{"id":2094,"date":"2025-08-22T22:50:45","date_gmt":"2025-08-22T22:50:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/donnaspringgulick.com\/?page_id=2094"},"modified":"2025-08-22T23:08:12","modified_gmt":"2025-08-22T23:08:12","slug":"memoir-excerpts","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/donnaspringgulick.com\/?page_id=2094","title":{"rendered":"Memoir Excerpt"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #3366ff;\"><strong>How to Turn on Your Light in the Face <\/strong><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #3366ff;\"><strong>of Overwhelming Darkness<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li> Allow your emotions to arise, whether fear, sorrow, anger, or despair. Feel them.<\/li>\n<li>Talk to yourself with compassion. \u201cSweetheart (or use your own name), I am so sorry you are suffering. I feel your anger, your grief, your despair. I am here for you.\u201d<\/li>\n<li>Remind yourself that you are a spirit of Light in a human experience.<\/li>\n<li>Feel the presence of a holy being, like Jesus, Mary, Kuan Yin, or the Dalai Lama. What would they say? Feel their love pouring into you. Ask for their help.<\/li>\n<li>Send Light to all people who feel likewise, feeling your commonality with them.<\/li>\n<li>When overwhelmed by darkness, you need other people. Ask someone, or several, to be your affirmation partner(s); meet by phone, internet, or in person to bring each other into thankfulness.<\/li>\n<li>Ask to receive Guidance on what is yours to do in the situation. Your mission is to listen until you feel the clarity. Then, let your intuition guide you.<\/li>\n<li>Renew your practice of thankfulness\u2014when you wake up, throughout the day, and when you go to sleep. That is the highest vibration you can choose to do anytime, anywhere.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How to Turn on Your Light in the Face of Overwhelming Darkness Allow your emotions to arise, whether fear, sorrow, anger, or despair. Feel them. Talk to yourself with compassion. \u201cSweetheart (or use your own name), I am so sorry <span class=\"excerpt-dots\">&hellip;<\/span> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/donnaspringgulick.com\/?page_id=2094\"><span class=\"more-msg\">Continue reading &rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-2094","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/donnaspringgulick.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2094","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/donnaspringgulick.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/donnaspringgulick.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/donnaspringgulick.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/donnaspringgulick.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2094"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/donnaspringgulick.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2094\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2111,"href":"https:\/\/donnaspringgulick.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2094\/revisions\/2111"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/donnaspringgulick.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2094"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}