{"id":1532,"date":"2008-09-23T06:20:32","date_gmt":"2008-09-23T11:20:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.pinkhairedgirl.net\/?p=1532"},"modified":"2008-09-23T06:20:32","modified_gmt":"2008-09-23T11:20:32","slug":"image-managment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sherecovery.com\/blog\/?p=1532","title":{"rendered":"Image Managment"},"content":{"rendered":"

i am listening to the new Baggage Series<\/a> from Cross Point. I honestly wish I could get the transcripts of the messages I’ve heard so far.<\/p>\n

Pete<\/a> talks about something called image management — wearing masks of normalcy to keep our baggage secret and to ourselves.<\/p>\n

oh man… i hate this series already.
\nbut in a good way of course.<\/em><\/p>\n

for years and years i lived a life of image management. i did this so well that i actually began to believe that i was fine — that i didn’t have baggage. i could hide it all so well. but oh, all this did was make it worse. i wasn’t real with anyone anymore. even those closest to me, i only let get to 90% of who i really was. still 10% of my life was hidden and protected by this image management.<\/p>\n

my childhood home life… my porn addiction… my issues with men… my inability to forgive… my distrust in God and people… my issues with anger…<\/p>\n

i could somehow make the very dark, very lonely, very broken and very lost person that i really was, appear so mature and so put together.<\/p>\n

and even though i have overcome a lot of my image management issues through finally becoming real with those close to me and even just out here on my blog… i don’t know how well i am doing at the whole forgiving and healing part. counseling really helps and i am doing better and better but when i hear a message like this… all i can see is how far i have to go.<\/p>\n

i can’t wait for the day that i have it all together and get all of this right.
\nGod of Heaven, come down.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

i am listening to the new Baggage Series from Cross Point. I honestly wish I could get the transcripts of the messages I’ve heard so far. Pete talks about something called image management — wearing masks of normalcy to keep our baggage secret and to ourselves. oh man… i hate this series already. but in… Continue reading Image Managment<\/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":[165,45],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1532","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-box-of-chocolates","category-personal-growth","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sherecovery.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1532","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sherecovery.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sherecovery.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sherecovery.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sherecovery.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1532"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sherecovery.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1532\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sherecovery.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1532"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sherecovery.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1532"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sherecovery.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1532"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}