{"id":59326,"date":"2023-03-31T03:00:42","date_gmt":"2023-03-31T08:00:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/?p=59326"},"modified":"2023-03-31T03:08:00","modified_gmt":"2023-03-31T08:08:00","slug":"finding-freedom-from-self-imposed-laws-and-status-anxiety","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/?p=59326","title":{"rendered":"Finding Freedom from Self-Imposed Laws and \u201cStatus Anxiety\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Anxiety is an all-too-common struggle for many in their thirties and forties, often manifesting as &ldquo;status anxiety.&rdquo; So, exactly what is status anxiety? According to English philosopher Alain de Botton, it is the crippling fear that we are failing to meet our society&rsquo;s expectations and are on the verge of becoming a nobody. [1] Many people suffer from it, as did King Saul, whom God chose to lead&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.biblicalcounselingcoalition.org\/2023\/03\/31\/finding-freedom-from-self-imposed-laws-and-status-anxiety\/\" rel=\"nofollow\">Source<\/p>\n<p><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Anxiety is an all-too-common struggle for many in their thirties and forties, often manifesting as \u201cstatus anxiety.\u201d So, exactly what is status anxiety? According to English philosopher Alain de Botton, it is the crippling fear that we are failing to meet our society\u2019s expectations and are on the verge of becoming a nobody. Many people suffer from it, as did King Saul, whom God chose to lead the Israelites as king but who lived in constant insecurity and with a sense of inadequacy. Continue Reading \u2192<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":590,"featured_media":59328,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[279],"tags":[239,936,708,5333,5334],"class_list":["post-59326","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-biblical-counseling-coalition-bcc","tag-anxiety","tag-people-in-need-of-care","tag-people-who-offer-care","tag-self-imposed-laws","tag-status-anxiety","et-has-post-format-content","et_post_format-et-post-format-standard"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/biblicalcounselor.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/cropped-bcc-site-icon-1-32x32-16.png?fit=32%2C32&ssl=1","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59326","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/590"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=59326"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59326\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":59329,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59326\/revisions\/59329"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/59328"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=59326"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=59326"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=59326"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}