{"id":48212,"date":"2013-02-04T19:32:33","date_gmt":"2013-02-05T03:32:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=48212"},"modified":"2013-02-04T19:45:39","modified_gmt":"2013-02-05T03:45:39","slug":"my-therapist-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=48212","title":{"rendered":"My Therapist Says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My therapist noticed I had not done my homework &#8212; writing up a list of where I felt that my father had failed me and reading it to myself every day and noticing what comes up for me emotionally. She also noticed that I try to disengage from the topic of dad and to talk about anything else. I&#8217;m particularly gun shy of discussing my feelings about my father.<\/p>\n<p>My therapist says that if I heal my relationship with my father and stop living in rebellion and rage, it will transform my life.<\/p>\n<p>A big way my father showed love in my home was by cooking delicious savory treats almost every night (and sweet rice and oats for breakfast)!<\/p>\n<p>My therapist says that if I organize my solo show, I will find it easier to emotionally connect to the words I&#8217;m saying because I won&#8217;t be casting around in my head for what comes next (which happened to me last night). By a generous estimate, I emotionally connected to my words about 30% of the time last night.<\/p>\n<p>When I toss and turn at night, unable to sleep and consumed by worry, I try turning my life over to God and letting Him be the director. When that doesn&#8217;t work, I turn my life over to Netflix.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My therapist noticed I had not done my homework &#8212; writing up a list of where I felt that my father had failed me and reading it to myself every day and noticing what comes up for me emotionally. She &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=48212\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-48212","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-personal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48212","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=48212"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48212\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":48215,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48212\/revisions\/48215"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=48212"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=48212"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=48212"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}