{"id":3615,"date":"2022-08-22T07:30:18","date_gmt":"2022-08-22T11:30:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/robinbotie.com\/blog\/?p=3615"},"modified":"2022-08-22T15:36:07","modified_gmt":"2022-08-22T19:36:07","slug":"altered-horizons-66","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/robinbotie.com\/blog\/altered-horizons-66\/","title":{"rendered":"Altered Horizons 66"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/robinbotie.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/CloudPondPost.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-3617 size-large\" title=\"Altered Horizons 66 Robin Botie of Ithaca, New York, Photoshops fabricated landscape in her efforts to deal with depression and cope with loss.\" src=\"https:\/\/robinbotie.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/CloudPondPost-689x1024.jpg\" alt=\"Altered Horizons 66 Robin Botie of Ithaca, New York, Photoshops fabricated landscape in her efforts to deal with depression and cope with loss.\" width=\"625\" height=\"929\" data-popupalt-original-title=\"null\" srcset=\"https:\/\/robinbotie.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/CloudPondPost-689x1024.jpg 689w, https:\/\/robinbotie.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/CloudPondPost-202x300.jpg 202w, https:\/\/robinbotie.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/CloudPondPost-768x1141.jpg 768w, https:\/\/robinbotie.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/CloudPondPost-606x900.jpg 606w, https:\/\/robinbotie.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/CloudPondPost-624x927.jpg 624w, https:\/\/robinbotie.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/CloudPondPost.jpg 968w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 625px) 100vw, 625px\" \/><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">Being reflective was never one of my talents. Rarely would I look back at things said or done, examining actions and motives, realities versus perceptions. Not my own, nor another\u2019s.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">And now, stepping into the role of grief group facilitator, I am having to develop my skills at reflective listening, responding to the thoughts and feelings I sense from the communications of another, so that the speaker feels heard and understood.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">Focus on the other person\u2019s message and feelings. Don\u2019t make judgments. Don\u2019t offer advice or my own perspective, I remind myself. But I\u2019m kinda like an old upended tree trunk, absorbing the wet and warmth, and impervious to almost everything else around.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">In Photoshop I turned the reflection of trees and clouds in my pond upside down for this fabricated landscape. Definitely not paying respectful attention to what lay before me.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Altered Horizons 66<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Being reflective was never one of my talents. Rarely would I look back at things said or done, examining actions and motives, realities versus perceptions. Not my own, nor another&rsquo;s. And now, stepping into the role of grief group facilitator, I am having to develop my skills at reflective listening, responding to the thoughts and [&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":[2416,2259,705,2271,976,2414,2413,2412,2351],"class_list":["post-3615","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-a-h","tag-altered-horizons-66","tag-coping-with-change","tag-dealing-with-depression","tag-fabricated-landscapes","tag-grief-and-loss","tag-grief-educator-training","tag-grief-group-facilitator","tag-reflective-listening","tag-therapeutic-photography"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/robinbotie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3615","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=3615"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/robinbotie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3615\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/robinbotie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3615"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robinbotie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3615"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robinbotie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3615"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}