{"id":4343,"date":"2019-03-12T07:09:47","date_gmt":"2019-03-12T14:09:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/milloyd\/?p=4343"},"modified":"2019-03-12T07:09:47","modified_gmt":"2019-03-12T14:09:47","slug":"what-do-you-do-when-you-can-only-see-the-left-end-of-the-stick","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/milloyd\/2019\/03\/12\/what-do-you-do-when-you-can-only-see-the-left-end-of-the-stick\/","title":{"rendered":"What do you do when you can only see the left end of the stick?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>March 6, 2019<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>&#8220;What do you do when you can only see the left end of the stick?&#8221;<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>That was the question we were asked during our recent novel study time.<\/p>\n<p>The &#8220;left end of the stick&#8221; refers to the negative feelings and actions in you. In more simple terms, it&#8217;s when you are feeling angry, outraged, sad, the more<em> blue<\/em> kinds of feelings.<\/p>\n<p>Since I was little, I&#8217;ve gone through a lot of therapy. Specifically because sometimes, I could only seem to see the left end of the stick. Thanks to therapy and counselling, I have a lot of different ways I can see more of the <em>right end<\/em> of the stick, and less of the <em>left end.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Some of my favourites would include:<\/p>\n<p><strong>Dance<\/strong>&#8211; the smooth rhythm of dancing is very soothing for me.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Reading<\/strong>&#8211; by diving into a book, I escape my reality and go into somebody else&#8217;s.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Music<\/strong>&#8211; Usually, if I need to cry, I&#8217;ll listen to a sad song. If I&#8217;m happy, I&#8217;ll listen to something more upbeat.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Gratitude Journal<\/strong>&#8211; This is something my mum suggested to me, by keeping a gratitude journal, it helps you focus on more of the positive things and less of the negative.<\/p>\n<p>Of course, I have more. But these are the most effective for&nbsp;<em>me.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Leave a comment about what you do when you can only see the left end of the stick.<\/p>\n<p>Bye! \ud83d\ude09 \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>March 6, 2019 &#8220;What do you do when you can only see the left end of the stick?&#8221; That was the question we were asked during our recent novel study time. The &#8220;left end of the stick&#8221; refers to the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/milloyd\/2019\/03\/12\/what-do-you-do-when-you-can-only-see-the-left-end-of-the-stick\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9036,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[9],"tags":[473,392],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/milloyd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4343"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/milloyd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/milloyd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/milloyd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9036"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/milloyd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4343"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/milloyd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4343\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4508,"href":"https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/milloyd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4343\/revisions\/4508"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/milloyd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4343"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/milloyd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4343"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/milloyd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4343"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}