{"id":208,"date":"2007-11-26T22:33:16","date_gmt":"2007-11-27T02:33:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/2007\/11\/26\/work-toward-compassion\/"},"modified":"2007-11-26T22:33:16","modified_gmt":"2007-11-27T02:33:16","slug":"work-toward-compassion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/?p=208","title":{"rendered":"Work toward Compassion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s hard to feel compassion for someone while that person is using or victimizing us.\u00c2\u00a0 We&#8217;ll probably feel angry.\u00c2\u00a0 First, we stop allowing ourselves to be used.\u00c2\u00a0 Then, we work toward compassion.\u00c2\u00a0 Anger can motivate us to set boundaries, but we don&#8217;t need to stay resentful to keep taking care of ourselves.<\/p>\n<p>&#8212; Melody Beattie, <em>Beyond Codependency,<\/em> p. 70-71<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s hard to feel compassion for someone while that person is using or victimizing us.\u00c2\u00a0 We&#8217;ll probably feel angry.\u00c2\u00a0 First, we stop allowing ourselves to be used.\u00c2\u00a0 Then, we work toward compassion.\u00c2\u00a0 Anger can motivate us to set boundaries, but we don&#8217;t need to stay resentful to keep taking care of ourselves. &#8212; Melody Beattie, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-208","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-compassion","category-healing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208","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=208"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=208"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=208"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=208"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}