{"id":2151,"date":"2016-01-21T21:16:31","date_gmt":"2016-01-22T03:16:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.life-coaching-resource.com\/blog\/?p=2151"},"modified":"2017-12-09T18:12:10","modified_gmt":"2017-12-10T00:12:10","slug":"shadowside","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.life-coaching-resource.com\/blog\/shadowside\/","title":{"rendered":"Shadow Side (the things we don&#8217;t share)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Confession:<br \/>\nFor the past 6 months, surrounded by rice paddies, I\u2019ve spent 8 hours a day playing a computer game and watching TV. (That\u2019s 1,440 hours).<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright\" style=\"border: 10px solid black; margin-top: 5px; margin-bottom: 5px;\" title=\"confession\" src=\"http:\/\/mattfradd.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/emptyconfessional.jpg\" alt=\"confession\" width=\"405\" height=\"272\" \/>At night I\u2019ve been drinking alcohol, and sometimes stuffing myself with sugar.<\/p>\n<p>I rarely went out, and I discouraged visitors. \u00a0I\u2019m also taking prescribed Mirtazapine and Valium, which seems to mitigate the depression and anxiety.<\/p>\n<p>She asked me: &#8220;What are you preparing yourself for?&#8221;<br \/>\nThe answer arose: \u201cA life of loneliness\u201d.<br \/>\n(Or to command Earth&#8217;s fleet if we&#8217;re ever invaded)<\/p>\n<p>Some of it was truly fun, but the overwhelming sense was of \u201cgetting by\u201d, \u201ccoping\u201d and \u201cwasting my life\u201d. With some awareness, I consumed my addictions, and watched and waited.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s surprising that people were trying to get time with me, and staggering that one or two were persistent enough to pierce the veil.<\/p>\n<p>So now, with a gentle nudge from the divine feminine, I\u2019ve recently made some massive changes:<br \/>\n&#8211; 6 weeks since I touched the computer game<br \/>\n&#8211; 4 weeks since I\u2019ve tasted alcohol<br \/>\n&#8211; TV watching slashed by 80% (and I\u2019m way more discerning)<br \/>\n&#8211; on a healthy eating plan (juices, vegetables, shakes, low sugar)<br \/>\n&#8211; regular sessions with a somatic therapist who is pure love<\/p>\n<p>There\u2019s an aliveness; a tingling\/buzzing in my energy field.<br \/>\nI\u2019m on fire with passion for theatrical improv and teaching, particularly face to face groups (and stay tuned for the google hangouts!)<br \/>\nI\u2019m filling my time with fun, games, people, and service.<br \/>\nDeep, dark scary emotions I haven\u2019t wanted to face for a very long time are coming into the light and being seen and loved.<br \/>\nThe bag of salt and vinegar chips still sits on my counter, unopened.<br \/>\nI still sometimes experience mild symptoms of fatigue, anxiety and depression, AND:<\/p>\n<p>I like being here, now, in my body.<br \/>\nI like the sense that maybe, just maybe, laser bolts might shoot from my hands.<\/p>\n<p>If you\u2019re currently making massive changes in your life, or you WANT to, I\u2019d love to hear about them below if you&#8217;re willing to share.<br \/>\nWhat are you inspired to shift?<\/p>\n<p>(More Truth-Bombs at <a title=\"Truth Bombs\" href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/solutionbox\" target=\"_blank\">www.facebook.com\/solutionbox<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Confession: For the past 6 months, surrounded by rice paddies, I\u2019ve spent 8 hours a day playing a computer game and watching TV. (That\u2019s 1,440 hours). At night I\u2019ve been drinking alcohol, and sometimes stuffing myself with sugar. I rarely went out, and I discouraged visitors. \u00a0I\u2019m also taking prescribed Mirtazapine and Valium, which seems [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.life-coaching-resource.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2151"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.life-coaching-resource.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.life-coaching-resource.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.life-coaching-resource.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.life-coaching-resource.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2151"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/www.life-coaching-resource.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2151\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2169,"href":"http:\/\/www.life-coaching-resource.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2151\/revisions\/2169"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.life-coaching-resource.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2151"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.life-coaching-resource.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2151"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.life-coaching-resource.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2151"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}