{"id":168,"date":"2007-10-26T21:18:36","date_gmt":"2007-10-27T01:18:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/2007\/10\/26\/justifying-your-emotions\/"},"modified":"2007-10-26T21:18:36","modified_gmt":"2007-10-27T01:18:36","slug":"justifying-your-emotions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/?p=168","title":{"rendered":"Justifying your Emotions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;General Rule:\u00c2\u00a0 If you have to justify your emotions or behavior, to yourself or others, they are almost always <em>harmful.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The urge to justify should be a trigger to <strong>heal the hurt that causes the anger.<\/strong>\u00c2\u00a0 Justifying anger <em>never<\/em> heals the hurt that causes it.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8212; Steven Stosny, <em>Manual of the Core Value Workshop,<\/em> p. 39-40.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;General Rule:\u00c2\u00a0 If you have to justify your emotions or behavior, to yourself or others, they are almost always harmful. &#8220;The urge to justify should be a trigger to heal the hurt that causes the anger.\u00c2\u00a0 Justifying anger never heals the hurt that causes it.&#8221; &#8212; Steven Stosny, Manual of the Core Value Workshop, p. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,25,19,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-168","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-compassion","category-core-value","category-letting-go","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=168"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=168"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=168"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=168"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}