{"id":211,"date":"2011-12-02T19:02:49","date_gmt":"2011-12-03T02:02:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/safaraf.com\/?p=211"},"modified":"2011-12-22T19:11:46","modified_gmt":"2011-12-23T02:11:46","slug":"celebrate-your-accomplishments","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/safaraf.com\/?p=211","title":{"rendered":"Celebrate your accomplishments"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It may seem that time goes by, you find yourself having less symptoms than the year before and you are back to business as usual.\u00c2\u00a0 Maybe you are a mother with children, grateful for the fact that you are able to be back in your children\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s lives with a renewed spirit or perhaps you are a man who found himself able to join the local running team he had wanted to all Fall season.\u00c2\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/safaraf.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/accomplishment.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-212\" src=\"http:\/\/safaraf.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/accomplishment-300x201.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"201\" srcset=\"http:\/\/safaraf.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/accomplishment-300x201.jpg 300w, http:\/\/safaraf.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/accomplishment.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Whatever you find yourself able to do now that you were not able to do when you were dealing with a flare or just not at your best of health phases, take time to celebrate.\u00c2\u00a0 These seemingly little accomplishments to most people are by far milestones in your journey towards health not to be overlooked.\u00c2\u00a0 Life is about a series of small moments, opportunities to take a moment and remind yourself of the gift of health and the life you are able to participate in with gratitude.\u00c2\u00a0 I recently celebrated a milestone in my own health journey.<\/p>\n<p>Last year at this time, I faced the fact that I could no longer continue my course work and had to take a leave from school.\u00c2\u00a0 Today, a year later I have just successfully completed two courses and I am looking forward to studying again in the spring. \u00c2\u00a0I took a moment with my boyfriend to reflect on this accomplishment and celebrated this occasion with a good meal and a moment of thanks.<\/p>\n<p>It renewed my spirit, reiterated my strengths, my character and the importance of keeping close to your heart and mind reminders of your own moments of \u00e2\u20ac\u0153awe\u00e2\u20ac\u009d in the \u00e2\u20ac\u0153awful\u00e2\u20ac\u009d you experience.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It may seem that time goes by, you find yourself having less symptoms than the year before and you are [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/safaraf.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/safaraf.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/safaraf.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/safaraf.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/safaraf.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=211"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/safaraf.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":214,"href":"http:\/\/safaraf.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211\/revisions\/214"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/safaraf.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=211"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/safaraf.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=211"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/safaraf.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=211"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}