{"id":944,"date":"2018-12-01T20:43:17","date_gmt":"2018-12-01T20:43:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ctacoaches.com\/lisay\/?p=944"},"modified":"2018-12-01T20:45:39","modified_gmt":"2018-12-01T20:45:39","slug":"crying-and-not-crying-over-death","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ctacoaches.com\/lisay\/2018\/12\/01\/crying-and-not-crying-over-death\/","title":{"rendered":"Crying and not crying over death"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Crying is a very interesting topic to me. I normally cry very easily. I cry at happy things. I cry at sentimental things. I cry at touching things. I cry at sad things.<\/p>\n<p>Some people have a very tough time crying. Some people think it is a weakness. I don&#8217;t get that. I think it takes a lot of courage to cry. Crying fills a need. It helps us to fill our need for love and connection to the self.<\/p>\n<p>I would like to talk about crying when someone dies. This is one occasion when people not only think crying is acceptable but also expected. If you go to a funeral and don&#8217;t cry, many people may think it is unnatural.<\/p>\n<p>The questions: Why didn&#8217;t I cry? Why didn&#8217;t he or she cry? Are they heartless? Who could be so uncaring? Am I a monster? What is wrong with me?<\/p>\n<p>Stop it right there. You don&#8217;t have to cry when family and friends die. You don&#8217;t have to cry at the funeral. You don&#8217;t have to cry later in private. You don&#8217;t have to cry ever. I repeat. You don&#8217;t have to cry ever.<\/p>\n<p>My mom was my best friend. She passed away 9 years ago on Thanksgiving. I, the crier, I don&#8217;t think I ever cried. I loved my mom dearly. I miss her every day.\u00a0 But I never cried over her death. I can&#8217;t really explain why.<\/p>\n<p>Now, a few months later my dog died. I cried at once at her death. I fell to my knees and cried. I cried and cried. I cried for years. I did not love my dog more than my mom. I don&#8217;t know why I cried so much.<\/p>\n<p>I suppose if I really tried I could try to figure it out. But I don&#8217;t have the need. The point I am trying to make is that crying is an action we are do in response to certain events. Sometimes we do, and sometimes we don&#8217;t.<\/p>\n<p>If you don&#8217;t at a moment when it is expected and you don&#8217;t cry, don&#8217;t worry about it. It does not mean that you are heartless. You just don&#8217;t have the need.<\/p>\n<p>Cheers!<\/p>\n<p>Coach Lisa<\/p>\n<p>www.facebook.com\/coach-Lisa<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Crying is a very interesting topic to me. I normally cry very easily. I cry at happy things. I cry at sentimental things. I cry at touching things. I cry at sad things. Some people have a very tough time crying. Some people think it is a weakness. I don&#8217;t get that. I think it &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ctacoaches.com\/lisay\/2018\/12\/01\/crying-and-not-crying-over-death\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Crying and not crying over death<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":655,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[372],"class_list":["post-944","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-crying-or-not-at-death"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ctacoaches.com\/lisay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/944","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ctacoaches.com\/lisay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ctacoaches.com\/lisay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ctacoaches.com\/lisay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/655"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ctacoaches.com\/lisay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=944"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.ctacoaches.com\/lisay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/944\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":946,"href":"https:\/\/www.ctacoaches.com\/lisay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/944\/revisions\/946"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ctacoaches.com\/lisay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=944"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ctacoaches.com\/lisay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=944"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ctacoaches.com\/lisay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=944"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}