{"id":3657,"date":"2014-11-22T22:09:59","date_gmt":"2014-11-23T02:09:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/?p=3657"},"modified":"2014-11-22T22:12:30","modified_gmt":"2014-11-23T02:12:30","slug":"dont-squander-joy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/?p=3657","title":{"rendered":"Don&#8217;t Squander Joy."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We can&#8217;t prepare for tragedy and loss.  When we turn every opportunity to feel joy into a test drive for despair, we actually diminish our resilience.  Yes, softening into joy is uncomfortable.  Yes, it&#8217;s scary.  Yes, it&#8217;s vulnerable.  <em>But every time we allow ourselves to lean into joy and give in to those moments, we build resilience and we cultivate hope.<\/em>  The joy becomes part of who we are, and when bad things happen &#8212; and they do happen &#8212; we are stronger.<\/p>\n<p>&#8212; Bren\u00c3\u00a9 Brown, <em>Daring Greatly<\/em>, p. 126<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We can&#8217;t prepare for tragedy and loss. When we turn every opportunity to feel joy into a test drive for despair, we actually diminish our resilience. Yes, softening into joy is uncomfortable. Yes, it&#8217;s scary. Yes, it&#8217;s vulnerable. But every time we allow ourselves to lean into joy and give in to those moments, we [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,9,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3657","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-joy","category-life","category-trials"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3657","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=3657"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3657\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3657"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3657"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3657"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}