{"id":92,"date":"2023-07-01T12:22:48","date_gmt":"2023-07-01T12:22:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/devu05.testdevlink.net\/well\/?p=92"},"modified":"2023-07-04T00:51:20","modified_gmt":"2023-07-04T00:51:20","slug":"flying-free-aka-finding-freedom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devu05.testdevlink.net\/well\/2023\/07\/01\/flying-free-aka-finding-freedom\/","title":{"rendered":"Flying Free aka Finding Freedom"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Around this holiday time I often ask myself what it means to be free.\u00a0 Not only as an American but also as a person who places freedom among her most treasured values.\u00a0 \u00a0Freedom means different things to different people, for me it is more than having the civil rights to express myself and live without shackles. It is also the opportunity to seek out and experience what I want most for myself and the people I surround myself with.\u00a0 On a deeper level, freedom is ability to let go of the fear and doubt that become barriers to our inner freedom.\u00a0 This is where I need to be to be truly free.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">But feeling free isn\u2019t the same for everyone.\u00a0 Just as we each have our own beliefs, attachments and experiences we also have different ideas about what defines personal freedom.\u00a0 For me feeling self<em>&#8211;<\/em>assured and content is liberating. Often it comes from the acknowledgment of people I love or respect, and sometimes it comes from breaking boundaries, setting goals, and achieving them.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">I imagine that it is not easy being dependent on another because you are physically disabled or in need financially. Thinking about these settings makes me sad yet grateful for my independence.\u00a0 I recognize that it takes more than courage to live through and hopefully overcome and illness or loss.\u00a0 But what I do know is coming from a mindset of gratitude and self<em>&#8211;<\/em>compassion helps me get through the day when I feel the headwinds in my face.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">From my perspective, freedom doesn\u2019t just present itself, it takes courage in the face of what appears to be an unscalable hurdles.\u00a0 As the <em>4<\/em><sup>th<\/sup> of July feeling grateful that for the courageous, beautiful and loving people in my who showed me the way to be brave and fly free.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Around this holiday time I often ask myself what it means to be free.\u00a0 Not only as an American but also as a person who places freedom among her most&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":80,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-92","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/devu05.testdevlink.net\/well\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/devu05.testdevlink.net\/well\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/devu05.testdevlink.net\/well\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devu05.testdevlink.net\/well\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devu05.testdevlink.net\/well\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=92"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/devu05.testdevlink.net\/well\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":324,"href":"https:\/\/devu05.testdevlink.net\/well\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92\/revisions\/324"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devu05.testdevlink.net\/well\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/80"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/devu05.testdevlink.net\/well\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=92"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devu05.testdevlink.net\/well\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=92"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devu05.testdevlink.net\/well\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=92"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}