{"id":7857,"date":"2019-03-15T09:45:45","date_gmt":"2019-03-15T16:45:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/xangelle.com\/dailygrind\/?p=7857"},"modified":"2019-03-15T09:45:45","modified_gmt":"2019-03-15T16:45:45","slug":"anxiety","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/xangelle.com\/dailygrind\/anxiety\/","title":{"rendered":"Anxiety"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Oh, my sweet boy!<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s Friday morning and I&#8217;m sitting in the school office. I haven&#8217;t been here in a while which is something that I&#8217;m SO thankful for.<\/p>\n<p>Last year, I spent the majority of the year in the school and a huge portion of it, sitting in the office.<\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/xangelle.com\/dailygrind\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/img_6186.jpg?resize=840%2C844&#038;ssl=1\" class=\"size-full wp-image-7856\" width=\"840\" height=\"844\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/xangelle.com\/dailygrind\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/img_6186.jpg?w=1234&amp;ssl=1 1234w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/xangelle.com\/dailygrind\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/img_6186.jpg?resize=150%2C150&amp;ssl=1 150w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/xangelle.com\/dailygrind\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/img_6186.jpg?resize=300%2C300&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/xangelle.com\/dailygrind\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/img_6186.jpg?resize=768%2C772&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/xangelle.com\/dailygrind\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/img_6186.jpg?resize=1019%2C1024&amp;ssl=1 1019w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/xangelle.com\/dailygrind\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/img_6186.jpg?resize=1200%2C1206&amp;ssl=1 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Judah has had a tough time with separation anxiety.  It started in Kindergarten.  Grade 1 was harder and Grade 2 was even worse.  We&#8217;ve done lots of counselling and emotional &#8220;work&#8221; and this year has been a roller coaster of ups and downs.<\/p>\n<p>One thing that I&#8217;m SO very thankful for is that there have been more ups than downs this year.<\/p>\n<p>I get discouraged because this has been such a long process, and if I&#8217;m being honest, I just want things to be normal&#8230;&#8230;whatever that is.<\/p>\n<p>But, things are getting better and this is the first time that I&#8217;ve sat here in the office, in a long time.<\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;re all tired and ready for Spring Break and the down time.<\/p>\n<p>But today, I&#8217;m SO thankful for the forward progress that we&#8217;ve made this school year.<\/p>\n<p>What are you thankful for?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Oh, my sweet boy! It&#8217;s Friday morning and I&#8217;m sitting in the school office. I haven&#8217;t been here in a while which is something that I&#8217;m SO thankful for. Last year, I spent the majority of the year in the school and a huge portion of it, sitting in the office. Judah has had a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/xangelle.com\/dailygrind\/anxiety\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Anxiety&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[81,46,41],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7857","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gratitude-challenge","category-judah","category-thankfulness"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/xangelle.com\/dailygrind\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7857","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/xangelle.com\/dailygrind\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/xangelle.com\/dailygrind\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xangelle.com\/dailygrind\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xangelle.com\/dailygrind\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7857"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/xangelle.com\/dailygrind\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7857\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/xangelle.com\/dailygrind\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7857"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xangelle.com\/dailygrind\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7857"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xangelle.com\/dailygrind\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7857"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}