{"id":869,"date":"2013-01-13T16:00:19","date_gmt":"2013-01-14T00:00:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sistahology.com\/blog\/?p=869"},"modified":"2013-01-13T16:00:19","modified_gmt":"2013-01-14T00:00:19","slug":"free-yourself","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sistahology.com\/blog\/free-yourself\/","title":{"rendered":"Free Yourself"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"background-repeat: no-repeat;\"><p style=\"text-align: justify;\">You don\u2019t even have to say it I can already hear you thinking aloud.\u00a0 If I tell the truth in every awkward situation, there will be hell to pay with my mother\/husband\/kids\/sister\/co-workers.\u00a0 I get it.\u00a0 There are people in your life who, for various reasons, don\u2019t want to embrace your truth.\u00a0 You may be thinking you have to change those people, but baby don\u2019t even try.\u00a0 It will not be worth the time or energy\u2026\u2026..<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">I have longed live to make other people happy, rigid people more flexible, aggressive people more empathetic, and on and on.\u00a0 I simply came to the realization that this never worked, and it was driving me insane and causing so much stress in my life.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The key I found that worked for me is to stay far away from the idea of \u201cmaking\u201d someone do, feel or think anything.\u00a0 This is not your job.\u00a0 Instead your job and focus should be to maximize your own personal happiness, kindness and health and let everyone else choose to follow or not.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">You\u2019ve already had enough life experiences to notice when a situation, a person or a task is marked as \u201cpoison\u201d.\u00a0 Remember how much that situation hurt you the last time and decide in this moment you don\u2019t want to feel that level of pain again and that you choose happiness!\u00a0 This process may require small steps and time.\u00a0 Tell the truth and stay minding your own business.\u00a0 Anything else might be poison.\u00a0 You may one day real soon wake up and realize that you feel better, wiser, healthier and SO much happier.\u00a0 Free Yourself.\u00a0 Cheers!<\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You don\u2019t even have to say it I can already hear you thinking aloud.\u00a0 If I tell the truth in every awkward situation, there will be hell to pay with my mother\/husband\/kids\/sister\/co-workers.\u00a0 I get it.\u00a0 There are people in your life who, for various reasons, don\u2019t want to embrace your truth.\u00a0 You may be thinking [&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\/869"}],"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=869"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/sistahology.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/869\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":871,"href":"https:\/\/sistahology.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/869\/revisions\/871"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sistahology.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=869"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sistahology.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=869"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sistahology.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=869"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}