{"id":169,"date":"2009-07-08T17:23:43","date_gmt":"2009-07-08T17:23:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/causeandeffectdogtraining.com\/blog\/?p=169"},"modified":"2010-06-17T23:05:30","modified_gmt":"2010-06-17T23:05:30","slug":"writers-block","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/causeandeffectdogtraining.com\/blog\/2009\/07\/08\/writers-block\/","title":{"rendered":"Writer&#8217;s Block"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I haven&#8217;t been posting simply because I haven&#8217;t been inspired.\u00a0 I have been dealing with Benjamin&#8217;s injury and my search for an apartment to get me back to Berkeley.\u00a0 With these stresses, I just have had a block.\u00a0 My mind gets fixated on the tasks at hand, and I turn inward and away from sharing.\u00a0 I feel like I am opening up a bit now.<\/p>\n<p>Benjamin is\u00a0 making good progress.\u00a0 He isn&#8217;t fully weight bearing on his back left leg- but he is definetly walking on it and seems way more comfortable than 4 weeks ago.\u00a0 The first several weeks sucked-\u00a0 he didn&#8217;t understand why he couldn&#8217;t go with me on the evening walk.\u00a0 He had to lay around all day and all night with only short pee and poop breaks.\u00a0 I have spent tons of m0ney on raw bones for him to chew on.\u00a0 I have spent hours massaging and brushing him.\u00a0 I hired an expert to come over and do massage and acupressure.\u00a0 I even talked to an animal communicator.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_170\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-170\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-170\" title=\"100_2467\" src=\"http:\/\/causeandeffectdogtraining.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/100_2467-300x224.jpg\" alt=\"100_2467\" width=\"300\" height=\"224\" srcset=\"https:\/\/causeandeffectdogtraining.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/100_2467-300x224.jpg 300w, https:\/\/causeandeffectdogtraining.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/100_2467-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/causeandeffectdogtraining.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/100_2467.jpg 2032w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-170\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Benjamin getting acupressure<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">I notice that when something happens that\u00a0 is stressful in my life- I immediately need to figure out how to fix it. To make it right again. I go into action mode.\u00a0 This can be a good thing-\u00a0 because sometimes you can repair life&#8217;s broken paths&#8230;and then sometimes you can&#8217;t fully fix it.\u00a0 I realized this morning- that even if my boy&#8217;s leg is repaired- that he still be the old man that has arthritis everywhere.\u00a0 I can do everything possible to make him comfortable and happy- but I can&#8217;t give him a young boy&#8217;s body. and here comes that hard to swallow word-\u00a0 Acceptance&#8230;acceptance of What Is.\u00a0 I always come back to this humble place.\u00a0 My heart yearns for the ability to accept what is.\u00a0 I know if I can reach this place-\u00a0 I will know what inner peace truly feels like<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I haven&#8217;t been posting simply because I haven&#8217;t been inspired.\u00a0 I have been dealing with Benjamin&#8217;s injury and my search for an apartment to get me back to Berkeley.\u00a0 With these stresses, I just have had a block.\u00a0 My mind gets fixated on the tasks at hand, and I turn inward and away from sharing.\u00a0 &hellip; <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/causeandeffectdogtraining.com\/blog\/2009\/07\/08\/writers-block\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Writer&#8217;s Block<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/causeandeffectdogtraining.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/causeandeffectdogtraining.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/causeandeffectdogtraining.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/causeandeffectdogtraining.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/causeandeffectdogtraining.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=169"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/causeandeffectdogtraining.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":253,"href":"https:\/\/causeandeffectdogtraining.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169\/revisions\/253"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/causeandeffectdogtraining.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=169"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/causeandeffectdogtraining.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=169"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/causeandeffectdogtraining.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=169"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}