{"id":1437,"date":"2011-03-20T11:11:56","date_gmt":"2011-03-20T15:11:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/childrenofhoarders.com\/wordpress\/?p=1437"},"modified":"2011-04-21T08:14:04","modified_gmt":"2011-04-21T12:14:04","slug":"coh-in-recovery-focus-celebrating-you","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/legacy.childrenofhoarders.com\/?p=1437","title":{"rendered":"COH In Recovery Focus: Celebrating You!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From the Blog:<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/go.blogs.com\/guesswhatnormalis\/2007\/05\/play_to_your_st.html\" target=\"_blank\">Guess What Normal Is, Become Your Center<\/a><\/p>\n<h3>What&#8217;s Your Greatest Asset?  5 Strengths of an ACoA<\/h3>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"Std_4887\" src=\"http:\/\/go.blogs.com\/photos\/uncategorized\/2007\/05\/25\/std_4887.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Std_4887\" \/>I  don&#8217;t know about you, but I sometimes feel exasperated with the  emphasis on problems tied to being the offspring of alcoholics. I can  recite the (negative) characteristics of children of alcoholics more  accurately than I can say the Pledge of Allegiance! If it exasperates  me, I have to believe that you sometimes feel exasperated too. If I had  to print t-shirts for a group of ACoAs, I&#8217;d put a fist of strength on  there, or a symbol of resilience &#8211; not a sad face, symbol of silence, or  a chameleon.<\/p>\n<p>Today I need to hear the B side of the record, to think about our <em>other<\/em> characteristics&#8230;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><em>Read the rest of this uplifting blog entry by this ACOA <a href=\"http:\/\/go.blogs.com\/guesswhatnormalis\/2007\/05\/play_to_your_st.html\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From the Blog: Guess What Normal Is, Become Your Center What&#8217;s Your Greatest Asset? 5 Strengths of an ACoA I don&#8217;t know about you, but I sometimes feel exasperated with the emphasis on problems tied to being the offspring of alcoholics. I can recite the (negative) characteristics of children of alcoholics more accurately than I &hellip; <\/p>\n<p><a class=\"more-link btn\" href=\"https:\/\/legacy.childrenofhoarders.com\/?p=1437\">Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37,40],"tags":[65],"class_list":["post-1437","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-coh-recovery","category-about-coh","tag-acoa","item-wrap"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/legacy.childrenofhoarders.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1437","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/legacy.childrenofhoarders.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/legacy.childrenofhoarders.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/legacy.childrenofhoarders.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/legacy.childrenofhoarders.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1437"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/legacy.childrenofhoarders.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1437\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2253,"href":"https:\/\/legacy.childrenofhoarders.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1437\/revisions\/2253"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/legacy.childrenofhoarders.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1437"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/legacy.childrenofhoarders.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1437"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/legacy.childrenofhoarders.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1437"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}