{"id":489,"date":"2009-06-04T17:50:17","date_gmt":"2009-06-05T01:50:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.loftninjas.org\/rants\/?p=489"},"modified":"2009-06-04T17:50:17","modified_gmt":"2009-06-05T01:50:17","slug":"happiness-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.loftninjas.org\/rants\/2009\/06\/04\/happiness-3\/","title":{"rendered":"happiness"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Holy fucking crap, I forgot the awesomeness of talking to a professional counselor. I talk to a lot of people about my feelings, so I&#8217;m not sure where the magic actually lies. Perhaps it&#8217;s in telling your story to someone who holds no stake in your life (other than being their customer), or that they&#8217;ve heard a lot of stories and can shift through the bullshit. There really is nothing like telling a counselor a handful of stories and watching them piece them together and say, &#8220;that&#8217;s what she did to you though.&#8221; as you stop and the light bulb joins you too.<\/p>\n<p>I almost felt happy enough to go join the .83 pre-funk, but based on more people in that group actively marginalizing my feelings than not, I still decided to stick to my earlier plan to stick around the people in my life that actively care [as opposed to <em>saying<\/em> that they do].<\/p>\n<p>So two major positive accomplishments today. I feel pretty good about it. So good in fact, I think I can take a nap without feeling like something worth missing, is.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Holy fucking crap, I forgot the awesomeness of talking to a professional counselor. I talk to a lot of people about my feelings, so I&#8217;m not sure where the magic actually lies. Perhaps it&#8217;s in telling your story to someone who holds no stake in your life (other than being their customer), or that they&#8217;ve [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.loftninjas.org\/rants\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/489"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.loftninjas.org\/rants\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.loftninjas.org\/rants\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.loftninjas.org\/rants\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.loftninjas.org\/rants\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=489"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.loftninjas.org\/rants\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/489\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":490,"href":"http:\/\/www.loftninjas.org\/rants\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/489\/revisions\/490"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.loftninjas.org\/rants\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=489"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.loftninjas.org\/rants\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=489"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.loftninjas.org\/rants\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=489"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}