{"id":10859,"date":"2014-07-27T08:38:45","date_gmt":"2014-07-27T08:38:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.briancullen.net\/stories\/?p=71"},"modified":"2020-08-18T02:49:57","modified_gmt":"2020-08-18T02:49:57","slug":"tug-of-war-with-a-monster","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/teachingstories.briancullen.net\/de\/2014\/07\/27\/tug-of-war-with-a-monster\/","title":{"rendered":"Tug of War with a Monster"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Imagine you\u2019re in a tug of war with some huge anxiety (depression etc) monster.  You\u2019ve got one end of the rope, and the monster has the other end.  In between you, there\u2019s  a huge bottomless pit.  You\u2019re pulling backward as hard as you can, but the monster keeps on pulling you ever closer to the pit.  What\u2019s the best thing to do in that situation?<br \/>\nPulling harder comes naturally, but the harder you pull, the harder the monster pulls.  You\u2019re stuck.  What do you need to do?<br \/>\nDropping the rope means the monster\u2019s still there, but you\u2019re no longer tied up in a struggle with it.  Now you can do something more useful.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Imagine you\u2019re in a tug of war with some huge anxiety (depression etc) monster. You\u2019ve got one end of the rope, and the monster has the other end. In between you, there\u2019s a huge bottomless pit. You\u2019re pulling backward as hard as you can, but the monster keeps on pulling you ever closer to the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10859","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-other","category-stories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/teachingstories.briancullen.net\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10859","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/teachingstories.briancullen.net\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/teachingstories.briancullen.net\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teachingstories.briancullen.net\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teachingstories.briancullen.net\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10859"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/teachingstories.briancullen.net\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10859\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11272,"href":"https:\/\/teachingstories.briancullen.net\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10859\/revisions\/11272"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/teachingstories.briancullen.net\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10859"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teachingstories.briancullen.net\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10859"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teachingstories.briancullen.net\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10859"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}