{"id":154807,"date":"2015-05-13T21:04:52","date_gmt":"2015-05-13T21:04:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2015\/05\/13\/be-kind-to-yourself-stop-telling-yourself-that\/"},"modified":"2015-05-13T21:04:52","modified_gmt":"2015-05-13T21:04:52","slug":"be-kind-to-yourself-stop-telling-yourself-that","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2015\/05\/13\/be-kind-to-yourself-stop-telling-yourself-that\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote>\n<p>Be kind to yourself. Stop telling yourself that whatever you are struggling with \u201cshould\u201d be easy. If something is hard for you, it is hard for you. There are probably Reasons, though those may just be how you are wired. Acknowledge these things. When you finish something hard, be proud! Celebrate a little.<\/p>\n<p>And really, just stop saying \u201cshould\u201d to yourself about your thoughts and feelings in any context. You feel how you feel. The things in your head are the things in your head. You can\u2019t change either directly through sheer force of will. You can only change what you do. Stop beating yourself up for who and what you are right now\u2013it isn\u2019t productive. Focus on moving forward.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<div class='attribution'>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/keelium.wordpress.com\/2013\/02\/11\/how-to-keep-moving-forward-even-when-your-brain-hates-you\/\" target=\"_blank\">How to keep moving forward, even when your brain hates you<\/a>\u00a0 (via <a href=\"http:\/\/x09.tumblr.com\/\" class=\"tumblr_blog\" target=\"_blank\">x09<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p>Super important.<\/p>\n<p>(via <a href=\"http:\/\/carnivaloftherandom.tumblr.com\/\" class=\"tumblr_blog\" target=\"_blank\">carnivaloftherandom<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p>I need to print this out and hang it in my writing space.<\/p>\n<p>(via <a href=\"http:\/\/theallycarter.tumblr.com\/\" class=\"tumblr_blog\" target=\"_blank\">theallycarter<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p>Seconded.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>(via <a href=\"http:\/\/yahighway.tumblr.com\/\" class=\"tumblr_blog\" target=\"_blank\">yahighway<\/a>)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Be kind to yourself. Stop telling yourself that whatever you are struggling with \u201cshould\u201d be easy. If something is hard for you, it is hard for you. There are probably Reasons, though those may just be how you are wired. Acknowledge these things. When you finish something hard, be proud! Celebrate a little. And really, &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2015\/05\/13\/be-kind-to-yourself-stop-telling-yourself-that\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"quote","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[353,4],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154807"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=154807"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154807\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=154807"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=154807"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=154807"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}