{"id":1411,"date":"2023-07-12T12:06:00","date_gmt":"2023-07-12T12:06:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/darylchow.com\/fullcircles\/?p=1411"},"modified":"2023-12-05T12:10:44","modified_gmt":"2023-12-05T12:10:44","slug":"multitude","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/darylchow.com\/fullcircles\/multitude\/","title":{"rendered":"You are a Multitude"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>More than a single story&#8230;there is a symphony of selves, and the softer voices inside are asking for your attention.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"904\" height=\"717\" src=\"http:\/\/darylchow.com\/fullcircles\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/image-2.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1414\" style=\"aspect-ratio:1.2608089260808926;width:671px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/darylchow.com\/fullcircles\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/image-2.png 904w, https:\/\/darylchow.com\/fullcircles\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/image-2-300x238.png 300w, https:\/\/darylchow.com\/fullcircles\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/image-2-768x609.png 768w, https:\/\/darylchow.com\/fullcircles\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/image-2-676x536.png 676w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 904px) 100vw, 904px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>You are a multitude.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>You are not your trauma, though it may be part of your experience.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>You are not your grief, though it might have made you brought you to your knees.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>You are not your happiness, though you once felt the giddiness of gladness.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>You are not your pain; be careful, as it carries power.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>You are not the depressive, you are not the anxious. You are not the angry, you are not the crazy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>You are not just a man, you are not just a woman, you are not just a transgender individual. You are not just a minority, you are not just a rebel. You are not just a father, you are not just a mother. You are not just a husband, you are not just a wife. You are not just a son, you are not just a daughter. You are not just rich, you are not just poor. You are not just in the middle, you are not neither here nor there.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>You are not either\/or.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>You are&nbsp;<strong>&#8220;both\/and.&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>You are a multitude. Don&#8217;t reduce yourself to a story. You carry many, many stories.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>There is a symphony of selves.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Pick the ones that bring you to life. Take care of the ones that are neglected and is calling out to your attention in a small voice.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Don&#8217;t let the louder voices crowd you out.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1411","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-psychological","category-reflections","post-preview"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/darylchow.com\/fullcircles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1411","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/darylchow.com\/fullcircles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/darylchow.com\/fullcircles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/darylchow.com\/fullcircles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/darylchow.com\/fullcircles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1411"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/darylchow.com\/fullcircles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1411\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1417,"href":"https:\/\/darylchow.com\/fullcircles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1411\/revisions\/1417"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/darylchow.com\/fullcircles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1411"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/darylchow.com\/fullcircles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1411"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/darylchow.com\/fullcircles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1411"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}