{"id":6219,"date":"2019-07-24T17:01:09","date_gmt":"2019-07-24T21:01:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jennydeupree.com\/?p=6219"},"modified":"2019-07-24T17:01:09","modified_gmt":"2019-07-24T21:01:09","slug":"todays-3rd-cup-of-tea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jennydeupree.com\/?p=6219","title":{"rendered":"Today&#8217;s 3rd Cup of Tea"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Maybe the feeling of abandonment was more intense because Dulany has become a good friend.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>Erica pointed out that my relationship with Eleanor is problematic because she triggered the big sister\u2019s need to take care of younger siblings, and she needs so much help, way beyond what any one person could do.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>Possibly my need to help and my inability to help were both triggered by her fall and broken collarbone.<\/p>\n<p>I was also reminded of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sparknotes.com\/lit\/rosegarden\/summary\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Deborah\u2019s experience<\/a> \u2014 when she had healed enough to find the world rational, obeying the laws of physics, then Yr became the crazy world.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>Now, how does that apply to what I\u2019ve just gone through?<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>Maybe something about Adult Jenny feeling safer, allowed Infant Jenny to take over my psyche in a bigger way than she has before.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>Or maybe it was a kind of mix of terror and observing terror.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>Makes me think of the <a href=\"http:\/\/jennydeupree.com\/?p=5035\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">two weeks of terror<\/a> when I went \u201chome\u201d in \u2014 I think it was February of \u201971 \u2014 I had no witness at all, nobody I could tell, I didn\u2019t even write about it.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>Then I think of the <a href=\"http:\/\/jennydeupree.com\/?page_id=31\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">4th July 1986<\/a>, when I wrote every detail compulsively.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>I think it was a couple of years before I rewrote it as a monologue and was able to see the dynamic that was operating.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>The writing required a witness, but the witness needed material to look at.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>Just feelings, with no more context, don\u2019t give any information.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Maybe the feeling of abandonment was more intense because Dulany has become a good friend.\u00a0 Erica pointed out that my relationship with Eleanor is problematic because she triggered the big sister\u2019s need to take care of younger siblings, and she &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/jennydeupree.com\/?p=6219\">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":[9,11,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6219","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-journal","category-present-day","category-trauma"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jennydeupree.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6219","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=6219"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jennydeupree.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6219\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jennydeupree.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6219"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jennydeupree.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6219"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jennydeupree.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6219"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}