{"id":1714,"date":"1992-11-07T06:02:22","date_gmt":"1992-11-07T06:02:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.goodsoul.us\/?page_id=1714"},"modified":"2013-12-02T13:28:13","modified_gmt":"2013-12-02T13:28:13","slug":"blues-aint-nothing-but-a-good-soul-feeling-bad-1107","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.goodsoul.us\/?page_id=1714","title":{"rendered":"11\/07"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"BluesAintNothingBookCover\"<\/a>From time to time, all of us get tired of taking care of ourselves. When we\u2019re stressed or unhappy, we especially need a chance to be taken care of as if we were a child.<\/p>\n

At the end of a long, difficult day, how good it is to return home to someone who cares about how we feel! Like a child, we can come to them for parenting, and like a mother or father, than can take us in. It\u2019s the sort of momentary comfort that may get both partners through life.<\/p>\n

Rather than actually trying to fix the other\u2019s feelings, the one fulfilling the role of parent needs to be available to listen to feeling and communicate, \u201cI\u2019m here and I care. I\u2019m sorry you\u2019re having such a tough time.\u00a0 I\u2019m willing to hurt because you hurt, and to be respectfully careful not to tell you how you should feel or what you should do.\u201d<\/p>\n

If this can happen without the two forgetting they are adults, then tonight\u2019s pretend parent can be tomorrow night\u2019s pretend child.<\/p>\n

Comforting each other is not just child\u2019s play.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

From time to time, all of us get tired of taking care of ourselves. When we\u2019re stressed or unhappy, we […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"full-width-page.php","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1714","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/P2R4NI-rE","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.goodsoul.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1714","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.goodsoul.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.goodsoul.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goodsoul.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goodsoul.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1714"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.goodsoul.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1714\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1730,"href":"https:\/\/www.goodsoul.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1714\/revisions\/1730"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.goodsoul.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1714"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}