{"id":415,"date":"2010-05-24T12:03:53","date_gmt":"2010-05-24T12:03:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jennydeupree.com\/?p=415"},"modified":"2010-05-24T12:05:59","modified_gmt":"2010-05-24T12:05:59","slug":"healing-emotional-wounds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jennydeupree.com\/?p=415","title":{"rendered":"Healing Emotional Wounds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From Bruce Levine, <em>Surviving America&#8217;s Depression Epidemic<\/em><br \/>\n\u201cEmotional wounds heal naturally when we are not in a state of defensiveness, and healing conditions encourage this necessary openness.\u00a0 These conditions are, in great part, created by kindness, gentleness, and love.\u00a0 Kindness includes generosity &#8230;\u00a0 [It] is warmheartedness, a turning toward rather than away from suffering.\u00a0 It is tolerance, accepting that those in pain are often unpleasant &#8230;\u00a0 Gentle speech, gentle movements and gentle touch are healing &#8230;\u00a0\u00a0 gentle people have patience.\u00a0 &#8230;\u00a0 Healing conditions also include trust, authenticity, free choice, and faith.\u201d\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 pp93-94<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen the conditions for healing are in place, the barriers or defenses to healing are more likely to disappear.\u00a0 We become open to feeling cared about, making it more likely that we can become open to caring about life beyond ourselves \u2014 and this results in healing.\u201d\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 p97<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe more our focus is on creating that which revitalizes ourselves or others, the more we are in the realm of healing.\u201d p103<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe WHO &#8230; reported that the United States and other \u201cdeveloped\u201d countries are <em>inferior<\/em> to \u201cdeveloping\u201d countries such as India, Nigeria and Colombia in helping people diagnosed as psychotic to recover. &#8230;\u00a0 One reason could be modern society\u2019s relative absence of gentle, supportive, healing groups.\u201d\u00a0\u00a0 p104<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From Bruce Levine, Surviving America&#8217;s Depression Epidemic \u201cEmotional wounds heal naturally when we are not in a state of defensiveness, and healing conditions encourage this necessary openness.\u00a0 These conditions are, in great part, created by kindness, gentleness, and love.\u00a0 Kindness &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/jennydeupree.com\/?p=415\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-415","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-healing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jennydeupree.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/415","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jennydeupree.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jennydeupree.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jennydeupree.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jennydeupree.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=415"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jennydeupree.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/415\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jennydeupree.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=415"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jennydeupree.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=415"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jennydeupree.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=415"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}