{"id":806,"date":"2010-10-19T14:56:14","date_gmt":"2010-10-19T18:56:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jennydeupree.com\/?p=806"},"modified":"2010-10-19T14:56:14","modified_gmt":"2010-10-19T18:56:14","slug":"guidance-27","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jennydeupree.com\/?p=806","title":{"rendered":"Guidance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(Written in February 2007)<br \/>\n\tDear Guides and Guardian Spirits, I\u2019m feeling a little bit lost.  I feel like I\u2019ve been soldiering on through depression and headache, and today I feel enough better to what?  try to do some \u201creal\u201d living for once?  expand out of strict survival mode?  Please help me.<\/p>\n<p><em>\tDear Jenny, there is no need to do anything different, no need to push yourself \u2014 except perhaps to get yourself to the studio \u2014 and it\u2019s OK to sit up there and do nothing.  We suspect that you are thinking that you \u201cought\u201d to push yourself and we say NO, don\u2019t do that.  How about seeing how much you can enjoy today?<br \/>\n<\/em><br \/>\nOn that thought something painful comes up in my heart.<\/p>\n<p><em>Yes.  You were taught to believe that it was not OK to enjoy your life, and you\u2019ve had too many experiences of starting to feel enjoyment and then being hurt by someone else \u2014 e.g. David V, your mother.  Shelter your wounded heart, and gently let yourself enjoy small things \u2014 the chickadees, bringing in wood, etc.  Remember that we love you.  Remember that there is an enormous amount of love coming your way, that Spirit created you just as you are because you were needed to complete the universe.  It\u2019s OK to be you, JUST AS YOU ARE.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Written in February 2007) Dear Guides and Guardian Spirits, I\u2019m feeling a little bit lost. I feel like I\u2019ve been soldiering on through depression and headache, and today I feel enough better to what? try to do some \u201creal\u201d living &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/jennydeupree.com\/?p=806\">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-806","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\/806","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=806"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jennydeupree.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/806\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jennydeupree.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=806"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jennydeupree.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=806"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jennydeupree.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=806"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}