{"id":6076,"date":"2013-06-22T07:42:00","date_gmt":"2013-06-22T13:42:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/manyvoices.soundstrue.com\/manyvoices\/?p=1279"},"modified":"2020-04-07T20:03:40","modified_gmt":"2020-04-07T20:03:40","slug":"its-okay-to-be-broken-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/resources2.soundstrue.com\/blog\/its-okay-to-be-broken-2\/","title":{"rendered":"It&#8217;s okay to be broken"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It is okay to be broken, to allow yourself to fall apart<br \/>\nYou need not hold it together any longer for you were never together to begin with<br \/>\nFall apart and resist the temptation to put yourself back together again<br \/>\nSee what is forever untouched by the concepts \u201ctogether\u201d and \u201capart\u201d<br \/>\nIt is okay to be broken, for it is through the cracks in you that light can pour through<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1280\" alt=\"cracks\" src=\"https:\/\/manyvoices.soundstrue.com\/manyvoices\/wp-content\/uploads\/cracks.jpg\" width=\"721\" height=\"720\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It is okay to be broken, to allow yourself to fall apart You need not hold it together any longer for you were never together to begin with Fall apart and resist the temptation to put yourself back together again See what is forever untouched by the concepts \u201ctogether\u201d and \u201capart\u201d It is okay to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":5485,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_expiration-date-status":"","_expiration-date":0,"_expiration-date-type":"","_expiration-date-categories":[],"_expiration-date-options":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[382,381],"tags":[],"contributor":[658],"class_list":["post-6076","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-mindfulness","category-self-compassion","contributor-sounds-true"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Its Okay To Be Broken 2 | Sounds True<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Learn about its okay to be broken 2 with insights from Sounds True teachers. 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