{"id":6739,"date":"2018-07-30T23:36:40","date_gmt":"2018-07-31T03:36:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/?p=6739"},"modified":"2018-07-30T23:44:45","modified_gmt":"2018-07-31T03:44:45","slug":"path-to-healing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/?p=6739","title":{"rendered":"Path to Healing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/Evans-P-2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/Evans-P-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"267\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-6744\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/Evans-P-2.jpg 800w, https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/Evans-P-2-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/Evans-P-2-768x512.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>As you come to see how no one can define your inner world and that verbal abuse is irrational and ridiculous, you are on the path to healing.  The verbal abuser tells you what your motives, thoughts, and feelings are, as if he or she were you.  How crazy is that!  You are self-defining.  You are not too sensitive, nor do you want to start a fight, nor are you any other negative comment you&#8217;ve been told about yourself.  But even if you know that what an abuser says is nonsense, it is still a blow to your mind and consciousness.<\/p>\n<p>&#8212; Patricia Evans, <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sonderbooks.com\/Nonfiction\/victory_over_verbal_abuse.html\">Victory Over Verbal Abuse<\/a><\/em>, p. 6<\/p>\n<p>[Photo: Cliffs of Moher, Ireland, July 2001]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As you come to see how no one can define your inner world and that verbal abuse is irrational and ridiculous, you are on the path to healing. The verbal abuser tells you what your motives, thoughts, and feelings are, as if he or she were you. How crazy is that! You are self-defining. You [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21,23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6739","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-healing","category-truth"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6739","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=6739"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6739\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6739"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6739"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6739"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}