{"id":4405,"date":"2013-08-03T00:19:55","date_gmt":"2013-08-03T00:19:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/fellowshipofsaintsandsinners\/?p=4405"},"modified":"2018-07-20T18:04:28","modified_gmt":"2018-07-20T18:04:28","slug":"mental-health-break-remembering-how-far-weve-come","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/fellowshipofsaintsandsinners\/2013\/08\/mental-health-break-remembering-how-far-weve-come.html","title":{"rendered":"Mental Health Break\u2014Remembering How Far We&#8217;ve Come"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This weekend is my 20th year high school reunion.<\/p>\n<p>Yup. You read that correctly.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m still in denial about it.<\/p>\n<p>And I do have a good excuse for not joining my former classmates in some hotel ballroom in Los Angeles, California to relive our glory days of teenaged acne, awkwardness and 80&#8217;s music, by drinking spiked punch and secretly gawking at the love handles and trophy wives. (My husband won&#8217;t be home from Italy until Sunday after all, so I&#8217;m dutifully fulfilling my parental responsibilities.)<\/p>\n<p>But that hasn&#8217;t stopped a spate of reminders, thanks to the circulation of old photos on Facebook, of my adolescent self. She\u2014 the high school version of me\u2014 is not exactly my life&#8217;s proudest moment, but when remembered, she does remind me how far I really have come.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s to how far we&#8217;ve come, people!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This weekend is my 20th year high school reunion. Yup. You read that correctly. I&#8217;m still in denial about it. 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