{"id":1038,"date":"2014-09-15T14:45:14","date_gmt":"2014-09-15T21:45:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sistahology.com\/blog\/?p=1038"},"modified":"2014-09-15T14:45:14","modified_gmt":"2014-09-15T21:45:14","slug":"be-you","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sistahology.com\/blog\/be-you\/","title":{"rendered":"BE YOU!!!"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"background-repeat: no-repeat;\"><p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: Calibri;\"><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: medium;\">You don\u2019t have to swallow your tears. You don\u2019t have to hide how you feel or ignore your pain. You have to give yourself a hug, look yourself in the eyes, and say, \u201cI\u2019m sad and I\u2019m angry and I\u2019m hurting. <\/span><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: medium;\">\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: medium;\">And you know what? That\u2019s okay. <\/span><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: medium;\">\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: medium;\">My feelings are valid. <\/span><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: medium;\">\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: medium;\">I\u2019m not broken or crazy. <\/span><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: medium;\">\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: medium;\">I\u2019m wounded. <\/span><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: medium;\">\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: medium;\">But I can heal. <\/span><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: medium;\">\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: medium;\">And I\u2019m going to be okay. <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: Calibri;\"><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: medium;\">Maybe not today or tomorrow or a week from now, but sometime soon, this is going to pass. <\/span><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: medium;\">\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: medium;\">And until it does, I\u2019m going to keep taking care of myself. <\/span><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: medium;\">\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: medium;\">I\u2019m going to talk back to the negative voice making me feel some kind of way and speak to myself with kindness. <\/span><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: medium;\">\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: medium;\">I\u2019m going to let myself feel my feelings and do self-care. <\/span><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: medium;\">\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: medium;\">And I\u2019m going to treat myself like a friend. <\/span><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: medium;\">\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: medium;\">Because if there\u2019s one person who deserves my love and affection, it\u2019s me.<\/span><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: medium;\">\u00a0 <\/span><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: medium;\">Cheers to YOU sistah-girl! <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You don\u2019t have to swallow your tears. You don\u2019t have to hide how you feel or ignore your pain. You have to give yourself a hug, look yourself in the eyes, and say, \u201cI\u2019m sad and I\u2019m angry and I\u2019m hurting. \u00a0And you know what? That\u2019s okay. \u00a0My feelings are valid. \u00a0I\u2019m not broken or [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sistahology.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1038"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sistahology.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sistahology.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sistahology.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sistahology.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1038"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sistahology.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1038\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1039,"href":"https:\/\/sistahology.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1038\/revisions\/1039"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sistahology.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1038"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sistahology.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1038"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sistahology.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1038"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}