{"id":566,"date":"2017-09-14T12:02:08","date_gmt":"2017-09-14T16:02:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/pghs\/?p=566"},"modified":"2017-11-28T15:55:48","modified_gmt":"2017-11-28T20:55:48","slug":"note-from-the-field-using-self-care-to-restore-compassion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/pghs\/2017\/09\/14\/note-from-the-field-using-self-care-to-restore-compassion\/","title":{"rendered":"Note from the Field: Using Self-Care to Restore Compassion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/pghs\/files\/2017\/10\/village-php-note-1024x594.jpg\" alt=\"village-php-note\" width=\"1024\" height=\"594\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-567\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/pghs\/files\/2017\/10\/village-php-note-1024x594.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/pghs\/files\/2017\/10\/village-php-note-636x369.jpg 636w, https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/pghs\/files\/2017\/10\/village-php-note-768x445.jpg 768w, https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/pghs\/files\/2017\/10\/village-php-note.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em>By Madeline Bishop, PHP Fellow<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Compassion is an emotional reaction to the suffering of others combined with a desire to relieve that suffering. It can be uncomfortable. Sometimes it even hurts. And as humans, our complex self-defense mechanisms are designed to dull the kinds of pain that come from bearing witness to trauma.<br \/>\nFor those who work in the field of public health, compassion seems to be an inevitable\u2014and even necessary\u2014catalyst for addressing challenges of human suffering. So what do we do when our compassion suddenly seems to disappear?<\/p>\n<p>Read the full article at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.publichealthpost.org\/viewpoints\/self-care-restore-compassion\/?platform=hootsuite\">Public Health Post<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Madeline Bishop, PHP Fellow Compassion is an emotional reaction to the suffering of others combined with a desire to relieve that suffering. It can be uncomfortable. Sometimes it even hurts. And as humans, our complex self-defense mechanisms are designed to dull the kinds of pain that come from bearing witness to trauma. For those [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1654,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[23],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/pghs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/566"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/pghs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/pghs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/pghs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1654"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/pghs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=566"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/pghs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/566\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":608,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/pghs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/566\/revisions\/608"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/pghs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=566"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/pghs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=566"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/pghs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=566"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}