{"id":5550,"date":"2010-04-08T09:15:44","date_gmt":"2010-04-08T16:15:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/?p=5550"},"modified":"2026-01-21T16:33:29","modified_gmt":"2026-01-22T00:33:29","slug":"transition-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/2010\/04\/08\/transition-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Transition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m dealing again with the fact that friendships are fluid; they serve for a time, and then they don&#8217;t. This is a challenge when it&#8217;s the other friend who decides to move on. It&#8217;s tempting to feel rejected, sad, angry, bitter, hurt. So I&#8217;m trying to sit with those feelings a bit &#8212; feel them, watch them, allow space to develop around them, and let them go. By dwelling in them I&#8217;ll be robbing myself of life <em>now<\/em>. I do feel a bit lonesome today, but I remind myself this will change, and that I have the ability to alter my perspective and to allow that feeling to dissipate.<\/p>\n<p>Lately I&#8217;ve been preoccupied with a life transition and have been less in the loop with my playgroup. So it&#8217;s time to pick up the phone and try to arrange some dates with other mothers and their kids, and to forge some new friendships with acquaintances recently met.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m dealing again with the fact that friendships are fluid; they serve for a time, and then they don&#8217;t. This is a challenge when it&#8217;s the other friend who decides to move on. It&#8217;s tempting to feel rejected, sad, angry, bitter, hurt. So I&#8217;m trying to sit with those feelings a bit &#8212; feel them, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48,34,16,31],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5550","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-community","category-motherhood","category-nature","category-social-science"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5550","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=5550"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5550\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5551,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5550\/revisions\/5551"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5550"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5550"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5550"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}