{"id":9210,"date":"2016-05-19T17:34:09","date_gmt":"2016-05-19T21:34:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.elasticmind.ca\/innerpreneur\/?p=9210"},"modified":"2016-05-19T17:38:45","modified_gmt":"2016-05-19T21:38:45","slug":"emotional-littering","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.elasticmind.ca\/innerpreneur\/index.php\/2016\/05\/19\/emotional-littering\/","title":{"rendered":"Emotional Littering"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"ttr_start\"><\/div><p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.elasticmind.ca\/innerpreneur\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/EmotionalLittering.png\" alt=\"EmotionalLittering\" width=\"664\" height=\"248\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-9212\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.elasticmind.ca\/innerpreneur\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/EmotionalLittering.png 664w, https:\/\/www.elasticmind.ca\/innerpreneur\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/EmotionalLittering-300x112.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 664px) 100vw, 664px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Emotional littering is when I attempt to alleviate my own overwhelming emotions by disposing of them elsewhere, when I inherently know they&#8217;re mine to be responsible to.<\/p>\n<p>In those moments, I don&#8217;t want to own what I&#8217;m feeling and how I&#8217;m reacting to it. Instead, I&#8217;m trying to drop my responsibility into another&#8217;s backyard. To put it on them.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m not making space for my stuff, and I&#8217;m attempting to alleviate this by leaving it for someone else to take care of. I&#8217;m pretending to not be attached to what I&#8217;m feeling.<\/p>\n<p>I am emotionally littering. And in doing so\u2014<a href=\"http:\/\/www.elasticmind.ca\/innerpreneur\/index.php\/2016\/01\/15\/motion-of-emotion\/\">in not being responsible to how I feel<\/a>\u2014I&#8217;m giving away my power to feel differently. What a waste.<\/p>\n<p><em>photo credit: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/stevenpisano\/25112979736\/\" target=\"_blank\">Steven Pisano<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<div class=\"ttr_end\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Emotional littering is when I attempt to alleviate my own overwhelming emotions by disposing of them elsewhere, when I inherently know they&#8217;re mine to be responsible to. In those moments, I don&#8217;t want to own what I&#8217;m feeling and how I&#8217;m reacting to it. Instead, I&#8217;m trying to drop my responsibility into another&#8217;s backyard. To [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9212,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[530,349,460,238,67,24,325],"class_list":["post-9210","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-growing","tag-emotional-triggers","tag-emotions","tag-empowerment","tag-feelings","tag-relationship","tag-relationships","tag-responsibility"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elasticmind.ca\/innerpreneur\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9210","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elasticmind.ca\/innerpreneur\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elasticmind.ca\/innerpreneur\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elasticmind.ca\/innerpreneur\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elasticmind.ca\/innerpreneur\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9210"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.elasticmind.ca\/innerpreneur\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9210\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elasticmind.ca\/innerpreneur\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9212"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elasticmind.ca\/innerpreneur\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9210"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elasticmind.ca\/innerpreneur\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9210"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elasticmind.ca\/innerpreneur\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9210"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}