{"id":169,"date":"2007-10-27T17:34:47","date_gmt":"2007-10-27T21:34:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/2007\/10\/27\/recovery-2\/"},"modified":"2007-10-27T17:40:19","modified_gmt":"2007-10-27T21:40:19","slug":"recovery-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/?p=169","title":{"rendered":"Recovery"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;In recovery, we stop enduring life and begin to live it&#8230;.\u00c2\u00a0 We forego worrying and denial, and learn constructive problem solving skills&#8230;.\u00c2\u00a0 We learn to value what we want and need; we stop punishing ourselves for other people&#8217;s problems, nonsense and insanity.\u00c2\u00a0 We stop expecting ourselves to be perfect, and we stop expecting perfection of others&#8230;.\u00c2\u00a0 We stop getting tangled up in craziness&#8230;.\u00c2\u00a0 We stop compulsively taking care of other people and we take care of ourselves.\u00c2\u00a0 We learn to be good to ourselves, to have fun, and to enjoy life.\u00c2\u00a0 We learn to feel good about what we&#8217;ve accomplished.\u00c2\u00a0 We stop focusing on what&#8217;s wrong and we notice what&#8217;s right.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8212; Melody Beattie, <em>Beyond Codependency:\u00c2\u00a0 And Getting Better All the Time,<\/em> p. 13.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;In recovery, we stop enduring life and begin to live it&#8230;.\u00c2\u00a0 We forego worrying and denial, and learn constructive problem solving skills&#8230;.\u00c2\u00a0 We learn to value what we want and need; we stop punishing ourselves for other people&#8217;s problems, nonsense and insanity.\u00c2\u00a0 We stop expecting ourselves to be perfect, and we stop expecting perfection of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21,19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-169","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-healing","category-letting-go"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169","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=169"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=169"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=169"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=169"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}