{"id":48,"date":"2014-01-16T18:31:52","date_gmt":"2014-01-17T00:31:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/soulfulastrologer.com\/wordpress\/?p=48"},"modified":"2014-01-16T18:31:52","modified_gmt":"2014-01-17T00:31:52","slug":"love-revelation-learning-hurts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/melissasimonson.com\/index.php\/love-revelation-learning-hurts\/","title":{"rendered":"Love Revelation: Learning Hurts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A poetic reflection of where I&#8217;m at, right now. It feels good to hold space for myself through exploring my heart with words.<\/p>\n<p>There is something so saddening,<br \/>\nso exhausting about growth<br \/>\nThere is a longing in my soul<br \/>\nto recognize myself as whole<br \/>\nand today I&#8217;m just not feeling it<\/p>\n<p>Today I&#8217;d rather crawl under<br \/>\na rock in some deep hole<br \/>\nthen feel my muscles<br \/>\nstretching to meet the sun<\/p>\n<p>Am I the only one here<br \/>\nin this place? I feel so alone,<br \/>\nso disconnected from<br \/>\nwho I am here to be<br \/>\nand any reasoning leaves me<br \/>\nfeeling further lost<\/p>\n<p>There is so much about<br \/>\nlearning that hurts<br \/>\nStripped naked &amp; raw<br \/>\nof what I already knew,<br \/>\ncarved out anew to make<br \/>\nroom for deeper understanding<br \/>\nWhen all I want is a soft<br \/>\nlanding surrounded by friends<br \/>\nAnd I&#8217;m left here in this space<br \/>\nbetween<br \/>\nfilled with questions instead<\/p>\n<p>As the cells of my life<br \/>\ndivide &amp; multiply<br \/>\nas my heart expands to<br \/>\nmake room for more<br \/>\nI feel fragile. Ungrounded.<br \/>\nExposed.<\/p>\n<p>And while I know I chose this<br \/>\npath in order to grow<br \/>\nToday I&#8217;m struggling to<br \/>\nremember what it&#8217;s all for<br \/>\nwhen all I can see is one door<br \/>\nclosing behind me.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A poetic reflection of where I&#8217;m at, right now. It feels good to hold space for myself through exploring my heart with words. There is something so saddening, so exhausting about growth There is a longing in my soul to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/melissasimonson.com\/index.php\/love-revelation-learning-hurts\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4],"tags":[13,22,25,26,33,41,48,52,68],"class_list":["post-48","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-love-revelation","category-poetry","tag-change","tag-expansion","tag-fear","tag-feeling-alone","tag-growth","tag-learning","tag-overwhelm","tag-poem","tag-vulnerability"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/melissasimonson.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/melissasimonson.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/melissasimonson.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/melissasimonson.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/melissasimonson.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=48"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/melissasimonson.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/melissasimonson.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/melissasimonson.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/melissasimonson.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}