{"id":2296,"date":"2009-05-07T19:50:32","date_gmt":"2009-05-07T19:50:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/?p=2296"},"modified":"2009-05-07T19:50:32","modified_gmt":"2009-05-07T19:50:32","slug":"the_power_of_po_1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/?p=2296","title":{"rendered":"The Power Of Positive Thinking"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Chicago Tribune<\/i> recently ran a profile on Sean Stephenson<\/a>, a motivational speaker and psychotherapist with osteogenesis imperfecta (sometimes referred to as “brittle bone disease”). Stephenson speaks in the language of self-help books–he’s a big critic of something he terms self-sabotage–but one of his quotes near the article’s end caught my attention: <\/p>\n

Being 3 feet tall and in a wheelchair is about 2 percent of who I am.<\/b><\/p>\n

On good days, my disability is about 10% of who I am. Other times, it looms much larger in my self-image. I’d be a terrible motivational speaker. “My disability is an integral part of my character, but then again, my character is more than a teensy bit neurotic” is not a message that is going to sell many books or get me on the morning talk show circuit. More power to Stephenson and his sunny band of extroversion. <\/p>\n

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The Chicago Tribune recently ran a profile on Sean Stephenson, a motivational speaker and psychotherapist with osteogenesis imperfecta (sometimes referred to as “brittle bone disease”). Stephenson speaks in the language of self-help books–he’s a big critic of something he terms self-sabotage–but one of his quotes near the article’s end caught my attention: Being 3 feet […]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sfsi_plus_gutenberg_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_show_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_type":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_alignemt":"","sfsi_plus_gutenburg_max_per_row":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2296","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","category-1-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9Iwau-B2","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2296","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2296"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2296\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2296"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2296"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2296"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}