{"id":640,"date":"2008-10-14T00:04:19","date_gmt":"2008-10-14T04:04:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/2008\/10\/14\/times-of-change\/"},"modified":"2008-10-14T00:04:19","modified_gmt":"2008-10-14T04:04:19","slug":"times-of-change","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/?p=640","title":{"rendered":"Times of Change"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s okay to be gentle with ourselves when we&#8217;re going through change and grief.\u00c2\u00a0 Yes, we want to maintain the disciplines of recovery.\u00c2\u00a0 But we can be compassionate with ourselves.\u00c2\u00a0 We do not have to expect more from ourselves than we can deliver during this time.\u00c2\u00a0 We do not even have to expect as much from ourselves as we would normally and reasonably expect.<\/p>\n<p>We may need more rest, more sleep, more comfort.\u00c2\u00a0 We may be more needy and have less to give.\u00c2\u00a0 It is okay to accept ourselves, and our changed needs, during times of grief, stress, and change.<\/p>\n<p>It is okay to allow ourselves to cocoon during times of transformation.\u00c2\u00a0 We can surrender to the process, and trust that a new, exciting energy is being created within us.<\/p>\n<p>Before long, we will take wings and fly.<\/p>\n<p>&#8212; Melody Beattie, <em>The Language of Letting Go, <\/em>p. 298-299<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s okay to be gentle with ourselves when we&#8217;re going through change and grief.\u00c2\u00a0 Yes, we want to maintain the disciplines of recovery.\u00c2\u00a0 But we can be compassionate with ourselves.\u00c2\u00a0 We do not have to expect more from ourselves than we can deliver during this time.\u00c2\u00a0 We do not even have to expect as much [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-640","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-healing","category-trials"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/640","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=640"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/640\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=640"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=640"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=640"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}