{"id":580,"date":"2017-10-17T12:50:06","date_gmt":"2017-10-17T16:50:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/awakenedhospitality.com\/?p=580"},"modified":"2025-10-01T03:58:59","modified_gmt":"2025-10-01T07:58:59","slug":"who","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/awakenedhospitality.com\/?p=580","title":{"rendered":"Hopeless is not helpful"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\t<p><strong>Hopeless is not helpful<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><i>Daily disappointments and discouraging circumstances rough us up daily.\u00a0 What to do? <\/i><\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><i>Choose to react with anger evoking fear, flushing cortisol into our heart with negative affects on our health and our peace. <\/i><\/p>\n<p>Or&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><em>choose to do what we can in response with our individual passion. 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