{"id":3204,"date":"2013-05-02T04:16:48","date_gmt":"2013-05-02T08:16:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.districtdiva.com\/?p=3204"},"modified":"2013-05-02T04:16:48","modified_gmt":"2013-05-02T08:16:48","slug":"4-ways-to-conquer-your-quarter-life-crisis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.brookeobie.com\/districtdiva\/4-ways-to-conquer-your-quarter-life-crisis\/","title":{"rendered":"4 Ways to Conquer Your Quarter-Life Crisis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In my latest column on EBONY.com, &#8220;<span style=\"text-decoration: underline\"><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ebony.com\/wellness-empowerment\/the-spiritual-life-when-the-quarter-life-crises-wont-end-879\" target=\"_blank\">The Spiritual Life: When Quarter-Life Crises Won&#8217;t End<\/a><\/strong><\/span>,&#8221; I give four ways to conquer your quarter-life crisis:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>Everybody has a dream<\/strong>\u00a0of who they\u2019ll be at a certain age. We tell ourselves,\u00a0<em>By 23, I\u2019ll be married, o<\/em>r,\u00a0<em>By 25 I\u2019ll be set in my career<\/em>. Then one day, you look up and you\u2019re 28. You\u2019re single, starting a new career, rooming with a 22-year-old and wondering where your dream life went.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s been dubbed the \u201cquarter-life crisis,\u201d that horrifying wake-up call that \u201980s babies get when we realize we\u2019re not as special as our parents led us to believe. And unfortunately, these crises can hit at any age in your 20s and stay long after the quarter-life mark. But what\u2019s really at the root of these depression-inducing life hiccups?\u00a0And most important, how do you make them stop?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Read the four steps on <span style=\"text-decoration: underline\"><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ebony.com\/wellness-empowerment\/the-spiritual-life-when-the-quarter-life-crises-wont-end-879\" target=\"_blank\">EBONY.com<\/a><\/strong><\/span>!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In my latest column on EBONY.com, &#8220;The Spiritual Life: When Quarter-Life Crises Won&#8217;t End,&#8221; I give four ways to conquer your quarter-life crisis: Everybody has a dream\u00a0of who they\u2019ll be at a certain age. We tell ourselves,\u00a0By 23, I\u2019ll be married, or,\u00a0By 25 I\u2019ll be set in my career. Then<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3205,"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":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[23],"tags":[294,758,948],"class_list":["post-3204","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-diva-takeover","tag-ebony-com","tag-quarter-life-crisis","tag-the-spiritual-life"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7nB6F-PG","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brookeobie.com\/districtdiva\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3204","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brookeobie.com\/districtdiva\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brookeobie.com\/districtdiva\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brookeobie.com\/districtdiva\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brookeobie.com\/districtdiva\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3204"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.brookeobie.com\/districtdiva\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3204\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brookeobie.com\/districtdiva\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brookeobie.com\/districtdiva\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3204"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brookeobie.com\/districtdiva\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3204"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brookeobie.com\/districtdiva\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3204"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}