{"id":4173,"date":"2006-01-10T09:07:05","date_gmt":"2006-01-10T14:07:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=4173"},"modified":"2006-01-10T09:07:05","modified_gmt":"2006-01-10T14:07:05","slug":"courage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=4173","title":{"rendered":"Courage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A blogger who writes about his experiences, and his struggles, openly &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/stevietheories.blogspot.com\/2006\/01\/reappearance-of-negative-core-belief.html\">like in this post<\/a>.  He was in the middle of a struggle when he wrote that post.  He lets us in on his thought process, his vulnerability, his ups and downs with it &#8211; and he uses the blog as a way to keep himself in a dialogue with himself, and his issues &#8211; as a way to say: &#8220;Okay &#8211; so I notice that when THIS situation comes up, all of these buttons are pushed &#8230;&#8221; Or &#8220;I am noticing that THIS is a huge trigger for me.&#8221;  Etc. It&#8217;s all about becoming conscious, it seems to me.  Stopping the automatic responses to things, and just taking a second to NOTICE what is really going on.  Very hard to do, and even more hard to do in public.<\/p>\n<p>Really courageous stuff.  I love people who engage with themselves that way.  Especially if they can write, and Stevie can.<\/p>\n<p>He&#8217;s on this whole &#8220;core belief&#8221; journey &#8211; and I&#8217;m really getting a lot out of reading his posts, where he explores these negative core beliefs he has &#8211; stuff he is really WORKING on.<\/p>\n<p>Good for you, Stevie &#8211; and congrats on the successful completion of your big project.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A blogger who writes about his experiences, and his struggles, openly &#8211; like in this post. He was in the middle of a struggle when he wrote that post. He lets us in on his thought process, his vulnerability, his &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=4173\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=4173\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4173"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4173"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4173\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4173"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4173"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4173"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}