{"id":1920,"date":"2010-01-17T16:19:29","date_gmt":"2010-01-17T21:19:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.switchingtime.com\/?p=1920"},"modified":"2010-01-17T16:19:29","modified_gmt":"2010-01-17T21:19:29","slug":"karen-answers-ally","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.switchingtime.com\/?p=1920","title":{"rendered":"Karen answers Ally"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!--StartFragment--><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span>Comment by Ally on 09 Jan 2010 at 6:10 pm<\/span><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span>i am a therapist and wonder how you cope today<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span>Dear Ally,<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span>I cope the best I can. I try my best to stay optimistic each day, even when dark thoughts try to take hold of me. I move forward\u00a0with confidence and personal assurance that my past can&#8217;t control me anymore. After spending a child&#8217;s lifetime being abused, it feels great to be able to put that pain behind me. I am no longer a victim or think in a child-like way. I am an adult woman and able to process my feelings in an adult way. I\u00a0am my best self.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span>Please know that as a woman who has once been abused, life will continue to be a challenge for me. I believe all who have once suffered from abuse face challenges that most people never understand. Therapy helps but doesn&#8217;t remove what happened. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span>Making a difference, sharing and having faith, helps me get through each day. For me, simply living is a miracle. I am not perfect. I have my own trials that continue to test me, but I am free. I&#8217;ll never go back to being that child who once suffered horrific abuse.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span>Thank you for being curious and for your question.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span>Karen <\/span><\/p>\n<p><!--EndFragment--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Comment by Ally on 09 Jan 2010 at 6:10 pm i am a therapist and wonder how you cope today Dear Ally, I cope the best I can. I try my best to stay optimistic each day, even when dark thoughts try to take hold of me. I move forward\u00a0with confidence and personal assurance that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1920","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-karens-answers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.switchingtime.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1920","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.switchingtime.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.switchingtime.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.switchingtime.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.switchingtime.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1920"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.switchingtime.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1920\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1921,"href":"https:\/\/www.switchingtime.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1920\/revisions\/1921"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.switchingtime.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1920"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.switchingtime.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1920"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.switchingtime.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1920"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}