{"id":18088,"date":"2025-10-23T05:05:12","date_gmt":"2025-10-23T05:05:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/shop-cili.com\/?p=18088"},"modified":"2025-10-23T05:05:12","modified_gmt":"2025-10-23T05:05:12","slug":"when-the-mind-wanders-home-meditation-as-narrative-repair","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shop-cili.com\/?p=18088","title":{"rendered":"WHEN THE MIND WANDERS HOME: Meditation as narrative repair"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<p>The stories we tell about ourselves can become cages. Mine were lined with perfectionism and survival logic\u2014a looping narrative that said if I stayed small, perfect and useful, I might stay safe. Meditation didn\u2019t erase that story. It showed me how I kept writing it. When I first sat in silence, I thought I was doing something wrong. My mind replayed every memory that still carried heat\u2014moments when I failed, froze or disappeared to stay loved. The harder I tried [&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>The post WHEN THE MIND WANDERS HOME: Meditation as narrative repair appeared first on The Mindful Word.<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The stories we tell about ourselves can become cages. Mine were lined with perfectionism and survival logic\u2014a looping narrative that<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18088","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-inspiration"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/shop-cili.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18088","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/shop-cili.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/shop-cili.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shop-cili.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shop-cili.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=18088"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/shop-cili.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18088\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/shop-cili.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18088"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shop-cili.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18088"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shop-cili.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18088"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}