{"id":196,"date":"2007-11-20T22:51:25","date_gmt":"2007-11-21T02:51:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/2007\/11\/20\/the-purpose-of-emotional-pain\/"},"modified":"2007-11-20T22:51:25","modified_gmt":"2007-11-21T02:51:25","slug":"the-purpose-of-emotional-pain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/?p=196","title":{"rendered":"The Purpose of Emotional Pain"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Emotional pain moves you to do something that will make you feel more <em>alive, <\/em>not numb.\u00c2\u00a0 The primary purpose of emotional pain is to make us take action to increase the <em>value <\/em>of our lives.\u00c2\u00a0 The purpose of guilt, shame, and anxiety is to get you to be more <em>loving <\/em>and <em>protective.\u00c2\u00a0 <\/em>They hurt us until we act with love and compassion.<\/p>\n<p>&#8212; Steven Stosny, <em>You Don&#8217;t Have to Take It Anymore, <\/em>p. 163<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Emotional pain moves you to do something that will make you feel more alive, not numb.\u00c2\u00a0 The primary purpose of emotional pain is to make us take action to increase the value of our lives.\u00c2\u00a0 The purpose of guilt, shame, and anxiety is to get you to be more loving and protective.\u00c2\u00a0 They hurt us [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,25,21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-196","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-compassion","category-core-value","category-healing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196","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=196"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=196"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=196"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=196"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}