{"id":1324,"date":"2011-04-10T13:57:13","date_gmt":"2011-04-10T17:57:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jennydeupree.com\/?p=1324"},"modified":"2012-03-02T19:20:10","modified_gmt":"2012-03-03T00:20:10","slug":"inner-child","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jennydeupree.com\/?p=1324","title":{"rendered":"Inner Child"},"content":{"rendered":"

(Written in June 2005)
\nRead some of Getting Through the Day<\/em>.\u00a0 It didn\u2019t help yesterday, but today it\u2019s clear that this level of despair is that of a child who has tried everything and given up.\u00a0 She\u2019s curled up in a ball in a dark place, she can\u2019t believe that anything would change, she can\u2019t imagine rescue, she\u2019s locked herself away from everything.\u00a0 I can see her, the face is that of a slightly older little Jenny than the one with the Dar Gorani look \u2014 she\u2019s perhaps eight years old.\u00a0 And she knows that nothing she does will be appreciated, that her creative exuberance is not wanted, that she\u2019s being asked to do things she doesn\u2019t know how to do, that her needs for nurturing, comfort, guidance, reassurance will never be met and might as well not exist.\u00a0 She still wants to make these impossible people, her mom & dad, happy, and she desperately wants to be loved.<\/p>\n

I told Karen about the despair, and the child who has tried everything, and I got out the picture of little Jenny, and cried a lot.\u00a0 My sense of her is that she\u2019s shut everybody out.\u00a0 That\u2019s why I felt no rescue was possible on Saturday.\u00a0 I said to Karen I think I probably just have to sit next to her and wait for her to realize I\u2019m not going to leave.<\/p>\n

Getting Through the Day<\/em><\/a> is Nancy Napier’s comforting book of strategies to help adults who were hurt as children.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

(Written in June 2005) Read some of Getting Through the Day.\u00a0 It didn\u2019t help yesterday, but today it\u2019s clear that this level of despair is that of a child who has tried everything and given up.\u00a0 She\u2019s curled up in … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1324","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-depression","category-trauma"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jennydeupree.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1324","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jennydeupree.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jennydeupree.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jennydeupree.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jennydeupree.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1324"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jennydeupree.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1324\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jennydeupree.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1324"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jennydeupree.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1324"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jennydeupree.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1324"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}