{"id":17709,"date":"2013-02-05T10:04:41","date_gmt":"2013-02-05T15:04:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/?p=17709"},"modified":"2013-02-05T10:04:41","modified_gmt":"2013-02-05T15:04:41","slug":"the-role-of-a-caretaker","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/?p=17709","title":{"rendered":"The role of a caretaker"},"content":{"rendered":"

E told me the other day that she wants to explore the role of a caretaker with me. The problem in therapy with caretakers is they seldom take care of themselves. I have the solution – Hashimoto’s Disease – it is a relentless reminder to care for yourself even if every fiber of your being keeps going back to the familiar pattern. The reason is that you simply don’t have the emotional, physical, or spiritual resources to take care of others and if you add that you have to care for a young child then you really don’t have anything left over for anyone else. <\/p>\n

For Superbowl Sunday, friends came by and this little girl showed up – Demi – I scooped her up and was Mama for a day again to a toddler. It’s amazing how easy that role suits me, having a baby on my hip, running to the store to get the right bottles, and changing her and loving on her. I could almost see me with another child and then I had to catch myself. <\/p>\n

\"Rachel&Demi\"<\/a><\/p>\n

\"Tin&DemiSB13\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Really? Another child? <\/p>\n

Lord Today!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

E told me the other day that she wants to explore the role of a caretaker with me. The problem in therapy with caretakers is they seldom take care of themselves. I have the solution – Hashimoto’s Disease – it is a relentless reminder to care for yourself even if every fiber of your being keeps going back to the familiar pattern. The reason is that you simply don’t have the emotional, physical, or spiritual… <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17709","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-main"],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1kHSD-4BD","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17709","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17709"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17709\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17712,"href":"http:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17709\/revisions\/17712"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17709"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17709"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17709"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}