{"id":3097,"date":"2015-03-23T12:58:51","date_gmt":"2015-03-23T17:58:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.switchingtime.com\/?p=3097"},"modified":"2015-03-23T12:58:51","modified_gmt":"2015-03-23T17:58:51","slug":"karen-answers-tiffany-a","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.switchingtime.com\/?p=3097","title":{"rendered":"Karen answers Tiffany A."},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"yiv3659815017yui_3_7_2_49_1375144771358_39\">\n<blockquote><p>Dear Karen,<\/p>\n<p>Your story and pain throughout it all touched me mentally and emotionally. \u00a0The pain in my childhood resembled parts of yours. People like us being able to survive are a miracle. \u00a0Knowing that you were able to recover and find hope to live another day is inspiring.<\/p>\n<p>One day, I hope to find solace as you did and be able to live and want to live. Everyday is a struggle and my first 18 years of life were spent in therapy. My mind and body have never healed, yet when I read your and Richard\u2019s book, I gained hope.<\/p>\n<p>All the best and hoping you\u2019re well,<\/p>\n<p>Tiffany A.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Dear Tiffany,<\/p>\n<p>Thank you for sharing! I am glad to hear my story has touched you in a way that gave you hope. It takes time to heal. Though my therapy ended years ago I continue to have a few bad moments. It is at these times I do my best to remember all that I had learned during my seasons of therapy. The difference is now I am able to place my thoughts in three different areas: past, present and future. I can\u2019t change my past nor can I predict my future. As for today, I do the best I can.<\/p>\n<p>Wishing you all my best,<\/p>\n<p>Karen<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dear Karen, Your story and pain throughout it all touched me mentally and emotionally. \u00a0The pain in my childhood resembled parts of yours. People like us being able to survive are a miracle. \u00a0Knowing that you were able to recover and find hope to live another day is inspiring. One day, I hope to find [&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-3097","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\/3097","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=3097"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.switchingtime.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3097\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3098,"href":"https:\/\/www.switchingtime.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3097\/revisions\/3098"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.switchingtime.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3097"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.switchingtime.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3097"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.switchingtime.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3097"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}