{"id":3610,"date":"2022-08-15T07:14:29","date_gmt":"2022-08-15T11:14:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/robinbotie.com\/blog\/?p=3610"},"modified":"2022-08-15T15:37:26","modified_gmt":"2022-08-15T19:37:26","slug":"altered-horizons-65","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/robinbotie.com\/blog\/altered-horizons-65\/","title":{"rendered":"Altered Horizons 65"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/robinbotie.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/AH65BarkPondPost.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-3611 size-large\" title=\"Altered Horizons 65 Robin Botie of Ithaca, New York, photoshops fabricated landscapes to deal with depression and cope with loss.\" src=\"https:\/\/robinbotie.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/AH65BarkPondPost-683x1024.jpg\" alt=\"Altered Horizons 65 Robin Botie of Ithaca, New York, photoshops fabricated landscapes to deal with depression and cope with loss.\" width=\"625\" height=\"937\" data-popupalt-original-title=\"null\" srcset=\"https:\/\/robinbotie.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/AH65BarkPondPost-683x1024.jpg 683w, https:\/\/robinbotie.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/AH65BarkPondPost-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/robinbotie.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/AH65BarkPondPost-768x1152.jpg 768w, https:\/\/robinbotie.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/AH65BarkPondPost-600x900.jpg 600w, https:\/\/robinbotie.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/AH65BarkPondPost-624x936.jpg 624w, https:\/\/robinbotie.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/AH65BarkPondPost.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 625px) 100vw, 625px\" \/><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">Being fully present. Listening. Reflecting. That is my job now, as a grief facilitator. I recognize that the griever\u2019s pain is theirs, is necessary, is beautiful, is now. It is not forever.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">Giving the grieving ones the dignity of experiencing their own pain, I must be a respectful witness to that pain, not a participant. Not a sponge. Not a healer or fixer.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">Just being there is everything.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">The ragged bark of a tree I upended in Photoshop and the still pond reflecting the deep sky. Combining these two images, I was reminded of sitting with a person in the throes of heartbreaking loss.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Altered Horizons 65<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Being fully present. Listening. Reflecting. That is my job now, as a grief facilitator. I recognize that the griever&rsquo;s pain is theirs, is necessary, is beautiful, is now. It is not forever. Giving the grieving ones the dignity of experiencing their own pain, I must be a respectful witness to that pain, not a participant. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2254],"tags":[2415,2259,705,2289,976,2410,2409,2270,2255,2411],"class_list":["post-3610","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-a-h","tag-altered-horizons-65","tag-coping-with-change","tag-dealing-with-depression","tag-fabricated-landscape","tag-grief-and-loss","tag-grief-facilitator","tag-therapeutic-photogrphy","tag-upended-life","tag-upside-down-world","tag-witness-the-pain"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/robinbotie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3610","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/robinbotie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/robinbotie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robinbotie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robinbotie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3610"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/robinbotie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3610\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/robinbotie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3610"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robinbotie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3610"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robinbotie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3610"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}