{"id":738,"date":"2010-09-20T12:03:46","date_gmt":"2010-09-20T16:03:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jennydeupree.com\/?p=738"},"modified":"2010-09-20T12:03:46","modified_gmt":"2010-09-20T16:03:46","slug":"guidance-23","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jennydeupree.com\/?p=738","title":{"rendered":"Guidance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(Written in August 2010)<br \/>\nDear Guides &amp; Guardian Spirits, I\u2019m feeling pretty blue.\u00a0 I don\u2019t see any reason to keep going.\u00a0 I\u2019m tired of pulling against depression like a heavy weight.\u00a0 Please help me.<br \/>\n<em> Dear Jenny, we love you very much.\u00a0 Bring some compassion to your low mood \u2014 yes, your life is very hard.\u00a0 Kevin said it was a \u201csevere practice\u201d and this is true.\u00a0 One reason to go on is simply holding a vision of compassion, embodying it, extending compassion to this person who feels so worthless and discouraged, who feels like nothing she does counts, who is bummed out about spending her life doing meaningless activities.\u00a0 Dear Jenny, posting a blog is not meaningless, typing up your journal so you can share it is not meaningless.\u00a0 Giving your friend a home and a car and emotional support is not meaningless.\u00a0 Dear Jenny, today you are tired and depressed.\u00a0 It is OK to rest and do \u201cmeaningless activities.\u201d What is important and meaningful is to bring compassion to this woman who is so miserable, and doesn\u2019t understand why, or what to do about it.\u00a0 We love you, dear Jenny, let yourself take it in.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Written in August 2010) Dear Guides &amp; Guardian Spirits, I\u2019m feeling pretty blue.\u00a0 I don\u2019t see any reason to keep going.\u00a0 I\u2019m tired of pulling against depression like a heavy weight.\u00a0 Please help me. Dear Jenny, we love you very &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/jennydeupree.com\/?p=738\">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":[8,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-738","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-depression","category-guidance"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jennydeupree.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/738","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=738"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jennydeupree.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/738\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jennydeupree.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=738"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jennydeupree.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=738"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jennydeupree.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=738"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}