his own question: “Oh! If I wasn’t born, I was dead.”  Fully satisfied, he went on...]]></description><link>https://www.hillarykeegin.com/post/empty-space</link><guid isPermaLink="false">6aa58cebf448a9cd17b66d22</guid><pubDate>Sat, 12 Sep 2026 17:34:49 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/7fc69a_fb734dacd3bd4a7db39267298185ed6d~mv2.jpeg/v1/fit/w_1000,h_1000,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>hkeegin2</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Memento Mori]]></title><description><![CDATA[On New Year’s day I was the first one awake. I’d thought I’d heard someone downstairs. Since I wanted to be a good guest I stayed in bed for a bit and when I figured whoever it was had had enough time to wake up in peace I went down. But there was no one there. Maybe I had heard the cat. *** Memento Mori: a central concept of Stoicism. In remembering death we remember to live. *** I love this photograph because it feels exactly like what it felt like that morning in the kitchen. That never...]]></description><link>https://www.hillarykeegin.com/post/memento-mori</link><guid isPermaLink="false">69ae9c6a948b12dc56352c39</guid><pubDate>Mon, 09 Mar 2026 10:09:51 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/7fc69a_5f4481f78d4c4c7894a4dcdb7810c7b7~mv2.jpeg/v1/fit/w_1000,h_1000,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>hkeegin2</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Trying to Stop Trying]]></title><description><![CDATA[Sometime over the summer I became suspicious of the word “trying.”   The seemingly benign phrase: “I’m just trying to [fill in the blank],” began to sound off to me, like a cracked church bell, heavy and effortful.   Trying at work, trying at home, trying in our relationships with children, parents, partners, trying to get over a loss, trying to keep the peace, trying to let someone down easy, trying to “manifest” the life we want for ourselves (a topic for another time), trying to stay on...]]></description><link>https://www.hillarykeegin.com/post/trying-to-stop-trying</link><guid isPermaLink="false">69ae9afc6b9018dbd06fe478</guid><pubDate>Mon, 09 Mar 2026 10:03:43 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="http://video.wixstatic.com/video/7fc69a_3e97a7204dd645fe9b6f1deb54db6338/1080p/mp4/file.mp4" length="0" type="video"/><dc:creator>hkeegin2</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wonderers]]></title><description><![CDATA[One evening, several months ago, my son Max and I were having dinner together.  His brother Leo wasn’t there, at a friend’s I guess.    We had been talking about I don’t remember what, there was a moment of silence, and then, out of the blue, Max said:   “Wonderers like us eat slowly.”   Which is a very strange thing to say.   “Did you say, wonderers ?”   “Mmm.”   “Huh...  What’s the difference between wondering and thinking?”   “Wondering is asking questions.  Thinking is finding solutions.”...]]></description><link>https://www.hillarykeegin.com/post/wonderers</link><guid isPermaLink="false">69ae99a3053d59350a135cc7</guid><pubDate>Mon, 09 Mar 2026 09:58:36 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/7fc69a_4328084e0375485e9661498436e87904~mv2.jpg/v1/fit/w_472,h_460,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>hkeegin2</dc:creator></item></channel></rss>