{"id":1683,"date":"2006-10-25T00:31:04","date_gmt":"2006-10-25T07:31:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/2006\/10\/25\/eye-of-a-hurricane-listen-to-yourself-churn\/"},"modified":"2026-01-21T16:42:27","modified_gmt":"2026-01-22T00:42:27","slug":"eye-of-a-hurricane-listen-to-yourself-churn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/2006\/10\/25\/eye-of-a-hurricane-listen-to-yourself-churn\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Eye of a hurricane, listen to yourself churn&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"photopost\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/mindfulone\/278658398\/\" title=\"Photo Sharing\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/static.flickr.com\/94\/278658398_7ec11c0046.jpg\" width=\"400\" height=\"300\" alt=\"churning\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p>I went to my session to receive EMDR treatment. I had no expectations. I wasn&#8217;t skeptical, and I wasn&#8217;t convinced. I was curious, which is probably the best disposition when approaching new treatments. I was surprised at the feelings and memories that came up. Lots of sadness, grief, confusion, anger. Some new insights. And now I&#8217;m drained.<\/p>\n<p>Husband&#8217;s co-worker referred us to a fertility specialist that he and his wife worked with. His wife is also willing to talk with me to provide information and encouragement. We&#8217;re going to coordinate a coffee date (or some such). The specialist the co-worker mentioned is a male, and I told Husband last night that I may want to work with a female doctor. I simply have not experienced the quality of care I want (and have received from women medical professionals in the past). Then again, if this specialist is heartily endorsed by co-worker and wife, I&#8217;ll consider it.<\/p>\n<p>Only seven more workdays until I&#8217;m a free agent again. November 3rd is my last day! I&#8217;m looking forward to being <em>done<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I went to my session to receive EMDR treatment. I had no expectations. I wasn&#8217;t skeptical, and I wasn&#8217;t convinced. I was curious, which is probably the best disposition when approaching new treatments. I was surprised at the feelings and memories that came up. Lots of sadness, grief, confusion, anger. Some new insights. And now [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1683","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nature"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1683","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1683"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1683\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11154,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1683\/revisions\/11154"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1683"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1683"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1683"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}