{"id":111,"date":"2011-03-02T11:01:55","date_gmt":"2011-03-02T18:01:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lorennwalker.com\/blog\/?p=111"},"modified":"2011-03-02T11:01:55","modified_gmt":"2011-03-02T18:01:55","slug":"restorative-justice-can-increase-self-compassion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.lorennwalker.com\/blog\/?p=111","title":{"rendered":"Restorative Justice Can Increase Self-Compassion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Restorative justice helps us develop self-compassion. I know a lot about not being compassionate with myself. A couple months ago I wrote about how unforgiving I was toward myself for almost getting murdered by a stranger for <a href=\"http:\/\/theforgivenessproject.com\/uncategorized\/lorenn-walker-hawaii\/\">The Forgiveness Project based in London.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s always been pretty easy for me to be compassionate and forgiving of others, but when it comes to myself I tend to be unrelenting in intolerance for my failures, which intellectually I KNOW are not really bad, but the way we learn. Knowing something, however, is totally different from feeling something.<\/p>\n<p>Compassion is an emotion not a cognitive function, and emotionally, like A LOT of people who grow up with Western culture, being kind to myself is difficult.<\/p>\n<p>Yesterday I discovered <a href=\"http:\/\/www.self-compassion.org\/index.html\">this wonderful website all about self-compassion<\/a>. It was developed by professor Kristin Neff who has done research into self-compassion including its health benefits. A book will be published about Dr. Neff&#8217;s work in April 2011.<\/p>\n<p>On the website you can <a href=\"http:\/\/www.self-compassion.org\/how_self-compassionate_are_you.html\">take an assessment to measure how much compassion you give yourself.<\/a> If your score is low you can also practice some of the exercises Dr. Neff provides on increasing the compassion you show yourself.<\/p>\n<p>Restorative justice is also a path to self-compassion, it opens our hearts and helps us heal, even for ourselves.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Restorative justice helps us develop self-compassion. I know a lot about not being compassionate with myself. A couple months ago I wrote about how unforgiving I was toward myself for almost getting murdered by a stranger for The Forgiveness Project based in London. It&#8217;s always been pretty easy for me to be compassionate and forgiving of others, but when it comes to myself I tend to be unrelenting in intolerance for my failures, which intellectually&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,6,33],"tags":[67],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.lorennwalker.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.lorennwalker.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.lorennwalker.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.lorennwalker.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.lorennwalker.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=111"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.lorennwalker.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.lorennwalker.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=111"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.lorennwalker.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=111"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.lorennwalker.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=111"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}