{"id":2558,"date":"2012-04-04T16:25:56","date_gmt":"2012-04-04T20:25:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jennydeupree.com\/?p=2558"},"modified":"2012-04-04T16:25:56","modified_gmt":"2012-04-04T20:25:56","slug":"guidance-63","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jennydeupree.com\/?p=2558","title":{"rendered":"Guidance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(Written in December 2010)<br \/>\nDear Guides &amp; Guardians, I\u2019m feeling a little blue.<br \/>\n<em>\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0There, there, Little Jenny, it\u2019s right to mourn that so much of your life\u2019s energy was wasted \u2014 at first just trying to survive, then trying unsuccessfully to heal from wounds that were deeper and more complex than you had any idea of.\u00a0 It\u2019s right to mourn that so much of your creative energy went into starting projects that never got finished \u2014 not because you are lazy, or unable to persist \u2014 but because you got derailed by PTSD.\u00a0 But you did in fact push through on a number of projects: your book, Neskaya, your house.\u00a0 And you have done major healing of your wounds.\u00a0 Dear Little Jenny, I\u2019m so grateful for your creativity and persistence.\u00a0 Though it\u2019s right to mourn that so much got lost along the way, it\u2019s important to remember that the main purpose of your life is healing and you have been doing that.\u00a0 Your creative projects are part of your healing process.\u00a0 The many things that did not get finished are like the seeds that get scattered and never sprout.\u00a0 The energy that created them is not wasted.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Written in December 2010) Dear Guides &amp; Guardians, I\u2019m feeling a little blue. \u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0There, there, Little Jenny, it\u2019s right to mourn that so much of your life\u2019s energy was wasted \u2014 at first just trying to survive, then trying &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/jennydeupree.com\/?p=2558\">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":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2558","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-guidance","category-trauma"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jennydeupree.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2558","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=2558"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jennydeupree.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2558\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jennydeupree.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2558"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jennydeupree.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2558"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jennydeupree.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2558"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}