/*
 * This theme styles the visual editor to resemble the theme style,
 * specifically font, colors, icons, and column width.
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/**
 * Dahlia Dowler functions and definitions
 *
 * @link https://developer.wordpress.org/themes/basics/theme-functions/
 *
 * @package Dahlia_Dowler
 */

if ( ! function_exists( 'dahlia_dowler_setup' ) ) :
	/**
	 * Sets up theme defaults and registers support for various WordPress features.
	 *
	 * Note that this function is hooked into the after_setup_theme hook, which
	 * runs before the init hook. The init hook is too late for some features, such
	 * as indicating support for post thumbnails.
	 */
	function dahlia_dowler_setup() {
		/*
		 * Make theme available for translation.
		 * Translations can be filed in the /languages/ directory.
		 * If you're building a theme based on Dahlia Dowler, use a find and replace
		 * to change 'dahlia-dowler' to the name of your theme in all the template files.
		 */
		load_theme_textdomain( 'dahlia-dowler', get_template_directory() . '/languages' );

		// Add default posts and comments RSS feed links to head.
		add_theme_support( 'automatic-feed-links' );

		/*
		 * Let WordPress manage the document title.
		 * By adding theme support, we declare that this theme does not use a
		 * hard-coded <title> tag in the document head, and expect WordPress to
		 * provide it for us.
		 */
		add_theme_support( 'title-tag' );

		/*
		 * Enable support for Post Thumbnails on posts and pages.
		 *
		 * @link https://developer.wordpress.org/themes/functionality/featured-images-post-thumbnails/
		 */
		add_theme_support( 'post-thumbnails' );

		// This theme uses wp_nav_menu() in one location.
		register_nav_menus( array(
			'mobile_menu' => esc_html__( 'Mobile menu', 'dahlia-dowler' ),
			'primary_left_menu' => esc_html__( 'Primary left menu', 'dahlia-dowler' ),
			'primary_right_menu' => esc_html__( 'Primary right menu', 'dahlia-dowler' ),			
			'footer_left_menu' => esc_html__( 'Footer left menu (Explore)', 'dahlia-dowler' ),
			'footer_centre_menu' => esc_html__( 'Footer centre menu (Sessions)', 'dahlia-dowler' ),
			'footer_right_menu' => esc_html__( 'Footer right menu (Company)', 'dahlia-dowler' ),
		) );

		/*
		 * Switch default core markup for search form, comment form, and comments
		 * to output valid HTML5.
		 */
		add_theme_support( 'html5', array(
			'search-form',
			'comment-form',
			'comment-list',
			'gallery',
			'caption',
		) );

		// Set up the WordPress core custom background feature.
		add_theme_support( 'custom-background', apply_filters( 'dahlia_dowler_custom_background_args', array(
			'default-color' => 'ffffff',
			'default-image' => '',
		) ) );

		// Add theme support for selective refresh for widgets.
		add_theme_support( 'customize-selective-refresh-widgets' );

		/**
		 * Add support for core custom logo.
		 *
		 * @link https://codex.wordpress.org/Theme_Logo
		 */
		add_theme_support( 'custom-logo', array(
			'height'      => 250,
			'width'       => 250,
			'flex-width'  => true,
			'flex-height' => true,
		) );
		
					
		/**
		 * Initialises the latest post shortcode 
		 * 
		 */
	
		function dahlia_dowler_register_shortcodes() {
	
			add_shortcode( 'dahlia-dowler', 'dahlia_dowler_do_shortcodes' );
	
		}
	
		/**
		 * Finds and replaces shortcodes to output the main plugin functionality: a latest posts shortcode.
		 * While this is used by WP's Shortcode API, one can use this on their own manually without do_shortcode().
		 * 
		 * Simply call the function which prints out the content. Optionally you can pass in an associative array
		 * instead of using shortcode attributes.
		 * 
		 * @param   array   $atts           Optional. Shortcode attributes are passed in as an associative array here, e.g:
		 *                                  $atts = array(
		 *                                      "title" => "Latest Posts"   // Optional string, defaults to Latest Posts.
		 *                                      "limit" => 3                // Optional int, defaults to 3 posts.
		 *                                  )
		 * @return  string  $posts_list     Returns the content generated by dahlia_dowler_get_posts() according to the passed in parameters.
		 * 
		 */
	
		function dahlia_dowler_do_shortcodes( $atts ) {
	
			// Get attributes from passed in array if they exist
	
			$limit = ! empty( $atts["limit"] ) ? $atts["limit"] : false;
			$title = ! empty( $atts["title"] ) ? $atts["title"] : false;
	
			// Get the posts and return them
	
			$posts_list = dahlia_dowler_get_posts( $title, $limit );
	
			return $posts_list;
	
		}
	
		dahlia_dowler_register_shortcodes();

		
		/**
		 * The latest posts list is generated here. The returned HTML is put together in PHP because of preference, and since the HTML
		 * generated here is relatively simple, we won't lose out on much of the benefits of HTML colour coding or hinting in your favourite editor.
		 * 
		 * @param   string  $title              Optional string to title the collection of posts, defaults to "Latest Posts".
		 * @param   int     $limit              Optional integer used to limit the number of posts returned, defaults to 3.
		 * @return  string  $posts              The posts are taken from the loop according to any parameters passed in and returned as an HTML string.
		 */

		function dahlia_dowler_get_posts( $title = false, $limit = false ) {

			// If a title was included, use it, or use Latest Posts. This could be stored in a default options function instead.

			$title = ! empty( $title ) ? $title : false;

			// If a number greater than 0 was included, use it, otherwise default to 3. This number could instead be stored in a default options function that can be used in place of user specified options retrieved from get_option()

			$limit = intval( $limit ) > 0 ? intval( $limit ) : 3;

			// Prepare input array for wp_get_recent_posts()

			$args = array( "numberposts" => $limit );

			// Get the posts as an array of objects

			$posts_array = wp_get_recent_posts( $args, "OBJECT" );

			// Start with the post container and the title, then we loop through each post adding markup to the $posts variable

			$posts = "<div class='dahlia-dowler-latest-posts-container flex-row flex-center-center full box-shadow'>";
			if ( $title ) $posts .= "<h5 class='dahlia-dowler-latest-posts-title'>" . $title . "</h5>";

			foreach ( $posts_array as $post ) {

				// Get the permalink for this post, or if for some reason it doesn't exist, the home url

				$permalink = get_permalink( $post ) ? get_permalink( $post ) : home_url();
				
				// Get the posts thumbnail image url and widths and heights if they exist, or use a placeholder from the web at 300x200 pixels which is the default WordPress medium image size

				$post_image   = ! empty( wp_get_attachment_image_src( get_post_thumbnail_id( $post ), "medium" ) ) ? wp_get_attachment_image_src( get_post_thumbnail_id( $post ), "medium" ) : false;
				$image        = ! empty( $post_image ) ? $post_image[0] : "https://via.placeholder.com/300x200";
				$image_width  = ! empty( $post_image ) ? $post_image[1] : 300;
				$image_height = ! empty( $post_image ) ? $post_image[2] : 200;

				// Then for each post object in the post array, we create a subcontainer with the class dahlia-dowler-single-post

				$posts .= "<a href='$permalink' class='dahlia-dowler-latest-posts-single-post' style='background-image:url($image);width:calc( 100% / $limit );'>";

				// Scrim, a dark element allowing text above it to be legible over any imagery underneath

				$posts .= "<div class='scrim flex-row flex-start-end padding'>";

				// We'll start with the title

				$posts .= "<h6>";

				// Now we want to manually truncate the title if it's longer than 50 characters. This is a great candidate for inclusion as a modifiable attribute, or as a settings field. Otherwise, we could do this via CSS or JavaScript, with either being able to easily truncate depending on the number of lines output. 

				$maximum_title_length = 50;

				// If the title length is longer than the maximum length, we truncate it from characters 0 to $maximum_title_length and add three ellipses to the end, otherwise we just use the given title.

				$short_title = strlen( $post->post_title ) > $maximum_title_length ? substr( $post->post_title, 0, $maximum_title_length ) . "..." : $post->post_title;

				// Enter the title and close its tag.

				$posts .= $short_title . "</h6>";

				// Close the content container tag

				$posts .= "</div>";

				// Close the anchor tag

				$posts .= "</a>";

			}

			// Close the widget tag and return the HTML string

			$posts .= "</div>";

			return $posts;

		}
			
	}
endif;
add_action( 'after_setup_theme', 'dahlia_dowler_setup' );

/**
 * Set the content width in pixels, based on the theme's design and stylesheet.
 *
 * Priority 0 to make it available to lower priority callbacks.
 *
 * @global int $content_width
 */
function dahlia_dowler_content_width() {
	// This variable is intended to be overruled from themes.
	// Open WPCS issue: {@link https://github.com/WordPress-Coding-Standards/WordPress-Coding-Standards/issues/1043}.
	// phpcs:ignore WordPress.NamingConventions.PrefixAllGlobals.NonPrefixedVariableFound
	$GLOBALS['content_width'] = apply_filters( 'dahlia_dowler_content_width', 640 );
}
add_action( 'after_setup_theme', 'dahlia_dowler_content_width', 0 );

/**
 * Register widget area.
 *
 * @link https://developer.wordpress.org/themes/functionality/sidebars/#registering-a-sidebar
 */
function dahlia_dowler_widgets_init() {
	register_sidebar( array(
		'name'          => esc_html__( 'Sidebar', 'dahlia-dowler' ),
		'id'            => 'sidebar-1',
		'description'   => esc_html__( 'Add widgets here.', 'dahlia-dowler' ),
		'before_widget' => '<section id="%1$s" class="widget %2$s">',
		'after_widget'  => '</section>',
		'before_title'  => '<h2 class="widget-title">',
		'after_title'   => '</h2>',
	) );
}
add_action( 'widgets_init', 'dahlia_dowler_widgets_init' );

/**
 * Enqueue scripts and styles.
 */
function dahlia_dowler_scripts() {
	wp_enqueue_style( 'dahlia-dowler-style', get_stylesheet_uri() );

	//wp_enqueue_script( 'dahlia-dowler-navigation', get_template_directory_uri() . '/js/navigation.js', array(), '20151215', true );

	wp_enqueue_script( 'dahlia-dowler-script', get_template_directory_uri() . '/js/script.js', array( 'jquery' ), '20151215', true );
	
	wp_enqueue_script( 'dahlia-dowler-skip-link-focus-fix', get_template_directory_uri() . '/js/skip-link-focus-fix.js', array(), '20151215', true );

	if ( is_singular() && comments_open() && get_option( 'thread_comments' ) ) {
		wp_enqueue_script( 'comment-reply' );
	}
}
add_action( 'wp_enqueue_scripts', 'dahlia_dowler_scripts' );

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 * Include Advanced Custom Fields (ACF)
 */

require get_template_directory() . '/inc/class-acf.php';

/**
 * Implement the Custom Header feature.
 */
require get_template_directory() . '/inc/custom-header.php';

/**
 * Custom template tags for this theme.
 */
require get_template_directory() . '/inc/template-tags.php';

/**
 * Functions which enhance the theme by hooking into WordPress.
 */
require get_template_directory() . '/inc/template-functions.php';

/**
 * Customizer additions.
 */
require get_template_directory() . '/inc/customizer.php';

/**
 * Load Jetpack compatibility file.
 */
if ( defined( 'JETPACK__VERSION' ) ) {
	require get_template_directory() . '/inc/jetpack.php';
}

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				<div class="title curveb flex-column flex-end-center z8"><div class="full text-center"><h1>Tag: <span>labels</span></h1></div></div>			</header><!-- .page-header -->

			

<article id="post-236" class="post-multiple card box-shadow full post-236 post type-post status-publish format-standard hentry category-awareness category-self-growth tag-awareness tag-ego tag-identifications tag-identity tag-labels tag-limitations tag-self-growth">
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		<a href="https://dahliadowler.com/self-growth/limiting-labels-identifications/" rel="bookmark" class="scrim padding flex-colum flex-start-end"><h2 class="entry-title">Limiting Labels &#038; Identifications</h2></a>	</header><!-- .entry-header -->
	
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		<div class='post-preview padding'>		<h2 style="text-align: center;"><strong>Limiting Labels and Identifications</strong></h2>
<p>We live our lives completely surrounded by labels, brands and classifications. We’re encouraged from our youth to categorise people into neat little columns. Everything has a label that, we either use as a negative or positive form of judgement.</p>
<p>We are <em>tall, short, fat, thin, black, white, Arab, European, cool or uncool. </em>We have categories for everything. The classifications are often used to describe others or things and can be useful, but when we have an emotional attachment to the label that’s where the problem lies.</p>
<p>When we attach ourselves to these labels it becomes a part of our identity (and sometimes our entire identity). If the label changes or is forced away from us we can lose our sense of identity and who we are because we were so attached to the label.</p>
<p>Imagine a girl who has lived her life living under the identity of “Achiever.” She took extreme pride in her ability to achieve and for her it was her sole source of value. She can make things happen. When she faces hardship, and fails at achieving her goals – she loses all sense of herself. She no longer feels she has value and she no longer knows who she is. Her world comes crashing down. She becomes self-identified with “Failure” and no matter how much she tries to stand up again, the identity follows her like a dark rain cloud. She’s limited herself within walls of “Achiever” and “Failure”.</p>
<p>The labels we become attached to hinder us from being who we truly are. We block our potential and our abilities by identifying with limiting labels. We are more than the names we give ourselves. We are everything and nothing.</p>
<h3><strong>Everything and nothing:</strong></h3>
<p>By everything and nothing, I mean we can take on the attributes or qualities we need, without allowing ourselves to become identified with them. Instead of stuffing ourselves into a box, we can free our lives instead. There are infinite personalities, but when we limit ourselves to a handful of them, we cannot tap into everything else.</p>
<p>If you’re identified as “non-committal” you prevent yourself from ever connecting with something on a deeper level. You use the label as an escape mechanism, preventing you from experiencing the sense of achievement when you see something through to the end.</p>
<p>If you’re identified as “tolerant”, you may prevent yourself from expressing your anger when you reach the threshold of your tolerance, pushing yourself to keep putting your feelings and grievances aside.</p>
<p>We are more than the labels and identities we give ourselves, indescribable by mere human language.</p>
<h3><strong>How to identify the identities?</strong></h3>
<p>Ask yourself in what areas of your life do you have the most pride and the most shame?</p>
<p>For example – Someone might say “I take pride in my heritage, I am American and no one is better.” Another might say “I’m ashamed that I’m American, we’re all bullies.”<br />
How do you describe yourselves to others? How do you imagine people would describe you?</p>
<p>What labels do you look down on and what do you feel most connected to?</p>
<p>These identities are basically what we now call the Ego, the masks we wear to face the world. The false self that makes us believe that our insecurities, our pride, our fears, our desires etc… are who we truly are.</p>
<h3><strong>What happens when I identify the Ego?</strong></h3>
<p>You find your weak point, your limitation. Once you identify it, you can then work on releasing it.</p>
<p>“I am not my [insert label here]”</p>
<p>Example, “I am not my national identity”</p>
<p>“I am not my gender”</p>
<p>“I am not my age”</p>
<p>“I am not my family”</p>
<p>Once allowing yourself to acknowledge the existence of the attachment, you can then begin working on healing and releasing it. Forgive yourself for any harsh judgements you may have passed on yourself. Forgive yourself any pain you may have caused yourself or others. Forgive yourself any ideals you couldn’t live up to. You’re human.</p>
<h3><strong>What is it like to release the Ego?</strong></h3>
<p>You’re no longer attached to the identity or mask, so you no longer feel pain when someone or something threatens or attacks it. For example, a man who isn’t attached to the identity typically associated with being a man, won’t become upset or feel hurt when someone attacks his “manhood.” Words like “sissy”, “weak”, “not a man” won’t affect him, because he’s no longer placing his sense of value on the label “man.”</p>
<p>We become free from our limitations and we allow our true self to shine through.</p>
<p>What else can I do release my limiting identifications?</p>
<p>Seek guidance from someone with experience. Any therapist or coach will be able to guide you to untangle the attachments to any labels or identifications. Wouldn’t life be grand free of restraints? Limitless and expansive.</p>
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<p><em>Have you had any experiences releasing attachments in past? What were they and how did you work through it? Share your opinions and experiences in the comments section below.</em></p>
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