{"id":730,"date":"2009-02-06T22:48:06","date_gmt":"2009-02-07T02:48:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/2009\/02\/06\/power\/"},"modified":"2009-02-06T22:48:06","modified_gmt":"2009-02-07T02:48:06","slug":"power","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/?p=730","title":{"rendered":"Power"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sometimes, I forget things that I know.\u00c2\u00a0 Sometimes I forget that letting go has more power than holding on, and then I forget to let go.\u00c2\u00a0 Sometimes I get so focused on the other person and what they need and want that I forget how I feel, what&#8217;s important to me, and what I need and want too.\u00c2\u00a0 Sometimes I forget that no matter what situation I find myself in, I do have powers available to me, even when I feel overpowered.\u00c2\u00a0 I have the power to think, to feel, to pray for guidance, the power to let go, and take care of myself no matter what&#8217;s coming down on my head.\u00c2\u00a0 And sometimes I forget that the temporary hit of power from drama addiction wanes in comparison to the real power we can connect to when we&#8217;re at peace with the world, and with ourselves.<\/p>\n<p>&#8212; Melody Beattie, <em>Playing It by Heart, <\/em>p. 242-243<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sometimes, I forget things that I know.\u00c2\u00a0 Sometimes I forget that letting go has more power than holding on, and then I forget to let go.\u00c2\u00a0 Sometimes I get so focused on the other person and what they need and want that I forget how I feel, what&#8217;s important to me, and what I need [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35,21,19,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-730","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-growth","category-healing","category-letting-go","category-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/730","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=730"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/730\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=730"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=730"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=730"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}