This was an interesting article for me to read but at the same time a bit of a trigger. My ex-wife loved cosplay and costuming and I’m sure it helped contribute to her emotions and eventual shift from an introvert to more of an extrovert.<\/p>\n
http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2017\/01\/12\/health\/finding-your-fairy-tale-eprise-profile\/index.html<\/a><\/p>\n A sense of escape and finding something to hold onto when overcoming difficulty can be a nice form a therapy beyond the conventional CBT or pharmacological. I doubt I’d ever go this route, costuming for me never held a strong emotional response, and I’m sure somewhere in the back of my head I’d have an aversion given my history and ex-wife. It’s something to consider however if you are looking for less traditional approaches.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" This was an interesting article for me to read but at the same time a bit of a trigger. My ex-wife loved cosplay and costuming and I’m sure it helped contribute to her emotions and eventual shift from an introvert to more of an extrovert. http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2017\/01\/12\/health\/finding-your-fairy-tale-eprise-profile\/index.html A sense of escape and finding something to hold … Continue reading “CNN Article – Costuming as Therapy”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"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":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-366","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog-slice"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7PG4O-5U","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/vraxx.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/366","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/vraxx.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/vraxx.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/vraxx.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/vraxx.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=366"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/vraxx.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/366\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":368,"href":"http:\/\/vraxx.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/366\/revisions\/368"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/vraxx.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=366"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/vraxx.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=366"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/vraxx.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=366"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}