{"id":65,"date":"2013-07-13T11:22:51","date_gmt":"2013-07-13T11:22:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/estrangements.com\/theblog\/2013\/07\/13\/how-do-you-know-if-youre-getting-better\/"},"modified":"2013-07-13T11:22:51","modified_gmt":"2013-07-13T11:22:51","slug":"how-do-you-know-if-youre-getting-better","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/estrangements.com\/theblog\/2013\/07\/13\/how-do-you-know-if-youre-getting-better\/","title":{"rendered":"How do you know if you&#8217;re getting better?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When does recovery occur? When do you get over a serious loss?<\/p>\n<p>Some things you never &quot;get over&quot; but you can heal. It is possible for life to go on. You know you&#39;re getting better when you make better choices. As described in the poem below.<\/p>\n<p>The poem is from <a class=\"zem_slink\" href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Theres-Hole-My-Sidewalk-Self-Discovery\/dp\/0941831876%3FSubscriptionId%3D0G81C5DAZ03ZR9WH9X82%26tag%3Dzemanta-20%26linkCode%3Dxm2%26camp%3D2025%26creative%3D165953%26creativeASIN%3D0941831876\" rel=\"amazon\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"There&#39;s a Hole in My Sidewalk: The Romance of Self-Discovery\">There&#39;s a Hole in My Sidewalk: The Romance of Self-Discovery<\/a> by <a class=\"zem_slink\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Portia_Nelson\" rel=\"wikipedia\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Portia Nelson\">Portia Nelson<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\n<a class=\"asset-img-link\" href=\"http:\/\/snickers.typepad.com\/.a\/6a00d8345532e369e201910435202f970c-pi\" style=\"display: inline;\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Hole_in_street2\" border=\"0\" class=\"asset  asset-image at-xid-6a00d8345532e369e201910435202f970c\" src=\"https:\/\/snickers.typepad.com\/.a\/6a00d8345532e369e201910435202f970c-800wi\" title=\"Hole_in_street2\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 11pt;\"><strong>Autobiography in 5 Short Chapters<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>by Portia Nelson<\/p>\n<p>Chapter I <\/p>\n<p>I walk down the street. <br \/>There is a deep hole in the sidewalk <br \/>I fall in. <br \/>I am lost &#8230; I am helpless. <br \/>It isn&#39;t my fault. <br \/>It takes forever to find a way out. <\/p>\n<p>Chapter II <\/p>\n<p>I walk down the same street. <br \/>There is a deep hole in the sidewalk. <br \/>I pretend I don&#39;t see it. <br \/>I fall in again. <br \/>I can&#39;t believe I am in the same place. <br \/>But, it isn&#39;t my fault. <br \/>It still takes a long time to get out. <\/p>\n<p>Chapter III <\/p>\n<p>I walk down the same street. <br \/>There is a deep hole in the sidewalk. <br \/>I see it is there. <br \/>I still fall in &#8230; it&#39;s a habit &#8230; but, <br \/>my eyes are open. <br \/>I know where I am. <br \/>It is my fault. <br \/>I get out immediately. <\/p>\n<p>Chapter IV <\/p>\n<p>I walk down the same street. <br \/>There is a deep hole in the sidewalk. <br \/>I walk around it. <\/p>\n<p>Chapter V <\/p>\n<p>I walk down another street.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When does recovery occur? When do you get over a serious loss? Some things you never &quot;get over&quot; but you can heal. It is possible for life to go on. You know you&#39;re getting better when you make better choices. As described in the poem below. The poem is from There&#39;s a Hole in My&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,5,6],"tags":[70,27,9,38,125,28,31],"class_list":["post-65","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-for-adult-kids","category-for-parents","category-therapeutic","tag-cutoff","tag-estranged-adult-children","tag-family-estrangement","tag-grief","tag-mothers-and-daughters","tag-parental-alienation","tag-pas"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/estrangements.com\/theblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/estrangements.com\/theblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/estrangements.com\/theblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/estrangements.com\/theblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/estrangements.com\/theblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=65"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/estrangements.com\/theblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/estrangements.com\/theblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=65"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/estrangements.com\/theblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=65"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/estrangements.com\/theblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=65"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}