{"id":894,"date":"2026-06-26T20:50:53","date_gmt":"2026-06-27T01:50:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jeniferbenner.com\/life\/?p=894"},"modified":"2026-06-26T20:50:53","modified_gmt":"2026-06-27T01:50:53","slug":"grief-and-healing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jeniferbenner.com\/life\/grief-and-healing\/","title":{"rendered":"Grief and healing aren\u2019t linear"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Grief and healing aren\u2019t linear.<br class=\"html-br\" \/><br class=\"html-br\" \/>Some days you\u2019ll have good days and feel like you\u2019re moving forward.<br class=\"html-br\" \/><br class=\"html-br\" \/>Other days, old hurts will resurface, making it feel like you\u2019re taking steps backward. But you haven\u2019t.<br class=\"html-br\" \/><br class=\"html-br\" \/>Healing is like a long, winding road. Sometimes you have to revisit the places that hurt before you can truly move forward.<br class=\"html-br\" \/><br class=\"html-br\" \/>One hard day doesn\u2019t erase the progress you\u2019ve made.<br class=\"html-br\" \/><br class=\"html-br\" \/>Keep walking.<br class=\"html-br\" \/><br class=\"html-br\" \/>You\u2019re still moving forward.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Grief and healing aren\u2019t linear.Some days you\u2019ll have good days and feel like you\u2019re moving forward.Other days, old hurts will resurface, making it feel like you\u2019re taking steps backward. But you haven\u2019t.Healing is like a long, winding road. Sometimes you have to revisit the places that hurt before you can truly move forward.One hard day <a href=\"https:\/\/jeniferbenner.com\/life\/grief-and-healing\/\" class=\"read-more below\">&#8230; Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":895,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-894","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-life"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/jeniferbenner.com\/life\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2026\/06\/733630368_10243399554501338_2309125794244348046_n.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeniferbenner.com\/life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/894","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeniferbenner.com\/life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeniferbenner.com\/life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeniferbenner.com\/life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeniferbenner.com\/life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=894"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jeniferbenner.com\/life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/894\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":896,"href":"https:\/\/jeniferbenner.com\/life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/894\/revisions\/896"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeniferbenner.com\/life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/895"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeniferbenner.com\/life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=894"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeniferbenner.com\/life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=894"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeniferbenner.com\/life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=894"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}