{"id":257,"date":"2013-05-21T23:50:16","date_gmt":"2013-05-22T07:50:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.eskimo.com\/~nanook\/nook\/?p=257"},"modified":"2013-05-21T23:50:16","modified_gmt":"2013-05-22T07:50:16","slug":"mental-funk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eskimo.com\/~nanook\/2013\/05\/21\/mental-funk\/","title":{"rendered":"Mental Funk"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The time approaching Mothers&#8217; Day was particularly difficult this year having lost my mother a few months ago.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s been really hard to stay focused and get things done, and the temptation to find comfort in things I know I can&#8217;t just to not feel the pain, that&#8217;s been intense but I&#8217;ve managed.<\/p>\n<p>At times now it feels difficult to find meaning in life.\u00a0 I ask the Lord for direction, and some days it seems to be there, other days not.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve been having difficulty sleeping and intense, often frightening or otherwise emotionally overwhelming dreams.<\/p>\n<p>I have been making some progress moving the business forward, improving Eskimo, but I know I could do a lot more if I were in a better mental state.<\/p>\n<p>This year has also been a horrid allergy year, and although the crap I can buy over the counter claims to be non-sedating, for me it still is, and even if it doesn&#8217;t put me to sleep it seems to make focused thought impossible.<\/p>\n<p>The fact that it&#8217;s been a year and still my youngest son won&#8217;t talk to me doesn&#8217;t help matters much or not knowing how my daughter is doing, not being legally able to know,\u00a0and just all the uncertainty in the future all wears on me.<\/p>\n<p>I keep telling myself God is good and God has a plan but I look around at all the suffering and hatred and greed and general craziness in the world and it makes it hard to have rock solid faith.\u00a0 Still, I&#8217;ve made it through what seemed to be impossible and I know God was there or I never would have made it this far.<\/p>\n<p>Well, it&#8217;s time for me to attempt sleep once again, I know it will be painful, broken, and disturbed but it is necessary.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The time approaching Mothers&#8217; Day was particularly difficult this year having lost my mother a few months ago. It&#8217;s been really hard to stay focused and get things done, and the temptation to find comfort in things I know I &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eskimo.com\/~nanook\/2013\/05\/21\/mental-funk\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-257","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","wpautop"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eskimo.com\/~nanook\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/257","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eskimo.com\/~nanook\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eskimo.com\/~nanook\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eskimo.com\/~nanook\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eskimo.com\/~nanook\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=257"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.eskimo.com\/~nanook\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/257\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eskimo.com\/~nanook\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=257"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eskimo.com\/~nanook\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=257"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eskimo.com\/~nanook\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=257"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}