{"id":1566,"date":"2018-08-13T14:14:11","date_gmt":"2018-08-13T19:14:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/angie-bailey.com\/?p=1566"},"modified":"2024-01-21T14:53:55","modified_gmt":"2024-01-21T20:53:55","slug":"advice-i-give-myself","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/angie-bailey.com\/blog\/essay\/advice-i-give-myself\/","title":{"rendered":"Advice I Give Myself"},"content":{"rendered":"
The Mainzer Cats image doesn’t have much to do with this post, but it looks awfully advice-y, doesn’t it?<\/p>\n
Advice is such a loaded word. So much of it is unwanted, yet when we need it, we really<\/em> need it. All of us are guilty from time to time (to time) of not taking our own advice. Sure, we’re confident in the encouragement and guidance we offer others, but that’ll only work for them<\/em>, right? It’s so hard when you’re in it<\/strong> yourself. It’s a challenge to go all out-of-body and look at your situation from a different perspective — and then give yourself advice. Sometimes when I’m talking to myself, I’m a terrible listener.<\/p>\n Here’s some of the valuable advice I like to offer myself:<\/p>\n Even if this post doesn’t help a single person, it feels fracking therapeutic to write it. I do hope it does help at least one person, though. And I mean that sincerely — not in a people-pleaser kind of way.<\/p>\n Cosmo Update<\/strong><\/p>\n I know some of you are interested in an update on my young man. Thanks again for the nice comments and questions about Cosmo.<\/p>\n The growth on his mouth is getting bigger by the day, and it looks kind of terrible. He is, however, still eating and acting normally. I don’t know what this means, but Chris and I continue to love him like crazy.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The Mainzer Cats image doesn’t have much to do with this post, but it looks awfully advice-y, doesn’t it? Advice is such a loaded word. So much of it is unwanted, yet when we need it, we really need it. All of us are guilty from time to time (to time) of not taking our […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1567,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43],"tags":[24,35,20,34,23],"cc_featured_image_caption":{"caption_text":"","source_text":"","source_url":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/angie-bailey.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1566"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/angie-bailey.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/angie-bailey.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/angie-bailey.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/angie-bailey.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1566"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/angie-bailey.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1566\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1570,"href":"https:\/\/angie-bailey.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1566\/revisions\/1570"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/angie-bailey.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1567"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/angie-bailey.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1566"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/angie-bailey.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1566"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/angie-bailey.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1566"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}\n